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PRESS RELEASE

Operation Sour/Kush Yields Multiple Arrests, Weapons, Narcotics, And Currency

October 27, 2011
PATERSON, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Clifton Police Chief Gary F. Giardina, and Acting Passaic Police Chief Richard Diaz, announced the stunning results of a nearly year-long...
October 27, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Leader Of Northwest Georgia Oxycodone Distribution Ring Sentenced To Federal Prison

October 24, 2011
ROME, GA. - John Gregory Alvarez, 45, of Rossville, Georgia, was sentenced to prison today by United States District Judge Harold L. Murphy, following Alvarez’ conviction on federal narcotics and money laundering charges for his leadership role in a drug trafficking organization that distributed the prescription pill, Oxycodone. John S...
October 24, 2011
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Leader Of Cocaine Smuggling Organization Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Conspiracy To Use Commercial Airlines To Smuggle Drugs From West Indies To England Through The United States

October 24, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced the extradited leader of an organization that smuggled cocaine aboard commercial airlines from the...
October 24, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Former DeKalb Police Officer Sentenced To Federal Prison

October 19, 2011
ATLANTA, GA. - Donald Bristol, 41, of Lilburn, Georgia was sentenced today by United States District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr., to serve over a year in prison on charges that, while he was employed as a DeKalb County police officer, he helped others hide a stolen vehicle, unlawfully accessed...
October 19, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Bloods Street Gang Leader Charged With Possessing Weapons And Conspiring To Distribute Drugs

October 07, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that an alleged leader of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street...
October 07, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Texas Businessman Found Guilty Of Laundering Millions Of Dollars For A Mexican Narcotics Trafficking Organization

September 28, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell , the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Vikram Datta, the owner of multiple retail perfume stores located on the...
September 28, 2011
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New Jersey Man Sentenced To 87 Months In Prison For Possessing Oxycodone For Sale Illegally

September 12, 2011
CAMDEN, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman , the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Rio Grande, N.J., man who traveled to Florida 29 times to illegally...
September 12, 2011
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Union City Man Found Guilty Of Heroin Mill Conspiracy

September 09, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman , the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Union City, N.J., man involved in a 2009 conspiracy to process, package...
September 09, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

New Jersey Pharmacist Pleads Guilty In Illegal Pharmaceutical Drug Distribution Scheme

September 07, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman , the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Vincent Hsia, a pharmacist and the former proprietor of Lincoln Pharmacy Network in...
September 07, 2011
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Twin Sisters In Newark, New Jersey Charged With Operating Oxycodone Distribution Ring

August 31, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman , the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that twin sisters were arrested today at their residence in Newark, N.J. for...
August 31, 2011
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