United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(SAN DIEGO) - Drug trafficker Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas, who fled during his 2009 trial and was arrested years later in Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 13, 2018 for smuggling 66 pounds of pure methamphetamine from Mexico and distributing it throughout San Diego. According to court records...

(RIVERHEAD, N.Y.) - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini; and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart, was joined by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service today to announce the indictment of 11 individuals, including two...

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging eight defendants with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute...

(ALBANY, N.Y.) - Charles Rainer Sinek, age 53, of Oakland, California, was sentenced today to 87 months in prison, to be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute opioid pills. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Special Agent in...

(MIAMI) - Colombian drug kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño was sentenced yesterday to 31 years in prison for importing multi-ton quantities of cocaine into the United States. A Miami jury had found Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño, a/k/a “Mi Sangre,” 47, a citizen of Colombia, guilty of conspiring to...

(BROOKLYN, NY) - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Richard Jacobellis pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, further admitting that he distributed heroin that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Weber in 2016 and serious bodily injury to Frances Theiling in 2015. As part of his guilty...

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) - Jeffrey Rivera, 34, of Utica, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. The announcement was made by the United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in...

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Maria Guadalupe Martinez-Plascencia, 47, and Claudia Anel Cuevas-Sandoval, 37, both of Guadalajara, Mexico, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with...

(TRENTON, N.J.) – Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two California men were arrested in Mercer County, New Jersey, with over 50 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and nine kilograms...

(LOS ANGELES) - A former Los Angeles Police Department officer whose garage explosion revealed the makeshift lab where he used butane to extract hash oil containing tetrahydrocannabinol, or “THC,” from marijuana plants, was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Joseph Jay Spadafore, 64, of Menifee was sentenced this morning...