Participation in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana Shows Continued Community Involvement in Addressing the Abuse of Prescription Drugs DENVER - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its nationwide law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National...

DEA’s Denver Field Division teams with Law Enforcement and Community Organizations to provide safe, easy to access disposal of old prescription drugs. DENVER - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by...

DENVER - The DEA-led Denver OCDETF Strike Force, including the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office, DEA and the Aurora Police Department, today arrested multiple defendants throughout Colorado and California on various drug related charges, the Justice Department announced. The arrests were the result of a one year investigation into the inner...

Detailed Report on Usage, Overdose and Treatment DENVER - As heroin use continues to climb in Colorado and across the country, a recently formed multi-agency working group has released a report providing a detailed look at usage, overdose and treatment data. The report was released at a press conference at...

Federal, State Agencies and HealthCare Providers meet in Great Falls for Community Outreach and Education GREAT FALLS, Mont. - In an effort to combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, the FBI and DEA have released Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, a documentary...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Three defendants were sentenced to federal prison last week for drug trafficking, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Santiago (aka Chuco), age 47, of Commerce, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 151...

WASHINGTON - McKesson (McKesson), one of the nation’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances (CSA), DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Barbra Roach and Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer announced today. “This agreement demonstrates...

Dismantles Organization Distributing Drugs in Locations such as Bars, Food Trucks, Street Level Dealers AURORA, Colo. - After more than a year-long investigation 10 alleged members of a drug-dealing ring are in custody. They now face felony charges in Arapahoe District Court ranging from organized crime conspiracy and racketeering to...

Georgia Bureau of (GBI) case into theft of 8.9 million dosage units of Hydrocodone results in multiple warrants, illegal pot grows in Colorado Springs and El Paso County COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Agents and Task Force Officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration Colorado Springs Resident Office assisted detectives from Colorado...

Amendments 20 and 64 have unintended consequences for many of our neighborhoods DENVER - The Drug Enforcement Administration has released a new Intelligence Report titled “” available on the DEA.gov website. The report was produced by the Intelligence Unit of the Denver Division and addresses some of the unintended pitfalls...