United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and James V. Allen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), jointly announced today that the federal government has reached settlements, worth more than $1 million, with multiple Eastern Kentucky narcotic treatment...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jose Ignacio Goris, 39, of Providence, was ordered detained in federal custody today, charged with attempt to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Goris was arrested on Thursday by DEA Drug Task Force agents moments after he allegedly took custody of...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ashley Sekator-Graham, 31, of Providence, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in South Kingstown and Narragansett, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England field...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Onondaga County District Attorney William J. Fitzpatrick and DEA Resident Agent in Charge, Ed Duffy announced today the conclusion of a major heroin investigation. The investigation was conducted by the DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area of Central New (HIDTA). HIDTA Force members include the DEA, the...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Belleville, New Jersey, pharmacist and 15 others were charged today for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently...

(SAVANNAH, Ga.) - - Dr. Najam Azmat57, of Waycross, Georgia, was sentenced in the United States District Court on August 6, 2014 to serve 11 years and 1 month in prison. On January 17, 2014, a federal jury found Azmat guilty of numerous offenses related to his role in a...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Melchor Arroyos, 53, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special...

TULSA, Okla. - The results of the August 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The following named individuals have been charged with a federal crime or crimes by the return of an indictment by the...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - 26 violent criminals have been taken off the streets making Crenshaw Village a safer place to live, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris; George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama; Robert F. Lasky, FBI Special Agent in Charge, Mobile...

RICHMOND, Va. - Carlos A. Cooke, age 38, of High Point, North Carolina, Virginia, was sentenced to 24 years in prison on his guilty plea to conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. Special Agent in Charge Karl C. Colder of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Washington Field Division...