United States Drug Enforcement Administration

CAMDEN, N.J. - Five Camden County, N.J. men and a woman from South Carolina are charged with federal firearms violations following an investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and (ATF) that resulted in multiple arrests last night and this morning, and the confiscation of numerous guns bound...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce that seven individuals have been charged with conspiring to distribute anabolic steroid testosterone to underage high school and professional athletes. Charged...

ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Larez, 33, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to a distribution of a controlled substance analogue charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Larez will be sentenced to a year of probation. Larez and his co-defendants, Garlan R...

CHICAGO - ― A former physician who was affiliated with three Chicago hospitals was sentenced today to nearly six years in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs in exchange for sex and cash. The defendant, Joshua D. Baron, a pediatric neurologist, pleaded guilty in March, admitting that he provided...

PHEONIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced that on July 31, 2014, John Cary Dean, 28, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayesto 6.5 years in prison. Dean pleaded guilty on Jan. 23, 2014 to two counts of possession with...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jose Corona-Mata was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick. Corona-Mata previously pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea...

NEW YORK - Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr; Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration James J. Hunt; Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl; and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of Nicholas Michael Torres...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Staten Island, New York, woman today admitted her role in one of the nation’s largest and longest...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. ordered Jesus Ibarra-Quen, 30, of Calif., to serve 30 months in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

ATLANTA - Woodrow Rudolph Dixon, Jr., and Cornelius Bernard Wilson each have been sentenced to federal prison for planning to rob a drug stash house while dressed as police officers. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Field Division stated, “Drug dealing breeds...