PRESS RELEASE

Two Defendants Admit Roles In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

November 21, 2013
… including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, along with the U.S. Secret Service, and with assistance from the Drug Enforcement (the “New Jersey Task Force”). An …
November 21, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Staten Island Woman Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

July 31, 2014
… including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, along with the U.S. Secret Service and with assistance from the Drug Enforcement (New Jersey Task Force).   An …
July 31, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Doctor Arrested On Charges He Conspired To Illegally Distribute Thousands Of Highly Addictive Oxycodone Pills By Writing Fraudulent Prescriptions For People He Never Treated Or Examined

January 21, 2015
… General John J. Hoffman announced that a medical doctor from Union County, NJ has been arrested on charges he … dangerous substance by fraud.  He waived extradition from New York, and was transported yesterday to New Jersey, … made up of special agents of the DEA, Task Force Officers from local police departments, and Diversion Investigators. …
January 21, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

24 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking

May 20, 2014
… or couriers in order to transport kilograms of cocaine from the Luis Muñoz Marín International (“LMMIA”), located … or cause others to travel in commercial airline flights, from Puerto Rico to the continental United States, carrying … and the same containers to transport the profits generated from the drug sales back to Puerto Rico. They invested part …
May 20, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA, Coast Guard, Customs And Border Protection, And Homeland Security Investigations Partner To Interdict $29 Million Cocaine Shipment, Detain 13 Smugglers

February 10, 2015
… on board the delivery vessel after it was launched from the 268-foot St. Vincent and Grenadines-flag coastal … of the citizens in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands from this threat.” While on a routine patrol Tuesday night, … vessel.  Their actions prevented the delivery vessel from making landfall. The CBP MPA maintained constant …
February 10, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-Four Defendants Facing Federal Drug Charges For Transporting Heroin And Cocaine To Chicago Aboard Amtrak Trains

October 27, 2016
… Amtrak trains to transport heroin and cocaine to Chicago from California. One of the defendants is an Amtrak employee … wholesale quantities of heroin and cocaine were obtained from traffickers in Mexico and southern California, and transported from Los Angeles to Chicago aboard Amtrak’s commercial train …
October 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Columbia Man Admits To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

June 27, 2014
… presented in court:  In May 2010, using information from the Bartow/Cartersville Drug Task Force, multiple … with over 98 % of their patients traveling to the clinic from surrounding states, the majority from Kentucky and Tennessee.  Many of those visiting had …
June 27, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Kicks Off Red Ribbon Campaign

October 17, 2016
… Officially, Red Ribbon Week will be celebrated nationally from October 23-31; however, communities and school … a Red Ribbon during the last week in October, Americans from all walks of life demonstrate their opposition to … of teenagers abusing prescription drugs get the drugs from family, friends, and the home medicine cabinet; Whereas …
October 17, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican Toy Dealer Pleads Guilty In Drug Money Laundering Case

August 01, 2012
… in Los Angeles on money laundering charges arising from this type of scheme, which is commonly referred to as a … U.S. dollars, which they would use to purchase merchandise from Woody Toys. The dollars being sold were allegedly proceeds from illegal drug sales that had been deposited in the toy …
August 01, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Brothers Who Led Mexican Mafia-Backed Puente-13 Street Gang Sentenced To Life In Prison As Result Of Federal Racketeering Case

March 06, 2013
… that included a brutal stabbing designed to deter victims from cooperating with law enforcement and plotting to murder … other members of Puente-13 to collect “tax” payments from area drug dealers on Rafael’s behalf, and warded off …
March 06, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Alleged PCP Distributor Who Shot A DEA Agent Arraigned On Federal Narcotics And Assault Charges

December 02, 2014
… Banks transported chemicals used to manufacture PCP from the Atlanta, Ga., area to Robinson, who stored the … allegedly transported chemicals used to manufacture PCP from South Carolina to other jurisdictions.  On July 6, … The indictment alleges that Robinson fired four shots from his bedroom. Then, he walked out of his bedroom into …
December 02, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Two Extradited, Charged With Weapons Support To Hizballah One Defendant Allegedly Agreed To Acquire $9.5 Million Worth Of Surface-to-Air Missiles And Other Weapons For Hizballah

November 18, 2011
… the extraditions of Siavosh Henareh and Cetin Aksu from Romania, on charges of conspiring to provide narcotics … the CS’s. The CSs represented to Henareh that the profits from the sale of the heroin in the United States would be … 2011, the CSs received a one-kilogram sample of heroin from a co-conspirator of Henareh’s in Bucharest, Romania, in …
November 18, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Enforcement Administration Collects Record Number Of Unused Pills As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

November 07, 2017
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … W. Patterson. “This is a crisis that must be addressed from multiple angles.  Educating the public and removing these medications from households across the Unites States prevents misuse …
November 07, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Second Major Cross-Border Drug Tunnel Discovered South Of San Diego This Month

November 30, 2011
… of marijuana with an estimated street value of anywhere from $30 million to $35 million. Two other suspects linked … Task Force. The Task Force is made up of representatives from ICE HSI, U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) Border Patrol, … a variety of techniques to detect cross-border tunnels, from state-of-the-art electronic surveillance to old …
November 30, 2011
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

Nephews Of First Lady Of Venezuela Found Guilty Of Conspiring To Import Cocaine Into The United States

November 18, 2016
… an effort to dispatch large loads of cocaine via aircraft from Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, … cocaine-laden aircraft with legitimate-seeming flight plans from Venezuela to Honduras.  On or about October 3, 2015, … to discuss sending hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Simón Bolívar International Airport to Juan Manuel …
November 18, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Steroid-Trafficking Defendants Sentenced

January 12, 2015
… of multiple parcels containing raw steroid materials from China and the collection of bulk currency and wire transfers from the organization’s customer base. "These sentences send … that the DEA does not discriminate: if you are profiting from selling drugs in our community, we will identify, …
January 12, 2015
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

Two KC Men Plead Guilty To $1.2 Million Oxycodone Conspiracy

May 16, 2017
… admitted they participated in a conspiracy that lasted from June 2013 to January 2016 to distribute, and to possess … several undercover purchases of fraudulent prescriptions from Dickinson, law enforcement officers executed a search … Dickinson said he obtained false prescriptions from co-defendant Robert G. Joy, also known as “Bear,” 34, …
May 16, 2017
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
… money laundering network collected and, with help from a San Gabriel Valley, California-based money … United States that belong to the cartel in Mexico. Profits from the drug trade must be repatriated to Mexico for use by … assist the Sinaloa and other cartels to move their profits from the United States to Mexico by providing a ready market …
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
… 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 … is a betrayal of vulnerable patients, and often it is theft from the taxpayer,” said Attorney General Sessions.  “In …
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
… 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

National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 324 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $14.6 Billion in Alleged Fraud

June 30, 2025
… actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers,” said Attorney General … fraudulently obtained at least approximately $51,474 from the fraudulent PPP applications, sought at least approximately $12,391 from at least one fraudulent EIDL application, and obtained …
June 30, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Six month investigation into Trenton gang yields 18 arrests with guns and drugs seized

January 14, 2021
… officer made arrangements to purchase a quantity of heroin from Joseph Kaite.  After conducting the narcotics … officers followed Deshawn Abner as he traveled by cab from Bond Street in Trenton to the Extended Stay Motel on … was seen retrieving a box containing 210 bricks of heroin from the bushes in the hotel parking lot.  After retrieving …
January 14, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Law Enforcement Operation Results in 25 Arrests for Drug-trafficking Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

March 10, 2022
… that involved more than 200 law enforcement officers from multiple local and federal agencies. “This operation … removed a large number of armed and dangerous drug dealers from the streets of our community,” said U.S. Attorney … 200 law enforcement officers were involved in the operation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and …
March 10, 2022