United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ONEONTA, N.Y. - Roy Dejesus Young, Kristen Lynn Rudnitsky, Michel Steven Harabet, and Melissa Dawn Rotolo were presented in Oneonta City Court this morning. All four were charged with felony drug charges for their role in a month long narcotics investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Joseph Sclafani and Neil Lombardo, members of the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, were sentenced to terms of imprisonment of 180 months and 168 months, respectively, following their April 2013 guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute...

(MANHATTAN) - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond W. Kelly, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New (NYPD), Joseph...

JULY 23 - ( - PITTSBURGH) - Twelve western Pennsylvania residents have been indicted by a federal grand juryalleging their participation in a prescription drug ring operating in Allegheny and Beaver Counties, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The indictments were returned on July16, 2013, and unsealed this...

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Tom F. O’Donnell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - -U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Leo Mellerson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine or both. Mellerson was one of nine...

JULY 11-William J. Conway, a Baldwin, New York physician, pled guilty today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to conspiring to illegally distribute the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to patients, who the defendant knew were addicts and without performing any meaningful medical examination. When...

PHILADELPHIA - Chester (PA) District Attorney Tom Hogan announced arrests in Operation Tubería (translation, Operation Broken Pipeline). The joint federal and local operation was designed to attack the drug pipeline from Mexico that runs through Southern Chester County, resulting in multiple arrests for dealing cocaine. The final defendant was arrested...

PHILADELPHIA - Kermit Gosnell, 72, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to 12 counts in connection with running a pill mill out of his clinic located at 3801-3805 Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia. Gosnell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone, alprazolam, and codeine; distribution and aiding and abetting...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (“DEA”) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that Felix Rodriguez, a licensed physician in Manhattan, was sentenced to...