DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Art Contest To Raise Awareness About Heroin Addiction

NEWARK, N.J. - - The Drug Enforcement Administration-New Jersey Division and the New York/New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) in conjunction with the Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey and the Governor’s Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse are pleased to announce their sponsorship of a statewide Heroin...
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51 Arrested In Major Heroin Takedown

ST. LOUIS - DEA St. Louis and federal, state, and local counterparts today announced 51 drug and weapons arrests aimed at the most violent heroin traffickers and criminal organizations in the St. Louis region. The 10-month effort was the first significant action of the St. Louis Heroin Initiative, a collection...
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77-Year Sentence Imposed On Anchorage Man For Drug Trafficking, Kidnapping, And Using Firearms In Furtherance Of Those Crimes

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Phosavan Khamnivong a.k.a. “P.K.,” 34, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced today to 77 years’ imprisonment following his February 2015, convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy, two kidnapping charges, and two firearm charges. “Today, the violence, fear and intimidation utilized by this defendant stops,” said DEA Acting Special Agent...
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Philadelphia District Attorney And The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Announce Heroin Bust Valued At $3.3 Million

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams and Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggleof the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the results of a joint task force that led to the arrest of three suspects and the confiscation of $3.3 million of heroin - the biggest heroin bust...
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18 Waco Area Aryan Brotherhood Members And Associates Sentenced To Federal Prison For Role In Methamphetamine Distribution Operation

WACO, Texas - In Waco today, a federal district judge sentenced 18 Aryan (AB) members and associates to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and...
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Columbus, Ohio Man Sentenced For Role In Large Marijuana Distribution Ring

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kevin Whitely, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for distributing marijuana and money laundering. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
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New Haven Man Sentenced To Four Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Crack Cocaine

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Thomas Carr, also known as “Tommy Love,” 27, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District...
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Trafficker Sentenced For Cocaine And Money Laundering Conspiracy

NEW BERN, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Fabio Hirochi Inoue, - 40, of Anaheim, California, to 51 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess five...
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Three Methamphetamine Dealers Sentenced In San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jorge Alejandro Sanchez Jimenez, and Francisco Ortiz, were each sentenced today to ten years in prison, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, and Macario Jimenez-Corona was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, announced United States Attorney...
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Drug Enforcement Administration Western Lab Wins EPA Federal Green Challenge Award For Electronics Recycling

SAN FRANCISCO - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld presented the Federal Green Challenge award to the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Western Laboratory for increasing its electronics recycling more than any other federal agency in 2014. Mr. Blumenfeld presented the national award at the DEA National Lab...