CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today the distribution of $730,296 in federally-forfeited funds to state and local law enforcement agencies, resulting from a forfeiture action against convicted drug trafficker James Alexander Brown. The Justice Department recovered more than $1 million from Brown, of which 80 percent...

MACON, Ga. - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Adrian Green, age 33, from Hawkinsville, GA, was sentenced on April 18, 2018 to 14 years confinement, consecutive to a previous 60-month sentence, in front of the Honorable Marc Thomas Treadwell in Macon...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - In the nation’s largest settlement of its kind involving allegations of drug diversion at a hospital, Effingham Health System has agreed to pay the United States $4.1 million to resolve allegations that Effingham Health System failed to provide effective controls and procedures to guard against theft and...

MIDLAND, Texas United States District Judge David Counts sentenced 27-year-old Kenneth James Barfield yesterday to 30 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson; and Midland Interim Police Chief Seth Herman. On January 10, 2018...

ATLANTA - On Saturday, April 28, 2018, in an effort to stem the tide of the prescription opioid crisis in America, territories within the Atlanta Field (AFD) (Georgia, North & South Carolina) and the state of (formerly part of the AFD, now part of the Louisville Field Division), participated in...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2018, turned in an impressive 29,412 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This...

ATLANTA - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2017, turned in 9,633 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. The amount collected was the...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2018, turned in 8,502 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This was the...

NASHVILLE - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2018, turned in 20,590 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This was the third highest...

EL PASO - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at close to 6,000 collection sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal...