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Orchard Park pain doctor pleads guilty to using patient names fraudulently to obtain controlled substances

BUFFALO, N.Y. – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Dr. Paul Biddle, 54, of Amherst, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to identity theft and possession of unlawful hydromorphone HCL. The charges...
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Drug trafficker sentenced to 121 months for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and marijuana across New York City

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, John Santos was sentenced by United States District Judge Frederic Block to 121 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, following his December 2017 guilty plea to participating in a conspiracy to distribute a...
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Ex-husband and wife duo from Michigan arrested in Yonkers, NY with eight kilograms of heroin

YONKERS, N.Y. – On Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, members of the DEA’s New York Drug Enforcement Task Force Group T-12 and Yonkers Police Department Narcotics Unit conducted a narcotics interdiction in the area of Central Park Avenue north of Palmer Road resulting in the seizure of approximately eight kilograms of...
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Eight-week federal trial results in conviction of Chapo associates in Buffalo, NY

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; New York Division, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and James D. Robnett, IRS Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office, announced today that following an eight week trial, a federal jury has convicted Herman E...
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Two men arrested for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl

BROOKLYN, N.Y. --A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Douglas Marra, also known as “Dougie,” and Joseph McClean, also known as “Max B,” with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Queens between January 2018 and September 2018. McClean...
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Defendant charged in White Plains Federal Court with felon in possession of a firearm

NEW YORK – Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; New York Division, and Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of a complaint charging Darrell Jones with possessing a firearm subsequent to having been convicted...
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Second Bronx gang member arrested and charged in Manhattan Federal Court with 2011 murder of Bolivia Beck

NEW YORK – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Raymond P. Donovan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman, and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced today that Kareem Davis, an alleged member of the “Killbrook” gang based in the...
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Schenectady man pleads guilty to distributing heroin laced with fentanyl

NEW YORK – Hezekiah Morton, age 47, of Schenectady, N.Y., pled guilty today to distributing heroin and fentanyl in May 2018. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Raymond P. Donovan, and Schenectady County Sheriff Dominic Dagostino. Morton...
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Former Bank of America employee pleads guilty for his role in drug conspiracy linked to a Mexican drug cartel

BUFFALO, N.Y. – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Presiliano Garcia, 33, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to misprision of a felony. The charges carry a maximum penalty of three years in...
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Former NYPD detective pleads guilty to obstructing narcotics investigation

NEW YORK – U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Saed Rabah, a former New York City Police Department detective, pled guilty to knowingly providing misinformation to a federal law enforcement officer...