United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Jose Matos, 29, and Jeremias Matos, 28, both of Syracuse, were arraigned on November 21, 2017 on an indictment charging them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and for possessing a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremias Matos is also charged...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Frank Mercedes was found guilty yesterday of murder in connection with a drug conspiracy, murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, and use of a firearm resulting in death, for his role in the...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dr. Paul Biddle, 53, of Amherst, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with obtaining controlled substances through fraud and identity theft. The drug charges carry a maximum possible term of four years in prison, while the identity theft charges carry a maximum possible term of...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Four members and one associate of the West End Enterprise, a street gang based in three apartment complexes in Coney Island, New York, will be arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn on an indictment charging them with crimes including murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 45-year-old Kingsville man has been ordered to prison following his convictions of trafficking more than a kilogram of cocaine as well as being a felon in possession of both a firearm and ammunition, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney...

CINCINNATI - Michael Chandler, 29, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison for distributing fentanyl. As part of his sentence, Chandler was also ordered to pay more than $9,000 in restitution to cover the funeral costs for an overdose death that resulted from Chandler’s...

ST. LOUIS - James P. Shroba, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA St. Louis Division, today announced that Julian V. Rodriguez, 22, of Johnston City, Illinois, was sentenced to 188 months in prison after being convicted on the charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and the distribution of methamphetamine...

UTICA, N.Y. - Ryan Granger, a/k/a Bubba Granger, 38, formerly of Lewis County, New York, was sentenced to serve 108 months imprisonment for possessing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, and for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement...

BRONX, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State...

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Bergen County, New Jersey, woman today admitted using bogus litigation support companies to obtain millions of dollars...