NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Peter E. Warshaw , the Prosecutor for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, announced the arrests of numerous members of a racketeering network responsible for the distribution of significant...

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Lawrence Young, 70, formerly a licensed Philadelphia pharmacy owner from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was sentenced this afternoon to 120 months in prison for a drug conspiracy and drug distribution involving Young's Pharmacy at 1306 South Street in Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney in the Eastern District...

NEWARK, NJ. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Newark grand jury returned an indictment today charging an alleged Newark-based drug dealer...

WASHINGTON, DC - Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy, presented the New York/New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) a national award at the 2011 National HIDTA Conference in Washington, D.C. The Toatley Award for the Outstanding Task Force was presented to the New Jersey Drug Trafficking...

MIDLAND, TX -- - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced the arrests of two Midland-Odessa area members and one associate of the Barrio (BA) criminal organization on federal drug charges. The charges stem from a year-and-a-half-long investigation into the organization’s...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced federal charges were unsealed today against 15 alleged members of a drug trafficking organization...

PITTSBURGH, PA. - Nineteen individuals have been charged in two separate, but related, indictments with violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. A one-count indictment returned on June 7, 2011, and unsealed today, charges nine Allegheny County residents and one Washington County resident with drug...

TRENTON, N.J. - A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding Indictment against attorney Paul W. Bergrin, 55, of Nutley, N.J., and Alejandro Barraza-Castro, 34, of Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. The 33-count second superseding , returned June 2, 2011: extends the time frame of the Count...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Hlateef Darlington, 28, of Whitehall, PA, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond, on charges related to drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Darlington pleaded guilty on October 28, 2010 to conspiracy to distribute and...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Richard K. Creamer, 39, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture 1,000 or more marijuana plants and maintaining a place for the manufacture of controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Creamer, who was a practicing attorney, was...