DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Three High-Level Colombian Narcotics Traffickers Indicted

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Michael Shea, Acting Special Agent in...
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One Fresno Man And One Massachusetts Man Plead Guilty In Interstate Marijuana Trafficking Conspiracy

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced that Bounepheng Savongsy, 50, of Fresno, and Ernson Merisier, 27, of Holbrook, Mass., pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiring to manufacture...
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Colombian Bacrim Narco-Traffickers Indicted On Cocaine Conspiracy Charges

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Jay Bergman, Andean Regional Director, Drug Enforcement Administration, in conjunction with Viviane Morales Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia, Director Oscar Naranjo...
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Palm Beach, Broward And Martin County Pill Mills And Pharmacies Are Shut Down

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, announced the unsealing of a federal indictment...
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Coarsegold Cannabis Cultivator Sentenced

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, announced that Eduardo Medina-Mendoza, aka Eduardo Nunez Medina, 49, of Guerrero, Mexico, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to manufacture or cultivate, to distribute, and to...
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Thirteen Indicted For Airdropping Multi-Hundred Kilogram Quantities Of Cocaine In The Caribbean Sea And For Money Laundering Offenses

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the unsealing of a July 15, 2011 indictment against 13 individuals on charges that they engaged in a narcotics trafficking...
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Thirty-Two Indicted In Broward And Palm Beach Counties In Second Coordinated Pill Mill Takedown

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal...
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Twenty-One Charged Federally In “Operation Woodchop”

ORLANDO, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announce today the culmination of “Operation Woodchop,” an investigation into two neighborhood-based street gangs in the Orange and Lake County areas. The operation concluded this morning with...
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Ocean Bank Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement And Forfeits More Than $10 Million

MIAMI - , FL. - Ocean Bank, the largest privately-owned state-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Florida, has entered into a deferred prosecution (“the Agreement”) with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida to resolve charges that it willfully failed to establish an anti-money laundering program. Today’s Agreement...
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Okeechobee Podiatrist Sentenced For Illegal Oxycodone Distribution

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Divisionand Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced the sentencing of defendant Arthur Carl Haspel, 66, of Boca Raton, FL. U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Haspel...