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Husband and wife sentenced to prison for operating Upper West Side pill mill

… Husband and wife sentenced to prison for operating Upper West Side pill mill … painkiller oxycodone for no legitimate medical purpose from an Upper West Side medical practice. As a result of the …
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Owner of Oakland Money Services Business Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Laundering Drug Proceeds to Mexico

… Owner of Oakland Money Services Business Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Laundering Drug Proceeds … agreement, Ornelas Mora owned and operated Rincon Musical. From no later than September 2020 through August 2022, …
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First Regional Family Summit on Fentanyl Held in Utah

… First Regional Family Summit on Fentanyl Held in Utah October 19, 2023 Rocky Mountain Contact … 571-387-5079 Steffan W. Tubbs Recruiter Name Special Agent Seth McMullen (571) 387-3643 … one to a fentanyl poisoning or overdose.  A dozen families from across the state, and one father from Kentucky, …
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Walgreens Agrees To Pay A Record Settlement Of $80 Million For Civil Penalties Under The Controlled Substances Act

… Walgreens Agrees To Pay A Record Settlement Of $80 Million For Civil Penalties Under The Controlled … black market sales.   According to the most recent report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, …
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Paterson Man Admits Distributing Heroin That Caused Death of New York Resident

… Distributing Heroin That Caused Death of New York Resident April 22, 2021 New Jersey Contact Info Contact Us (571) … 362-3700 862-849-9863 Timothy P. McMahon NewJerseySpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 80 … and Individual-2 sold the same heroin they had obtained from Byrd to Victim-1. On April 3, 2016, officers from the …
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Meth on the rise in New Jersey

… 362-3700 862-849-9863 Timothy P. McMahon NewJerseySpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 80 … of the more rural areas of the state. Some recent analysis from the DEA’s Northeast Regional Lab has found some purity …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… Name Kieran Garcia (858) 616-4040 sandiegospecialagentrecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 4560 Viewridge Avenue San Diego , CA 92123-1672 … remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to …
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Crystal Meth Trafficker Sentenced 5 Years in Federal Prison

… Crystal Meth Trafficker Sentenced 5 Years in Federal Prison February 25, 2022 New … learned that the individual had received the meth from a tractor trailer driver who regularly transported …
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Texas Man Sentenced for Transporting Cocaine

… Texas Man Sentenced for Transporting Cocaine June 02, 2023 St. Louis … Springfield - (417) 888-9800 EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A man from Texas was sentenced to four years and nine months in … significant quantities of cocaine were being transported from Texas, through Illinois, and on to St. Louis. On Dec. …
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Las Vegas woman pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana in St. Louis

… Recruiter Name SA Chris Most (314) 538-4600 StLouisSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 317 South 16th Street St. Louis , MO 63103 … to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of marijuana from sources of supply based in California and launder the …
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Utica men found guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy after jury trial

… Utica men found guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy after jury … York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA … and the distribution of cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. Additionally, Peralta was …
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Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Trafficking Approximately 50 Pounds of Meth into New Hampshire

… Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Trafficking … to traffic approximately 50 pounds of methamphetamine from Massachusetts to New Hampshire on five occasions.  From …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl January 17, 2024 Headquarters Contact Info Contact … DEA Public Affairs HRA-SAA@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us Headquarters Quick Links Press Releases Local … a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from 4 out of 10 pills in 2021 and 6 out of 10 pills in …
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Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 20 Pounds of Fentanyl

… Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to … officers safeguarded countless members of our communities from the poison the defendant was intending to pollute into …
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Rocky Mountain Diversion Investigator Named “Outstanding Citizen of the Year”

… Mountain Diversion Investigator Named “Outstanding Citizen of the Year” March 17, 2023 Rocky Mountain Contact Info … 571-387-5079 Steffan W. Tubbs Recruiter Name Special Agent Seth McMullen (571) 387-3643 … in Bozeman.  DI St. Peter was nominated by a colleague from the Montana Department of Justice, Criminal …
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Local Banker Sent to Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy

… Local Banker Sent to Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy March 09, 2023 … Recruiter Name Kimball L. Hardeman 571-324-8227 SpecialAgentRecruiter.Houston@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events … to violate his position of trust for easy money, money from organizations that are destroying our communities.” …
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Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Shipping Firearm and Ammunition to the U.K. , Possessing Meth

… Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Shipping Firearm and Ammunition … Security Investigations (HSI) about a FedEx parcel shipped from Portland to the U.K. containing a 9mm handgun and … part of a separate drug trafficking investigation, agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) executed …
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Largest seizure of methamphetamine and heroin in Dallas, Texas history

… Recruiter Name SA Lorie Valdez 571-324-7440 DallasSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 10160 Technology Boulevard, East Dallas , TX … to adjustments in methods to transport illicit drugs from one point to another and organizations have been forced …
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Man Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl-Laced Fake Percocet

… Man Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl-Laced Fake Percocet March 23, 2022 Dallas Contact … Recruiter Name SA Lorie Valdez 571-324-7440 DallasSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us … by working together to remove dangerous illegal drugs from our streets and hold accountable those who make these …
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Brockton man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking

… Brockton man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking September 26, 2019 New … for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction.   …
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New York man sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking

… New York man sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking October 01, … New York that operated in central Maine. Individuals from Rochester were sent to central Maine to sell the drugs. …
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Valley Resident Sentenced for Meth Charges

… Valley Resident Sentenced for Meth Charges August 24, 2021 Houston Contact … resulted in a two-car collision.  At trial, the jury heard from a local police officer who explained how Perez crashed …
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Former North Carolina physician pleads guilty to drug distribution, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft charges

… to drug distribution, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft charges June 05, 2018 Atlanta Contact Info … Atlanta.Division.Recruiting@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 2920 Brandywine Road Atlanta , GA 30341 United … family medicine, Dr. Smith had sought and received approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to operate an …
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Members of a Large Drug Trafficking Organization Convicted of Drug, Gun, and Money Laundering Charges

… Information Office (571) 362-1011 Washington.Special.Agent@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 800 K Street, N.W Suite 500 Washington , DC … compartments to transport hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from the New York area to the Maryland-D.C. area from 1997 …
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DEA Arizona announces 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back

… National Prescription Drug Take Back October 24, 2019 Phoenix Contact Info Contact Us 571-362-5600 571-362-0582 Joshua Boyer 571-362-0582 PhoenixSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter … - 571-324-7324 Event will take place throughout Arizona from 10:00 am-2:00 pm on Saturday, October 26 PHOENIX – DEA …
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Large methamphetamine and fentanyl distribution network dismantled in Evansville, IN

… Large methamphetamine and fentanyl distribution network dismantled in Evansville, IN … Agostini Recruiter Name SA Jonathan Woods chicagospecialagentrecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 230 … and Guzman were the sources of supply for the drugs coming from the Mexican drug cartels to Evansville and Southwest …
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McCall woman sentenced to more than 11 years for methamphetamine distribution

… McCall woman sentenced to more than 11 years for methamphetamine distribution … of distributing  methamphetamine. Their charges stemmed from an investigation into their large scale distribution of …
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Houston Marijuana Ringleader Sentenced to 18 years in Federal Prison

… Houston Marijuana Ringleader Sentenced to 18 years in Federal Prison March 18, 2021 Houston … money judgment against the defendant for proceeds derived from his criminal conduct. On September 12, 2019, a federal …
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Stockton counterfeit pill manufacturing ring dismantled

… 436-7900 (415) 436-7994 Akilah Johnson SanFranSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us San Francisco Contacts San Francisco Quick … Barnes purportedly purchased a pill press and pill dies from China. Additional e-mail search warrants served in …
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Fugitive Marijuana Trafficker Sentenced To Prison

… Fugitive Marijuana Trafficker Sentenced To Prison May 11, 2018 San Francisco Contact Info … of a conspiracy to import almost 6,700 pounds of marijuana from Thailand in the mid-80s.  Eidson admitted that he went …