Note: Relevant court documents can be found here. Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team, joined Europol to announce the results of Operation TorNado: a coordinated, multi‑agency and international law enforcement effort targeting criminal enterprises that use Dark Web markets to traffic...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Justice Department today announced that 36 individuals, nine of whom are illegal aliens, have been charged in a multi-state Homeland Security Task Force investigation involving drug trafficking and money laundering that spans international borders. During the course of the investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam and U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Bobby R. Calhoun, 33, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine...

Sacramento, Calif.— The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California; U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, San Francisco Field Division’s Sacramento District Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sacramento Field Office; Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office; Sacramento Police Department; Central...

Law enforcement officers disrupted an active fentanyl packaging mill in a first-floor apartment in the Williamsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx on the night of Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Three adults were arrested and a two-year-old child was found inside the apartment. Approximately two kilograms (four pounds) of suspected fentanyl mixtures...

Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, and Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Jessica S. Tisch, announced today the unsealing of a...

Gerardo Aquino, 40, of Hollywood, Florida, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and laundering more than $4.8 million to Colombia while employed by TD Bank. “The Criminal Division is at the vanguard of protecting the security of the U.S. financial system, including against bank insiders,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen...

LOS ANGELES – A man and woman living in a luxury downtown Los Angeles apartment that law enforcement believes was a stash house have been arrested for allegedly possessing more than 42 kilograms of fentanyl, more than seven kilograms of cocaine, firearms, drug-making materials, and a small alligator, the Justice...

NEW YORK – Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the takedown of a major drug trafficking ring that distributed large quantities of cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin across Western New York and Puerto Rico. An investigation...

Seven individuals were arrested as law enforcement officers disrupted an active fentanyl packaging mill operating in a sixth-floor apartment on Bronx Boulevard in the Wakefield neighborhood of the Bronx on Tuesday night. Approximately four kilograms (eight pounds) of fentanyl mixtures carrying a street value of over $1 million were recovered...