SAN DIEGO - This morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) San Diego Field Division's Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2013. During calendar year 2013, NTF...

SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - In November 2010, special agents with the Imperial County Narcotic Task (ICNTF) initiated a California State wiretap investigation into the importation and transportation activities of a Drug Trafficking (DTO) based in Mexicali, Baja California (BCN), Mexico. Dubbed Operation Cerberus, this investigation targeted Sinaloa Cartel...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, found 52-year old Rafael Cordero, a 23-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police force, guilty of interfering with the federal drug investigation of the Christian Serrano/Edwin Medina Drug Trafficking ("DTOs"). Cordero provided sensitive law enforcement information about drug investigations to his half-brother, David Garcia, a...

SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 7th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, October 26, 2013. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 40 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...

SAN DIEGO - Three suspects are facing federal charges following the seizure of more than eight tons of marijuana and several hundred pounds of cocaine linked to an elaborate cross border tunnel shut down Wednesday night during an operation by federal and local law enforcement agencies. The newly completed tunnel...

SAN DIEGO - - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) would like to announce that the 7th National Prescription Take Back will be held on October 26, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. DEA and its law enforcement and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, held a meeting in Scranton, on October 9, 2013, to announce that a total of $4,093,753.13 was seized and forfeited as a result of a joint investigation by local and state law enforcement authorities and the...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Kevin Morris, age 24 of Franklin Township, (Chester County), was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy centered in Wilmington that involved the importation of cocaine and...

PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Norman Werther, 73, of Ft. Washington, PA, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and more than 300 counts stemming from his pill mill operation. A federal jury convicted Werther on June 11, 2013 of 184 counts...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 54-year-old West Lawn, Pennsylvania resident was sentenced to one year in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for his role in an Oxycontin trafficking conspiracy that operated in...