NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced today the sentencing of Ricardo Castang to 10 years in prison for Attempted Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. A long-term investigation into the trafficking...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Cayla Wujek, 25, formerly of Lewis County, was sentenced yesterday to serve 66 months imprisonment for possessing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the New York Division announced that 17 people have been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly selling and trafficking heroin and cocaine throughout Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Upstate...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has designated Robert W. Patterson as the Drug Enforcement Administration acting administrator. Patterson was appointed as DEA’s principal deputy administrator in November 2016. In that role, he served as DEA’s chief operating officer, overseeing all of the agency’s enforcement, intelligence, administrative, and regulatory activities...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Adam S. Cohen, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that a federal jury has returned an indictment charging 12 defendants with conspiracy...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A four-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip, New York, charging Osman Ak, Murat Ak and Mehmet Akpinar, with drug trafficking conspiracy and substantive acts of drug trafficking in connection with their sale of controlled substances from 2013 through 2015 at Eyup Gas...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Interstate methamphetamine traffickers and local producers face federal and state charges in a series of cases that resulted in the arrests of 31 people in September. The announcement was made by James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting United States...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jason Moye, aka “Tall Jay,” was sentenced this afternoon to a term of 444 months in prison, which...

ALBANY, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith announced that Nicholas “Netti” Khan, 24, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine. Senior United States District...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Nine people arrested today are named in a federal methamphetamine and money laundering conspiracy indictment unsealed in court in Binghamton, New York, announced U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Postal Inspector in Charge Shelly Binkowski...