DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
2005 Results - Showing 1341 to 1350
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Manchester Man Sentenced To Twelve Years In Federal Prison For Drug And Gun Charges

CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and States Attorney John P. Kacavas announced that Raymond Negron, 32, of Manchester, New Hampshire was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to twelve years in...
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Six Defendants Federally Charged With Drug Conspiracy And Money Laundering

MILWAUKEE - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a 13-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging six defendants with various...
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Drug Kingpin Convicted Of Trafficking More Than $1 Million In Cocaine From Puerto Rico To New York: Narcotics Seized At Midtown Manhattan Hotel

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and Brian R. Crowell, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge announced the conviction by jury of Robert Adrian as a major narcotic trafficker under New York State's drug kingpin statute, which carries a...
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Thirty-Three Alleged Gang Members Arrested In Early Morning Raids By Local, State And Federal Officials

CHICAGO - - In a major pre-dawn enforcement action by a combined team of Chicago Police officers, DEA agents and additional State and Federal partners 33 individuals with alleged ties to the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent, drug trafficking street gang, were arrested. Ten defendants who allegedly directed or...
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New Haven Man Sentenced To 63 Months In Federal Prison For Distributing Heroin And Crack Cocaine

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jesus Morales, also known as “Cano,” 41, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S...
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Fourteen Charged With Heroin And Cocaine Trafficking In The Bronx And Across The Hudson Valley

NEW YORK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI) and Joseph...
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Career Criminal Lenny Cain Sentenced To Over 13 Years In Prison In Oxycodone Conspiracy

BALTIMORE - - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Lenny Cain, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, on September 27, 2013, to 160 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and for possession with intent to...
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Three Men Sentenced To A Combined 30 Years For Distributing Methamphetamine

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced that Kyle Alexander, age 24 of Bethel Heights, Christopher Randolph, age 19 of Bethel Heights, and Noe Tovias, age 29 of San Benito, Texas, were sentenced today for offenses involving the possession of methamphetamine with the intent to...
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International Narcotics Trafficker Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Conspiring To Distribute One Ton Of Cocaine Using A U.S.-Registered Aircraft

NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, 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, pled guilty today in Manhattan...
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Latin Kings’ Second Crown Convicted In Orange County

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, announced today that on September 27, 2013, Jose M. Perez, (Miami, 39) also known as “Goofy,” was found guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and directing...