MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the indictment...

BOSTON - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that a man from Colombia, charged in an international cocaine conspiracy in 2010, made his initial appearance in federal court today after he...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that earlier this week U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Jose (61, Colombia) to 20 years in federal prison...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, announced that Richard Ammar Chichakli, an associate of convicted international arms dealer, Viktor Bout, was arrested yesterday in Australia for, among other things, allegedly conspiring with Bout and others to violate the International Emergency Economic...

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Brian R. Crowell the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division announced that Jose Mosquera-Prado, a top lieutenant of Colombian drug kingpin Francisco Gonzalez-Uribe, was sentenced today in Manhattan...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mauricio Santoyo Velasco, 53, ofColombia, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to provide material support and resources to the United Self-Defense Forces of (AUC), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for...

DEC 11 - (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - - DEA and other federal officials announced today that HSBC Holdings (HSBC Group) - a United Kingdom corporation headquartered in London - and HSBC Bank USA N.A. (HSBC Bank USA) (together, HSBC) - a federally chartered banking corporation headquartered in McLean, Va. - have...

BROOKLYN, NY - The alleged leader of an ethnic-Albanian organized crime syndicate, Arif Kurti, also known as “the Bear,” “Arty,” and “Nino,” was extradited from Albania to the United States on Friday, November 16, 2012, and will be arraigned later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak at the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today in Bogota, Colombia, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez were arrested for obstructing justice by selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information to a narcotics trafficker concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of New York. Tellez-Buitrago is employed as an administrative services assistant...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Alleged Mexican drug kingpin Luis Rodriguez-Olivera was extradited from Mexico to the United States yesterday and will be arraigned later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on charges contained in a second superseding indictment returned on May 22, 2009...