NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 24,594 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount exceeded the...

May 02 , 2017 Contact: Public Information Officer (215) 852-8740 PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent-in-Charge Gary Tuggle of DEA’s Philadelphia Field Division announced today that 42,950.43 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware by DEA and its partner agencies during the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event this...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the federal court in the Western District of North Carolina has ordered the final forfeiture of a Henderson County residence used in the illegal distribution of oxycodone and other narcotics. The forfeiture of the residence to the United States...

GREENEVILLE, TENN. - Joey Edward Holmes, 39, of Johnson City, Tennessee, was sentenced April 6 by U.S. District Judge R. Leon Jordan to serve 100 months in federal prison. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for five years. Holmes was...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that the DEA will sponsor a play entitled Off-Script for the students of Cornell High School in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania as part of the DEA’s ongoing 360 Strategy to address prescription opioid and...

ATLANTA - Daniel R. Salter, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Field Division and Vernon Keenan, Director of the Georgia Bureau of (GBI), announced today that on March 29, 2017, DEA Atlanta gleaned information about a load of Crystal Methamphetamine, also known as ICE...

ATLANTA - Nisar A. Piracha, the former primary physician and owner of Piracha Wellness Clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, has been sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone, methadone, and alprazolam. While operating the clinic, Piracha illegally prescribed dangerous quantities of these prescription...

ATLANTA - Rosemary Ofume and Donatus Iriele, the husband and wife owners of Medicine Center Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, have been convicted after a three-week jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for illegally dispensing controlled narcotics to customers of the “pill mill” pain clinic across the street...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent-in-Charge Gary Tuggle of the DEA Philadelphia Field Division announced today that DEA will train members of the Hermitage Police Department in Mercer County on the use of Naloxone that was purchased for them through funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol (DDAP). In 2015...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 6 Fitzroy Turner, 35, of Greeneville was sentenced by J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 127 months in federal prison following a conviction for his leadership role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine base “crack” in the Eastern District...