PRESS RELEASE

Leader Of Azusa Street Gang Involved In Drug Trafficking And Hate Crimes Sentenced To Nearly 20 Years

January 15, 2013
… would use violence in order to prevent African-Americans from moving into the City,” according to the indictment. … to aggressively defend those rights, and those residents, from harm.” Rios confirmed in court that members of the … racist incidents alleged in the indictment spanned a period from 1992 until May 2010, when an African-American high …
January 15, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Life In Prison For Racketeering Kingpin

March 03, 2017
… nightclub in upper Manhattan. Rodriguez watched this murder from the safety of a nearby pool hall and later informed a … in the theft of a relatively small amount of marijuana from one of Rodriguez-Perez’s stash houses. In the shooting … return that firearm and, in spite, ensured that Perez died from a shot fired by the same weapon.   Marino Molina, on …
March 03, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Orlando Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring and Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Heroin

March 23, 2021
… at the same designated location and purchased narcotics from him. This occurred on six different dates and resulted … Santos-Garcia, at an address on Brosche Road in Orlando from which the co-defendants were distributing narcotics in … Administration Orlando District Office, with assistance from the Orlando Police Department. It is being prosecuted …
March 23, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

December 04, 2025
… commitment to protecting American lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed … contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76% of pills tested just two years prior in FY 2023. … fentanyl powder purity decreased to 10.3%, down from 19.5% during the same time period. These reductions in …
December 04, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

December 03, 2025
… commitment to protecting American lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed … contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76 percent of pills tested just two years prior in FY … fentanyl powder purity decreased to 10.3%, down from 19.5 percent during the same time period. These …
December 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Lawrence man faces 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to operating major fentanyl trafficking organization

October 08, 2019
… employed numerous individuals to sell fentanyl to customers from various New England states, including New Hampshire. … “Brian” and that most of the organization’s customers came from New Hampshire.  Distributors knew to identify customers … to as “the base” and dispatchers staffed “the base” from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Dispatchers took orders …
October 08, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

National Health Care Fraud Takedown: Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible For $1.3 Billion In Fraud

July 13, 2017
… to come.” “Last year, an estimated 59,000 Americans died from a drug overdose, many linked to the misuse of … the fight against heath care fraud to stop those who steal from the government and deceive the American public.” … is a reprehensible crime.  It not only represents a theft from taxpayers who fund these vital programs, but impacts …
July 13, 2017
GENERAL INFORMATION

DEA Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Data

January 22, 2025
… 2010 to 2022 (Inclusive) Data Unit: Each Record is Data from a Single Analyzed DEA Laboratory Exhibit Source of … State: State where obtained. The DEA aggregated data from the four states of ND, NE, SD and WY to safely address the risk of privacy disclosure resulting from a low volume of data.   Limitations Please be advised …
January 22, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Key defendant in Operation Snowplow drug trafficking investigation sentenced to two decades in federal prison

October 13, 2020
… the highest priority of not only removing dangerous drugs from the street, but also on seizing the ill-gotten gains of … distributing kilogram-quantities of cocaine and other drugs from Texas and California in February and March 2018. The … shipment to Savannah, and distributed to mid-level dealers from several Savannah-area residences. On March 5, 2018, law …
October 13, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S Prescription Drug Take-Back Effort-- A Big Success

October 01, 2015
… are shocking-approximately 46,000 Americans die each year from drug-related deaths.  More than half of those are from heroin and prescription opioids,” said Acting DEA … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
October 01, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Collects Record-Setting Amount Of Meds At Latest National Rx Take-Back Day

May 06, 2016
… drug abusers report in surveys that they get their drugs from friends and family.  Americans understand that cleaning out old prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and bedside tables … drug overdoses-78 a day-in (the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).  Eight …
May 06, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Paterson Man Admits Distributing Heroin That Caused Death of New York Resident

April 22, 2021
… and Individual-2 sold the same heroin they had obtained from Byrd to Victim-1. On April 3, 2016, officers from the Warwick, NY Police Department responded to a … of Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson; detectives from the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, Gangs and …
April 22, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Meth on the rise in New Jersey

February 01, 2019
… of the more rural areas of the state. Some recent analysis from the DEA’s Northeast Regional Lab has found some purity … crystal methamphetamine in the southern part of the state. From 2015 to 2017, the DEA Northeast Regional Lab has seen a …
February 01, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

April 25, 2019
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … Karen Flowers. “You will help prevent your medications from being misused and abused by others and DEA will safely … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine …
April 25, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Crystal Meth Trafficker Sentenced 5 Years in Federal Prison

February 25, 2022
… learned that the individual had received the meth from a tractor trailer driver who regularly transported kilogram quantities of meth and other drugs from California to locations in the eastern U.S.  In October … to use the crate to ship them $60,000 in proceeds from the sale of the drugs. On November 11, 2020, law …
February 25, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Texas Man Sentenced for Transporting Cocaine

June 02, 2023
… 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. … identified the defendant as a passenger. Upon questioning from law enforcement, a positive alert from a trained …
June 02, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Utica men found guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy after jury trial

February 07, 2020
… and the distribution of cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. Additionally, Peralta was … fingerprints on some of the packaging material seized from the stash location. The cocaine base Peralta possessed … of between four years and life following their release from imprisonment. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a …
February 07, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Trafficking Approximately 50 Pounds of Meth into New Hampshire

August 20, 2024
… to traffic approximately 50 pounds of methamphetamine from Massachusetts to New Hampshire on five occasions.  From March through October 2023, Ramos received five …
August 20, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Lebanese businessman tied by Treasury Department to Hezbollah is sentenced to prison for money laundering scheme involving the evasion of U.S. sanctions

August 09, 2019
… support of Hezbollah. The designation prohibited Tajideen from being involved in, or benefiting from, transactions involving U.S. persons or companies without a license from the Department of the Treasury.   “This defendant …
August 09, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 17, 2024
… 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 … lives lost.  Nearly 70% of these drug poisonings are from fentanyl.     DEA has responded to this unprecedented … both. These Counter Threat Teams draw on the intelligence from our 334 offices around the world to map the cartels’ …
January 17, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 20 Pounds of Fentanyl

August 09, 2023
… officers safeguarded countless members of our communities from the poison the defendant was intending to pollute into … with this poison. Today’s sentence removes Rodriguez from our community and sends a strong message that the FBI … and bring to justice drug dealers who seek to profit from the misery of others.” On September 26, 2022, Rodriguez …
August 09, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Rocky Mountain Diversion Investigator Named “Outstanding Citizen of the Year”

March 17, 2023
… in Bozeman.  DI St. Peter was nominated by a colleague from the Montana Department of Justice, Criminal … St. Peter is described as a humble leader in this excerpt from his nomination form. “ Applying his experience from time served working drug enforcement in Boston, and …
March 17, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Local Banker Sent to Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy

March 09, 2023
… to violate his position of trust for easy money, money from organizations that are destroying our communities.” … organization would transport multi-kilogram cocaine loads from the Rio Grande Valley to northern states. Upon … ensured the proceeds were successfully withdrawn from his branch in Harlingen.  Co-conspirators would …
March 09, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Shipping Firearm and Ammunition to the U.K. , Possessing Meth

February 21, 2023
… 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 … returned an indictment charging Schirm with smuggling goods from the U.S. One month later, on April 6, 2021, he was …
February 21, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Largest seizure of methamphetamine and heroin in Dallas, Texas history

January 26, 2021
… to adjustments in methods to transport illicit drugs from one point to another and organizations have been forced … but also to strip away their ill-gotten assets generated from the distribution of illicit drugs in the United … accounts for approximately $45 million of revenue denied from these organizations based on retail sales. DEA Dallas …
January 26, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Man Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl-Laced Fake Percocet

March 23, 2022
… by working together to remove dangerous illegal drugs from our streets and hold accountable those who make these … in exchange for $1,600. (Agents then confiscated the pills from the source.) Two weeks later, the source ordered 400 pills for $7 apiece. Agents followed Mr. Wright from his home in Fort Worth to a discount clothing store in …
March 23, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Brockton man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking

September 26, 2019
… for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction.   … of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana from a base of operations at 12 Addison Avenue in Brockton. …   During the intercepted calls, Pina ordered cocaine from Goncalves, and agents later observed Pina pick up …
September 26, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

New York man sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking

October 01, 2019
… New York that operated in central Maine. Individuals from Rochester were sent to central Maine to sell the drugs. … various local residents who allowed the drugs to be sold from their homes and assisted the Rochester dealers in … sell the drugs. Periodically, drug proceeds were collected from the various distribution points in central Maine and …
October 01, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Valley Resident Sentenced for Meth Charges

August 24, 2021
… resulted in a two-car collision.  At trial, the jury heard from a local police officer who explained how Perez crashed … The officer approached Perez after observing him pull a bag from his truck’s cab and place it into the bed of the truck. He instructed Perez to not take anything from the vehicle. Perez’s daughter arrived on the scene. At …
August 24, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Former North Carolina physician pleads guilty to drug distribution, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft charges

June 05, 2018
… family medicine, Dr. Smith had sought and received approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to operate an … and substance abuse issues.  According to court documents, from at least January 2017 to October 2017, Dr. Smith began to solicit sexual encounters from female patients whom he treated for pain management …
June 05, 2018