DENVER - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) Sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills than the previous one, demonstrating the American public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables...

DENVER - After collecting an average of 400,000 pounds of expired, unwanted prescription medications at each of its previous five events in the past three years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country on...

DENVER - Raul Mendoza, 48, Julia Castillo-Caraveo, 28, both of Denver, Colorado, and Isidro Noe Mendoza-Ortiz, 25, of Thornton, Colorado, were arrested on March 5, 2013 for structuring and money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, Drug Enforcement (DEA), IRS Criminal Investigation, and the Department of Homeland (HSI) announced. All...

DENVER - Barbra M. Roach, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Denver Field Division, Scott W. Storey, District Attorney for the Colorado First Judicial District, and Ted Mink, Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado announce the dismantlement of an interstate methamphetamine and cocaine smuggling enterprise operating in Colorado, Arizona, and...

DEC 06 - ( ST. LOUIS) - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of “Project Below the Beltway”, a two-year series of investigations targeting the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels and violent street gangs as part of on-going initiative against the cartels and their distribution network in America. The...

The Executive Board of the Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) has recognized the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for its role in reducing drug trafficking in the region. The Board has awarded the annual Outstanding Cooperative Effort Award to John Cornille and Larry Fox of the DEA St. Louis Regional Wire...

DENVER - The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning the public about criminals posing as DEA special agents or other law enforcement personnel as part of an international extortion scheme. This criminal activity has occurred in the Rocky Mountain region in the past, but is now occurring with much more frequency...

DENVER - Leslie Renee Hee, 40, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 180 (15 years) in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute, dispense, and possess with intent to distribute and dispense controlled substances, including prescription and illegal narcotics, United States...

DENVER - For the fifth time in two years, Americans emptied medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs and took them to collection sites located throughout the United States as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday...

ST. LOUIS - For the fifth time in two years, Americans emptied medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs and took them to collection sites located throughout the United States as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last...