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PRESS RELEASE

15 Year Sentence For Clay County Man Guilty Of Drug Trafficking

September 06, 2012
… after undercover agents made purchases of methamphetamine from Ronald Ingalls, an individual selling methamphetamine for Cheatham. Soon after, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and deputies from the Clay County Sheriff’s Department executed search …
September 06, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Guilty Plea For Heroin Trafficker Whose Drugs Led To Fatal Overdose

May 24, 2017
… to a 911 call encountered a 33-year-old female who had died from a suspected drug overdose in the bedroom of a residence … heroin, a hypodermic needle and other drug paraphernalia from the bedroom. The investigation revealed that the victim’s boyfriend purchased heroin from Killings the previous evening, and then he and the …
May 24, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holding Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day On April 30

April 18, 2011
… and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., DEA and its partners will hold their … In Florida, 4-1/2 tons of prescription drugs were collected from over 140 sites. The collected drugs were safely … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
April 18, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Miami Partners With Clear Channel Radio South Florida And Mobile Mike For National Take Back Day

April 27, 2011
… Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mobile Mike will broadcast live from a DEA collection site in the parking lot of Westfield … In Florida, 4 ½ tons of prescription drugs were collected from over 140 sites. The collected drugs were safely …
April 27, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Scam Alert -- Extortion Scheme

November 28, 2012
… Engage Ft. Lauderdale Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … DEA offices nationwide regularly receive telephone calls from concerned citizens who are the victims of this … themselves as DEA agents or law enforcement officials from other agencies.  The impersonators inform their victims …
November 28, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Eagle Pass Businessman Sentenced For Cocaine Distribution

May 25, 2016
… with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine from January 1, 2009 until March 21, 2014, and two counts of … conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine from January 1, 2009 until March 21, 2014. He was also … others to sell cocaine for him and collected the street tax from these dealers on behalf of the Mexican Mafia. It was …
May 25, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Former Texan Gets Hammered With 30-Year Prison Sentence

April 25, 2017
… been ordered to federal prison for trafficking narcotics from Mexico through Brownsville to Florida, announced DEA … hired them to bring packages of methamphetamine on the bus from Brownsville for delivery to him in Florida.  They would … bus and successfully delivered the drugs to him in Florida from September 2013 to March  2014.  They were eventually …
April 25, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Investigation Leads To OFAC Designation Of Lebanese-Based Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Network

January 26, 2011
… distribution, and sale of multi-ton shipments of cocaine from South America and has laundered the proceeds from the sale of cocaine in Europe and the Middle East, … and Colombia, Joumaa and his organization launder proceeds from their illicit activities - as much as $200 million per …
January 26, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

New York Man Convicted Of Federal Drug Charges

November 07, 2012
… drug crimes. According to evidence introduced at trial, from about March 2009 through August 6, 2010, Worthy and other conspirators regularly obtained cocaine from a dealer in New York City, used female couriers to body … into cocaine base, or “crack cocaine,” and then sold it from apartments in Portland, Lewiston and Waterville. During …
November 07, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

South Shore Drug Traffickers Charged In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

January 28, 2013
… 21, 2012, shortly after purchasing a quantity of Oxycodone from Fitzgibbons, Roberts was arrested and 274 Oxycodone … seized. Dunn purchased wholesale quantities of Oxycodone from Roberts, Kilday and others, and then distributed the … On Dec. 8, 2012 Silva was arrested while returning from New York and 1,744 Oxycodone pills were seized. “These …
January 28, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

DEA New England Collects Nearly 30 Tons Of Unwanted Prescription Drugs

May 02, 2013
… nearly 30 tons of unwanted medications have been removed from our homes and disposed of properly,” said Special Agent … to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers. … (371 tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 5,829 locations …
May 02, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

South Berwick Man Sentenced On Distribution Of Suboxone Resulting In Death Charge

July 17, 2013
… pills.  The subsequent autopsy showed that Mr. Malone died from buprenorphine toxicity. Court records show when police … part of their investigation, police collected DNA samples from the pharmaceutical bottles recovered from Verrill’s apartment. Officers also collected a DNA …
July 17, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Peaks Island Woman Sentenced To Three Years For Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

July 14, 2015
… guilty on March 11, 2015. According to court records, from at least March 2013 through November 2013, Gross was … heroin and cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, from several residences in the Portland area.  Conspirators brought heroin and crack cocaine from out-of-state suppliers to the residences.  Conspirators …
July 14, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Randy Rivera Sentenced To 12 Years’ Imprisonment For Conspiracy To Distribute Crack Cocaine

February 24, 2014
… sold large quantities of crack cocaine to Vermonters from about late 2009 through his arrest in early 2013. … the crack in Springfield to three different individuals from the Burlington area, who then transported it to Vermont … to purchase crack, sometimes picking up narcotics from him multiple times per week. The amounts they …
February 24, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA To Conduct Pharmacy Diversion Awareness Conference In Cumberland County To Address The Diversion Of Prescription Opioids And Link To Heroin Abuse

August 25, 2016
… opioids, is a growing problem.  This diversion stems from various sources.  In addition to pharmacy robberies and … doctor shoppers, or illegitimate prescriptions from rogue practitioners.  The PDAC is designed to assist … across Pennsylvania in 2015 - an increase of 23.4 percent from the total number of overdose deaths reported in 2014.  …
August 25, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Arrests Former King County Deputy - Charged With Methamphetamine Conspiracy And Distribution

February 11, 2014
… officer employed by the King County Sheriff's (KCSO) from 2002 to July 9, 2013.  In 2009, Wright was assigned to … violations of the Controlled Substances Act.  He resigned from office in July 2013.  The investigation was led by the … is pending trial in King County on state charges stemming from his 2013 conduct as a DEA Task Force Officer prior to …
February 11, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

October 18, 2016
… of communities participate in this weekend’s event from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO - DEA reprises one of … injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine …
October 18, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Rideout Health To Pay Civil Monetary Penalties To Resolve Controlled Substance Act Claims

December 06, 2016
… sufficient security controls. This settlement arises from a Drug Enforcement (DEA) investigation that began after DEA received information from the California State Board of Pharmacy that Fremont … Medical Center’s DEA Registration had expired, and that from October 23, 2012, to October 23, 2014, pharmacy …
December 06, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Prescription Drug Take-Back Day On Saturday April 26

April 22, 2014
… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas Additional Division Info Community … on Drug Use and Health.  And more Americans died in 2010 from overdoses of prescription (22,134, including 16,651 …
April 22, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Marijuana Cases Update

April 28, 2014
… by the DEA and IRS Criminal Investigation with assistance from the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration, … Enforcement Team. 907 Marijuana Plants/Firearm Seized from Stanislaus County Riverside Grow (1:12-cr-342 AWI) - … California beside the San Joaquin River. Water was diverted from the San Joaquin River to irrigate the illegal …
April 28, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Leader of cocaine trafficking organization admits guilt

October 13, 2020
… to transport kilogram-quantities of cocaine and other drugs from Texas and California and into the Savannah area from as early as February 2014 until his capture in March … to Savannah, and distributed to mid-level dealers operating from several Savannah-area residences. On March 5, 2018, law …
October 13, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Highlands County Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Federal Prison

September 09, 2021
… of members at all levels of the criminal enterprise - from top leaders, to people who cooked crack cocaine, to … to distribute cocaine.  McCray has a prior conviction from the Southern District of Florida for possession with … of cocaine base.  The senior McCray has a prior conviction from the Southern District of Florida for conspiracy to …
September 09, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Seizure Provides Local K-9s with Great Training Opportunity

April 07, 2025
… 362-2942 Miami.Training@dea.gov presser.JPG K-9 handlers from West Palm Beach Police Department (PD); Palm Beach … Juno Beach PD; and Port St. Lucie PD accept an opportunity from DEA to train their canines on a very large cocaine … but also the purity.  MIAMI  — K-9 law enforcement officers from South Florida got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to …
April 07, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Charges Unsealed Against Specially Designated Global Terrorist Mohammad Bazzi and Talal Chahine

February 24, 2023
… alleged activities in the United States, as directed from Lebanon. Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the … he could secretly move hundreds of thousands of dollars from the United States to Lebanon without detection by law … millions of dollars to Hizballah over the years, generated from his business activities in Belgium, Lebanon, Iraq and …
February 24, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Mercer County man charged with possessing heroin with intent to distribute

December 02, 2020
… and the surrounding area. Based on information received from a reliable source, law enforcement officials determined … Law enforcement officials followed Bell in his vehicle from Trenton to Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Bell drove to an apartment complex, retrieved a bag from the trunk of his vehicle and entered an apartment. …
December 02, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Baton Rouge man indicted for international money laundering in furtherance of an international drug conspiracy and other related charges

November 09, 2018
… who had purchased the substances online, to accept payments from the individual buyers, and to transmit funds from the sales to others operating outside the United … transactions to promote the conspiracy, by wiring funds from his business bank accounts in Baton Rouge to India. The …
November 09, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Gang Member Sentenced to Federal Prison for Meth Trafficking

September 07, 2022
… Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 2920 Brandywine Road Atlanta , GA 30341 United States Atlanta … Robert Murphy Domestic Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina Additional Division Info Community … Additional photos of firearms and ammunition recovered from Takedown.jpg AUGUSTA, Ga. --  A member of a violent …
September 07, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Warren County Man Indicted on Charges Including Machine Gun Possession, Methamphetamine Trafficking

April 21, 2022
… of illegal drugs in our communities, and to remove firearms from those who are prohibited from owning them,” said U.S. Attorney Estes. McGahee was … followed a recent search of his residence where agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and deputies …
April 21, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Two Convicted for Roles in Drug Trafficking Organization with Ties to Mexican Cartel

May 24, 2023
… of the organization who coordinated fentanyl shipments from Sinaloa, Mexico to Massachusetts and the laundering of … the delivery of $150,000 which was ultimately seized from Heraux as he attempted to deliver the money on behalf … in February 2021, 197 grams of fentanyl was seized from Heraux as he attempted to deliver the drugs to a …
May 24, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

New Britain Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Fentanyl

June 27, 2022
… kilogram-quantities of narcotics, primarily fentanyl, from a source in Mexico, and then distributed the drug to … Members of the organization delivered cash generated from the sale of narcotics to a money broker in Brooklyn, … 2019, investigators seized more than $200,000 in cash from members of the drug trafficking organization. Gonzalez …
June 27, 2022

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