DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Providence Woman Sentenced To Four Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine And Crack Cocaine In South Kingstown And Narragansett

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...
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Major Heroin Distribution Ring Dismantled In Onondaga County, NY

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...
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Essex County, N.J., Pharmacist, 15 Others, Charged With Illegal Drug Distribution

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...
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Another Pill-Mill Doctor Sentenced To Over A Decade In Federal Prison

(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...
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El Paso Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Participating In Las Cruces-Based Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring

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...
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Federal Grand Jury Criminal Indictments Announced

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...
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26 People Convicted In The Crenshaw Village Clean-Up

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...
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North Carolina Drug Supplier To Henrico Drug Dealers Sentenced To 24 Years In Prison

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...
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Large-Scale Distributor Of Unapproved Foreign Prescription Drugs Indicted

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James Quinn, 73, of Surrey, United Kingdom, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for his alleged involvement in the illegal shipments of non-FDA approved prescription drugs to co-conspirators in the United States. Quinn, along with two companies in the United Kingdom and Switzerland that he...
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Baltimore Area Cocaine Dealer Sentenced To Over 28 Years In Prison

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Richard Anthony Wilford, age 41, of Baltimore and Elkton, to 340 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Judge Hollander enhanced Wilford’s sentence upon determining that he is a career offender based on...