DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Former Stockton College Police Officer Admits Distributing Oxycodone

CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a former Richard Stockton College of New Jersey police officer today admitted selling oxycodone-based pills to an undercover officer...
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Pair Of Brothers Among Five Charged In Conspiracy To Traffic Guns To New Jersey From South Carolina

CAMDEN, N.J. - Five Camden County, N.J. men and a woman from South Carolina are charged with federal firearms violations following an investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and (ATF) that resulted in multiple arrests last night and this morning, and the confiscation of numerous guns bound...
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Staten Island Woman Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Staten Island, New York, woman today admitted her role in one of the nation’s largest and longest...
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Pennsylvania Man Sentenced To 33 Months In Prison For Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a Moscow, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in one of...
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Suffolk County, N.Y. Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Stealing Oxycodone From Manufacturing Facility

NEWARK, N.J. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Dominick Ribustello, 53, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W...
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Head Pharmacist Of West Orange Pharmacy Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison For Selling Oxycodone Without Prescriptions

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced the former pharmacist in charge of West Orange Pharmacy was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for illegally...
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Monmouth County, N.J., Doctor Indicted On Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy, Money Laundering And Tax Charges

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Monmouth County, N.J., doctor who allegedly wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was indicted on charges that he...
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New Jersey U.S. Attorney Files Civil Suit Seeking Forfeiture Of $1.7 Million Seized From New York-Based Exporter

NEWARK, N.J. - The United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint today seeking to forfeit $1,742,289, previously seized from cellular phone wholesale company Cellular Next LLC, which allegedly represents narcotics proceeds laundered through the Black Market Peso (BMPE), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. According to the complaint filed today...
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Dominican National Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year, today admitted his role in one of...
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Former Immigration Officer, Postal Worker Charged In Takedown Of 14-Member Interstate Methamphetamine Distribution Ring

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced 14 people - including a former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer and a U.S. Postal Service worker -...