LOS ANGELES – The culmination of a four-year investigation resulted in a member of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel being sentenced on Dec. 6, 2019 to 180 months in federal prison for narcotics and weapons violations. Jesus Raul Salazar-Espinoza a.k.a. “Pedro,” 51, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced by United States District...

PHILADELPHIA -- Special Agent in Charge Jonathan A. Wilson of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field Division announced today that 40,798.33 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware by the DEA and its partners during the Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event on October 26, 2019. A specific...

LOS ANGELES – The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution throughout North America. Based on a sampling of...

LOS ANGELES – Over the course of 17 prior events, the National Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medications from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including children and teens. In...

​ ​ PHILADELPHIA – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field Division Jonathan A. Wilson today announced today the release of the Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2018 report. For the third year in a row, the DEA Philadelphia Field Division has partnered with the University...

LOS ANGELES – Three men were charged in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges they distributed narcotics, including counterfeit pharmaceutical pills, containing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of hip-hop artist Mac Miller. Cameron James Pettit, 28, of West Hollywood; Stephen Andrew Walter, 46, of Westwood; and Ryan...

LOS ANGELES – A Hollywood Hills resident was arrested this morning on federal charges alleging that he sold counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs containing fentanyl to Mac Miller two days before the hip-hop artist died of a drug overdose. Cameron James Pettit, 23, was arrested this morning by special agents with the...

LOS ANGELES – As part of a joint federal-state law enforcement action targeting the Rancho San Pedro street gang, authorities this morning unsealed two federal grand jury indictments that charge 14 members and associates of the gang with narcotics and firearms offenses. The main federal indictment, which charges 13 defendants...

LOS ANGELES – DEA’s Los Angeles Division continues to lead the global investigation into Mexico’s most violent and largest drug cartel, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and it’s leader Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes, aka "El Mencho." DEA Los Angeles Division indicted El Mencho on federal drug trafficking charges in 2014...

LOS ANGELES – After 24 years of dedicated service to the United States, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) David J. Downing III of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles Division will retire on May 31. “This decision was not an easy one,“ said SAC Downing. “But it’s time.” Mr. Downing...