SEATTLE - This weekend DEA and its partners will host one of the most popular DEA community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday April 28th, 2018, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose of their unused and unwanted prescription medications at one of the...

ATLANTA - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Joseph Manuel Hunter, a U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army, and two co-defendants, Adam Samia and Carl David Stillwell, both U.S. citizens, were convicted by a federal jury...

Atlanta - Darrick Lawrence, a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to 16 years, six months in prison for trafficking cocaine. Lawrence also faces charges in Virginia for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. A search of Lawrence’s Decatur, Georgia home resulted in the recovery of cocaine, two high-powered rifles, and...

Atlanta - Ten members of an alleged methamphetamine trafficking operation that sought to distribute more than $1 million worth of drugs have been indicted in a 13-count superseding indictment on charges of violations of federal drug, firearm, and immigration laws. Seven defendants were arraigned today in federal court. “Methamphetamine continues...

GAINESVILLE, Ga - John Michael Gowder, Dr. David Gowder, and Dr. James Heaton, have been indicted as part of Operation SCOPE on federal charges for illegally prescribing and obtaining thousands of doses of prescription pain medications outside the usual course of professional medical practice and for no legitimate medical purpose...

Atlanta) - Donquell Weddington has been arraigned on federal charges of distributing heroin to an individual which resulted in serious injury and death, as well as three additional counts of distributing heroin and cocaine in 2017 and 2018. This case was presented as part of Operation SCOPE. Weddington was indicted...

CHARLOTTE, N.C - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Montorio Darell Allison, 38, of Concord, N.C. was sentenced to 132 months in prison on drug trafficking charges. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. also ordered Allison to serve 10 years under court supervision after he is released...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Misraim Israel Briones Pasos aka Mario Ozuna, 36, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for his role in a vast conspiracy responsible for trafficking hundreds of pounds of black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico to the Portland metropolitan area. “Most of...

SEATTLE - A task force led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) today arrested 15 people and continues to search for an additional six defendants charged in connection with a long-term investigation of drug trafficking. Law enforcement served search warrants at eight locations and searched more than a dozen vehicles. At...

SEATTLE - Former Seattle police officer was sentenced on March 22, 2018, to six years in prison, and his co-conspirator in an interstate marijuana distribution scheme were also sentenced to 14 years in prison, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Former officer Alex Chapackdee, 44, of Seattle pleaded guilty in...