SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 11th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 30, 2016. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 43 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...

PHOENIX - Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indictment of Perry Hester, Brandon Hester, James Donaldson, and Christopher Rafferty in connection with a statewide medical marijuana caregiver grow scheme. The defendants are accused of giving fraudulent information to the state...

PHOENIX - DEA announced today that the 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place April 30th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous 10 Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can anonymously return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription...

SAN DIEGO - Federal officials have seized what is believed to be the longest cross-border tunnel ever discovered with an estimated length of more than eight football fields, plus more than a ton of cocaine was confiscated, making it the single-largest cocaine seizure ever associated with a tunnel along the...

SAN DIEGO - A suspected smuggler’s recent attempt to bring hundreds of counterfeit oxycodone pills through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry has raised serious concerns among law enforcement officials here because the pills turned out to be ultra-deadly fentanyl. In Sacramento, California, there have been dozens of overdoses and...

CALEXICO, Calif. - Federal officials seized a cross-border tunnel this morning following a lengthy multiagency investigation that resulted in the arrests of four people in Calexico, California and Arizona and the confiscation of more than a ton of marijuana. The tunnel, approximately 415 yards in length, stretches from El Sarape...

PHOENIX - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced that former Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico Mayor Arturo Reyes Trujillo was sentenced to over 21 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering. Trujillo was elected municipal (mayor) in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico in 2012, and was arrested in September of that year...

TUCSON, Ariz. - DEA announced today the arrest of seven members of the Erick Erives drug trafficking (DTO), as a result of a 28-count indictment acquired through the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, citing multiple drug charges, allegations of money laundering and fraud. Erick Erives, the cell head of the DTO...

PHOENIX - DEA announced today, the sentencing of Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, 42, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, to 11 years in prison. Castro-Rocha, a former Consolidated Priority Organization (CPOT), a term designated as a reference to the highest-level drug traffickers, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess heroin with intent...

SAN DIEGO - On January 7, 2016, Hugo Adalberto Adrian Ramirez pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl in connection with a family drug trafficking ring that he directed. According to admissions in court and in his plea agreement, Ramirez conspired with family members, including his...