PRESS RELEASE

Investigations Into Heroin And Oxycodone Powder Trafficking Ends In Arrests

July 31, 2014
… used a confidential informant to purchase oxycodone powder from Torres in the Southside Mall parking lot in the Town of … In June 2014, an arrest warrant was issued for Torres from the Town of Oneonta Court for criminal sale of a …
July 31, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels, And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced To 27 Years For Leading A Billion Dollar Narcotics Trafficking Enterprise

August 20, 2014
… in narcotics proceeds that federal agents seized from multiple locations in New York, California, … 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 …
August 20, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Breaking Bad Drug Dealer Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People

October 08, 2015
… 19, 2014, and statements made during court proceedings: From at least late 2013 to February 2014, Sica and others … County Medical Examiner’s report concluded that he died from “acute heroin intoxication.” Delello’s death did not …
October 08, 2015
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% 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 03, 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% 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 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA operation nets 628,000 Carfentanil pills in L.A. County

November 19, 2025
… potent than fentanyl. The majority of the pills were seized from one stash location in Los Angeles County. The operation … “This is a massive seizure, 628,000 carfentanil pills taken from a single drug trafficker. Our agents, with vital backing from local partners, mitigated a catastrophic danger. The …
November 19, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Four Men Charged with Trafficking Nearly Five Tons of Cocaine Hidden in Furniture

July 22, 2021
… that shipped approximately 4,500 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to the continental United States, including … for our communities. I applaud our law enforcement partners from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of … five tons of cocaine in furniture so they could ship it from Puerto Rico to New York City and elsewhere. As alleged, …
July 22, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

39 Defendants Indicted in $4.7 Million Meth, Heroin Conspiracy

June 16, 2022
… bring drug traffickers to justice and protect our community from the violence and other harms that result from the flow of illegal drugs.” On June 8, 2022, Homeland … led an operation that involved 140 officers and agents from 14 state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. …
June 16, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Co-Founder of Sinaloa Cartel Charged in Superseding Indictment with Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Fentanyl

February 15, 2024
… Garcia Allegedly Continues to Lead the Sinaloa Cartel From Hiding BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A fifth superseding indictment … the continuing criminal enterprise and several conspiracies from May 2014 to January 2024. Zambada Garcia remains at …
February 15, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 18, 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.    In New York, it is estimated that …
January 18, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen in New York City

November 29, 2023
… 720-431-8836 Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot From India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist … Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a …
November 29, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen in New York City

November 29, 2023
… 720-431-8836 Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot From India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist … Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a …
November 29, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Montenegrin National Charged with Maritime Narcotrafficking of Over 20 Tons of Cocaine

October 31, 2022
… Ships to Transport Over $1 Billion Worth of Cocaine from Colombia to Europe via the United States BROOKLYN, N.Y. … last night as he attempted to board an international flight from Miami International Airport. Gogic is expected to … law enforcement, 20 tons of poison was intercepted en route from Colombia to Europe. Gogic’s arrest underscores law …
October 31, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Five defendants, including two medical doctors, charged as part of Northeast Regional Health Care Fraud Takedown

September 26, 2019
… who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and … pleaded guilty to possession of fentanyl that he stole from his employer, a hospital on Long Island. The charges … bill our federal health care programs are stealing from taxpayers and robbing vulnerable patients of necessary …
September 26, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Seven Defendants Sentenced for Drug and Firearm Offenses Related to 2019 Burlington Murder

October 04, 2023
… court records, in late 2018, Lesine Woodson came to Vermont from Orlando, Florida, to sell cocaine base in partnership with Benzel Hampton, who was also from Orlando. Shortly after arriving in Vermont, Woodson … of Hampton. Woodson brought several individuals to Vermont from Orlando, Florida, including her 18-year-old cousin, …
October 04, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Seven Indicted in Seattle in Connection with Coast-to-Coast Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

March 03, 2023
… sold their illicit narcotics throughout the U.S., from the Southwest border to the Pacific Northwest and all … been modified to fire fully automatic.  Hill is prohibited from possessing firearms due to previous convictions. At … The drugs were still in the suitcases they had traveled in from Arizona. Law enforcement also seized more than $387,000 …
March 03, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

42 Defendants Facing State Or Federal Drug Charges For Allegedly Selling Heroin On City’s West Side

June 24, 2015
… heroin were seized during the course of the investigation from last August through this month.  Early today, DEA … Court.  The 26 state defendants face charges ranging from Class 1 to Class X Delivery of a Controlled Substance … throughout the day. Triplett obtained his heroin largely from supplier, Levaughn Collins, also known as “Sweet …
June 24, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Kingpin Indicted Following Record-Breaking Meth And Heroin Seizure

August 01, 2011
… Romedi Lara-Serrano, as the drugs were being transferred from a tractor trailer to a car at the I-95 service area in … drugs in mid-June. The load had already crossed the border from Mexico into Texas at the time the investigation began. … was set in motion. Agents tracked the shipment as it moved from Texas to New Jersey. On July 3, Mota and Lara-Serrano …
August 01, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Tricked-out Upper Manhattan Stash Apartments Conceal $12 Million In Heroin And $500,000 In “Crystal Meth”

April 16, 2014
… of a long-term investigation, investigators and agents from Special Narcotics and DEA’s Long Island Division Office … lbs. of methamphetamine and shoe soles that had been ripped from several pairs of women’s footwear. International … use hollowed out shoes to conceal narcotics. Also seized from Apt. 21E were 100 grams of heroin from the pocket of a …
April 16, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Wife of Sinaloa Cartel Kingpin Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

December 08, 2025
… fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana) from South America and Mexico, transported the drugs to … the U.S. 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 …
December 08, 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% 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 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Ten Charged with Crack Cocaine Distribution in Mount Vernon

November 15, 2022
… to solving violent crime and removing guns and drugs from our city streets.  This operation is an example of what … unsealed today in White Plains federal court: [1 ] From at least January 2022 until November 2022, Esteban …
November 15, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Two Defendants Charged with Firearms and Narcotics Trafficking

August 11, 2022
… Conspired to Traffic Narcotics and More Than 50 Firearms From Ohio to New York 1. Firearms Sold on June 4, 2022.jpg … than 50 firearms, along with methamphetamine and fentanyl, from Ohio to New York. Vasquez and Colon will be presented …
August 11, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Over 20 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, heroin and cocaine seized in Ozone Park, Queens: Three arrested

January 08, 2021
… presses seized in mill_0.jpg guns and narcotics 2 seized from vehcile.jpg Equipment, packaging, and cutting agents … Perry Funchess and recovered over 20 kilograms of narcotics from an Infinity Q70 sedan and 94-04 80th Street, Apt. 1. On … a loaded AK-47 rifle and a loaded .380 caliber pistol from inside the bags. In coordination with the Special …
January 08, 2021
STORY

Carfentanil: A Synthetic Opioid Unlike Any Other

May 14, 2025
… involving carfentanil increased approximately sevenfold – from 29 deaths from January to June 2023, to 238 deaths from January to June 2024. Carfentanil has now been detected …
May 14, 2025
EVENT
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Community Event
March 05, 2019 - March 06, 2019
March 05, 2019 - March 06, 2019

New Mexico Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness

11:30 PM - 2:30 AM (EST)
Rio Rancho, NM
More than 3,000 Students to Participate in the New Mexico Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in partnership with the DEA 360 Campaign to hold educational event promoting healthy choices and a drug-free lifestyle for students What: Public health officials refer to the opioid drug epidemic...
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

April 23, 2019
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Take Back Day is a unique …
April 23, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Americans Flock To National Drug Take Back Day

October 28, 2016
… than 3,500 tons) of prescription drugs have been removed from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and nightstands by … prescription painkillers, say they obtained those drugs from friends and family, including from a home medicine cabinet, according to the National …
October 28, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

April 24, 2017
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, April 29, from 10 am to 2 pm local time, at over 5,000 sites around … injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine …
April 24, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

October 24, 2017
… Twice Domestic WASHINGTON - This Saturday, October 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the federal Drug … is one of the best ways to prevent a member of your family from becoming a victim of the opioid epidemic,” said DEA … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
October 24, 2017