NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced three men have been charged with conspiring to distribute 30 kilograms of cocaine in Newark. Yohan E. De Jesus Osornio...

SEATTLE - Jaime Montalvo-Mariscal, 27, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced Nov. 18, 2019, after having pleaded guilty on July 22, 2019, for conspiracy to traffic in methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin. Senior U.S. District Judge Nielsen sentenced Montalvo-Mariscal to 210 months in prison. DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Weis was...

CAMDEN, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced an Atlantic City woman was sentenced to 78 months in prison for her role in a drug trafficking and money...

TRENTON, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito announced a Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for narcotics trafficking, possession of a firearm as a convicted felon...

NEWARK, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson announced that New Jersey residents turned in 16,532 pounds or 8 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted medications during DEA’s 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, DEA and 206 police...

SEATTLE - Federal, state and local law enforcement fanned out across the Puget Sound region today arresting 17 people in connection with multiple counts of drug trafficking. The drug trafficking organization brought large loads of heroin and methamphetamine into the Seattle area. In one instance law enforcement seized 33 pounds...

NEWARK, N.J. – In 2018, more than 3,100 people died from suspected drug overdoses across New Jersey. On Saturday, October 26, the 18 th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is an attempt to cut down on those deaths. Residents of New Jersey can clean out their medicine cabinets of...

SEATTLE – With robust public participation over the course of 17 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including...

POCATELLO, Idaho – Francis R. Casildo, 36, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also sentenced Casildo to serve five...

MEDFORD, Ore.—Five people were arrested on Oct. 9th, 2019, for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin manufactured in Mexico in and around Klamath Falls, Oregon. Rogelio Gomez-Arias, 23, Irving Beas Ceballos, 34, Alexis Chavez-Franco, 22, and Domingo Matias-Hernandez, 36, are each charged by indictment with conspiring...