DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Illegal Firearms And Drug Dealer Admits Selling At Least 100 Guns To Criminals In The Camden, NJ Area Guns Originated From Straw And Gun Show Purchases In Ohio And Virginia

CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Woodlynne, N.J., man today admitted - as part of his guilty plea to federal...
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Seventeen Colombians Indicted In Eastern District Of Texas Drug Conspiracy

PLANO, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 17 alleged members of a Colombian drug trafficking organization have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas. The indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury on Feb. 27, 2013, and unsealed...
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Pilot And Passenger Of Plane That Crashed At Yoakum County Airport After Refueling Plead Guilty To Drug Charge

LUBBOCK, Texas - A pilot and his passenger, who belly landed their Beechcraft plane at the Yoakum County Airport on April 30, 2013, appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. Pilot Gregory Thomas, 50, of Sacramento, California, and his...
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Doctor Sentenced To 57 Months In Prison For Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy Several Co-defendants Sentenced Last Week

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a doctor who admitted writing illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 57 months...
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New York Doctor Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison For Oxycodone Distribution And Conspiracy

TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a physician who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 108 months...
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U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Mailing And Receiving Packages Of Cocaine Husband Who Was Charged With Her Sentenced Last Month

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for...
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New Jersey Pharmacist Pleads Guilty In Scheme To Illegally Distribute Pharmaceutical Drugs

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that Randy Binder, a pharmacist and the former proprietor of Texas Road Pharmacy in Manalapan...
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British National Admits Role In Cocaine Smuggling Conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J - Robert G. Koval, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an extradited British national today admitted his role in an organization that smuggled cocaine...
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New Jersey Doctor Convicted By Federal Jury For Writing Illegal Oxycodone Prescriptions In Drug Distribution Conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. - - Robert G. Koval, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was convicted today...
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Dallas DEA Gears Up For 6th Local Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

DALLAS - Today, Acting Special Agent in Charge Daniel R. Salter, of the Dallas Field Division’s Drug Enforcement (DEA), announces the local component of the 6th nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft. The DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, will be...