United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Tennessee District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extraditions of four defendants charged with international narcotics trafficking offenses: Ericson Vargas...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Yesterday, following three weeks of trial, a jury in federal court in Central Islip, New York, returned a verdict convicting Long Island doctor Leonard I. Stambler of Baldwin Harbor, New York, of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and distribution of oxycodone, in connection with prescriptions that he provided...

OCT 18 - BUFFALO, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Catherine Vitello, 40, of Elma, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Brian Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced today the arrests and indictments of Anthony Lagala, JR., Adam Paone and Marat...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and Brian R. Crowell, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge announced the conviction by jury of Robert Adrian as a major narcotic trafficker under New York State's drug kingpin statute, which carries a...

NEW YORK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI) and Joseph...

ATLANTA - Otis Henry has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking over 700,000 pills of BZP, a drug similar to ecstasy. “Based on the staggering amount of drugs in the case, the defendant earned every day of his prison sentence,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates...

ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field (AFD),is sending a warning to the public about the dangers of “Molly,” a well-documented and dangerous designer drug that has recently surfaced at a number of large music events, with catastrophic consequences. The pure, high...

(NEW YORK) - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Aaron Ford, the Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Office of the Federal Bureau of...