BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A four-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging sixteen defendants with four narcotics trafficking conspiracies, including conspiracies to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine (crack cocaine), (molly), and marijuana. The defendants are scheduled to be...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Roosevelt Fox, aka Unc, 54, of Newport News, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution heroin. In a statement of facts filed with the plea agreement, Fox admitted to participating in a conspiracy involving between one kilogram and three kilograms...

RICHMOND - Fernando Josue Chang-Monroy, 36, of Guatemala City, Guatemala, pleaded guilty today for his in role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy involving the use of United States registered aircraft purchased in the Eastern District of Virginia to transport 2,000 kilograms of cocaine in Central and South America. “The...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Blake Rivera, 31, of Greece, NY, his brother Chayanne Rivera, 25, of Gates, NY, and their father, Victor...

BALTIMORE - CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (CVS) has agreed to pay $8 million to the United States to resolve allegations that its Maryland pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances (CSA) by dispensing controlled substances pursuant to prescriptions that were not issued for a legitimate medical purpose. The settlement agreement was announced today...

GREENBELT, Md. - Philadelphia attorney James Michael Farrell, age 63, of Wenonah, New Jersey, had his initial appearance and arraignment today in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on charges related to his activities on behalf of members of an extensive drug trafficking operation. Mr. Farrell pleaded not guilty to...

GREENBELT, Md. - A federal jury today convicted Andracos Marshall, a/k/a “Draco,” 41, of Bowie, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and for money laundering conspiracy. The conviction was announced by Special Agent in Charge Karl C. Colder of the Drug Enforcement Administration -...

ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. - Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York William J. Hochul Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Resident Agent In Charge John Flickinger to issue an emergency...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York (DEA), and Delano A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Bureau...

NEW YORK - This past December, the Center for Disease (CDC) published a special report on drug overdoses both nationwide and on state levels in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The statistics presented in that report support what we are currently experiencing; heroin is the biggest threat to public...