Man busted for selling MDMA at music fest
The feds on Wednesday busted an upstate man for selling the party drug MDMA to concert-goers — including a 23-year-old man who died at the Electric Zoo music festival on...
View ArticleDEA sued for impersonating woman on Facebook
The feds used an unsuspecting New York mom’s photo and personal information to create a phony Facebook page to lure potential drug buyers into a sting, she claims in a...
View ArticleDEA in prescription drug blitz on NFL
Federal drug enforcement agents showed up unannounced Sunday to check at least two visiting NFL teams’ medical staffs as part of an investigation into former players’ claims that teams mishandled...
View ArticleEx-corporal cops plea in DEA agent assassination plot
A former German corporal who authorities say is a deadly sniper copped a plea Tuesday to being part of a squadron of elite ex-military personnel that plotted to assassinate a...
View ArticleEx-Army sergeant pleads guilty in murder plot of DEA agent
A former US Army sergeant nicknamed “Rambo” plead guilty Friday to plotting to help murder a DEA agent and import drugs into the US. Joseph “Rambo” Hunter now faces 10...
View ArticlePill-popping celebrity doctor gets treatment without pleading guilty
A pill-popping Park Avenue celebrity dermatologist got star treatment from a Manhattan judge Tuesday when she was allowed to enter a drug treatment program without pleading guilty to her charges....
View ArticleDEA blamed for handling of agents’ sex parties with hookers
High-ranking Drug Enforcement Agency officials and their field agents threw wild sex parties with hookers hired by Colombian drug lords, the feds charged Thursday. At least 10 federal workers partied...
View ArticleDEA head expected to resign amid agent ‘sex party’ probe
WASHINGTON — The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, is expected to resign soon, an Obama administration official said Tuesday. Leonhart is a career drug agent who has...
View ArticleDEA staffers secretly owned strip club with illegal immigrant dancers: feds
Two Manhattan DEA employees secretly owned a low-rent strip club in South Hackensack, NJ, that employed illegal immigrants from Brazil and Russia as dancers, the feds say in a new...
View ArticleEx DEA informant arrested after bringing drugs to DEA
This might be the dumbest crook ever. Joel Minaya, 30, pleaded guilty to dealing coke and heroin in 2008 and started working as a confidential informant for the DEA in...
View ArticlePolice bust massive synthetic marijuana ring
A major crew of synthetic-marijuana dealers peddled the toxic drug over the same bodega counters “where they sell milk and candy,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said Wednesday. The 10-man...
View ArticleGerman sniper gets 20 years for plot to kill DEA agent
A German sniper was sentenced to 20 years behind bars Thursday for joining a squadron of elite mercenaries who called murders-for-hire “ninja work” and plotting to assassinate a federal DEA...
View ArticleMeet the real-life ‘Narcos’ fed who brought down Pablo Escobar
It’s no accident that Boyd Holbrook is playing DEA agent Steve Murphy on “Narcos.” Their paths had crossed before, genealogically, when Holbrook played William “Cap” Hatfield — Murphy’s great-uncle....
View ArticleMarijuana bust nets over 2 tons of pot and $300K in cash
A crew of six marijuana dealers was busted with 2¹/₂ tons of pot and up to $300,000 in cash while attempting to transfer the goods from a tractor-trailer in Queens...
View ArticleRecord-breaking amount of heroin seized in NYC last year
Federal authorities seized a record-breaking amount of heroin in New York City last year that accounted for roughly one-third of all of the drugs recovered nationwide. Almost 880 kilograms of the...
View ArticleTop DEA officials scared to talk about visiting strip club, former colleagues...
Lawyers for two Drug Enforcement Agency agents awaiting trial for trying to keep from superiors the fact that they owned and operated a sleazy New Jersey strip club are accusing top DEA officials of...
View ArticleFlight attendant who left suitcases full of coke at airport turns herself in
The flight attendant who dropped two suitcases full of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport — along with her Gucci shoes — before fleeing in panic turned herself in to authorities in New York...
View ArticleBail set for JetBlue beauty accused of smuggling 70 pounds of cocaine
A judge on Thursday set bail at $500,000 for a JetBlue flight attendant, accused of trying to smuggle 70 pounds of cocaine from Los Angeles to New York. Prosecutors demanded that Marsha Reynolds, who...
View ArticleFeds raid synthetic pot production center hidden in Queens tire shop
The feds have smoked out a synthetic marijuana manufacturing center doubling as a tire repair shop in Queens, seizing $200,000 worth of the deadly drug and arresting a woman wanted on a narcotics...
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