MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, a physician and nurse were arrested after being indicted in the ongoing investigation and prosecution of a “pill mill” being operated out of a Montgomery, Alabama medical office. The two new defendants in this case are physician Willie J. Chester, Jr., 64...

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a National City, California, man today pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to transport 141 kilograms of narcotics...

NEW ORLEANS - The DEA and our law enforcement partners announced today an exceptional enforcement action against a local doctor and pain clinic owner in an effort to help reverse the horrible effects produced by the diversion and abuse of pharmaceutical drugs. This over four-year long investigation was led by...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Multiple gang members are among dozens of individuals arrested in a major law enforcement operation targeting violent criminals in central Arkansas. Thursday’s early-morning takedown highlights the coordinated work of federal, state, and local agencies to combat drug and gun crime in Little Rock, and is part...

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two Trenton men were both sentenced to over seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of cocaine and 100 grams...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a former lead technician at a central Alabama pharmacy to five years in prison for tampering with vials of opioid painkillers used in the compounding of intravenous fluid bags intended for terminally ill patients in debilitating pain. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A federal jury convicted James Calvin Talley, Jr., 37, of Verbena, Alabama yesterday of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, using a phone to facilitate a drug crime, and being a felon in possession of a...

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General for the State of New Jersey, announced that seven members of a major gun trafficking ring in Camden have been indicted on first-degree racketeering charges. The...

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that federal law enforcement authorities today took custody of the last of seven members of a drug trafficking organization that...

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced s man and woman from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were charged today with conspiring to distribute heroin pills that were made to...