DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Man Pleads Guilty To Significant Heroin And Cocaine Conspiracy Involving Mexican Drug Cartel

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Eric Miller United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that David Baez Garcia, age 49, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, has pleaded guilty in front of Chief Judge...
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Spice In The City: New York DEA Leads Huge Attack Against Synthetic Drug Traffickers

NEW YORK - DEA, NYPD and a host of other state, local and federal agencies today announced a massive takedown that targeted the local sale of dangerous designer synthetic drugs manufactured in China. The scheme, which operated in all five boroughs of New York City, allegedly involved the unlawful importation...
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Gang Member Admits Executing Person Who Was Ordered Killed For Violating Mexican Mafia Drug ‘Taxation’ Rules

LOS ANGELES - A Baldwin Park man and former 18th Street gang member pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking offense and admitted he was the triggerman in the previously unsolved 2006 murder of a person who had failed to pay “taxes” to a member of the Mexican Mafia. Eddie...
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Woodland Man Pleads Guilty To Bath Salts Distribution Conspiracy

BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Preston Brown, Sr. - , 51, of Woodland, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent...
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Long-Time Drug Trafficker And Money Launderer Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Supplying Drugs To Alaska And Missouri

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - - On September 14, 2015, Steven Nicholas Taylor, aka “Nicky”, aka “Louie V”, 44, was sentenced in Alaska U.S. District Court for his convictions in two separate federal cases. In the Alaska case, Taylor was sentenced on his pleas of guilty for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances...
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12 People Charged With Heroin Trafficking After Statewide Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

BURLINGTON, Vt.) - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Eric Miller United States Attorney for the District of Vermont along with Vermont's federal, state, and local law enforcement officials announced federal criminal charges against 12 individuals accused of trafficking heroin...
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Doctor Busted By DEA Agents Sentenced To Prison

PHOENIX - The DEA Phoenix Division announces the sentencing of Edward Jack Sayegh, M.D. to four years in prison, after the Phoenix area doctor pleaded guilty to multiple charges including conspiracy, fraud, and multiple drug diversion charges following a long-term investigation into his medical practice, Arizona Family Medicine. In February...
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Three More Individuals Charged In Effort To Combat Prescription Drug Abuse

BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Walt Green announced that combined federal, state, and local efforts to combat prescription drug abuse has resulted in a federal grand jury indictment charging three individuals in a prescription drug and cocaine...
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Grape Street Crips Member Admits Conspiring To Sell Heroin

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 member of the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin in and around...
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Federal Jury Finds New York Man Guilty Of Heroin Trafficking Offenses

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration and Deidre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Wilmer Antonio Gomez-Rodriguez, 29, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in...