FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Alejandro Castellanos, 21, of Oaxaca, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to possessing firearms furthering a marijuana cultivation conspiracy. In pleading guilty to the gun charge, Castellanos acknowledged that he...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...

PLATTSBURGH, NY. - Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Wilbert L. Plummer and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced and Immigration and Customs (ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) Special Agent in Charge James Spero announced yesterday that Jacques Perreault, Yvan Chandler, Denis...

MANHATTAN, NY. - Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Wilbert L. Plummer, 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 Anarumo...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced that Ernson Merisier, 27, of Holbrook, Mass.; Marquis Allen Meca, 27; and Ruddys A. Pimentel, 29, both of Roslindale, Mass., were sentenced Monday for...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Carlos Martinez, 31, of Oaxaca, Mexico, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Eduardo Vargas-Cortes, 25, an undocumented alien from Mexico, pleaded guilty to possessing crystal methamphetamine with intent to distribute it. According to the plea agreement, in July 2010...

MANHATTAN, NY. - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Raymond W. Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner, Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H., New York State Commissioner of Health, Tom F. O’Donnell, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human...

NEW YORK, NY. - DEA Special Operations Division Special Agent in-Charge Derek Maltz and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extraditions of Siavosh Henareh and Cetin Aksu from Romania, on charges of conspiring to provide narcotics and, in the case of...

BUFFALO, NY. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Wilbert L. Plummer and United States Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard Himbury, age 40, of Tonawanda, New York, was arrested for possessing and trafficking in substantial amounts of cocaine and marijuana, in an investigation conducted...