TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an Anaheim, California man today admitted laundering money on behalf of an international drug trafficking organization. Harry Madrid...

NEWARK, N.J. - A Ringwood, New Jersey, man appeared in federal court today to face cocaine distribution, money laundering, and other conspiracy charges associated with his role in a scheme to import large quantities of cocaine from Guyana to New Jersey and New York, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A 33-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging six defendants with new racketeering predicate acts including assault in aid of racketeering, arson, extortion and unlawful firearms dealing. Five of the defendants are in custody and...

NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Maurice Malin, 83, of Suffern, N.Y. pleaded guilty today before U.S...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Seventeen people were indicted in federal court for their role in a conspiracy to purchase large amounts of powder cocaine, cook the drug into crack cocaine and then sell it in and around Medina County, law enforcement officials said. Indicted in federal court are: Troy Bankhead, 47...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Kansas City District Office, today announced that a Jefferson City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine in Columbia, Missouri. “This individual conspired to sell poison...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that his office sought, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Phillip J. Green issued last Friday and earlier today, arrest warrants for 18 separate defendants charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in the areas of Grand Rapids...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - - Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Kansas City District Office, today announced that Robert Canales, 34, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in a 28 person conspiracy involved in distributing meth in southwest Missouri. “This was one...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered judgment against fugitive defendant Candelaria Dagandan Vazquez and her surety Candelaria Antoinette Sapp in the amount of $50,000, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The Honorable Susan Illston...

DALLAS - Six individuals have been charged by three separate federal criminal complaints, unsealed today, stemming from their role in selling large quantities of methamphetamine in the Dallas and Desoto areas, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney John Parker of...