United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BURLINGTON, VT – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, Christina E. Nolan, announced today the results of an 18-month multi-agency enforcement operation targeting the illegal trafficking of firearms and drugs between Vermont and Western Massachusetts...

ATLANTA - Mani Chulpayev, having been arrested in Ukraine and extradited to Atlanta, has been arraigned on federal charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. “The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its law enforcement partners will continue to target drug traffickers and those who support them with...

BRUNSWICK, GA: A South Georgia man who has alternated much of his past three decades between selling illegal drugs or serving time in prison has been sentenced to spend nearly 20 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization centered in Coffee County. Wayne Jordan, 62, of Douglas, Ga...

BRUNSWICK, GA: A Pooler man who led a drug trafficking organization that transported and distributed significant amounts of cocaine and other drugs into the coastal Georgia area awaits sentencing after admitting guilt. Omar Griffin , 41, of Pooler, Ga., pled guilty to Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Five...

SAVANNAH, GA: The second of two men charged in June 2019 after more than 45 pounds of cocaine were seized from a Savannah shipment has admitted guilt to a federal drug trafficking charge. Jimmy Alexander Pujols , a/k/a “El Gallo,” 35, pled guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute 5...

BRUNSWICK, GA: A Port Wentworth man who laundered drug proceeds and helped distribute significant amounts of cocaine for a coastal Georgia drug trafficking organization has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Allen Grady , 43, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 240 months...

WILMINGTON , N.C. – A Greensboro woman was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or...

SAN DIEGO – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Otay Mesa commercial facility Friday seized more than 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills and heroin as part of the second largest methamphetamine bust along the southwest border in the history of the CBP, based on...

HOUSTON – An alleged associate of one most serious transnational organized criminal organizations has landed in the United States on charges of distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jhony Fidel...

NEW YORK - Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced...