PRESS RELEASE

Manhattan And Brooklyn U.S. Attorneys Announce Guilty Plea In Manhattan Federal Court Of Colombian Narcotics Kingpin To Massive Cocaine Conspiracy

November 20, 2014
… U.S., and laundered tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from that narcotics trafficking activity.  Barrera was previously extradited from Colombia to the United States on July 9, 2013. In March …
November 20, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 35 Years In Prison For Massive Cocaine Conspiracy

July 25, 2016
… and laundered tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from that narcotics trafficking activity.  In March 2010, … September 18, 2012.  Thereafter, he was sent to Colombia, from where the United States sought and obtained Barrera’s …
July 25, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

RX Trafficking Ring Controlled Brooklyn Medical Practices: Nearly $3.4 Million In Pills Diverted

July 17, 2013
… Diversion (TDS-NY), comprised of agents and officers from the DEA, the New York City Police (NYPD), the Town of … of Public Safety. Detectives, investigators and agents from the NYPD's Brooklyn South Narcotics Division, the New … of the conspiracy charged in the indictment, which ran from August 2011 to the present, the defendants illegally …
July 17, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Accused Major Trafficker Indicted in Kidnappings and Assaults Linked to an Alleged Drug-Related Dispute

December 14, 2023
… revealed that the kidnappings and assaults stemmed from the theft of narcotics. Huertas is scheduled to be … were captured in audio and video recordings recovered from cellphones and iCloud accounts.  A surveillance system … Avenue in the Bronx.  Ronny Jimenez then drove away from the location in a pickup truck. Soon afterwards, law …
December 14, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

International money laundering, drug trafficking and illegal wildlife trade operation dismantled

September 04, 2020
… SAVANNAH, GA:   An international conspiracy that profited from drug trafficking and the illegal wildlife trade and … District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Drug … 12 defendants and conducted 22 federal search warrants from coast to coast, including the Southern District of …
September 04, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Sinaloa Cartel leader, sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years

July 17, 2019
… in the United States. The evidence included testimony from 14 cooperating witnesses, including Sinaloa Cartel … Guzman Loera and his co-conspirators over a 25-year period from January 1989 until December 2014.      From the …
July 17, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Two Mobile Pain Doctors Convicted After Seven-Week Trial

March 02, 2017
… Statute, as well as money laundering. All charges stemmed from the defendants’ operation of PPSA and C&R Pharmacy. … jury found that Ruan and Couch received illegal kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics, the manufacturer of Subsys, in …
March 02, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

District Attorney Vance And White House Drug Policy Director Kerlikowske Host Panel Discussion In Washington Heights On Drug Abuse Prevention Rates Of Death Declining In NYC In All Major Drug Categories Except Prescription Drugs DA’s Office To Partner

September 22, 2011
… Prosecutor. “For decades New Yorkers have suffered from the violence and devastation that drug dealing and … percent of the people who abuse prescription drugs get them from the medicine cabinets of friends or family members, … medications recreationally said they obtained the drugs from friends or relatives, underscoring the need for close …
September 22, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Seizes Record-Breaking 2.7 Million Fentanyl Pills

May 06, 2025
… an enforcement operation the last week of April, agents from the DEA Albuquerque District Office seized 2.7 million … blow against the Sinaloa Cartel that removes poison from our streets and protects American citizens from the scourge of fentanyl,” said Attorney General Pamela …
May 06, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

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
PRESS RELEASE

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
PRESS RELEASE

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
PRESS RELEASE

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
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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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
PRESS RELEASE

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
PRESS RELEASE

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
PRESS RELEASE

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