WASHINGTON - Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, aka “Mamito” and “Caballero,” a high ranking member of the “Los Zetas” drug cartel, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Assistant Attorney...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, announced that Richard Ammar Chichakli, an associate of convicted international arms dealer, Viktor Bout, was arrested yesterday in Australia for, among other things, allegedly conspiring with Bout and others to violate the International Emergency Economic...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Disposal of Controlled Substances in the Federal Register Dec. 21. The proposed regulations seek to implement the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010. According to the 2011 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...

DEC 11 - (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - - DEA and other federal officials announced today that HSBC Holdings (HSBC Group) - a United Kingdom corporation headquartered in London - and HSBC Bank USA N.A. (HSBC Bank USA) (together, HSBC) - a federally chartered banking corporation headquartered in McLean, Va. - have...

DEC 06 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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 series...

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...

WASHINGTON - Manssor Arbabsiar, aka Mansour Arbabsiar, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Southern District of New York to participating in a plot to murder the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States while the Ambassador was in the United States. Arbabsiar, a 58-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen holding...

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...

October 1, 2012 A look back at 30 years of efforts by the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under Royal Patronage and the Drug Enforcement Administration to end opium production and trafficking in this once highly volatile region. October 4, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EST DEA Museum Auditorium 700 Army Navy Drive...