United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PASCO, Wash. - Early this morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Tri-Cities Metro Drug Task (MDTF) executed three federal search warrants in Pasco, Washington. The enforcement action stems from a federal investigation targeting a methamphetamine drug trafficking organization. As a result, four people were taken into custody and will...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced yesterday that John Anthony Barton, 33, of Dix, N.Y., was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession...

LAREDO, Texas - Marcus Mickle, 21, of Columbia, S.C., has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for a conspiracy related to cocaine and marijuana trafficking and for possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña...

JUNE 14, (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) - Seven individuals were arrested this morning on federal narcotics trafficking charges as a result of a multi-agency investigation targeting heroin traffickers operating in the Northeast Height of Albuquerque, N.M., announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the...

ALPINE, Texas - Two men face federal drug trafficking charges related to the discovery of more than 480 pounds of marijuana on a Van Horn Independent School (ISD) school bus last year announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and DEA-El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit. A...

June 14, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Winchester, Ky., man, accused of distributing heroin to an individual who died of an overdose, made his first appearance in federal court today. Harold Wayne Salyers, 53, was indicted on June 6 for distribution of heroin...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was filed this afternoon in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Andrea Sanderlin of Scarsdale, New York, with manufacturing and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute it and maintaining a drug-involved premise. Sanderlin, 45, was arrested on May 20, 2013, when...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police announced the discovery...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and David B. Short, Sheriff, St. Johns Sheriff’s (SJSO), announce the results of an 18 months investigation involving several methamphetamine trafficking organizations in the St. Johns County area. Over the past two days, the...

HARTFORD, 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 a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned an indictment today charging Kevin J. Dunbar, 44, of...