MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and United States Attorney, Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New (NYPD)...

CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Drug Enforcement Task (NYDETF) and New Jersey State (NJSP) detectives assigned to the Drug Trafficking North Unit executed a search warrant at 423 Nelson Avenue, an upscale residential neighborhood on December 20th. As they were about to approach...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced that Diana Williamson, a doctor who supplied an oxycodone trafficking organization with fake...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, New York Division U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that John Tebbetts, 33, of, Floyd, NY, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances...

ASHLAND, Ky. - A federal jury convicted a Florida doctor of conspiring with a pain clinic owner and others to illegally prescribe hundreds of thousands of pills to Kentucky residents. The Ashland jury convicted 57-year-old Dr. Clara S. Rodriguez-Iznaga of conspiracies to distribute controlled substances, and to launder money. The...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A federal grand jury in Las Cruces, N.M., yesterday returned an indictment charging Garlan R. Plumlee, 60, Justin E. Thompson, 32, and Phillip Larez, 31, all of Carlsbad, N.M., with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance analogue, distribution of a controlled substance analogue, and possession of...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal grand jury has indicted seven residents of Las Cruces, N.M., on conspiracy and prescription drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA). Michael Garret Schavier...

MANHATTAN - - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Field Division and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extradition of Horst Walther Overdick-Mejia from Guatemala. Overdick-Mejia was charged in January 2012 with...

EL PASO, Texas - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the results of “Project Below the Beltway”, a two-year series of investigations targeting the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels and associated violent street gangs as part of on-going strategy against the cartels and their distribution networks in the United States. The...

CINCINNATI - Nancy Sadler, 49, of West Portsmouth, Ohio was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for operating Ohio Medical and Pain Management, LLC, a “pill mill” in Waverly, Ohio. Her husband, Lester, aka “Ape”, Sadler, 56, was sentenced to 151 months in prison followed by three years of...