ONEONTA, N.Y. - Roy Dejesus Young, Kristen Lynn Rudnitsky, Michel Steven Harabet, and Melissa Dawn Rotolo were presented in Oneonta City Court this morning. All four were charged with felony drug charges for their role in a month long narcotics investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Joseph Sclafani and Neil Lombardo, members of the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, were sentenced to terms of imprisonment of 180 months and 168 months, respectively, following their April 2013 guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute...

(MANHATTAN) - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond W. Kelly, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New (NYPD), Joseph...

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Tom F. O’Donnell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - -U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Leo Mellerson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine or both. Mellerson was one of nine...

JULY 11-William J. Conway, a Baldwin, New York physician, pled guilty today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to conspiring to illegally distribute the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to patients, who the defendant knew were addicts and without performing any meaningful medical examination. When...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (“DEA”) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that Felix Rodriguez, a licensed physician in Manhattan, was sentenced to...

MANHATTAN - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Mario Villanueva Madrid, the former governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court. Villanueva Madrid received a sentence of 131 months in prison for conspiring...

MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (“DEA”) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Felix Trujillo-Manrique was extradited yesterday from Colombia for allegedly conspiring to import heroin...

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rose Gill Hearn, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of (“DOI”), and Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), today announced...