PRESS RELEASE

Lockport Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl

May 10, 2018
… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant … organization that utilized contacts and sources of supply from Mexico, California, and elsewhere. The organization …
May 10, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Medical Doctor Surrenders License As DEA Executes Search And Seizure Warrants On Pain Clinic

February 23, 2018
… substances were being prescribed by Dr. Celestine from IPMC. Based on this information, TDS agents began … into IPMC. Additionally, TDS agents initiated undercover buys from patients of IPMC. The organization continues to be …
February 23, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Laurel Narcotics Trafficker Pleads Guilty to Bringing Large Quantities of Fentanyl, Cocaine and Other Drugs from California to Maryland

September 28, 2021
… Large Quantities of Fentanyl, Cocaine and Other Drugs from California to Maryland September 28, 2021 Washington, … recovered approximately 2 kilograms of cocaine from the parcel. Between June 1, 2020, and June 3, 2020, … vehicle, walk to Fisher’s vehicle, and retrieve an object from Fisher.  The object was later determined to be a …
September 28, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Bitcoin Exchanges Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With The Sale Of Approximately $1 Million In Bitcoins For Use On The Silk Road Website

September 05, 2014
… a black-market website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously and beyond the reach … Shrem, and statements made in related court proceedings: From about December 2011 to October 2013, Faiella ran an …
September 05, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Four South Arkansas Men Sentenced To A Total Of Over 31 Years For Unrelated Drug Trafficking Offenses

November 21, 2014
… and elsewhere in the Western District of Arkansas.  From June 17, 2013 until August 16, 2013, pursuant to orders … Street Crimes Unit arranged for multiple controlled buys of suspected crack cocaine in October, 2013 from the …
November 21, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces Guilty Plea Of U.S. Congressman On Cocaine Charges

November 20, 2013
… area of Washington, D.C. At this time, Radel agreed to buy about 3.5 grams of cocaine from the undercover officer.  He and the undercover officer … that a sitting Member of Congress was routinely using and buying cocaine.  Once this information was confirmed, law …
November 20, 2013
GENERAL INFORMATION

With You STL

January 22, 2025
… stigma associated with addiction can prevent some people from getting the help they really need.  Alleviating stigma … people who misuse prescription medications get those meds from the home medicine cabinet.  The DEA encourages families … prescription drug abuse, medication disposal, and safely buying medications on the Internet.  The National …
January 22, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Money laundering charges added in international marijuana conspiracy to grow marijuana in Sacramento and Placer Counties houses

June 21, 2019
… defendants first charged in 2017 in a scheme to use money from China to buy houses to grow marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. … other and others to wire transfer approximately $870,000 from China to buy six houses for growing marijuana or to pay …
June 21, 2019
STORY

New, Dangerous Synthetic Opioid in D.C., Emerging in Tri-State Area

June 01, 2022
… never approved for medical use, nitazines are being sourced from China and being mixed into other drugs. Isotonitazene … after a lab test, so people don't realize they're buying them until it's too late. “We want to get this info … being mixed together, you never know what you’re actually buying," says DEA Intelligence Analyst Maura Gaffney. Only …
June 01, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

FedEx Indicted For Its Role In Distributing Controlled Substances And Prescription Drugs

July 18, 2014
… filled orders based solely on the completion of an online questionnaire, without a physical examination, … and controlled substances.  According to the indictment, from at least as early as 2004, DEA, FDA and members of …
July 18, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Wisconsin woman receives federal prison sentence for conspiracy to deal methamphetamine in multi-agency investigation

December 03, 2019
… in a years-long conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from a farm near Butternut, Wisconsin in the Town of … that Peterson and Moore were selling methamphetamine from a location known as the “Meth Farm.” Beginning in … 2018, the undercover officer conducted seven controlled buys of methamphetamine from Moore and one from Peterson, …
December 03, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Two Defendants Sentenced In Opioid Pill Mill Case

May 05, 2017
… today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater stemming from their involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced … by a superseding indictment.  The indictment alleged that from at least May 2013 through July 2014, the defendants … seeking 30mg oxycodone pills.  Robertson offered to buy all the pills Robinson had for $16.00 per pill.  …
May 05, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Issues Nationwide Alert On Fentanyl As Threat To Health And Public Safety

March 18, 2015
… local labs reported 3,344 fentanyl submissions in 2014, up from 942 in 2013.  In addition, DEA has identified 15 other … mg can be fatal. Its euphoric effects are indistinguishable from morphine or heroin. DEA has also issued warnings to law … on the streets during the course of enforcement, such as a buy-walk, or buy-bust operation. Fentanyl cases in 2014 have …
March 18, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Laredo Resident Sentenced For Distributing Controlled Substances Near School

January 28, 2015
… the criminal activity. The government presented testimony from the case agent and the undercover agent who testified … An undercover agent then conducted several controlled buys of cocaine, cocaine base and marijuana from Serna Sr., …
January 28, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

34 Suspects Indicted In Drug And Firearms Trafficking Organization

January 25, 2011
… organizations with illegally trafficking firearms from the United States to Mexico. Beginning earlier this … as “straw purchasers” by falsely declaring that they were buying the weapons for themselves. AK-47s are considered the …
January 25, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

St. Louis County Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Retaliatory Drug Murder

November 30, 2022
… District Judge Ronnie L. White on Wednesday sentenced a man from St. Louis County to 25 years in prison for a … in prison. Two days before the murder, Phillips arranged to buy fentanyl from Weeden, his source of supply of the drug, but instead …
November 30, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Nevada Woman Sentenced For Taking ‘Food Stamps’ For Meth, Cash

May 16, 2017
… Drake admitted that she participated in a conspiracy from Aug. 30 to Oct. 14, 2015, in Bates and Vernon Counties. … then used the EBT cards and PINs belonging to others to buy her own food. Vernon County Sheriff’s Department … the dresser. Investigators then reviewed video surveillance from the Wal-Mart stores in Nevada and Lamar, Mo., which …
May 16, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Charlotte Car Dealership Owner and Sales Manager Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy

August 16, 2024
… as a sales manager for iNetwork. Court documents show that, from July 2017, through January 2021, Martin and Jefferson … blind to that fact. The defendants received cash payments from G.D., also knowing or being willfully blind to the fact … Martin further facilitated the fraud by allowing G.D. to buy the vehicles using the names of straw purchasers in …
August 16, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Former Miami-Dade County resident sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for bank fraud and money laundering schemes

September 27, 2018
… commit wire and bank fraud.  According to court documents, from 2003 through 2011, Sanchez agreed with other … properties through schemes that would enable them to profit from the loans, or the sales of the property, without having … an FDIC-insured financial institution for the purpose of buying an apartment in Aventura, Florida. He submitted a …
September 27, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Fentanyl Trafficking Charges

February 14, 2022
… in the case, between June and July 2021, four controlled buys of cocaine and fentanyl were made from Rutherford. Based on the buys, a search warrant was obtained and executed on July 15, …
February 14, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Indiana Man Sentenced 20 Years For Meth Trafficking

January 05, 2022
… and March 2021, law enforcement conducted controlled buys of over 380 grams of methamphetamine from Mitchell. During one of the buys, Mitchell boasted about having fentanyl available that …
January 05, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

35 Years for Second Drug and Weapons Conviction

August 12, 2021
… calling Mr. Lopez to schedule a $1,000, two-ounce meth buy. Two days later, equipped with an audio/video recording … (low quality), Mr. Lopez promised to get the second ounce from another location. Mr. Lopez retrieved additional meth … Mr. Lopez was prohibited by law from possessing – including buying, borrowing, carrying, storing, or shooting – …
August 12, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Wisconsin Man Sentenced to 110 Months for Meth Trafficking

September 13, 2022
… police officer communicated with Shelton and arranged to buy two ounces of methamphetamine from him. At a location in Madison, the undercover police … officer communicated with Shelton again and arranged to buy eight ounces of methamphetamine from him.  At a location …
September 13, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Bolton, Mississippi Resident Sentenced To Prison For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

May 15, 2014
… Robinson operated K&J Trucking in Bolton, Mississippi. From 2006 through 2012, he used his trucks to transport … both the local and national economy.  Robinson attempted to buy a vehicle using illegal drug proceeds, which is a …
May 15, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Fair Haven Residents Indicted for Drug Trafficking, Gun Possession Offenses

June 07, 2023
… told the Vermont Drug Task Force (VDTF) that they could buy cocaine base from Muzzy. Thereafter, on September 23, 2022 and October … from Muzzy. The CS negotiated with Muzzy a third time to buy cocaine base, on May 3, 2023. When the CS went to …
June 07, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Buffalo Man Going to Prison for More than 20 Years for Selling Heroin and Fentanyl that Resulted in Two Deaths

November 09, 2023
… drug overdose. The substances used by S.D. were purchased from Spain by another individual and sold to S.D. On August … investigators conducted a combined total of 13 controlled buys of suspected controlled substances from Spain. …
November 09, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Authorities Announce 11 Cases Charging Alleged Drug Dealers with Providing Opioids that Led to Fatal Overdoses

May 20, 2021
… Task Force Lead to Cases in which 12 People Died, Most from Acute Fentanyl Intoxication Press Conference images … “Drug dealers who market and sell counterfeit pills via online marketplace and social media platforms may think they … between the two that show the victim thought he was buying oxycodone, a commonly used and widely abused …
May 20, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Two Men Plead Guilty in Retaliatory Drug Murder in St. Louis

August 01, 2022
… StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov ST. LOUIS – Two men from St. Louis County pleaded guilty Monday and admitted … 2022. Two days before the murder, Phillips had arranged to buy fentanyl from Weeden, his source of supply of the drug, but instead …
August 01, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

DEA implements ecommerce outreach program to combat counterfeit drug production

August 03, 2020
… States.  This DEA-led initiative focuses on educating online retailers about the sale of pill presses and … counterfeit pills that are nearly indistinguishable from controlled prescription medications.” DEA is engaging …
August 03, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Prolific wholesale fentanyl distributor sentenced to 35 years in federal prison after seizure of more than $4 million in cash and 10 kilograms of fentanyl from the defendant—enough to kill 5 million people

January 16, 2020
… more than $4 million in cash and 10 kilograms of fentanyl from the defendant—enough to kill 5 million people January … He will also forfeit to the government all of the proceeds from his drug business, including the cash, cars, jewelry, … According to the evidence presented at his five-day trial, from April 2018 through January 2019, Paul Alexander …
January 16, 2020