United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DALLAS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) has identified a disturbing trend impacting our nation. Prescription drug abuse has resulted in a significant increase in the abuse of heroin. Those addicted to prescription pain medicine often switch to heroin which produces the same effects and is often more readily available and...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, found 52-year old Rafael Cordero, a 23-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police force, guilty of interfering with the federal drug investigation of the Christian Serrano/Edwin Medina Drug Trafficking ("DTOs"). Cordero provided sensitive law enforcement information about drug investigations to his half-brother, David Garcia, a...

DEC 02 (BROWNSVILLE, Texas) - - A federal indictment charging Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been unsealed. The unsealing was announced by United States Attorneys Kenneth Magidson and Robert L. Pitman, of the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, respectively, along with...

CONCORD, N.H. - David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a former employee of Exeter Hospital, was sentenced today to 39 years in prison for his conduct in causing a widespread Hepatitis C outbreak in numerous states, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement for New England, United...

MIAMI - 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, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security (ICE-HSI), announce the arrest of Quinton Mitchell...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Erick Evans, also known as "E.J." and "Hoov," 23, of New Haven, was sentenced today by...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Nathan Snape, 37, of Enfield, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall...

CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney John P. Kacavas announced Mark Webster, 23, formerly of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to distribution and aiding...

HOUSTON - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas announced two men from the South Texas area have pleaded guilty to trafficking approximately five kilograms of methamphetamine in Houston in May...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Eddie Carrasquillo, 29, of Woonsocket, was sentenced on Friday to 121 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine and maintaining a drug related property, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration'(DEA) New England Field Division, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha...