United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BUFFALO, NY – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Jose Garcia-Santiago, 61, of Niagara Falls, New York, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan today announced that Carlos Torres Perez, 48, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to possessing with intent to distribute one kilogram or more...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Marcus Sales, 29, of Syracuse, N.Y., pled guilty yesterday to a federal cocaine distribution conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and FBI Albany Field Office Special Agent in Charge James N. Hendricks. As part of...

SAN DIEGO – April Spring Kelly admitted in federal court today that she smuggled more than 450,000 fentanyl pills from Mexico into the United States during a nine-month conspiracy from February to October of 2018. According to admissions in her plea agreement, Kelly smuggled the fentanyl pills through ports of...

BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan announced today that Maulana Lucas, 45, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute one kilogram or more...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan announced today that Nolan Rogers, 32, of Lisbon, Connecticut, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year...

BUFFALO, NY – United States Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan announced today Cesar Rivera-Figueroa, aka Fat Boy, 28, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to engaging in a continuing...

NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ernesto Lopez, a New York-licensed medical doctor who wrote thousands of medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone and fentanyl over an approximately three-year period, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to...

BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan announced today that a federal jury has convicted Darryl M. Greene, 48, of Buffalo, New York, of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Latam Games, LLC of Miami, Fla., was sentenced today to pay a $500,000 fine following its guilty plea to structuring financial transactions to evade currency reporting requirements. The announcement was made by United States Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan; U.S...