DEA Archived Press Releases

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Two Men Charged With Distributing Synthetic Drugs That Caused Overdoses At Wesleyan University

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Middletown Police Chief William McKenna today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment...
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Four Charged In Federal Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Conspiracies

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Four people have been charged for their involvement in a drug and money laundering conspiracy, three of whom have also been designated as Specially Designated Narcotics (SDNTs), announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The...
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Treasury Sanctions Gulf Cartel Drug Trafficker Action Targets Mexican Cocaine Trafficker, Abel Briones Ruiz, And His Support Network

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today has designated Mexican narcotics trafficker Abel Briones Ruiz as a Specially Designated Narcotics (SDNT) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (“Kingpin Act”) for providing support for the international narcotics trafficking activities of the Gulf Cartel...
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Store Owners Plead Guilty To Selling Synthetic Cannabinoids

(CONCORD, N.H. - Mohamed Alam, 62, of North Andover, Massachusetts, and Murshed Salam, 47, of Salem, New Hampshire, each pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to selling synthetic cannabinoids announced Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for...
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Eight Arrested On Federal Steroid And Prescription Narcotic Distribution Charges

(NEWTOWN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 29 and 30, the Federal Bureau of (FBI), DEA, and HSI, working with the support...
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Officer And Co-Defendant Arrested In Conspiracy To Traffic Cocaine

McALLEN, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against a Rio Grande City Police Department investigator and a second defendant in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...
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Dasean Nisbett Of Bronx, New York Sentenced To Time Served For Possession With Intent To Distribute Oxycodone

(BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Dasean Nisbett, 24, of Bronx, New York was sentenced today to time served and three years of supervised...
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Copperas Cove Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Selling Synthetic Marijuana

WACO, Texas - The owner of the Cove Smoke Shack in Copperas Cove, TX, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting to selling synthetic marijuana announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Houston...
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Waterbury Man Sentenced To More Than 5 Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Meth

(HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kevin Wallin, 63, last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in...
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Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone, Defrauding Government Programs

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector...