DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Guilty Pleas Entered In Methamphetamine Case

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a Grand Tower, Ill., man and woman pled guilty on September 8, 2011, to Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine. Eddie O. Allen, III, 33, and Samantha Johnson, 32, both of Grand Tower...
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Jasper County Pharmacist Sentenced For Illegal Distribution Of Controlled Substances

BENTON, IL - - Stephen R. Wigginton , United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that David Sherman Lustig, 72, of Effingham, Illinois, was sentenced on an indictment charging illegal distribution of Schedule II controlled substance, Oxycodone, and Schedule III controlled substance, Hydrocodone. The offenses involved dispensing...
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One Fresno Man And One Massachusetts Man Plead Guilty In Interstate Marijuana Trafficking Conspiracy

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced that Bounepheng Savongsy, 50, of Fresno, and Ernson Merisier, 27, of Holbrook, Mass., pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiring to manufacture...
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Former Police Officer Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 15 Months In Prison For Participating In Drug Robbery Conspiracy

MANHATTAN, NY. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration WILBERT L. PLUMMER and United States Attorney PREET BHARARA for the Southern District of New York announced that former New York City police officer MIGUEL BURGOS was sentenced Friday, September 9...
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New Jersey Man Sentenced To 87 Months In Prison For Possessing Oxycodone For Sale Illegally

CAMDEN, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman , the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Rio Grande, N.J., man who traveled to Florida 29 times to illegally...
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Three High-Level Colombian Narcotics Traffickers Indicted

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Michael Shea, Acting Special Agent in...
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Kentucky Family Members Are First In State To Be Sentenced To Federal Prison For Distribution Of Drugs Known As “Bath Salts”

ASHLAND, KY - A father and his two sons received federal prison sentences today for their roles in a scheme which involved importing kilograms of a drug comparable to methamphetamine from overseas and selling it in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 59-year-old...
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Charges Filed Against Chicago-Area Man For Multi-Million-Dollar Theft Of Prescription Pain Relieving Medications

CHICAGO, IL. - A joint investigation by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department resulted in the arrest of an employee of a Skokie, Illinois pharmacy for illegally selling millions of dollars worth of prescription controlled substances. The Office of Cook County State’s Attorney...
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DEA And Homeland Security Strike Force Seize Over 57 Pounds Of Cocaine

- PHOENIX, AZ. - PHOENIX - On September 9, 2011, the Drug Enforcement (DEA), in conjunction with the Homeland Security (HIS) Strike Force Group, arrested two individuals and seized 57.2 pounds of Cocaine. A weapon was also found with the drugs. The investigation targeted a Mexican drug trafficking organization that...
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Union City Man Found Guilty Of Heroin Mill Conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman , the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Union City, N.J., man involved in a 2009 conspiracy to process, package...