SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Jose Campusano, 38, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Utica, New York, pled guilty to selling cocaine and illegally reentering the United States. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the...

OMAHA, NE – Members of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division visited more than 2,500 elementary students in March for Read Across America Week. During visits, DEA staff read to students, discussed the importance of reading in their jobs and talked about the dangers and consequences of drug use...

BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Ryan A. Bloom, 37, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in...

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force today announced the take down of a firearm and drug trafficking operation that illegally sold guns, including ghost guns and assault weapons, in New York City and...

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAURENCE F. DOUD III, the former Chief Executive Officer of Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc. (“RDC”), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 27 months in prison for conspiring to unlawfully distribute oxycodone and fentanyl...

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Redell Williams, III, 42, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-New York Division, made the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -Ismael Quintero Arellanes, also known as “Fierro,” was arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on an indictment charging him with participating in a large-scale narcotics distribution conspiracy and using one or more firearms in connection with narcotic offenses...

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Rasheed Mingues, 43, a resident of New York City staying in the Utica, NY area, was indicted today for possession of controlled substances with the intent to distribute them, possession of a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking crimes, and possession of a firearm as...

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Omar Fuentes, 26, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced yesterday to a total of 121 months in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy involving the distribution of heroin and cocaine, and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of that conspiracy. The announcement was made by...

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Griswold, 37, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, made...