PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Gary Tuggle of the DEA Philadelphia Field Division was invited to speak with undergraduate students enrolled in a Comparative Politics course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These students have elected to spend their semester learning about the war on drugs and alternative approaches...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle announced today that the Jim Thorpe Police (JTPD) and the Lehighton Borough Police (LBPD) requested the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Allentown Resident Office with an operation that targeted heroin traffickers operating in Jim Thorpe. On September 26th and September 28th...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division would like to invite members of the media to the DEA Pittsburgh District Office on Thursday, October 15th between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. The DEA office is located at 1781 McKees Rocks Road...

PHILADELPHIA - On October 7, 2015, the DEA Philadelphia Field Division participated in a town hall meeting at the Haverford Township Free Library to educate the residents about the dangers of prescription drug and heroin abuse. During the meeting, which was attended by over 60 residents from the community, Diversion...

EL PASO - Hundreds from West Texas and New Mexico discarded 9,857 pounds of unused, expired, or unwanted drugs as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) on Saturday, September 26. The West Texas area, covering El Paso, Midland, Odessa, Alpine and Fort Stockton, collected...

ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico issued orders today dismissing a lawsuit filed by a drug addict against the United States and five DEA agents and supervisors. Plaintiff Aaron Romero filed his lawsuit on July14, 2014, in which he alleged that undercover DEA agents...

EL PASO, Texas - Today, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Texas Department of Public (DPS) conducted a round up, dubbed Operation Tangled Web. A total of 13 defendants were arrested for Texas state drug and other crimes with one additional defendant already in custody. Operation Tangled Web consists of 10...

PHILADELPHIA - DEA special agents and Task Force Officers from the Philadelphia Field Division assisted the U.S. Secret Service with security for Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families conference on September 26th and 27th, 2015. The DEA special agents worked along with the Philadelphia Police...

EL PASO, Texas - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be over 50 collection sites throughout the El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico area to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement...

ALBUQUERQUE - Forty-one individuals are facing drug trafficking charges as a result of an eight-month multi-agency investigation led by the FBI, the DEA, Chaves County Metro Narcotics Task Force, Roswell Police Department, Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, the New Mexico State Police. Twenty-one of the defendants charged are facing federal charges...