JAN 21 (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - The Drug Enforcement Administration awarded Assistant U. S. Attorneys Verne Speirs and Gray Borden the Spartan Award, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney Middle District of Alabama. The Spartan award recognizes prosecutors for their dedication and extraordinary effort to investigate and prosecute large-scale...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Scott Ellington, District Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Arkansas; announced the...

NEW ORLEANS - Quenshey Mitchell, a/k/a "Ripper" "Baby Ripper", and "Q", age 36, from Los Angeles, California, was convicted on January 10, 2014 of all six counts of a superseding indictment which included charges of conspiracy to distribute in excess of a kilogram of heroin, multiple conspiracies to obstruct justice...

BROOKLYN - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bajram Lajqi, a member of an international drug trafficking syndicate led by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada, and (the "syndicate"), was sentenced to 115 months in prison -- with credit for the 31 months he has already...

OTSEGO, N.Y. - Over the weekend, the Drug Enforcment Administration'(DEA) Albany District Office and the Otsego County Sheriff's Office Investigation Division effected two arrests in separate investigations. On January 3, 2014, Casandra Marie Remillard, a former Oneonta woman, was arrested as part of a joint narcotics investigation dubbed "Operation Gold...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York (DEA), Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner Ronald Goldstock of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, Chairman Robert Beloten of...

CLINTON COUNTY, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA) and Clinton County District Attorney Andrew J. Wylie announced today that a unified law enforcement drug investigation resulted in the filing of Grand Jury Indictments against 61 individuals during the current...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl M. Pollak at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to obstruction of justice for stealing selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of...

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of drug kingpin Edgar Joe...