OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Patrick Lee Amadore Travis, 25, and Miranda Nichole Rhynard, 26, both of Ponca City, with illegal distribution of steroids, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing. According to the indictment, Travis and Rhynard conspired to distribute anabolic steroids...

SHERMAN, Texas - Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Field Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that 13 individuals have been arrested in the Republic of Colombia and will be extradited to the United States to face...

DALLAS - A “pill mill” physician who oversaw the illegal prescription of nearly a million units of narcotics with no legitimate medical purpose was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's Dallas Field...

DALLAS – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas and the Department of Justice’s Civil Division today announced an action to stop two Texas doctors from unlawfully prescribing powerful opioids linked to abuse and diversion. To protect the public, the United States sought and the court...

PLANO, Texas – Three medical professionals have been sentenced to federal prison over the last week in the Eastern District of Texas for the illegal distribution of opioids and other pharmaceutical controlled substances, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today. Today in federal court in Plano, Howard Gregg Diamond, 58...

DALLAS - DEA and its law enforcement partners have now collected nearly 12 mill ion pounds of unused or expired prescription medications over the course of 17 successful DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back events. During the 17th semiannual event on April 27, the Take Back initiative saw new records...

DALLAS – With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including...

TULSA, Okla. – An orthopedic surgeon, who formerly practiced in Claremore, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for leading multiple conspiracies to write fraudulent opioid prescriptions from October 2015 to October 2017, announced United States Drug Enforcement Administration Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. and...

A Dallas man pleaded guilty today to possessing steroids with the intent to distribute them, announced DEA Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Christopher Crotty, 34, is the second of two defendants to plead...

The final defendant in the Fallen Kings drug trafficking conspiracy case has been sentenced, announced DEA Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Defendants will spend between six months and more than 33 years in...