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...

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...

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...

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

(ORLANDO, Fla.) - Jeremy (43, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was sentenced today to life in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of controlled substance analogues. A federal jury found Achey guilty of the offenses on January 25, 2018. “Today’s sentence underscores the severity of these crimes, and their lethal consequences,”...

(ORLANDO, Fla.) - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Ronald (36, Melbourne) with distributing heroin and cocaine that resulted in the death of another, distributing oxycodone, distributing heroin, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and two counts of carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking...

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Kevon (22, Bradenton) was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute carfentanil and cocaine. He pleaded guilty on January 12, 2018. According to court documents, on February 14, 2017, law enforcement officers with the Drug Enforcement (DEA)Tampa...

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Two indictments were unsealed today charging 15 individuals with federal drug trafficking violations. In one indictment, the individuals below are charged with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Jesus Manuel Rodriguez, a/k/a...

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...