NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Nashville District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Columbia District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Charlotte District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This...

ATLANTA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This one-day...

ATLANTA - The National Red Ribbon Campaign has kicked off its 33rd anniversary across the country. The campaign, which is the nation’s farthest reaching drug prevention effort, began after drug traffickers in Mexico kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in March 1985. Officially, Red Ribbon Week...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced the second-in-command of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted his role...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a high-ranking member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips today admitted his role in orchestrating a...

ATLANTA - Vladimir Collazo-Florido, aka“Cannabis,” Marlon Matthew Pittman, aka “Marlo Pittman,” and Carlos Gonzalez-Catala, aka “El Electrico,” each with prior federal convictions for drug trafficking, have been indicted for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine based on a scheme in which they used the U.S. Mail to...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On June 19, 2017, Allen Carney, 30, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge. Following a March 2017 jury trial, Carney was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a soldier of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced today to 264...