United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PHILADELPHIA, PA - DEA and FBI agents today arrested employees and former employees of Boeing’s Ridley Park plant and one non-employee in a coordinated, long-term, undercover effort aimed at prescription drug abuse at the manufacturing plant, DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Vito Guarino announced. Joining Acting SAC Guarino was...

LAS VEGAS, NV - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced that three men, including a Las Vegas physician, his assistant, and a local pharmacist, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they conspired to unlawfully distribute large quantities of highly addictive prescription drugs in and around...

MILWAUKEE, WI. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 23 defendants on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The following 20 individuals were charged by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office: Gloria Blackmon...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Four men have been sentenced to federal prison for distributing oxycodone in the Fall River, Mass., and Tiverton, R.I., areas. The four were arrested following an investigation which began in the summer of 2010 by agents from the DEA Worcester Tactical Diversion Squad, which included numerous undercover...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell , the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Vikram Datta, the owner of multiple retail perfume stores located on the...

LAREDO, TX -- - A Webb County Constable Precinct One deputy has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to use his official capacity to protect loads of cocaine, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Eduardo Garcia, aka Eddie Garcia, pleaded guilty late this morning to count one of the...

BOSTON, MA. - A Florida man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for his top-level role in a massive oxycodone distribution conspiracy that spanned from Southern Florida to Massachusetts and distributed in excess of 100,000 oxycodone pills in the Fall River area. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of...

BURLINGTON, VT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, Tristram J. Coffin, stated that Joseph Zapatero, 31, of Manhattan, New York, was sentenced on September 26, 2011 by U.S. District Court...

ST. LOUIS, MO - The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with 32 other Law Enforcement Agencies, conducted an aggressive and unprecedented heroin enforcement operation resulting in the arrest of 53 individuals. DEA Special Agent in Charge Harry S. Sommers of the St. Louis Field Division announced the arrests, which mark...

PHOENIX, AZ. - In August 2009, officers from the South Mountain Precinct noticed an increase in neighborhood narcotics complaints and the violent crime often associated with that type of activity. As their investigation moved forward, several criminal street gangs were identified and appeared to be working together to further their...