DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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12 People Charged With Heroin Trafficking After Statewide Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

BURLINGTON, Vt.) - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Eric Miller United States Attorney for the District of Vermont along with Vermont's federal, state, and local law enforcement officials announced federal criminal charges against 12 individuals accused of trafficking heroin...
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Doctor Busted By DEA Agents Sentenced To Prison

PHOENIX - The DEA Phoenix Division announces the sentencing of Edward Jack Sayegh, M.D. to four years in prison, after the Phoenix area doctor pleaded guilty to multiple charges including conspiracy, fraud, and multiple drug diversion charges following a long-term investigation into his medical practice, Arizona Family Medicine. In February...
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Three More Individuals Charged In Effort To Combat Prescription Drug Abuse

BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Walt Green announced that combined federal, state, and local efforts to combat prescription drug abuse has resulted in a federal grand jury indictment charging three individuals in a prescription drug and cocaine...
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Grape Street Crips Member Admits Conspiring To Sell Heroin

NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a member of the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin in and around...
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Federal Jury Finds New York Man Guilty Of Heroin Trafficking Offenses

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration and Deidre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Wilmer Antonio Gomez-Rodriguez, 29, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in...
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle announced that the DEA Philadelphia Division will conduct its 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back event across Pennsylvania and Delaware on September 12th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, approximately 300 collection sites will be set...
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Three Members Of International Organization Of Money Launderers For The Largest Drug Cartels Arrested

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York (DEA), Kelly T. Currie, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, New York Field (IRS), announced today the unsealing...
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Reno Meth Dealer Sentenced To 12a½ Years In Prison

LAS VEGAS - U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks sentenced a Reno man to 12½ years in prison and five years of supervised release following his arrest and conviction for possessing approximately one kilogram of pure methamphetamine in his vehicle. Francisco Fuentes Ibarra, 35, pleaded guilty in May to one...
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Violent South Coast Drug Dealer Sentenced To Over 20 Years In Prison

BOSTON - A violent South Coast drug dealer was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston for the robbery of two large-scale oxycodone dealers and related narcotics crimes. "The communities of the South Shore can rest assured knowing that this violent, high-level narcotics dealer will remain behind bars for an...
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Sixth Member Of Colombian Cocaine Exportation Conspiracy Sentenced

NORFOLK, Va. - Julian Manuel Moreno Martinez, 31, of Turbo, Antioquia, Colombia, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role in a cocaine manufacturing and distribution conspiracy centered in Colombia. Moreno Martinez pleaded guilty on May 11, 2015. According to court documents, Moreno Martinez maintained farmland on...