(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - - After collecting an average of 400,000 pounds of expired, unwanted prescription medications at each of its previous five events in the past three years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners, will hold a sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the...

AUSTIN, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 37 individuals in connection with two related drug trafficking conspiracies based in Austin announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez. A...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Frank Dwayne Randolph a/k/a Tubbs, 48, of Pulaski, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. U.S. District Judge Aleta A.Trauger also sentenced Randolph to serve...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 19, 2013, 42 individuals, many of whom reside in Anderson County, were indicted by a federal grand jury for various charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine. In addition to manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, the charges also include: conspiracy to manufacture and distribute...

LAREDO, Texas - Laredoans Laurencio Montes, 43, and Jose Luis Gonzales, 28, have been sent to federal prison for their roles in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation relating to the laundering of millions of drug proceeds by Los Zetas, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tien Le, 47, of Sacramento, was found guilty today of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana following a six-day jury trial before United States District Judge William B. Shubb, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The...

ATLANTA - New Horizons Treatment Center and Epiphany Center, Rome Inc. located in Rome, Ga., have agreed to civil settlements and will pay penalties to resolve allegations they violated inventory requirements of the Controlled Substances Act. Epiphany Center, Rome Inc. has also agreed to voluntarily surrender its Drug Enforcement (DEA)...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - Luis Reynaldo Parra Flores, 35, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a deputy with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, was charged in a federal complaint in Nashville yesterday, with conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee...

GREENVILLE, S.C. - On March 5, 2013, the Greenville County Sheriff’s (GCSO) and the Greenville City Police (GCPD) arrested 39-year old Shannon Tekoites Davis, 30-year old Mikesha Renee Maddox, 50-year old Billie Joyce Glenn and 24-year old Renee Ann Wakefield, in connection with a 16-month long joint investigation with the...

STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Court Judge Richard Voorhees sentenced today Elisa Annette Baker, 44, of Hickory, N.C., to serve 120 months in prison for conspiracy with intent to distribute prescription drugs, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Baker was also ordered to...