United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEW YORK, NY - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against seven defendants for conspiring to provide various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom they believed to be...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced the identification of The Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL together with its (LCB) as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT (Section 311) for the bank’s role...

DENVER, CO. - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that his office, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement (DEA), has shut down a cocaine ring that imported multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexico into Colorado. According to the indictment the cocaine trafficking operation was led by Noel “Chihuas” Loya...

WASHINGTON D.C. - An ongoing DEA investigation led to actions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today designating Lebanese narcotics trafficker Ayman Joumaa, as well as nine individuals and 19 entities connected to his drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially Designated Narcotics...

NOV 17 - Denver- Today, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), District of Colorado United States Attorney Bill Leone, and Larimer County Drug Task Force Commander Craig Dodd announced the conclusion of an eight month investigation into a major methamphetamine...

NOV 1 - Denver- Today, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) along with El Paso County District Attorney John R. Newsome announced the arrest of eight defendants, the seizure of 14 kilograms of cocaine, approximately a kilogram of methamphetamine “ice”...

NOV 1 - Denver- On October 31, 2005, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and United States Attorney for the District of Utah Paul M. Warner announced that a federal grand jury has indicted 15 individuals in Utah and Colombia...

Denver, CO - Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division and Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, announced today that King Soopers, City Market, and their parent company, Kroger, have agreed to pay a record $7...

Grand Junction, Colorado- Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division, Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Jeffrey Copp, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Denver Office, Stan Hilkey, Mesa County Sheriff, and...

Denver, CO -- Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division and Bill Leone, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, announced today that Timmy Smith, age 41, of Denver, has been arrested for distributing cocaine in Denver, Colorado. Timmy Smith is...