United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Anthony Bui, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, and owner of Asian Fish, Inc., of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in organizing and financing a network of high-tech, indoor, marijuana grow facilities stretching from Florida to Connecticut. Each of these...

ALLENTOWN, PA. - Garrett Dudeck was charged today by information with conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine, announced Zane David Memeger, United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. According to the information, on January 31, 2011 and February 10, 2011, Dudeck and Edward Shelton, charged...

PITTSBURGH, PA. - The drug kingpin everyone called "Ali" in the Linmar section of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last Thursday, but he's likely to get out early because of his cooperation against his underlings in the drug investigation and a related 2006 homicide. Senior...

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Keith Gidelson, a Philadelphia Police Detective, and 14 others were charged in a 17-count indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Also named in the indictment are fellow police officers Joseph McIntyre and George Sambuca, Gidelson’s wife, Kirsten...

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO- - Ángel Ayala-Vázquez, aka “El Negro,” “Ángelo Millones,” “El Buster,” and “Papa Upa” and Luis X. Cruz-Vázquez, aka “El Mono,” were found guilty today of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin; crack; cocaine; marijuana; Percocet; and Xanax, following a two-month jury trial, announced Rosa...

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - - Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, the United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico announced the arrest of two convicted felons in possession of multiple firearms and ammunition. On April 15, 2011, Julio Pastrana-Arroyo and Alexander Ortiz-Murphy were arrested by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...

DOVER, DE. - Special Agent in Charge, John Bryfonski of the Philadelphia Division, Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Delaware State Attorney General Beau Biden, Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf, Deputy Secretary of State James Collins, Deputy Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security Elizabeth Olsen, and Delaware police chiefs held...