DEA Archived Press Releases

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Woonsocket Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Eddie Carrasquillo, 29, of Woonsocket, was sentenced on Friday to 121 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine and maintaining a drug related property, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration'(DEA) New England Field Division, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha...
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New Haven Man Sentenced To More Than Nine Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Crack Cocaine

(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Fredrick Cox, Sr., also known as "Bama-Lama," 43, of New Haven, was sentenced today by...
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Probationary Buffalo Police Officer Arrested, Charged With Drug Charges

BUFFALO, N.Y - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Hamilton, Jr., 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to...
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Ten Indicted In Central New York Synthetic Marijuana Conspiracy

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announced the indictment of 10 individuals in connection with a large synthetic marijuana distribution organization in Central New...
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Long Island Nurse Practitioner And Brooklyn Podiatrist Plead Guilty To Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Rools Deslouches, a Brentwood, New York, nurse practitioner, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to customers, whom the defendant knew were drug dealers and addicts, without performing any meaningful...
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Home-Invasion Robber Sentenced To 20 Years’ Imprisonment

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Derrick Diaz, the former leader of a crew of robbers who targeted innocent civilians in their homes, was sentenced to 20 years in prison following his February 10, 2012, guilty plea to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy. The sentence also...
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Sixth Defendant In New York-Based Armed Robbery Crew Convicted Of Gruesome North Carolina Murder

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Wendell Alomar-Cabrera, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to the October 16, 2006, murder of Luis Sifuentes in Durham, North Carolina. The proceeding took place before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. When sentenced...
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California Man Arrested; DEA Task Force Seizes Six Kilograms Of Heroin, More Than $300K

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Luis Cedillo, recently of Sylmar, Calif., has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him...
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Former Watertown Police Officer Sentenced For Passing False Prescriptions Using Another's Identity

BOSTON - A former Watertown Police Officer was sentenced today for passing false prescriptions, using a stolen identity. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, announced that Joseph Deignan, 58, was sentenced by U.S. District...
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Heroin Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 12 Years In Federal Prison

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Antovany Acosta, also known as "Tony," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S...