DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Southern Nevada HIDTA Task Force Makes Record Seizure Of Methamphetamine

LAS VEGAS, NV -- - Law enforcement officials announced today the seizure of 208 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.3 pounds of heroin, approximately $280,000.00 in U.S. Currency, nine vehicles, five handguns and one shotgun as part of an investigation targeting an international drug trafficking organization operating in the Las Vegas Area...
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Former City Pharmacist Sentenced To 10 Years For Dealing Illegal Drugs

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Lawrence Young, 70, formerly a licensed Philadelphia pharmacy owner from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was sentenced this afternoon to 120 months in prison for a drug conspiracy and drug distribution involving Young's Pharmacy at 1306 South Street in Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney in the Eastern District...
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Midland-Odessa Area Barrio Azteca Members And Associates Indicted On Federal Drug And Racketeering Charges

MIDLAND, TX -- - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced the arrests of two Midland-Odessa area members and one associate of the Barrio (BA) criminal organization on federal drug charges. The charges stem from a year-and-a-half-long investigation into the organization’s...
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19 Charged In Prescription Drug Trafficking Conspiracies

PITTSBURGH, PA. - Nineteen individuals have been charged in two separate, but related, indictments with violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. A one-count indictment returned on June 7, 2011, and unsealed today, charges nine Allegheny County residents and one Washington County resident with drug...
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DEA Arrests Azusa Gang Members Responsible For Narcotics Trafficking And Campaign Of Hate Crimes Targeting African-Americans

LOS ANGELES, CA - In a law enforcement action this morning that targeted the Varrio Azusa 13 street gang, 16 people were arrested pursuant to a federal indictment that alleges violations of the federal racketeering statute and a nearly 20-year conspiracy to violate the civil rights of African-Americans in the...
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Drug Trafficker Gets 12-Year Prison Sentence

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Hlateef Darlington, 28, of Whitehall, PA, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond, on charges related to drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Darlington pleaded guilty on October 28, 2010 to conspiracy to distribute and...
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Former Lawyer Sentenced In Marijuana Grow House Case

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Richard K. Creamer, 39, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture 1,000 or more marijuana plants and maintaining a place for the manufacture of controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Creamer, who was a practicing attorney, was...
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Floridian Fuzz Guilty Of Hauling Cocaine Through East Texas

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...
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Operator Of Clandestine Steroid Lab In Compton Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison

LOS ANGELES, CA - A man who manufactured anabolic steroids at a clandestine laboratory in Compton - one of the largest underground steroid labs ever found in the United States - and distributed the steroids via the Internet, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison. Warren Abramson, 33...
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DEA M.E.T. – Long Beach P.D. Operation Nets Drugs, Guns And Criminals

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Mobile Enforcement (M.E.T.) and the Long Beach Police Department’s Drug Investigations Section joined forces and conducted a three-month operation that resulted in the removal of numerous criminals from the streets of Long Beach, as well as the seizure of guns, drugs, and...