DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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PCP Dealer Sentenced To Over 19 Years In Prison

GREENBELT - , Md. - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus, Jr. sentenced Rashard Wilson, age 22, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, today to 235 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute (PCP), crack cocaine and heroin. Judge...
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Pekin Man Charged With Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man faces federal charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin resulting in three deaths. Anthony Mansini, 22, of the 4400 block of Meadow Drive, made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday and was ordered to remain in the custody of the...
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Seventeen Defendants Facing Federal Narcotics Or Firearms Charges Alleging Nexus Of Guns And Drugs In Chicago

CHICAGO) - Seventeen defendants are facing federal narcotics and/or firearms charges which demonstrate again the intersection of drugs and illegal gun possession in Chicago. An investigation by the Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of alleged drug-trafficking by a father and son that started less than a...
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Former Alexandria Doctor Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Distribute Oxycodone

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Larren Wade, 55, of Venice, Fla., a former doctor who had a medical practice in Alexandria, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute oxycodone. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington...
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Former Law School Student Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Methamphetamine

WASHINGTON - Marc A. Gersen, 31, a former law school student, was sentenced today to a four-year prison term for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in the Washington, D.C. area, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police (MPD). Gersen, of Washington, D.C...
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DEA And Chicago Heights Police Department Make Arrests, Seize Weapons And Drugs

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), working closely with the Chicago Heights Police Department, arrested 3 individuals last Friday, and seized 3.5 kilograms of cocaine, ½ kilogram of heroin, a Romanian made AK-47 assault rifle, a Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol and a 2004, Nissan 350 Z convertible...
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Three Schaumburg Police Officers Accused Of Operating Drug Ring In Cook And DuPage Counties

WHEATON, Ill. - DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Jack Riley announced today that charges have been filed against three Schaumburg police officers accused of operating a drug ring in Cook and DuPage Counties. Matthew Hudak...
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Eighteen Defendants Charged With Operating A Large Scale Drug Organization In Anne Arundel And Howard Counties

BALTIMORE - Eighteen defendants alleged to be part of a large drug trafficking organization operating in Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland; New Jersey; and California, have been charged in connection with distributing large amounts of marijuana, diverted pharmaceuticals, steroids, cocaine and other controlled substances. Approximately 250 law enforcement agents...
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Doctor And Wife Guilty Of Tax Evasion; Millions Of Amphetamine Based Pills Illegally Dispensed At Area Weight Loss Clinics

(HAMMOND, Ind - .) - A physician who owned weight loss clinics in northwest Indiana and south suburban Chicago pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients, and he and his wife also pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion relating to their operation of...
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Hyattsville Man Sentenced For Selling Misbranded Prescription And Non-Prescription Drugs

GREENBELT - , Md. - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Luis Alberto Jimenez, 33, formerly of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 10 months incarceration, with five months of that being home detention with electronic monitoring, followed by two years of supervised release, for selling misbranded, non-FDA approved prescription and...