DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Twenty-Three indicted in large-scale heroin ring

DENVER – United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn alongside the Denver Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that 23 individuals have been indicted with 37 counts for their role in running a large-scale, Denver-based heroin trafficking organization. According to information contained in the indictment as well as...
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Judge sentences Franklin County woman to 11 years in prison for her role in fentanyl and heroin conspiracy resulting in death

ST. LOUIS – United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Shannon Rennee Bradley to 132 months in prison and ordered her to pay restitution jointly with the co-defendant in the amount of $8,500. The 26-year-old Washington, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl...
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Two Texas Prison Gang Members Sentenced to a Combined 50 Years are Back in Prison

Lubbock, TX - Two Texas Syndicate members, a prison gang, were sentenced today to a combined 50 years in prison for drug trafficking in Lubbock, announced by DEA Dallas Field Division Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez. Jose Daniel Flores, aka “Cuate,” 43, was sentenced to 360 months in...
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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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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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Albuquerque man in court for drug and firearm charges under Operation LeGend

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Toby Randall Walker, 36, appeared in federal court in Albuquerque on Oct. 1 on multiple drug and firearm charges brought under the Department of Justice’s Operation LeGend. According to a criminal complaint, on Sept. 29, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration encountered Walker and located 1,490 grams...
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Multi-Agency Operation Nets more than 70 arrests in Highlands County

SEBRING, Fla . – On September 30, 2010, a multi-agency federal, state, and local task force conducted an operation in which more than 70 people were arrested on drug trafficking and gun marcharges. For more than a year, federal, state, and local law enforcement worked on a massive operation dubbed...
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Newark man sentenced to 10 years for heroin and crack cocaine distribution conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin...
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Six charged for drug trafficking crimes in Anchorage, Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Several individuals have been arrested and charged in Anchorage, Alaska, for their alleged roles in a criminal enterprise involving narcotics distribution, money laundering, and gun violence in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. In a recently unsealed indictment, Jordan J. Shanholtzer, aka "Two-3," 33, formerly of Anchorage,; Matthew...
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Eau Claire resident sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine

MADISON, Wis. – Robert J. Bell, DEA Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Division, and Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Travis Hanson, 40, Eau Claire, Wisconsin was sentenced on Friday, September 25, 2020 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10...