United States Drug Enforcement Administration

TRENTON, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced criminal charges were unsealed today against 11 individuals who are allegedly part of a conspiracy to distribute significant quantities of heroin in Trenton. The...

NEWARK, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced a Hudson County, N.J., man was arrested today and charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Hason Armfield, 41, of Jersey...

LOS ANGELES – DEA’s Los Angeles Division continues to lead the global investigation into Mexico’s most violent and largest drug cartel, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and it’s leader Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes, aka "El Mencho." DEA Los Angeles Division indicted El Mencho on federal drug trafficking charges in 2014...

LOS ANGELES – After 24 years of dedicated service to the United States, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) David J. Downing III of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles Division will retire on May 31. “This decision was not an easy one,“ said SAC Downing. “But it’s time.” Mr. Downing...

NEWARK, N.J. – Susan A. Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man was convicted today on charges that he conspired to distribute at least one kilogram...

NEWARK, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson announced that New Jersey residents turned in 16,127 pounds, or 8 tons, of expired, unused and unwanted prescriptions during DEA’s 17 th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 27. Nationally, more than 469 tons...

CAMDEN, N.J. – Susan A. Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an Atlantic City man was sentenced today to 264 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking and...

NEWARK, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced a federal jury today found a Paterson, N.J., man guilty of two counts of drug trafficking offenses. Reinaldo Rodriguez, 30, aka “Memo” and “Killa,”...

NEWARK, N.J. – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division has a new leader. Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson recently took over for former SAC Valerie A. Nickerson. SAC Gibson reports to the New Jersey Division following a diverse career in New York City conducting narcotics investigations, investigating...

CAMDEN, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced a Camden County, N.J., man today admitted his role in a scheme to possess and distribute crystal methamphetamine. Mauricio Melendrez, 46, of Blackwood, N.J...