COLUMBUS, OH. - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and representatives from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Outdoor Advertising Association of Ohio today unveiled an electronic billboard PSA campaign to remind Ohioans to dispose of unused and expired medications on National Drug Take Back Day on October 29, 2011...

DETROIT, MI - Michael Madu, 41, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was charged in a Superseding Indictment unsealed today for conspiring to distribute controlled substances including Opana, Vicodin, and Xanax. The Indictment also charged Madu with money laundering in connection with the purchase of two luxury vehicles and the purchase of...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Federal and state authorities this morning arrested 10 defendants - including two doctors - who are named in a federal indictment that alleges members of a drug trafficking organization illegally obtained and distributed more than 1 million OxyContin pills obtained largely through fraud against public insurance...

DETROIT, MI -- - An indictment charging 18 defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana has been unsealed, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Robert L. Corso, Special Agent In Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Andrew G. Arena, Special...

LAS VEGAS, NV - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced that three men, including a Las Vegas physician, his assistant, and a local pharmacist, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they conspired to unlawfully distribute large quantities of highly addictive prescription drugs in and around...

ASHLAND, KY - A father and his two sons received federal prison sentences today for their roles in a scheme which involved importing kilograms of a drug comparable to methamphetamine from overseas and selling it in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 59-year-old...

BOWLING GREEN, KY - Two Mexican Nationals pled guilty in United States District Court on August 26 to charges of possession and conspiracy to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Dagoberto Garcia-Guillen, age 21, and his...

Two Southern California men were charged today in a federal narcotics case stemming from their involvement in a conspiracy to transport 70 kilograms of cocaine from California to North Carolina. Bobby Ray Palacios, 40, of Buena Park, and Jose Carlos Rios, 43, of Pomona, were arrested Friday night after delivering...

A Simi Valley man pleaded guilty today to a federal narcotics charge of distributing heroin and cocaine that resulted in death, while admitting in court that he distributed drugs that killed two people and nearly killed two others who overdosed. David Ryan Tejera, 23, pleaded guilty to the federal charge...

LOS ANGELES, CA - The lead defendant in a federal drug case involving the distribution of multi-pound quantities of methamphetamine in the Long Beach area has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison. Vincent Anthony Ramirez, aka “Toro” and “Big T,” 41, was sentenced August 4, 2011, by United...