United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a man from New York and a woman from New Jersey were arrested this morning for their roles...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two California men who were arrested in Essex County, New Jersey, with over 140 kilograms of narcotics in...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced that two California men who were arrested in Essex County, New Jersey with more than 140 kilograms of narcotics in...

NORTHFIELD, N.J. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlantic City Resident Office has joined forces with the Northfield Little League to assist in getting donated baseball equipment from New Jersey to little league players in Puerto Rico. Players from the Northfield Little League in Northfield, New Jersey have collected baseball equipment...

DETROIT - Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced that a physician who practiced in Oak Park, Michigan, pled guilty on August 16th, 2017, to writing prescriptions for oxycodone without medical justification. Lemisch was joined in the announcement by Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S...

DAYTON, Ohio - The DEA announced today that Dayton will be the next “360 Strategy” city to take part in a comprehensive law enforcement and prevention effort that’s designed to assist communities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic. Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s Detroit...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Carbon County, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for conspiring to illegally traffic...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging 12 defendants with participating in a drug trafficking...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Twenty-two people were indicted in federal court for their roles trafficking heroin and other drugs in the Youngstown and Ravenna areas, law enforcement officials said. Arrests were executed this morning for people named in three separate indictments. A 79-count indictment charges 12 people with drug trafficking and...

WOOSTER, Ohio - A Chinese national living in Massachusetts was arrested and charged with distributing opioids and other drugs that were shipped from China to the United States and ultimately to Ohio, the DEA said. Bin Wang, 42, operated Cambridge Chemicals, Wonda Science, and other companies from a warehouse in...