FT. WORTH, Texas - Arnoldo Morfin-Arias, aka “Efrain Arias” and “Pollo,” 44, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to Life in federal prison following his guilty plea in November 2017 to one count of conspiring to traffic in methamphetamine, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E...

BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 23-count indictment charging four defendants with conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or...

SAN DIEGO - Documented Lakeside gang member Uriah Odish was indicted by a federal grand jury for selling fentanyl that led to the death of a 25-year-old La Mesa woman, identified in court documents only as T.H., who was found dead in her home on January 23. “By holding dealers...

BERGEN COUNTY, N.Y. - Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo; James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the US Drug Enforcement (DEA); James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD); and George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York...

BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Rafael Caro Quintero with leading a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related crimes through his leadership of the Caro Quintero drug trafficking organization, a faction of the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa...

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Trenton man was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Medford, New Jersey, pharmacist was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for illegally distributing and dispensing oxycodone from two pharmacies located in...

Atlanta - Darrick Lawrence, a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to 16 years, six months in prison for trafficking cocaine. Lawrence also faces charges in Virginia for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. A search of Lawrence’s Decatur, Georgia home resulted in the recovery of cocaine, two high-powered rifles, and...

WASHINGTON - Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director David L. Bowdich, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Robert W. Patterson, U.S. Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary James Walsh, and U.S. Marshals Service Acting Associate Director Derrick Driscoll today announced the addition of fugitive Rafael Caro-Quintero to the FBI’s list of...

EL PASO, Texas - A local physician faces federal drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steve A. Borak, El Paso Division. A 12-count federal grand jury indictment returned last week charges 66-year-old Dr. Thomas Glenn Easter, II...