PRESS RELEASE

Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute, Distributing Fentanyl Causing Two Overdose Deaths

March 21, 2024
… Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute, … pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl from 2021 through 2023 and to distribution of fentanyl in …
March 21, 2024
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Indian National Found Guilty of Possession with Intent to Distribute More than 170 Pounds of MDMA in Eastern Washington

March 19, 2025
… of imprisonment of twenty years. He may also face removal from the United States. The evidence presented at trial … these individuals, who had crossed into the United States from Canada and were carrying backpacks and a suitcase. From …
March 19, 2025
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Two Members Of A Violent Gang Sentenced To Prison For Racketeering And Drug Trafficking

February 08, 2025
… and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were allegedly seized from 11 of the defendants. James Rodrigues, a/k/a “Bummy,” … of grams of cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine) from a stash house in Somerville. During the investigation, … law enforcement made a series of controlled purchases from Rodrigues and other Cameron Street members. This …
February 08, 2025
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Seven Defendants Sentenced to a Total of 41+ Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of Firearms and Narcotics

January 10, 2025
… Thompson was a convicted felon and knew he was prohibited from possessing any firearm or ammunition and was arrested. … ammunition. As a convicted felon, Copeland was prohibited from possessing the firearm and ammunition. He pleaded … had the firearm in his possession before ejecting it from the vehicle onto the roadway. Robertson pleaded guilty …
January 10, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

CEO of Nigerian Airline indicted for bank fraud and money laundering

November 22, 2019
… fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme … will diligently protect the integrity our banking system from being corrupted by criminals, even when they disguise … to identify and attack criminals that attempt to profit from the exploitation of our nation’s financial systems.” …
November 22, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Norcross cousins plead guilty to operating meth lab

November 15, 2019
… and two co-defendants illegally entered the United States from Mexico and then utilized a family home across the street from an elementary school to operate a methamphetamine … a true menace to society. Now that they have been removed from the streets, our children and the entire community, are …
November 15, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Butte Drug Trafficking Organization with Ties to the Sinaloa Cartel Dismantled

December 16, 2022
… David S. Olesky Domestic Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah Additional Division Info Salt Lake City District … Division of Criminal Investigation with assistance from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.  The …
December 16, 2022
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California Kingpin Found Guilty of Directing Drug Enterprise

November 07, 2022
… about the groups’ operations. According to the indictment, from May 2016 to September 2021, Jacobo received bulk … of methamphetamine to his home base in Bakersfield. From there, Jacobo directed that the methamphetamine be sent …
November 07, 2022
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Fort Lauderdale resident sentenced to 30 Years in prison for distributing fentanyl resulting in death

November 14, 2019
… for their actions, especially when the consequences from those actions result in the tragic death of another … twice before taking advantage of people who are suffering from an addiction now that they realize the severity of the …
November 14, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

St. Paul Man Sentenced In Large Drug-Trafficking Operation

November 26, 2012
… and commercial vehicles to smuggle cocaine and marijuana from California to Minnesota -- Mr. Mendoza personally … Office.” In his plea agreement, Mendoza admitted that from January of 2005 through October 2010 he led a … organization that moved controlled substances from other states, including California, and distributed …
November 26, 2012
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Former Clayton County Police Officer Assigned To U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking

January 22, 2014
… discussed the confidential informant obtaining cocaine from his/her drug source of supply.   Penn would then … lot that morning.  Penn rebuffed offers of assistance from his fellow officers, claiming he was just doing … the front seat.  After the confidential informant emerged from his/her vehicle, Penn sped over in his police car with …
January 22, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Columbia District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 26, 2014
… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
September 26, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Charlotte District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 26, 2014
… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
September 26, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Nashville District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 26, 2014
… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
September 26, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Atlanta Divisional Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 26, 2014
… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
September 26, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Along With Manhattan, Brooklyn, And Miami U.S. Attorneys Announce Extradition Of Colombian Narcotics Kingpin

July 09, 2013
… U.S., and laundered tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from that narcotics trafficking activity. Barrera arrived in … on September 18, 2012. Thereafter, he was sent to Colombia, from where the U.S. sought Barrera’s extradition. The … - the AUC and the FARC. By purchasing raw cocaine paste from the FARC, which he processed in laboratories in areas …
July 09, 2013
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Leader Of Major Drug Trafficking Ring And Seven Co-Conspirators Sentenced To Prison

April 07, 2016
… Over the course of the conspiracy, which lasted from about 2010 to about November 2014, David Maldonado, at … to July 2011 - David Maldonado and Fortino Maldonado - From about February 2011, David Maldonado and Fortino …
April 07, 2016
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Six Indicted In Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin And "Crystal Meth" In New York City And Pennsylvania

October 02, 2014
… addictive and potentially lethal heroin and methamphetamine from wholesalers to street level dealers. Working closely … March 2014, DEA agents with Group D-41, and investigators from the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, initiated an … to supply a quantity of drugs to a subject traveling from Pennsylvania on May 19, 2014. The wiretap investigation …
October 02, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Nine Sentenced For Illegally Distributing Controlled Substances Over The Internet

March 27, 2013
… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas … controlled substances to customers who bought the drugs from illicit Internet pharmacies, United States Attorney …
March 27, 2013
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Fentanyl Awareness

November 04, 2022
… said Administrator Anne Milgram.  “Fentanyl is everywhere.  From large metropolitan areas to rural America, no community is safe from this poison.  We must take every opportunity to spread …
November 04, 2022
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Former Honduran Congressman Tony Hernández Sentenced for Distributing Tons of Cocaine, Other Crimes

March 30, 2021
… reminder there is no position powerful enough to shield you from facing justice when you violate U.S. drug laws by … security for cocaine shipments, and brokered large bribes from major drug traffickers to powerful political figures, … ammunition to drug traffickers, some of which he obtained from the Honduran military; he controlled cocaine …
March 30, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

10 Charged in Narcotics Distribution across the Northeast

June 17, 2021
… ANTONIO BARDERA. These three allegedly obtained narcotics from international sources and oversaw large shipments of … quantities of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine to and from one another. Over time, the investigation expanded to … discussed receiving a shipment of narcotics to be sent from Peru. In August of 2020, DEA special agents in the …
June 17, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Long Island gun trafficking ring dismantled

February 05, 2020
… Long Island gun trafficking ring dismantled February 05, 2020 New … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … Additional photos of firearms and ammunition recovered from Takedown.jpg SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y . – New York Attorney …
February 05, 2020
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José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar Faces International Drug and Weapon Charges Following His Extradition to the United States

July 21, 2025
… José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar Faces International Drug and Weapon Charges Following His Extradition to the United … trafficking into the United States, firearms trafficking from the United States, and acts of extreme violence.   … in furtherance of drug trafficking; smuggling firearms from the United States; and straw purchasing of firearms …
July 21, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… Kelly McKay Recruiter Name Kieran Garcia (858) 616-4040 sandiegospecialagentrecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter … removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with …
November 01, 2021
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Supervisor Of Colombian Maritime Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

September 22, 2022
… 571-362-9171 Defendant trafficked literal tons of cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela to Puerto Rico, Spain, and other … locations BOSTON – A Colombian man, who was extradited from Colombia after indictment, was sentenced today in … Carrillo-Ramirez was indicted in April 2017 and extradited from Colombia in April 2019. Since 2013, Carrillo-Ramirez …
September 22, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Four People Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme to Defraud Amtrak

June 23, 2022
… documents filed in this case and statements made in court: From 2019 to the present, Mirza, Figueroa, Gelzer, Burt, and others recruited Amtrak employees – primarily from New Jersey and New York – to participate in the scheme …
June 23, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Leaders Of Methamphetamine Ring Each Receive 200-Month Prison Sentence

July 19, 2024
… prison sentences — which equals 16 years, 8 months — from United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr. Judge … by Mendoza, out of Dallas. Wilson acquired methamphetamine from Mendoza in Texas and either personally transported it … to purchase a kilogram of methamphetamine directly from Wilson. Also, in February 2022, the DEA seized …
July 19, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Mom Pleads Guilty to Providing Fentanyl That Killed Her Sons’ Father

March 07, 2024
… Silva Banuelos put her sons, ages 8 and 10, onto a flight from Albuquerque to Dallas to visit her ex-husband, their father.  Surveillance video from Dallas / Love Field Airport shows that her ex-husband …
March 07, 2024
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Carrollton Couple Tied to Possibly 10 Juvenile Overdoses Charged with Fentanyl Conspiracy

February 06, 2023
… the DEA Dallas Field Division. “DEA Dallas and our partners from the Carrollton Police Department will work to identify … Schools.  Nine students at those schools – ranging in age from 13 to 17 – suffered ten overdoses, three of which were … paralysis, told law enforcement the pills she ingested came from juvenile dealers who obtained the drugs from Mr. …
February 06, 2023