United States Drug Enforcement Administration

TAMPA, Fla. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division served Administrative Inspection (AIW) on five pharmacies located in the Tampa and Lakeland area. The five pharmacies are owned and operated by Victor Obi-Anadiume and his family. Superior Pharmacy LLC: 5416 Town N’ Country Blvd, Tampa, FL Superior Pharmacy LLC...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The leader of a drug trafficking organization based in the Inland Empire was sentenced today to 168 months of imprisonment by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips. Salvador Gonzalez-Chavez, 32, Fontana, was convicted last September of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, heroin...

DETROIT - A 50 year old Canton pharmacist who owned and operated 26 pharmacies in the metro-Detroit area was sentenced today to 17 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, of the U.S...

- ALBANY, N.Y. - Two former Oneonta residents, Dylan J. Clark and Michelle L. Slonaker, were arrested last Friday as part of “Operation Gold Rush” that was conducted by the Otsego County Sheriff’s (OCSO), the Oneonta Police (OPD), and the Albany District Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, into...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced today that a year-long undercover investigation resulted in 15 people being charged for distributing cocaine and methamphetamine in the Mansfield area. The charges and arrests are part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF)...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, 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 (ICE), Homeland Security (HSI), Miami Field Division, announce the conviction and...

WASHINGTON - Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, aka “Mamito” and “Caballero,” a high ranking member of the “Los Zetas” drug cartel, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Assistant Attorney...

CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and John P. Kacavas, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire announced that Manuel Trinidad-Acosta, 29, of New York City, and Ed Cogswell, 47, of Bangor, Maine, were convicted in...

FEB 01 - ( NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Joseph Jackson, also known as “Mighty” and “M.I.,” 37, of New Haven, pleaded...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced Andrew Rios, 41, of California, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to 188 months...