PRESS RELEASE

Two Dozen Charged After DEA Task Force Takes Down Coast To Coast Narcotics Distribution Ring

October 31, 2013
… with narcotics distribution and related offenses stemming from a long-term investigation into a coast to coast drug … Hartford area.  Fernandez also was supplied with narcotics from individuals in New York.  Fernandez then sold the drugs … efforts of DEA's Hartford Task Force, a drug pipeline from California to Connecticut has been shut down," stated …
October 31, 2013
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Accessibility & Policy

March 28, 2025
… Service TTY/TDD: 800-877-8339  You can learn more about TRS from the  Federal Communications Commission’s website . … released by DEA; or would otherwise prevent the DEA from effectively discharging its responsibilities. It … of Classified National Intelligence concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes, …
March 28, 2025
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March 16, 2020 - March 17, 2020
March 16, 2020 - March 17, 2020

Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conference

12:00 AM - 9:00 AM (EDT)
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will be hosting two regional one-day Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conferences (PDAC) on Monday, March 16, and Tuesday, March 17, 2020. The same conference will be held both days. Participants can attend either day. The conferences will be held at the Sheraton Baltimore North, 903 Dulaney...
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October 21, 2019 - October 22, 2019
October 21, 2019 - October 22, 2019

Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conference

12:00 AM - 9:00 AM (EDT)
New Orleans , LA
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will be hosting two regional, one-day Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conferences (PDAC) on Monday, October 21, and Tuesday, October 22, 2019. The same conference will be held both days. Participants can attend either day. The conferences will be held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New...
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

July 28, 2015
… About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th WASHINGTON - DEA … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time in every state but Pennsylvania … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
July 28, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holds Second Annual Family Summit on Fentanyl

September 28, 2023
… second annual DEA Family Summit on Fentanyl for families from across the country who have experienced the profound … said during his remarks. “Across the Justice Department – from our agents here at DEA to all 94 of our United States … into action, working tirelessly to prevent other families from suffering the unimaginable loss of a loved one to a …
September 28, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Trio headed to prison for drug conspiracy

October 03, 2019
… of nearly 50 years for their role in transporting meth from Brownsville to Louisiana, announced Drug Enforcement … Flores and Rodriguez’s role in providing the drugs from Mexico to Garza who sold it to his buyers in Louisiana … for Flores as forfeiture of the proceeds they earned from illegally selling the methamphetamine. In 2016, Garza …
October 03, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

New York Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking Conspiracy And Firearms Charges

January 06, 2017
… drug trafficking conspiracy. According to court records, from about November 2011 until March 2014, Cowart conspired … base, and oxycodone in Portland. The drugs were brought from the New York area by managers of the drug conspiracy.  … the back door, and seized about $25,000 in drug proceeds from him.  Later that day, agents apprehended another …
January 06, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Canadian Man Sentenced To 37 Months In Federal Prison For Marijuana Smuggling Conspiracy

August 18, 2015
… to distribute marijuana and transport the proceeds from that conspiracy across international borders. U.S. … Farkas was involved in a marijuana conspiracy that lasted from 2007 through November of 2012. From Canada, Farkas …
August 18, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Four Laredo Men Sentenced For Trafficking Narcotics

November 14, 2017
… to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic drugs from Laredo to the Dallas area via the use of tractor … and distribution of multi-kilogram quantities of marijuana from Laredo to the Dallas area. Picazo Jimenez used his ties … source of supply to illegally import the bulk marijuana from Mexico into the US via Laredo. He recruited the …
November 14, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Bergen County man sentenced to 14 years in prison for role in $7 million fraud scheme and cross-country drug distribution scheme

November 06, 2020
… using bogus litigation support companies to obtain millions from two law firms where his wife was a partner and for his … in a scheme to transport more than 20 kilograms of cocaine from California to New Jersey. Melvin Feliz, 54, of … also of Englewood Cliffs, worked as a partner at Law Firm 1 from July 1, 2005, through October 2010. She then joined Law …
November 06, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Postal Annex owner sentenced for structuring currency transactions

September 11, 2018
… DEA will continue to investigate those seeking to profit from the illegal distribution of drugs and destruction of … Postal Annexes were vigilant in preventing unlawful funds from passing through Western Union, and the financial system … intent to deposit Lovely Singh, Inc.’s cash proceeds free from scrutiny. As Singh and Lovely Singh, Inc., admitted in …
September 11, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Meriden Man Sentenced to Nearly 8 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Cocaine

November 29, 2022
… that Diaz coordinated shipments of kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico and also received from cocaine from another source in New York, and distributed the cocaine …
November 29, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Grand Junction Cocaine Ring Indicted

October 20, 2005
… today returned a 38 count indictment charging 11 people from the Grand Junction area with trafficking cocaine. Of … incident. The other defendant is considered a fugitive from justice. The indictment is the result of a year long … Vera-Figueroa, transported large quantities of cocaine from Mexico, across the Arizona border, to drug traffickers …
October 20, 2005
PRESS RELEASE

Members of international drug trafficking conspiracy sentenced to prison

June 20, 2019
… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Defendants used cash from China to purchase and operate marijuana grow houses – … U.S. District Court in Seattle to prison terms ranging from 24 to 32 months for distributing more than a thousand … admitting in their plea agreements that they used money from conspirators in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) to …
June 20, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Carlos Powell And Eric Powell Sentenced To Life In Prison For Heading One Of Largest Drug Trafficking Operations In Michigan History

October 17, 2014
… City - (571) 362-0443 More than $21million in cash seized from Powell Organization in 2010 alone DETROIT - Two individuals from metro-Detroit were sentenced today to life in prison … would arrange for large amounts of money derived from the sale of drugs to be transported to Phoenix, …
October 17, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Dea Leads Heroin Intervention Program

September 14, 2016
… and prosecution program to remove heroin dealers from the streets of Louisville. ​“I have a message for … Attorney John Kuhn.  "You are killing people in this city from every walk of life.  From this point forward, if you …
September 14, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Multi-District OCDETF Investigation Linked To Zeta Organization Leads To Local Arrests

November 16, 2011
… into the large scale transportation of drug proceeds from the Chicago, Ill, area to border cities in Texas … the transportation and laundering of bulk U.S. currency from various locations throughout the United States. … controlled substances including marijuana and cocaine from Mexico into the United States to major distribution …
November 16, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Newnan Dentist Sentenced To Prison For Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances

November 15, 2013
… 2011, DEA diversion investigators received a complaint from a source who wished to remain anonymous that Maddux was writing illegal prescriptions from his dental office. In response to the complaint, DEA …
November 15, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Former Guatemalan President Extradited To The U.S. To Face Money Laundering Charges

May 28, 2013
… with conspiring to launder millions of dollars he embezzled from the Government of Guatemala through bank accounts … misused and harmed in the concealment of money embezzled from the government of Guatemala and ultimately, its … court: PORTILLO served as the President of Guatemala from January 14, 2000, to January 14, 2004. In that …
May 28, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Collect 309 Tons Of Pills On Ninth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

November 05, 2014
… Just Think Twice Domestic Take-back initiative removes from circulation 2,411 tons of unused prescription drugs in … 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 …
November 05, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Heroin Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 12 Years In Federal Prison

November 14, 2013
… Administration in New Haven received information from the Connecticut State Police that Acosta was selling substantial quantities of heroin from his residence at 28 Maltby Place in New Haven.  … Following a series of controlled purchases of heroin from Acosta, the DEA New Haven Task Force initiated a …
November 14, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

National Drug Take Back Day Residents In Pacific Northwest Turn In More Than 16 Tons

October 28, 2016
… have removed over 332,704 (166.4 tons) of medication from circulation across the region.  “This was yet another … down by state: Washington - 19,179 (9.6 tons) removed from circulation. Idaho - 3,190 (1.6 tons) removed from circulation. Oregon - 7,933 (4.0 tons) removed from …
October 28, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Marijuana Kingpin Sentenced In DEA Investigation

July 28, 2015
… distribute marijuana in Greene County, Mo., and elsewhere from April 1, 2010, to June 19, 2013. Co-defendants Brian D. … Bond arranged for Hanson and others to pick up marijuana from individuals outside of Springfield, then transported … marijuana that had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico. Hanson, who was sentenced today to one year and …
July 28, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Two Men Indicted In $7 Million Dollar California To Missouri Marijuana Conspiracy

July 06, 2017
… in a $7 million dollar marijuana conspiracy spanning from California to Missouri.  Zachary Scott (a.k.a. “Tuna”), … alleges that Nutt and Glaholt distributed this marijuana from 2001 through 2017, and primarily in the counties of … leadership roles in the conspiracy - obtained marijuana from multiple sources, including a grow operation in …
July 06, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Hundreds Of Counterfeit Oxycodone Tablets Seized At Port Of Entry Contained Ultra-Deadly Fentanyl

April 15, 2016
… Health and Human Services has urged individuals to refrain from taking prescription-type pills that are not prescribed and obtained from one’s own doctor. The seizure is believed to be the … tablets containing fentanyl as they were being smuggled from Mexico into the United States. “DEA will continue to …
April 15, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s Third National Prescription Drug Take Back Day A Huge Success

November 03, 2011
… partners have removed 995,185 (498.5 tons) of medication from circulation in the past 13 months.  “Residents in the … and abuse by turning in nearly 11 tons of medication from their homes,” said Special Agent in Charge Matthew G. … collection sites which resulted in 9,502 (4.7 tons) removed from circulation. Idaho - 23 collection sites which resulted …
November 03, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Alleged Rizzuto Organized Crime Family Associate Sentenced To 10 Years Imprisonment

May 09, 2014
… will also forfeit $2,663,191 that federal agents seized from multiple locations in California that Taloni used to … transported tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana from outdoor growers in British Colombia to Montreal, … run by the Hells Angels and Native American co-conspirators from the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation along the …
May 09, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Former Bakersfield Police Department Detective Pleads Guilty To Bribery, Drug Trafficking, And Filing A False Tax Return

June 08, 2016
… criminal activity. During this time, Diaz received bribes from the informant in return for intelligence on law enforcement activities as well as protection from investigation and arrest. In addition to accepting … on duty, Diaz stopped a vehicle operated by two individuals from Yakima, Washington and used a BPD dog handler and …
June 08, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Danville Real Estate Agent Charged In Bank Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme

October 04, 2014
… separate occasions, Keslinke accepted a total of $550,000 from the undercover agent.  In an attempt to conceal the … the funds, Keslinke repeatedly deposited the money received from the undercover agent into business bank accounts under … Keslinke then attempted to launder the money by wiring it from his business bank accounts to an account controlled by …
October 04, 2014