CANCUN - Administrator Michele M. Leonhart is leading a delegation of DEA personnel attending the 28 th International Drug Enforcement Conference in Cancun, Mexico, April 4-7. IDEC, which was first held in 1983 with nations of the Americas and Caribbean in attendance, has today become a global forum that provides...

PADUCAH, KY - United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, David J. Hale and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso, announced today that the first of seventeen defendants have entered into plea agreements with the United States Attorney’s Office for their role in...

DETROIT, MI - A medical doctor has been charged with unlawfully distributing prescription drug controlled substances, including the Schedule II prescription drug (oxycodone), and health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the...

OWENSBORO, KY - An early morning drug sweep in Henderson, Kentucky conducted by multiple law enforcement agencies has resulted in thirteen arrests on charges for possession and distribution of cocaine and additional drug related offenses. The arrests are the culmination of a nearly two-year long cooperative investigation by the U.S...

CLEVELAND, OH - A federal grand jury returned a 50-count indictment against 28 people who are accused of participating in a large cocaine trafficking ring operating in the Ashtabula, Ohio area since 2008. Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Robert L. Corso, Special Agent...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today exercised its emergency scheduling authority to control five (JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497, and cannabicyclohexanol) used to make so-called “fake pot” products. Except as authorized by law, this action makes possessing and selling these chemicals or the products that contain them...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The DEA and U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today announced the designation of Colombian national Jorge Milton Cifuentes (a.k.a. Elkin de Jesus Lopez Salazar) and more than 70 individuals and entities in Cifuentes Villa’s drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated today the New Ansari Money Exchange, a major money laundering vehicle for Afghan narcotics trafficking organizations, along with 15 affiliated individuals and entities under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act). T he New Ansari Money Exchange is at the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s nomination of Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s nomination of career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the next Deputy...