ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands - White House Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske has awarded the St. Thomas Major Organization (MOI) unit of the Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) the 2013 national award for Outstanding Task Force Effort, announced United States Attorney Ronald W...

HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Dalbert Rodriguez, 30, formerly of Holyoke, Mass., pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to his...

ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the Atlanta Field (AFD) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that the DEA AFD is launching an anonymous statewide prescription drug texting tip line available to the public. SAC Sommers was joined by John Horn, First Assistant United...

WASHINGTON - Five men have been sentenced to federal prison this week for prescription drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today Khuda Balouch Buksh, 47, a Pakistani national living in Duncanville, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 16, 2013 to conspiracy to possess...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that David Haney, 52, of Marlborough, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge...

FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Sanchez-(Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Sanchez and...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United (U.S.) Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector (HHS-OIG), and Michael B. Steinbach, Special...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment Thursday against Ronald Danny Ditlevson, 33, of Exeter, charging him with distributing oxycodone, also called oxycontin, Drug Enforcement Administration Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Ditlevson sold an undercover agent of...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - On Friday, February 14, 2014, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Gjavit Thaqi, one of the leaders of an international drug trafficking syndicate run by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada and (the "syndicate"), and Robert Rudaj, a member of the syndicate, were sentenced to...

OTSEGO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) James J. Hunt and Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. announced yesterday, the arrest of Richard William Compitello, age 47, of 170 Reservoir Road, Worcester, NY following a joint narcotics investigation...