(Source: NYPD - New York City Police Department) Massive Seizure Took Millions of Glassines off Streets throughout the East Coast (MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D'Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the seizure of 46 kilograms of heroin (141 lbs.). On September 26, 2015 a team from the DEA's New York Drug Enforcement Task Force - comprised of DEA special agents, New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives and New York State...
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Drug Enforcement Task Force Uncovers Heroin Stash In The Bronx, NY: $30 Million Worth Of ...
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Three Bronx Men, Including a Corrections Officer, Charged in Manhattan Federal Court with Armored Car ...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriquez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ('FBI'), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department ('NYPD'), announced that MICHAEL SANTIAGO, a corrections officer at Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York, KENNETH SMITH, and BRUCE COLLAZO, a/k/a 'Tonz,' were arrested this morning for participating in a conspiracy to rob a series of armored cars in the Bronx, New York. SANTIAGO, SMITH, and COLLAZO were presented today in Manhattan...
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District Attorney Vance And Police Commissioner Bratton Announce Indictments Of Two Major Narcotics Rings In Washington Heights (NYPD - New York City Police Department)
(Source: NYPD - New York City Police Department) 35 Defendants Charged in Two Separate Indictments with Possessing, Selling Cocaine and Heroin 16 Indictments Charging 18 Different Gangs Filed Since Formation of DA's Violent Criminal Enterprises Unit Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton today announced the indictments...
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Eleven Members of Yonkers Gang Charged in White Plains Federal Court with Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Offenses (FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation)
(Source: FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; George Venizelos, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department; and George N. Longworth, the Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging 11 defendants with a series of crimes, including the distribution of narcotics and the use of firearms in Yonkers, New York. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated, "Our drive to remove armed drug gangs from Yonkers remains...
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Feds, NYPD bust $550M Oxycodone drug ring
The feds and the NYPD have busted a massive illegal drug ring operating out of sham Bronx medical clinics they say distributed prescriptions for more than five million tablets of the painkiller Oxycodone — valued on the black market at more than half a billion dollars. According to an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, the 24 people arrested included...
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Bronx Trinitarios gang members busted and charged
Last night and early this morning, ATF agents and officers from various law enforcement agencies did a coordinated strike in the Fordham and Kingsbridge neighborhoods of the Bronx and arrested another 19 members of the Trinitarios street gang. The strike was part of a two-year long investigation, “Operation Patria,” conducted by federal and local law enforcement officers working with the...
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Major Drug Trafficker Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to Life Plus 30 Years in Prison for Two Murder-for-Hire Conspiracies, Attempted Murder, and Narcotics and Firearms Offenses (Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office)
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a "Luchie," a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life plus 30 years in prison in connection with his role in carrying out two murder-for-hire conspiracies-resulting in the murder of one victim and the near-fatal shooting of an innocent bystander-attempted murder, and narcotics and firearms offenses. KEY was convicted in April 2014 following a three-week...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Leader of Racketeering Organization in a 48-Count Indictment with 10 Murders and 10 Attempted Murders, Marijuana Trafficking, Money Laundering, and Other Charges (Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office)
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (NYPD), today announced the return of a 48-count superseding indictment charging Manuel Geovany Rodriguez-Perez, a/k/a "Shorty," with controlling a massive racketeering organization (the Rodriguez Enterprise) whose members sold large quantities of marijuana, murdered and attempted to murder 20 people,...
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Leader Of “Trinitarios” Gang Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 10 Years In Prison (United ...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDY SOSA - the former leader of the 'Trinitarios,' a violent street and prison gang composed primarily of individuals of Dominican descent - was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for his participation in a massive conspiracy to distribute narcotics and use and possess firearms. SOSA previously pled guilty before U.S....
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Ten Defendants Charged in White Plains Federal Court with Heroin Trafficking and Firearms Offenses in ...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Adrian H. Anderson, the Dutchess County Sheriff, and Ronald J. Knapp, the Chief of Police of City of Poughkeepsie Police Department, today announced the unsealing of an Indictment and two Complaints charging 10 defendants with committing heroin trafficking and firearms offenses in and around Dutchess County, New York. Eight defendants were taken into federal custody today and were presented in White Plains federal...
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FnD Gang Members Plead Guilty to Racketeering and Narcotics Charges, Including Mother’s Day Shooting (United ...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana) U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that AKEIN SCOTT, a/k/a "Keemy," age 22; SHAWN SCOTT, a/k/a "Shizzle," age 26; and STANLEY SCOTT, a/k/a "Stizzle," age 23, all pled guilty today in the racketeering conspiracy case involving the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or "FnD." AKEIN SCOTT pled guilty to eight counts of the Third Superseding Indictment and admitted guilt to the Mother's Day shooting, which the Indictment alleged was a shooting that was committed in furtherance of the drug trafficking conspiracy and the RICO conspiracy. Additionally, AKEIN SCOTT pled guilty to...
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Leader of “Trinitarios” Gang Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 10 Years in Prison (Bureau ...
(Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) New York Field Division) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDY SOSA - the former leader of the 'Trinitarios,' a violent street and prison gang composed primarily of individuals of Dominican descent - was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for his participation in a massive conspiracy to distribute narcotics and use and possess firearms. SOSA previously pled guilty before...
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Correction: Drug Indictments Story
Reprints + - advertisement | advertise on newsday WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - (AP) -- In a story and headline July 28 about federal indictments, The Associated Press erroneously reported that one defendant was accused of running a heroin distribution ring while he was in state prison. During the time covered by the indictment, the defendant was in the Sullivan County Jail, not state prison. A corrected version of the story is below. More than 30 indicted...
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More than 30 indicted after New York drug investigation
Reprints + - advertisement | advertise on newsday WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - (AP) -- A man accused of running a drug ring from prison was among 34 people indicted after an investigation into drugs and firearms in rural Sullivan County, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Most of the defendants were charged with narcotics conspiracy, which carries a mandatory minimum...
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Owners of Bronx Grocery Store That Trafficked in Prescription Drugs Charged in Manhattan Federal Court with Orchestrating October 2010 Near-Fatal Shooting of Rival Trafficker (Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office)
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department ("NYPD"), announced today additional criminal charges filed in Manhattan federal court against CARLOS PANIAGUA ("CARLOS PANIAGUA"), JOSE OSVALDO PANIAGUA, JR., ("OSVALDO PANIAGUA JR."), and JOSE RAFAEL PANIAGUA ("RAFAEL PANIAGUA"), who operated a massive prescription drug ring out of the Joaquin Grocery & Deli Store (the "Joaquin Grocery") in the Bronx,...
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Twenty-Eight Members and Associates of Paterson Bloods Street Gang Charged in Manhattan Federal Court with Distributing Heroin, Crack Cocaine, and Powder Cocaine and with Firearms Offenses (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Newark Field Office)
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Newark Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Aaron T. Ford, the Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); William Fraher, the Acting Chief of Police of the Paterson Police Department, and Gary F. Giardina, the Chief of Police of the Clifton Police Department, today announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging 28 members and associates of the Bloods street gang operating in Passaic County, New Jersey, principally in the city of Paterson, with distribution and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, "crack" cocaine,...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney And FBI Assistant Director Announce Charges Against Leaders Of Bronx Heroin Organization ...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ('FBI'), announced today the filing of an indictment charging RAMON CRUZ, a/k/a 'Guille,' and FRANCHESCA MORALES, a/k/a 'Checa,' with conspiring to distribute heroin from 2010 through 2015, including trafficking heroin from the Bronx to Rutland, Vermont, which caused the death of a Vermont man (the 'Victim'). CRUZ, MORALES, and JONATHAN SANTIAGO have also been charged with possessing firearms in connection with their...
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Major Drug Trafficker Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Two Murder-for-Hire Conspiracies, Attempted Murder, and Narcotics and Firearms Offenses (Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office)
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Roger Key, a/k/a "Luchie," a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of two murder-for-hire conspiracies, attempted murder, and narcotics and firearms offenses. Key was convicted following a three-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said, "With this verdict, the jury has done a great service to the citizens of New York City, convicting Roger Key of numerous...
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Members Of Violent Trinitarios Gang Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With Racketeering, Murder, Attempted Murder, And Narcotics Offenses (ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
(Source: ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) For Immediate Release April 29, 2014 Preet Bharara, United States Attorney Contact: Jim Margolin (212) 637-2600 Jim.Margolin@usdoj.gov Members Of Violent Trinitarios Gang Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With Racketeering, Murder, Attempted Murder, And Narcotics Offenses Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CARLOS URENA and LIMET VASQUEZ were both found guilty after trial of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, and a drug conspiracy involving marijuana, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, and oxycodone. As part of the racketeering...
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Fourteen Charged with Heroin and Cocaine Trafficking in the Bronx and Across the Hudson Valley (FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation)
(Source: FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"), and Joseph A. D'Amico, the Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the arrest of 14 defendants and the unsealing of an Indictment today charging conspiracies to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine in Beacon, the Bronx, the City of Middletown, the City of Newburgh, and New Windsor, New York. U.S....
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