WASHINGTON, D.C. - The DEA and U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today announced the designation of Colombian national Jorge Milton Cifuentes (a.k.a. Elkin de Jesus Lopez Salazar) and more than 70 individuals and entities in Cifuentes Villa’s drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated today the New Ansari Money Exchange, a major money laundering vehicle for Afghan narcotics trafficking organizations, along with 15 affiliated individuals and entities under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act). T he New Ansari Money Exchange is at the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s nomination of Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s nomination of career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the next Deputy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s intent to nominate Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s intention to nominate career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the...

NEW YORK, NY - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against seven defendants for conspiring to provide various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom they believed to be...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced the identification of The Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL together with its (LCB) as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT (Section 311) for the bank’s role...

LOS ANGELES, CA - The leader of a South Los Angeles street gang, who was convicted of organizing and leading a wide-ranging conspiracy to manufacture and distribute large quantities of the drug phencyclidine - better known as PCP - was sentenced today to life without parole in federal prison. Alphonso...

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that nearly 800 law enforcement officers this morning targeted members and associates of the 38th Street gang, arresting dozens of defendants, many of whom are named in a federal racketeering indictment that alleges a host of violent crimes, large-scale drug...

WASHINGTON D.C. - An ongoing DEA investigation led to actions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today designating Lebanese narcotics trafficker Ayman Joumaa, as well as nine individuals and 19 entities connected to his drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially Designated Narcotics...

LOS ANGELES, CA - A joint federal-state law enforcement operation this morning led to the arrest of 27 people linked to a Lennox street gang, some of whom are named in a federal racketeering indictment that alleges the gang is a criminal enterprise that has engaged in violent crimes, extortion...