DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
2012 Results - Showing 1611 to 1620
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Drug Trafficker Gets 12-Year Prison Sentence

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Hlateef Darlington, 28, of Whitehall, PA, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond, on charges related to drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Darlington pleaded guilty on October 28, 2010 to conspiracy to distribute and...
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Baldwin Pharmacist Charged With Knowingly Doling Out Painkillers Through Phony Prescriptions Chowdhury’s Arrest Stems From Investigation Into Where Kayla Gerdes Obtained Drugs

MINEOLA, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today the arrest of a Baldwin pharmacist for filling dozens of prescriptions for addictive painkillers, despite knowing that the prescriptions he...
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FARC Associate Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 15 Years In Prison For Providing Material Support To A Foreign Terrorist Organization

NEW YORK, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and United States Attorney PREET BHARARA for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUANITO CORDOBA-BERMUDEZ, an associate of the 57 Front of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias...
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Indictments Announced Following Wisconsin Drug Trafficking And Illegal Gambling Investigation

MILWAUKEE, WI. - United States Attorney James L. Santelle, DEA Special Agent in Charge Jack Riley, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, and Milwaukee Police Department Chief Edward Flynn, announced today that 24 defendants were charged in federal court with various drug-trafficking and illegal gambling offenses. The defendants are charged...
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Bridgeport Man Sentenced To More Than Eight Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Heroin

HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRE MESSAM, 34, formerly of Connecticut Avenue, Bridgeport, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N...
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Twenty Alleged Members And Associates Of Colombia’s Largest Drug Cartel Charged

BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston; and Colonel Marian McGovern, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State...
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Former Lawyer Sentenced In Marijuana Grow House Case

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Richard K. Creamer, 39, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture 1,000 or more marijuana plants and maintaining a place for the manufacture of controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Creamer, who was a practicing attorney, was...
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Former DeKalb Police Officer Indicted For Abusing His Position And Lying To Federal Agents

ATLANTA, GA. - DONALD BRISTOL, 41, of Lilburn, Georgia, was arraigned late yesterday on federal charges of aiding others to possess and conceal a stolen vehicle, failing to report a federal felony, unlawfully accessing government computer systems, and making false statements. BRISTOL made the appearance late yesterday afternoon before United...
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Dalgren Man Will Serve Over Seven Years In Prison For Illegal Possession Of Pseudoephedrine

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Dalgren man, who plead guilty on February 25, 2010, was sentenced on May 27, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, on an indictment charging him with Possession of...
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Thompsonville Man Pleads Guilty In Meth Conspiracy

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Thompsonville man plead guilty on May 31, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, to a one count indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Manufacture a Controlled (Methamphetamine). Jonathan...