United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in (SAC) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the seizure...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Ten men were arrested Wednesday on federal charges of conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids and engage in international money laundering, announced Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph A...

LOS ANGELES - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription Drug...

CHINO, Calif. - A two month gang related drug-trafficking investigation came to a successful conclusion afterofficers served four search warrants Wednesday, resulting in seven arrests. The investigation, known as “Operation Checkmate,” began in July of this year through the collaborative efforts of the Chino Police Department and the Drug Enforcement...

NEW YORK - Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson announces the unsealing of a 97-count indictment against 27 alleged members of “6 Wild,” a subset of the Bloods gang, who are accused of committing murders, attempted murders, drug sales, and other crimes during a five year period ending August 20, 2015...

LOS ANGELES - A Baldwin Park man and former 18th Street gang member pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking offense and admitted he was the triggerman in the previously unsolved 2006 murder of a person who had failed to pay “taxes” to a member of the Mexican Mafia. Eddie...

NEW YORK - DEA, NYPD and a host of other state, local and federal agencies today announced a massive takedown that targeted the local sale of dangerous designer synthetic drugs manufactured in China. The scheme, which operated in all five boroughs of New York City, allegedly involved the unlawful importation...

LAS VEGAS - U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks sentenced a Reno man to 12½ years in prison and five years of supervised release following his arrest and conviction for possessing approximately one kilogram of pure methamphetamine in his vehicle. Francisco Fuentes Ibarra, 35, pleaded guilty in May to one...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York (DEA), Kelly T. Currie, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, New York Field (IRS), announced today the unsealing...

NEW YORK) - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Glenn Sorge, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and...