WASHINGTON - With public participation at an all-time high after four prior events in two years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a fifth National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at thousands of sites across America on Saturday the 29th. These Take Back...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A leader and two soldiers in the Barrio (BA), a transnational border gang allied with the Juarez Cartel, were sentenced in El Paso, Texas, to life, 30 and 20 years in prison, respectively, announced DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart, and other federal officials. Hector Galindo, 38, aka...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - - The Drug Enforcement Administration DEA today commended House and Senate negotiators for agreeing on legislation to control 26 synthetic drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. These drugs include those commonly found in products marketed as “K2” and “Spice.” The addition of these chemicals to Schedule I...

BETHESDA, MD - - Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the (MTF) survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to this year’s survey results. However, this positive news is tempered by a slowing rate of decline in teen smoking...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been working collaboratively with the Mexican government to fight money laundering for years. As part of that collaboration, DEA works with Mexican authorities to gather and use information about these criminal organizations to counter the threats they pose to both of our countries. The DEA...

SAN JUAN, PR. - - On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted 34 individuals who participated in a scheme to dispense, obtain and distribute prescription medications for financial gain, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. It was part of the scheme where Doctors...

SAN JUAN, PR. - - Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Division, announced the unsealing of a July 12, 2011 indictment in the Southern District of Florida against Carlos Ruben Morales-Davila...

DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today issued the following statement in response to the death of FARC Commander Alfonso Cano: "The Government of Colombia and their brave military and police forces have struck a formidable blow against the FARC, the most notorious narco-terrorist organization in the world" said DEA Administrator...