DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Methamphetamine And Firearm Offences Leads To 24 Year Sentence For Mexican National

INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Jack Riley and United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced today the sentencing of Juan Antonio Corona-Gonzalez, 28, Jalisco, Mexico, to 24 years in prison. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (sitting by designation) David F. Hamilton sentenced Corona-Gonzalez following his...
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Methamphetamine And Firearm Offences Leads To 24 Year Sentence For Mexican National

INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Jack Riley and United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced today the sentencing of Juan Antonio Corona-Gonzalez, 28, Jalisco, Mexico, to 24 years in prison. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (sitting by designation) David F. Hamilton sentenced Corona-Gonzalez following...
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Needham Doctor And Nurse Practitioner Indicted For Drug Distribution Resulting In Deaths

BOSTON, MA. - A former Needham physician and a nurse practitioner who worked with him were charged today in U.S. District Court with illegally distributing controlled substances resulting in deaths. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and Carmen Ortiz, United States...
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TSA Employee Charged With Conspiring To Defraud The United States By Obstructing Security Measures At The Buffalo Niagara International AirportSecond Person Charged With Operating A Continuing Criminal Enterprise In Violation Of Federal Narcotics Laws

BUFFALO, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced last night that Minnetta Walker, 43, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal Complaint with conspiring to defraud...
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Buffalo Man Charged With Federal Robbery Of A Pharmacy And Illegal Sale Of Oxycodone

BUFFALO, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) John P. Gilbride and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced last night that Michael McCallum, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal Complaint with robbery of a...
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Chemicals Used In "Spice" And "K2" Type Products Now Under Federal Control And Regulation

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today exercised its emergency scheduling authority to control five (JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497, and cannabicyclohexanol) used to make so-called “fake pot” products. Except as authorized by law, this action makes possessing and selling these chemicals or the products that contain them...
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Leaders Of Cocaine And Money Laundering Organization Sentenced To Prison

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX - Two men charged separately in related cases have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and launder the drug proceeds, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Senior...
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Puerto Rico Man Sentenced To 46 Months In Federal Prison For Role In New Haven Drug Trafficking Ring

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 RICHARD TORRES-RIOS, 41, of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V...
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State/Local Law Enforcement Agencies Get More Than $3 Million In Asset Forfeiture

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today, at a press conference held at 2:00 pm in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greenville, that $3,085,386 dollars in seized assets stemming from an upstate drug prosecution from 2004 through 2006 has been dispersed among several state and local law...
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Dalgren Man Pleads Guilty To Obtaining Pseudoephedrine For Use In Manufacturing Meth

BENTON, IL - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Ray M. Cross of Dalgren, Ill., plead guilty on February 25, 2010, in United States District Court at Benton, Ill., to a one count indictment charging him with possession of a...