DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Newark man admits role in drug distribution ring after heroin seized at Newark Penn Station

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Newark man today admitted possessing heroin that was seized from him at Newark Penn Station. Jeremy Lorenzo, 30, of...
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Los Angeles man sentenced to 10 years in federal court for drug and money laundering conspiracies

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Michael Joseph Nicholson, 36, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced on Oct. 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to 10 years in prison, to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release, for his role in a drug and money laundering conspiracy that...
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Armed Hampton-area drug dealer sentenced to 25 years in prison

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Hampton man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for distributing cocaine and heroin while possessing a firearm. According to court documents, Lorenzo Golden, 35, admitted that he had agreed to distribute and distributed more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than a...
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Hartford man sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin

HARTFORD, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Danyer Moya-Gonzalez, 30, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment for...
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Denver doctor pleads guilty to illegally prescribing controlled substances

DENVER – United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Dr. Andrew Mark Ho, age 54, of Denver, pled guilty yesterday to illegally dispensing or illegally causing to be dispensed oxycodone, a controlled substance. Ho pled guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Philip B. Brimmer. Judge Brimmer is scheduled...
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Staten Island doctor pleads guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone

NEW YORK - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division, announced today that Carl Anderson, a state licensed doctor, pled guilty to writing medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone...
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Johnstown man sentenced to 60 months on heroin and fentanyl conviction

ALBANY, N.Y. –Victor M. Diaz, age 30, of Johnstown, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl. The announcement was made by United States...
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Fentanyl distributor who used the dark web and crypto currency sentenced to 30 years in federal prison

HOUSTON -- In what is believed to be the first fentanyl distribution case using the dark web and crypto currency in the Southwest Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Region, a federal judge in San Antonio today sentenced 30-year-old Alaa Mohammed Allawi to 30 years in federal prison for distributing...
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DEA announces release of 2018 Pennsylvania Drug-Related Overdose Death Report

​ ​ PHILADELPHIA – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field Division Jonathan A. Wilson today announced today the release of the Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2018 report. For the third year in a row, the DEA Philadelphia Field Division has partnered with the University...
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Seventeen charged in Passaic County drug trafficking conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito, and Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Newark Field Division Charlie J. Patterson, announced seventeen people...