DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Fentanyl distributor who used the dark web and crypto currency sentenced to 30 years in federal prison

HOUSTON -- In what is believed to be the first fentanyl distribution case using the dark web and crypto currency in the Southwest Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Region, a federal judge in San Antonio today sentenced 30-year-old Alaa Mohammed Allawi to 30 years in federal prison for distributing...
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Staten Island brothers plead guilty to opioid distribution conspiracies

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Joseph Calabria pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Last week, on Sept. 23, 2019, his brother, Michael Calabria, pleaded guilty to conspiring to...
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Federal Charges and Civil Action Announced in Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic

SAVANNAH, Ga: Pharmacists, a pharmacy, and several individuals have been named as defendants in various criminal and civil actions filed in federal court in the Southern District of Georgia as part of continuing efforts by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to combat the opioid epidemic. The actions in Georgia and Florida...
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Opioid enforcement action brings multiple charges across the Middle District of Florida

TAMPA, Fla. - A significant opioid enforcement operation across the Middle District of Florida was executed involving charges against five individuals for their alleged involvement in various conspiracies to illicitly obtain and distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances. Those charged are the following: United States v. Hong Truong Hong Truong...
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Local Doctor and Former Pro Football Player Indicted

Rome, Ga. – Atlanta-area doctor Victor Hanson and former professional football player Sedrick Hodge have been indicted with two other individuals for illegal distribution of prescription drugs, including opioids. “Americans rely on healthcare providers, many of them medical doctors, to use their training to help patients and to ‘do no...
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Pharmacy owner charged with illegally distributing oxycodone and operating a health care fraud and kickback scheme

NEW YORK CITY - Raymond P. Donovan, special agent in charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert, special agent in charge of the New York Office of the...
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South Florida doctor pleads guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

MIAMI - Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, 65, of Weston, Florida pled guilty on August 23, 2019, to conspiring to dispense a controlled substance, Oxycodone. According to the court record, including the agreed upon factual proffers, from November 2016, through and including September 2018, Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, his wife Arlene...
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South Florida doctor pleads guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, 65, of Weston, Florida pled guilty on August 23, 2019, to conspiring to dispense a controlled substance, Oxycodone, before U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman (Case No. 19-cr-20055). According to the court record, including the agreed upon factual proffers, from November 2016, through and including September...
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Catskill obstetrician-gynecologist pleads guilty to illegal distribution of opioids, health care fraud, aggravated identify theft, and obstruction of justice

ALBANY, NY – Myra Mabry, 50, of Catskill, New York, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino to conspiring to distribute controlled substances, health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and obstruction of justice. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Special...
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Asbury Park doctor sentenced to 27 months in prison for distribution of steroids and marijuana

TRENTON, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a doctor with offices in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Brooklyn was sentenced today to 27 months in...