DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Former Las Vegas Doctor Sentenced To Over 3a½ Years In Prison For Selling Prescription Painkillers To Undercover DEA Agent

LAS VEGAS - Former Las Vegas physician Vinay Bararia, 44, was sentenced today to 44 months in prison and three years of supervised release for unlawfully selling hydrocodone and oxycodone to an undercover DEA agent in a hospital parking lot, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District...
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L.A. Garment District Money Laundering Cartel Scheme Exposed

LOS ANGELES - Approximately 1,000 law enforcement officials, including the DEA Los Angeles’s Field Division’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) Southern California Drug Task Force, fanned out across the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles and executed dozens of search and arrest warrants linked to businesses suspected of using a...
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Lead Defendant In Operation Adam Bomb Investigation Enters Guilty Plea

LOS ANGELES - A Dutch national pleaded guilty late Tuesday to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges, admitting he conspired to run a secret, on-line narcotics marketplace known as the “The Farmer's Market” that sold controlled substances such as LSD, Ecstasy, and marijuana to thousands of customers around the...
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Doctor Found Guilty Of Illegal Distribution Of Drugs

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area doctor has been found guilty of federal charges for illegally distributing powerful prescription painkillers and laundering the proceeds of his drug trafficking operation. Dr. Andrew Sun, 78, of La Mirada, was found guilty late Thursday by a federal jury in Los Angeles. Following a...
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DEA Arrests El Monte Flores And Mexican Mafia Gang Members Charged In Federal Racketeering Indictment

LOS ANGELES - More than 400 law enforcement officers this morning conducted an operation that led to the arrest of 17 members and associates of the El Monte Flores gang, an organization that takes direction from the Mexican Mafia prison gang and controls criminal activity in the cities of El...
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Las Vegas Doctor Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy Charges For Writing Unlawful Oxycodone Prescription

LAS VEGAS - - A Las Vegas physician pleaded guilty today to federal drug conspiracy charges for writing prescriptions for oxycodone for persons he did not see or treat, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. Victor Bruce M.D., 49, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty...
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Second Brother Sentenced To Prison In Methamphetamine Conspiracy

HONOLULU - Joshua Lew, age 28, of Waialua, was sentenced today by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 97 months imprisonment for being a member of a conspiracy to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Lew’s brother and co-defendant, Jacob Drummondo-Farias...
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Two Men Arrested In Multimillion Dollar Synthetic Drug Ring

(SANTA ANA, Calif.) -Two Orange County men were arrested this morning on federal drug trafficking charges that allege they were part of a far-reaching conspiracy to smuggle, manufacture and distribute millions of dollars’ worth of analogue drugs, commonly called “spice” and “bath salts.” The men were taken into custody pursuant...
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Doctor To Plead Guilty To Distributing Addictive Painkillers

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area doctor has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for illegally distributing the powerful painkiller best known by the brand names Vicodin and Norco. Dr. Andrew Sun, 78, of La Mirada, will enter guilty pleas to one count of distribution of...
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Nevada Man Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison In Synthetic Drug Case

RENO, Nev. - -A Reno man was sentenced this week to nine years in prison for distributing synthetic cannabinoids out of his convenience store and storing large quantities of the substance for distribution in his home. Iqbal Singh-Sidhu, 34, was convicted by a federal jury in February 2014 of distribution...