CHICAGO - ― A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison and, separately, guilty pleas were unsealed in the same case for twin brothers who ran the cartel’s Chicago distribution cell and supplied vast quantities of cocaine and heroin in...

ELIZABETH, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Grace H. Park, acting Union County Prosecutor, announced eight people have been arrested and the equivalent of more than 4,300 bricks of heroin with an estimated street value of more than...

TRENTON, N.J. - 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 10 individuals, including the alleged ringleader, were indicted today for allegedly operating a Paterson-based drug ring that illegally distributed over one thousand pills...

CHICAGO - ― Dennis Wichern, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury recently returned an 11count indictment charging eight defendants with...

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 Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year was sentenced today to 39 months in...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - ―Nine individuals from the Chicago and Michigan City areas have been indicted for their alleged roles in a heroin distribution conspiracy that operated from approximately 2009 through the present. A principal object of the conspiracy was to procure quantities of heroin for ultimate distribution in northwest...

MILWAUKEE - ―The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 26 individuals on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The following 47 individuals were charged by the Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, or Washington County District Attorneys’...

ASBURY PARK, 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 federal and state law enforcement authorities today arrested 14 alleged members and suppliers of a large-scale drug trafficking...

CAMDEN, 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 that four members of a drug trafficking organization allegedly responsible for distributing heroin and crystal methamphetamine in the...

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 today a Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 17 months in prison for his role in one...