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...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Robin Gattis, the leader of a drug conspiracy involving seven South-central Alaska residents was sentenced on December 5, 2013, to 16 years in federal prison. Gattis and the six other co-conspirators were involved in the importation and distribution of Methylone, a Schedule I controlled substance sold as...

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...

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - -Vanessa Louise Wagner, 30, of Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Wagner to forfeit $5,600. She pleaded...

SEATTLE - The American people have again responded in droves to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday, residents across the country turned in 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,683 take-back sites that were available in...

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...

BOISE, Idaho - Rahil Akhtar, 37, of Eagle, Idaho, pleaded guilty on November 4, 2013, in federal court to one count of acquiring and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception. Akhtar was a dentist licensed to practice in the state of Idaho. According to court documents, from...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nathan Jackson, 27, and his sister, Hailey Jelinek, 20, from Fairbanks, Alaska, were sentenced on November 1, 2013, in U.S. District Court. Jackson was sentenced to 123 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He had previously pleaded guilty to both counts of an indictment...

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...

SEATTLE - A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana pleaded guilty on October 25, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremy...