MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest today of Ji Yun Lee for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and for...

CLEVELAND - A federal grand jury has indicted Steven E. Hillman, 67, of Dublin, Ohio, alleging that he conspired with the owner of three pain clinics in Ohio to illegally divert prescription drugs outside the scope of legitimate medical practice and launder proceeds of the conspiracy. Carter M. Stewart, United...

WHEATON, Ill. - DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Jack Riley announced today that charges have been filed against three Schaumburg police officers accused of operating a drug ring in Cook and DuPage Counties. Matthew Hudak...

BALTIMORE - Eighteen defendants alleged to be part of a large drug trafficking organization operating in Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland; New Jersey; and California, have been charged in connection with distributing large amounts of marijuana, diverted pharmaceuticals, steroids, cocaine and other controlled substances. Approximately 250 law enforcement agents...

JAN 15 - LOS ANGELES - A “keyholder” who oversaw the criminal activities of the Azusa 13 street gang and its long-running plot to violate the civil rights of African-Americans in the City of Azusa was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison. Santiago Rios, also known as “Chico,” 48...

HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kyle Farace, 26, of Brattleboro, Vt., was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson...

CLEVELAND - A federal grand jury returned a 42-count indictment against 13 people who are accused of participating in a large-scale heroin trafficking ring in the Ashtabula areas and resulted in the overdose death of an Ashtabula resident last year. The unsealing of the indictment was announced today by Steven...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, announced that Stephen Williams, 37, was sentenced to serve 51 months in federal prison after he pled guilty to...

BOSTON - A Southampton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for growing marijuana and laundering the profits. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division, United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; and William P. Offord, Special Agent in...

BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was convicted Friday in U.S. District Court in Worcester for distributing crack cocaine. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau...