DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
1999 Results - Showing 481 to 490
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Two Newark Men Charged with Narcotics Distribution and Firearms Charges

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 two Newark men made their initial appearances today on gang-related narcotics distribution and firearms charges. Ronnie Holley, 32...
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Seven Defendants Charged for Laundering Over $28 Million for DTO

NEW YORK - Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced charges today against seven individuals involved in laundering tens of millions of dollars for drug...
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Man Admits Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl Analogue

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 former New Jersey resident today admitted conspiring to distribute a fentanyl analogue. Darryl Hinkson, 46, formerly of...
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Nearly 40 Pounds of Heroin and Fentanyl Seized in the Bronx: Three Indicted

NEW YORK – An indictment charges three individuals with Operating as a Major Trafficker following the seizure of nearly 40 pounds of alleged heroin and fentanyl from a large-scale narcotics packaging operation in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. The organization combined heroin and fentanyl for sale in New...
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Passaic County Man Sentenced to 45 Months for Distributing Fentanyl

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 45 months in prison for distributing fentanyl. Tawan...
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California Man Convicted for Fentanyl Analogue Pill Mill Operation

TRENTON, 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 California man was convicted today of conspiracy and manufacturing, distributing, and possessing with intent to manufacture and...
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Atlantic County Men Charged in Heroin Conspiracy

CAMDEN, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced two Atlantic County men have been charged with conspiring to distribute heroin...
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Leader of “Mike’s Candyshop” Drug Delivery Service Pleads Guilty

NEW YORK CITY – Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ariel Tavarez, a/k/a “A,” a/k/a “Mike,” pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue, and to distributing narcotics that caused the...
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Eleven Members of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club Charged

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Toby C. Taylor, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police Colonel Patrick J. Callahan, Acting Union County Prosecutor...
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Fentanyl Dealer Going to Prison for More than 10 Years

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Devonnte White, 29, of Huntersville, North Carolina, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced...