DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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14 Defendants charged with racketeering, murder, firearms, and narcotics offenses

NEW YORK – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney for Bronx County, Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Peter C...
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Two men indicted in cocaine pipeline operating between Puerto Rico and Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Harold Alexis Ortiz Cosme, 21, and Luis G. Candelario, 25, both of Puerto Rico, with...
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Notorious street market for narcotics dismantled in Bronx: major trafficker among 14 charged; two guns recovered

NEW YORK – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, Troy A. Miller, Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection New York Field Office, Peter C. Fitzhugh...
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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

NEW YORK CITY – The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) . This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months...
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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) . This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months of investigative...
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Springfield man sentenced to 15 years for conspiring to distribute heroin

BOSTON – A Springfield man was sentenced in federal court in Springfield in connection with his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy that trafficked dozens of kilos of heroin into Springfield, Massachusetts from Bronx, N.Y. and the Dominican Republic. Alberto Marte, 35, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after...
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East Hartford man sentenced to 87 months for trafficking heroin cut with horse tranquilizer

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Alexander Pena, 28, of East Hartford, Connecticut was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 87 months of...
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Catskill physician receives 54 months in prison for distribution of opioids, health care fraud, aggravated identify theft, and obstruction of justice

ALBANY, N.Y. – Myra Mabry, age 50, of Catskill, New York, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for unlawfully distributing opioids, for impersonating her patients and defrauding insurance companies as part of the opioids distribution scheme, and for attempting to obstruct the investigation into her criminal activities. The...
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New York resident supplied by Waterbury drug trafficker sentenced to federal prison

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that James Tyrone Hayes, also known as “Ty,” 50, of Newburgh, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet C...
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Dominican National sentenced to five years for fentanyl and heroin conspiracy and distribution

BOSTON – A Dominican National was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts for distributing fentanyl and heroin. Erotides Mendez, 50, a Dominican National previously residing in New York City, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Hillman to five years in prison to be followed by...