TRENTON, 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 licensed pharmacist pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to develop, produce and possess the potentially deadly...

WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and United States Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York today announced that 21 citizens of the Dominican Republic have been charged with conspiring to impersonate United States law enforcement officers, extortion, and wire fraud. Beginning two weeks ago, authorities...

WASHINGTON - Americansnationwide showed their support for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever this past Saturday. After seven previous Take Back Days spread over almost four years, 780,158 - ( 390 - tons) of pills were...

WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Customs and Border (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security (HSI), Federal Bureau of (FBI), Internal Revenue (IRS) and other federal, state, and local partners announced the culmination of Project Synergy Phase II, an ongoing effort targeting every level of the dangerous global synthetic...

WASHINGTON - Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, aka “Benny,” “Farmero,” “51,” “Guero,” “Pecas,” “Tury,” and “86,” 35, of Chihuahua, Mexico, the Barrio Azteca Lieutenant who ordered the March 2010 murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee, was sentenced today to serve life in...

WASHINGTON - After collecting more than 1,700 tons of expired, unwanted prescription medications over the past three-and-a-half years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and more than 4,200 national, tribal, and community law enforcement partners will hold another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 26th. Americans can take their pills...

WASHINGTON - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), today announced that Slawomir Soborski was extradited from Estonia where he had been arrested for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United...

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 two leaders of a Bloods street gang set known as the “Red Breed Guerillas” were sentenced today to prison...

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 an internal affairs officer of the Miami-Dade Police Department was arrested this morning in Miami Gardens, Fla., and charged...

TRENTON - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that six alleged members of a drug ring were indicted today on first-degree charges for allegedly operating a heroin mill and distributing large quantities of...