DEA Archived Press Releases

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Baldwin Pharmacist Charged With Knowingly Doling Out Painkillers Through Phony Prescriptions Chowdhury’s Arrest Stems From Investigation Into Where Kayla Gerdes Obtained Drugs

MINEOLA, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today the arrest of a Baldwin pharmacist for filling dozens of prescriptions for addictive painkillers, despite knowing that the prescriptions he...
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FARC Associate Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 15 Years In Prison For Providing Material Support To A Foreign Terrorist Organization

NEW YORK, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and United States Attorney PREET BHARARA for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUANITO CORDOBA-BERMUDEZ, an associate of the 57 Front of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias...
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Bridgeport Man Sentenced To More Than Eight Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Heroin

HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRE MESSAM, 34, formerly of Connecticut Avenue, Bridgeport, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N...
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Twenty Alleged Members And Associates Of Colombia’s Largest Drug Cartel Charged

BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston; and Colonel Marian McGovern, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State...
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Indictments Unsealed Charging Four Block Gang Members And Others With Racketeering And Narcotics Conspiracies

ALBANY, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced the unsealing of two Indictments returned by a federal grand jury for the Northern District of New York in Albany, New...
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 60 Months In Federal Prison

PROVIDENCE, RI. - A Salem, Mass., man arrested while in possession of more than a kilogram of cocaine in November 2010 by DEA Drug Task Force members and Cranston Police, was sentenced Friday to 60 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith, announced Steven W...
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New Haven Man Sentenced To More Than Seven Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Crack

NEW HAVEN, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDMUND JACKSON, SR., 54, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen...
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New York Woman Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that QUENIDA ANDELIZ, 41, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W...
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Hartford Man Sentenced To 21 Months In Federal Prison For Distributing Cocaine

HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN RIVAS, also known as “Toto,” 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet...
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Seymour Man Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Structure Deposits Of Marijuana Ring Cash

BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GARY EICHENSEHR, 29, of Seymour, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford...