United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today in Bogota, Colombia, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez were arrested for obstructing justice by selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information to a narcotics trafficker concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of New York. Tellez-Buitrago is employed as an administrative services assistant...

CLEVELAND - A federal jury convicted three people of crimes related to a multi-state drug conspiracy that sent millions of dollars’ worth of highly addictive prescription painkillers to all 50 states, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. With today’s guilty verdicts, 13 people...

NEW ORLEANS - Tonta J. Octave, 34, and his brother Kavis Octave31,both residents of Vacherie, Louisiana, were found guilty in four counts of a five count third second superseding indictment for conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine (“crack”) by a federal jury after a two-day trial. Among other things, the...

NEW ORLEANS - Norberto Lazaro Delagarza IV , 24, resident of Laredo, Texas, was sentenced today by U. S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to 84 months imprisonment. In addition to term of imprisonment, Judge Lemelle imposed five years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment, during which...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced the arrests today of multiple individuals related to a federal indictment focused on methamphetamine distribution in the central Arkansas area. The organization at the center of...

NEWARK - Robert G. Koval, the Acting 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 Rawson Edward Watson, a citizen of the United Kingdom, and Nicolas Epskamp, a...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale returned guilty verdicts against five members of a multi-state cocaine and oxycodone distribution...

JUANA DIAZ, Puerto Rico - On October 26, 2012, a federal grand jury returned two five-count indictments charging 50 individuals with drug trafficking as a result of an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD)- Ponce Strike Force, announced today by United States Attorney...

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced David Barnes, 32, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine (crack cocaine) and cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine...

SAN DIEGO - In summer of 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Narcotics Task (NTF) Team 9 was conducting routine aerial surveillance when they happened to spot a remote marijuana farm in Julian. Agents cut down the massive crop with machetes, arrested four crop tenders and found lots of items left...