United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig announced a Newark man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for his role in a large international...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 44 months in prison for conspiring to distribute...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Gregory Simms to 60 months in prison today. The 33-year-old Las Vegas resident previously pleaded guilty in March to possession with the intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. On June 13, 2020, St. Charles County police stopped...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a member of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips appeared in court today on charges that include attempted murder...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced David M. Foston to 125 months in prison today. The 49-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Foston was indicted with 14 others in St. Louis in May 2019 for conspiring...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Maurice Woodson to 276 months in prison today. The 34-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime resulting in...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Springfield, Missouri, man who illegally possessed nine firearms has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene and Cass counties. Christopher M. Iavolo, 42, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool on Tuesday, June 1, to...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland announced the conclusion of "Operation Yo-Yo" a large scale narcotics investigation initiated by the DEA and Cape May County Prosecutor’s...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A St. Louis man is heading to prison after arranging to purchase a kilogram of cocaine. Ifiok J. Equere, 54, appeared in federal district court today and was sentenced to 70 months in prison for attempting to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams...