DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Pill Mill Doctor Found Guilty

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that a federal jury yesterday found Ronald John (58, Brandon) guilty of conspiracy to distribute and dispense Oxycodone and...
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Heroin Dealer Endangering Children Sentenced To More Than 18 Years In Federal Prison

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that yesterday U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell sentenced Damion Rashaad (36, Cocoa) to 18 years and 9 months...
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DEA And U.S. Attorney Announce Extradition Of Former Member Of Polish Armed Forces Charged With Narcotics Conspiracies

WASHINGTON - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), today announced that Slawomir Soborski was extradited from Estonia where he had been arrested for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United...
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Pawan Kumar Jain Arrested On Charges Of Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Drugs And Health Care Fraud

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Pawan Kumar Jain, 61, of Las Cruces, N.M., with the unlawful dispensing of opioid pain medication and health care fraud charges, announced by Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s El Paso Field Division...
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65 Arrested In Raids By Federal, State And Local Officials

MINNEAPOLIS - In a major enforcement operation starting in the pre-dawn hours this morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its law enforcement partners arrested dozens of individuals facing charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in Minnesota. Some of the individuals connected to this investigation were arrested...
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Tricked-out Upper Manhattan Stash Apartments Conceal $12 Million In Heroin And $500,000 In “Crystal Meth”

MANHATTAN - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA); Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton; Nassau County Police Acting Police Commissioner Thomas C. Krumpter; Kathleen Rice, Nassau County District...
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11 Defendants Arraigned In The Eastern District Of Oklahoma For Methamphetamine Conspiracy

MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that the following individuals were arraigned on April 15, and 16, 2014, on charges of Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute And Distribute Five (500) Grams Or More Of Methamphetamine, in violation of Title...
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Sophisticated Traffickers Smuggled Narcotics To New York City Via U.S. Postal Service

BRONX, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor; New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton; New York State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D'Amico; James T. Hayes Jr...
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Greenbush Resident Pleads Guilty To Bath Salt Distribution Conspiracy

BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jessica Bryden, 22, of Greenbush, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to conspiracy to possess with the intent...
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Seven Charlotte Men Sentenced For Conspiracy To Traffic Narcotics

(CHARLOTTE, N.C - .) - Seven Charlotte men were sentenced on Thursday, April 10, 2014, on federal drug conspiracy charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The sentencings stem from a joint six-month investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Charlotte...