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Heroin Investigations Lead To Two Major Seizures: $12 Million Street Value

October 01, 2014
… These arrests stopped this highly addictive opioid drug from flooding our communities and prevented senseless overdoses that stem from heroin addiction.” New York State Police Superintendent … conspired to transport 15 kilograms of (33 pounds) from California to Hauppauge, Long Island inside a tractor …
October 01, 2014
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Southwest Georgia Man Sentenced to Prison for Armed Meth Trafficking

June 05, 2025
… Defendant Admitted “Lifelong” Meth Dealer Firearms seized from Vinson's residence.jpg Firearms seized from Vinson's residence Justin Vinso aka Tiny was arrested … was arrested on January 26, 2023 Methamphetamine purchased from Vinson.png Methamphetamine purchased from Vinson …
June 05, 2025
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Op Sweet Silence Defendant Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Serve 20 Years in Prison

May 13, 2025
… federal, state and local partners to prevent this poison from finding its way onto our streets.”    “This is a huge … and local law enforcement conducted Operation Sweet Silence from Aug. 2022 until May 2024, an extensive investigation … learned co-conspirators facilitated and received directions from Turner and Mullins to conduct drug transactions on …
May 13, 2025
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Ghost Gun and Narcotics Trafficking Ring Shut Down in NYC

March 15, 2023
… Task Force, which is comprised of agents and officers from the New York City Police Department, New York State … selling ghost guns and assault weapons in our state. From stopping the companies that sell these dangerous ghost …
March 15, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Medical Professionals Performed Perfunctory Exams On Longshoremen And Filled Scripts For Narcotics In Elaborate Scheme To Rip Off Insurance Companies

December 18, 2013
… a crooked chiropractor who conspired to rip off millions from insurance companies in a complex fraud scam. The number … placed pill in front of pill. That distance would stretch from Howland Hook to the foot of my office," said Richmond …
December 18, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Nationwide and in the Southern District Of Georgia

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 …
June 28, 2018
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Nationwide and in the Southern District Of Georgia

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 …
June 28, 2018
GENERAL INFORMATION

About the Freedom of Information Act

March 28, 2025
… to access is limited when such information is protected from disclosure by one of FOIA's nine statutory exemptions … must be disclosed unless they are specifically excluded from the Act or unless they fall under one of the Act’s … on behalf of any person.  “Any person” excludes a fugitive from justice or anyone acting on behalf of the fugitive – …
March 28, 2025
GENERAL INFORMATION

Privacy Act Exemptions

March 28, 2025
… as a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the … to the individual.  Rules exempting systems of records from certain Privacy Act requirements are contained in  28 … System of Record Notices .  If agency records are exempt from disclosure under the Privacy Act, DEA will review the …
March 28, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 25, 2016
… Just Think Twice Domestic Twice-annual event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 30 WASHINGTON - After … combined.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household medicine cabinet,” said DEA Acting …
April 25, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Southeast Alaska Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

June 18, 2025
… shipped parcels containing controlled substances from California and other parts of Alaska to various places … and physically mailing parcels containing drug proceeds from Alaska to co-conspirators in California and Mexico. … serve three years on supervised release after her release from prison. Stormy Cleveland, 39, of Ketchikan, pleaded …
June 18, 2025
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Trafficker Sentenced to 19.5 Years in Prison for Supplying Weapons and Ammunition to Sinaloa Cartel

January 13, 2025
… fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana) from South America and Mexico, transported the drugs to … United States. The TCO then smuggled the bulk cash proceeds from its drug trafficking activities back to the TCO’s … vests. A considerable number of these items were sourced from within the United States and clandestinely smuggled …
January 13, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

More Charges Against State Lawmaker for $900,000 COVID-19 Fraud Scheme

March 26, 2021
… the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and remained closed from March to June 2020. Derges allegedly sought CARES Act … amount of $503,350. In total, Derges applied for $882,644 from the CARES Act Relief Fund on Lift Up’s behalf. Congress … her claim, Derges provided invoices totaling $296,574 from Dynamic DNA for more than 3,000 COVID-19 laboratory …
March 26, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Record-breaking amount of cocaine seized at Port of New York/Newark

March 11, 2019
… USCG, NYSP and NYPD interdicted 3,200 pounds of cocaine from shipping container 60 bundles removed from container.JPG Bundles seized from rear of container.JPG Port New YorkNewark Container …
March 11, 2019
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Drug Kingpin Extradited: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group

April 24, 2018
… arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York and subsequently extradited from Colombia to the United States on April 23, 2018. James … (NYSP), announced the extradition. The charges resulted from a long-term investigation by the DEA’s New York Drug …
April 24, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Doctor Gets 10 Years For Operating “Pill Mill” In Alabama

May 10, 2017
… hydromorphone and hydrocodone-directly from a drug manufacturer. Ritchea then distributed the pills … just days after receiving a prescription for that drug from him.  The sentencing court also heard testimony from former patients of Ritchea’s who had maintained their …
May 10, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Long Island Man Convicted of Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses Defendant Distributed Fentanyl that Caused the Overdose Death of Selden Man

December 14, 2022
… on the community, including by taking this young man away from his family too soon. This Office, together with our … caused harm or death to others.” The evidence proved that, from January 2017 through May 2019, the defendant conspired … enforcement recovered fentanyl and drug packaging materials from his basement bedroom, and also seized three illegal …
December 14, 2022
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Cocaine seizures bring recent port of Savannah totals to more than $53 million

June 11, 2019
… Southern District of Georgia Bobby L. Christine.   Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in … and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Augusta Fire Department, seized packages containing … holding a shipping container that had been transported from the Port of Savannah. Pujols and Ramos were taken into …
June 11, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Joins with Families Across Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to Increase Awareness about the Dangers of Fentanyl

November 22, 2022
… fatal overdose and poisoning victims with regional leaders from law enforcement, public health, drug prevention and … incredible work these families are doing to prevent others from experiencing the profound pain of losing a loved one to … In addition to an overview of current global drug trends from DEA Chicago Division Special Agent in Charge Robert J. …
November 22, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
November 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in Nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
November 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Pill distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully distributing painkillers

July 19, 2019
… prescription pills to be illegally sold and dispensed from their facilities,” said DEA Assistant Administrator … pharmacies in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee.   From 2008 until 2015, the company generated more than $173 …
July 19, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Beaumont residents guilty in federal drug trafficking case

August 15, 2018
… Texas, area.  Eric Coleman received powder cocaine from Christopher Dudley, who brought it to Beaumont from Houston. Clayton Howard assisted Dudley in transporting cocaine from Houston to Beaumont.  Coleman distributed both powder …
August 15, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

16 People Sentenced To Lengthy Terms For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

August 15, 2013
… laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received … drugs which had been brought into the United States from Mexico from Zapata to other parts of the United States. The drugs …
August 15, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

18 Operation Trena Sin Trono Defendants Plead Guilty

September 24, 2015
… organization were part of the conspiracy that occurred from on or about June 2011 through June 2013. The pleas are … to transport multi-thousand pound quantities of marijuana from Laredo to the Dallas area. The investigation revealed that beginning from on or about June 10, 2011, and continuing through June …
September 24, 2015
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Ricardo Castang Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Narcotics Trafficking And Fake Sweepstakes Scheme Targeting Elderly Victims

October 05, 2017
… A long-term investigation into the trafficking of cocaine from Costa Rica ultimately led agents from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force to … Brooklyn, to retrieve packages containing two souvenir bags from Costa Rica with a total of one kilogram of (over 2 …
October 05, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Anchorage Trafficker Sentenced To Life In Prison

April 22, 2011
… intended recipient of 23 pounds of methamphetamine smuggled from Mexico to Alaska. This methamphetamine was delivered to … 2009, investigators with DEA in Anchorage seized $12,000 from a vehicle being sent from Anchorage to Seattle. The investigation revealed that …
April 22, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Six Arrested In Massive Queens Marijuana Bust

October 05, 2015
… them transferring cardboard cartons containing the drug from a tractor trailer parked in Elmhurst, Queens, to two … of removing cartons of marijuana stacked six feet high from a tractor trailer across the street from the Good Fortune Supermarket in Elmhurst when …
October 05, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

13 Indicted In Multimillion Dollar Interstate Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

April 18, 2013
… Chau have yet to be arrested. The indictment alleges that from October 2008 to April 2013, the defendants obtained … for oxycodone, hydrocodone, and medical marijuana cards from a doctor in Modesto. They recruited other individuals to obtain prescriptions and marijuana cards from the doctor by offering them payments in return for the …
April 18, 2013
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Members of Alabama drug trafficking organization plead guilty to drug and gun charges

August 10, 2018
… nineteenth federal defendant, Phillip Maddox, 41, from Auburn, Alabama, is set for trial in October. The four … Dieago Holstick, 36, and Timothy Lamar Spinks, 43, both from Auburn, Alabama; James Earl McIntyre, 28, from Montgomery, Alabama; and James Lee Hamilton, 41, from …
August 10, 2018