DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Second Largest Border Meth Bust in History on Southern Border

SAN DIEGO – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Otay Mesa commercial facility Friday seized more than 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills and heroin as part of the second largest methamphetamine bust along the southwest border in the history of the CBP, based on...
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Queens Pharmacy Operator charged with Obstruction of Justice for sending powder cocaine to DEA Investigator's home

NEW YORK - Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced...
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Illinois man sentenced to 37 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin

NEWARK, N.J. – An Illinois man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to transport heroin and cocaine to New Jersey. Daniel Gonzalez Maldonado, 25, of Carpentersville, Illinois, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court to an information charging him...
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Indictment Charges Man for Trafficking Dangerous, Unusual Drug Mixtures of Heroin, Fentanyl, Tramadol and Methamphetamine

NEW YORK CITY – Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations New York, and New...
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Alleged major trafficker among three indicted in connection with over 25 pounds of cocaine and $125,000 cash seized in the Bronx

NEW YORK CITY – Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Keith M. Corlett, Superintendent of the New York State Police, and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea announced the arrest...
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California man charged with transporting nine kilograms of fentanyl

NEW YORK CITY – Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, announced that Richard Mendoza was charged in an indictment with conspiring to distribute...
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Syracuse man sentenced to more than six years in prison on federal drug trafficking charges

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Theodore Fowler, 33, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 75 months in federal prison for his conviction for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...
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Ulster County dentist arrested for illegally dispensing oxycodone

ALBANY, N.Y. - Vivian Letizia, age 62, of Stone Ridge, New York, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging her with illegally dispensing controlled substances outside the course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose. The announcement was made by Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of...
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Takedown completes arrests of 15 alleged drug traffickers

SYRACUSE N.Y. - Five men arrested in Syracuse yesterday are alleged to be members of a conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and heroin operating between Puerto Rico, New York City, and Syracuse, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
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Niagara Falls man arrested, facing drug and gun charges

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Andrew Medina, 29, of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with attempting to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in...