New York News 2003/2002

NOV 25, 2003	Massive Narcotics Importation Conspiracy At JFK Airport Exposed -- 25 Defendants Charged, Including 21 Airport Employees
NOV 17, 2003	Local Drug Ring Dismantled In Jefferson Housing Development New York City
NOV 6, 2003	Victor Infante Charged with Weapons Exportation and Methamphetamine Distribution Arrested in the Phillipines
NOV 5, 2003	Nine Individuals Arrested and Major Marijuana Distribution Network Operating in Nassau County, NY Dismantled
NOV 3, 2003	3 Defendants Extradited From Israel To Stand Trial For Conspiring To Distribute Hundreds Of Thousands Of Ecstasy Pills
OCT 20, 2003	New York Field Division and Syracuse University Host Ecstasy and Predatory Club Drugs Informational Seminar 'OPERATION X-OUT"
SEP 3, 2003	United States District Judge Nicolas Garaufis (EDNY) Dismisses New York State Indictment State of NY vs Jude Tanella
AUG 7, 2003	New York DEA / NYPD Joint Investigation Leads to Dismantling of Four Major Bronx Drug Organizations
JUL 25, 2003	DEA - New York Investigation Results in the Extradition of Four Argentine Heroin-Traffickers to the United States Following Landmark Ruling by Argentine Supreme Court - First Extradition Under 2000 U.S. - Argentina Treaty
JUN 4, 2003	Federal Law Enforcement Foundation Honors DEA/TFO Wallie E. Howard, Jr.
JUN 2, 2003	Three Long Island Drug Traffickers Arrested 4,000 Pounds of Marijuana and $11 Million in Drug Proceeds Seized
MAY 27, 2003	Major Heroin Organization Dismantled
MAY 16, 2003	Massive Heroin-Smuggling Organization Dismantled
APR 29, 2003	Live Web Cast - New York Division's Operation X-Out Ecstasy and Predatory Drugs Awareness Seminar
APR 17, 2003	New York Division Co-hosts "Explorer Recognition and Scholarship Dinner"
APR 16, 2003	DEA Investigation Leads to Successful Extradition of Ecstasy Kingpin Fugitive from Spain to the United States
APR 15, 2003	DEA Investigation Leads to U.S. Charges Against Staten Island Man in Plot to Launder Drug Money by Sending Proceeds to the West Bank and Jordan
APR 3, 2003	U.S. Arrests 9 Afghani Natives on Charges of Importing Heroin from Pakistan and Afghanistan
MAR 10, 2003	Colombian Drug Lord -First Ever Extradicted- Pleads Guilty On Eve Of Trial In Federal Court In Manhattan
MAR 3, 2003	New Rochelle Bar Raids Results in 24 Arrests
JAN 29, 2003	New York Division Seizes Approximately 2,000 Kilograms of Cocaine in Queens, New York
JAN 17, 2003	New York Drug Enforcement Task Force Seizes Approximately 800 Kilograms of Cocaine In Bronx, New York
JAN 14, 2003	Alleged Bronx Gang Leader Arrested in Connection with Operation of Methamphetamine Laboratory Near NYC Public School
DEC 2, 2002	The Police Chiefs Association of Rockland County Recognizes the New York Division Joint Drug Enforcement Task Force