United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Joan Manuel Pina Dominguez, 20, a/k/a “Christian Colon,” admitted conspiring with others to operate...

BOISE, ID. -- - Francisco Cardona-Rodriguez, 38, of Rio Grande City, Texas, was sentenced in federal court December 12, 2011 to 37 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to manufacture/distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants. Cardona-Rodriguez was also ordered to forfeit assets. He pled...

TUCSON, AZ. - On December 12, Evelio Cervantes-Conde, 39, a Cuban immigrant lawfully residing in the United States, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner Collins to 151 months in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Five Kilograms of Cocaine and Attempt to Possess Five Kilograms of...

PHOENIX, AZ. - Doug Coleman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Phoenix Field Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel announced that a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 130-count indictment against Angelo Chirban M.D. , 62, and Marilyn Chirban, 60, of Queen Creek, Arizona, for...

PHILADELPHIA, PA - A 23-count indictment was returned and four informations were unsealed today charging a total of eight defendants, including Philadelphia physician Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell and members of his former staff, in a drug conspiracy case. Gosnell is charged with illegally prescribing highly-addictive painkillers and sedatives outside the...

BUFFALO, NY. - Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Wilbert L. Plummer and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced yesterday that 26 people have been arrested and charged in 26 separate Criminal Complaints with possession with intent to distribute and distribution...

BETHESDA, MD - - Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the (MTF) survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to this year’s survey results. However, this positive news is tempered by a slowing rate of decline in teen smoking...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. - DEA and the US Attorneys Office in the Eastern District of Virginia today announced charges against the alleged leader of an international drug trafficking and money laundering network for coordinating multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel destined for the United States...

- PHOENIX, AZ. - Doug Coleman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Phoenix Field Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel announced that Ernest Mark Chrzaszcz, 35, of Queen Creek, Arizona, was found guilty by a jury on December 8, 2011 of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent...