PRESS RELEASE

Members Of Queens-Based Drug Trafficking Crew Indicted For Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy, Kidnapping, And Firearms Offenses

August 04, 2016
… arrested while picking up a parcel containing heroin sent from Ecuador through John F. Kennedy International Airport into Queens, New York. The crew member was released from law enforcement custody later that day. The following … of a drug trafficking organization that imported heroin from Ecuador through John F. Kennedy Airport and distributed …
August 04, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Gang Alliance That Ravaged West Bronx With Gunfire And New England Towns With Drugs Is Dismantled

March 10, 2016
… cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.  I commend the men and women from the DEA Strike Force, NYPD and the Bronx District … that the crew had been transporting heroin and cocaine from the Bronx for sale in the area from 2012 until late 2014.  Thirteen members were identified …
March 10, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Alleged Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited To The United States To Face Criminal Enterprise, Drug, And Money-Laundering Charges

November 09, 2012
… Mexican drug kingpin Luis Rodriguez-Olivera was extradited from Mexico to the United States yesterday and will be … was arrested in Mexico on a provisional warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York. The extradition was … The organization received multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia along the coast of Mexico, and transported …
November 09, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Baltimore Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

February 03, 2014
Baltimore Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison February 03, 2014 Washington, DC Contact Info Contact Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 Washington.Special.Agent@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 800 …
February 03, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Seven Arrested In Major New York City Prescription Forgery Ring

January 23, 2017
… for addictive opioid painkillers and illegally obtain pills from pharmacies for resale on the black market. Following a … with running a prescription forgery and drug diversion ring from December 1, 2011 to January 7, 2017. Bivona, 45, And … runners’ names appeared on prescriptions that originated from the clinic. Bivona and Keller sometimes drove the …
January 23, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

13 Years For Trucking Company Owner For Role In $6.5 Million Crystal Meth, Heroin Haul

February 27, 2017
… 5 kilograms of (11 lbs.) and 23 kilograms of (51 lbs.), from his tractor-trailer. At the time the seizure, the load … of crystal (30 lbs.) smuggled in vehicles travelling from the West Coast for distribution in the metropolitan … were expecting to receive a shipment of heroin and cocaine from Mexican suppliers, but were instead provided with …
February 27, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Alfredo Beltran Leyva Sentenced To Life In Prison For Drug Trafficking

April 05, 2017
… enforcement efforts like this one that we can remove drugs from America’s streets and make our communities that much … into the United States.  The defendant was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Nov. 15, 2014, and … conferences, the government proffered evidence that from the early 1990s until his indictment in August 2014, …
April 05, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Indictment Alleges Alliance Between Sinaloa Cartel and Money Launderers Linked to Chinese Underground Banking

June 18, 2024
… Federal Indictment Alleges Alliance Between Sinaloa Cartel and Money Launderers Linked to Chinese Underground Banking … Get Smart About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic China and Mexico Took Law Enforcement Actions Following Justice … money laundering network collected and, with help from a San Gabriel Valley, California-based money …
June 18, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges against 601 Individuals Responsible for over $2 Billion in Fraud Losses

June 28, 2018
… of Justice History Resulted in 76 Doctors Charged and 84 Opioid Cases Involving More Than 13 Million Illegal … in today’s arrests.  In addition, HHS announced today that from July 2017 to the present, it has excluded 2,700 individuals from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and all other …
June 28, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-six people charged with trafficking at least five kilograms of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl between Puerto Rico and Milwaukee

January 16, 2020
… quantities of cocaine through the U.S. Postal Service from Puerto Rico to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On Jan 15, 2020, … this takedown: “Our communities continue to suffer from an unprecedented drug epidemic that has taken far too … enforcement partners to keep the citizens of Milwaukee safe from drug trafficking and the violence that is always …
January 16, 2020
DOCUMENT

DEA History-The Early Years

December 17, 1919
Publication
… enforcement is founded on a record of achievement as old and honorable, as colorful and proud, as any in the annals … ahead. BNDD, ODALE, ONNI and a large contingent from Customs would be unified to form an agent force 2,000 … the Drug Enforcement Administration arose phoenix-like from the ashes. In the voice of one of our great allies in …
December 17, 1919
PRESS RELEASE

Eastside Rollin 20s Crips members and associates indicted

June 20, 2025
… District of Virginia. “Any of these elements alone – from violence to illegal drugs to identity theft – is enough … to eradicate criminal gangs and protect our citizens from the detriment they bring.”  “As alleged, RTC members … and distribution of drugs, removing illicit firearms from American streets, helping to put public threats in …
June 20, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Fourth Defendant Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

September 28, 2023
… even as the children he abandoned inside were suffering from his poisonous trade.  As I vowed in the wake of this … this proliferating threat.” As alleged in the Complaint: From at least in or about July 2023 through at least in or …
September 28, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Leader of Savannah-Area Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced to Decades in Federal Prison

August 03, 2023
… Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 2920 Brandywine Road Atlanta , GA 30341 United States Atlanta … a threat of illegal drugs and its attendant violence from our community,” said U.S. Attorney Steinberg. “We will … to coordinate our efforts to protect our neighborhoods from dangerous drugs.” Operation Deadlier Catch, as …
August 03, 2023
GENERAL INFORMATION

New York News 2008

July 15, 2021
… of Mexican Cocaine Cartel Extradited to The United States From Mexico on Narcotics Trafficking Charges September 4, … Heroin Importation Ring Extradited to United States from Colombia August 27, 2008 Nine Arrested for Violation of …
July 15, 2021
GENERAL INFORMATION

New York News 2007

July 15, 2021
… Thousands Of Kilograms Of Cocaine Into The United States From Colombia November 30, 2007 Curaçao-Based Cocaine … 5, 2007 Heroin Kingpin – First Defendant Ever Extradited From Afghanistan – Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To …
July 15, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Two Colombian Drug Traffickers Charged With Smuggling Narcotics To New York Aboard Famed Spanish Navy Ship

January 22, 2016
… was apprehended outside the city. The arrests resulted from close collaboration between the Office of the Special … Service assisted in the investigation. Narcotics smuggled from Colombia to New York City - A long-term wiretap … Siado-Alvarez oversaw a major international drug operation from their base in Cartagena, Colombia. As part of the …
January 22, 2016
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October 26, 2019
October 26, 2019

DEA Take Back Day (October 26, 2019)

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Find a collection site near you! The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 9.9 million Americans misused controlled prescription drugs. The study shows that a majority of abused prescription drugs...
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day with Extended Museum Hours

August 20, 2025
… Museum will extend its operating hours this coming Thursday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. to commemorate National Fentanyl … died of a drug overdose or poisoning in 2024. Per the CDC, from March 2024 to March 2025, drug related overdose deaths decreased approximately 25 percent from the same previous 12-month period. While this news is …
August 20, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces 5,456 Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania in 2017

August 21, 2018
… per 100,000 people and a 64% increase in overdose deaths from 2015 to 2017. The DEA Philadelphia Division will be … opioid misuse data sources. A summary of key findings from the upcoming report indicates that heroin sourced from Mexican transnational criminal organizations presents a …
August 21, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Two Passaic County Men Plead Guilty to Illegal Money Transmitting Scheme

October 26, 2021
… aiding and abetting an illegal money transmitting business. From April 2017 through March 2019, Erickson Checo-Almonte … checks at local bank branches in New Jersey and elsewhere. From November 2016 through August 2017, Abreu-Diaz accepted …
October 26, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Two Hunterdon County women sentenced for distributing opioids

November 20, 2018
… imposed the sentences today in Trenton federal court. From April 2016 through December 2017, Rios, Call and Call’s … the pills to Marie DeJulia, 42, of Lodi, New Jersey, from Call’s and Rios’ Flemington residences for resale. The …
November 20, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Distributor of More than 100 Pounds of Fentanyl Sentenced to Almost Six Years in Prison

December 01, 2021
… total, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents seized from Renteria 49.1 kilograms (108.2 pounds) of fentanyl; … this year. “The quantity of fentanyl DEA agents seized from Ernesto Renteria is disturbing,” said DEA Acting … drugs prior to distribution, many Americans could have died from a fentanyl overdose.  The DEA will continue to …
December 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Local trafficker distributing methamphetamine in North San Diego County sentenced to 10 years

December 23, 2019
… for a one-year period, he obtained bulk methamphetamine from a broker in Mexico and subsequently sold smaller … obtained pound quantities of methamphetamine each month from his methamphetamine supplier in Mexico. “San Diego … U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer praised federal agents from the DEA, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal …
December 23, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Utica men sentenced for drug trafficking conspiracy

July 29, 2020
… possess with intent to distribute cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. The jury also found … fingerprints on some of the drug packaging material seized from the stash location. The cocaine base Peralta possessed … Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with assistance from the New York State Police, Oneida County Sheriff’s …
July 29, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Niagara Falls man sentenced for involvement in multi-million dollar heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl conspiracy

July 03, 2019
… Williams to assist Williams with receiving drug shipments from California, distributing the drugs, and collecting … Sonia Hernandez, to receive kilograms of cocaine.   From July 15, 2014, through March 18, 2015, Lucas received …
July 03, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, 2019

April 23, 2019
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Take Back Day is a unique …
April 23, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Bridgeport Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Illegally Possessing Firearms

April 07, 2022
… in Bridgeport.  At the time of his arrest, officers seized from Vasquez several fictious driver’s licenses from several states, each with Vasquez’s picture and a … Georgia in June 2019.  In late 2019, the gun was recovered from an SUV outside of a Waterbury nightclub, and the …
April 07, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Rochester Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking and Fatal Overdose

November 21, 2022
… house at 192 Weaver Street in Rochester, selling fentanyl from the house in 2019 and 2020. On February 25, 2020, … and $10,445 in cash, all of which consisted of proceeds from the distribution of fentanyl. Rodriguez admitted … The victim and a group of her friends obtained fentanyl from Rodriguez at the Weaver Street drug house. The victim …
November 21, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Bronx Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison and West New York Man Admits Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine

May 11, 2021
… four kilograms of a substance they believed was cocaine from an individual. DEA Special Agents arrested Johnson and Beggs and seized $153,577 from Johnson’s vehicle, a loaded firearm from a hidden compartment in Johnson’s vehicle, and $23,607 …
May 11, 2021