PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division announced today that 39,418.87 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware during DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event this past Saturday, October 22nd. A specific breakdown of amounts collected by regions...

TRENTON, N.J. - - Belarmino Amaya, 58, of Hesperia, California, was sentenced to 12 years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Michael A. Toto in Middlesex County. Amaya pleaded guilty to first-degree charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and money laundering. The 12-year sentence includes four...

(MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (“NYPD”), and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (“DEA”), announced that...

NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a South Gate, California, man appeared in federal court today to face a drug distribution charge after he was...

OCT 31 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Sara Monroe, 30, of Holden, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to...

OCT 31 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel Lyons, 42, and Laura Lyons, 31, of Bangor were sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy...

OCT 31 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mario Lee, a/k/a “Moe”, 33 - , of Bangor, and formerly of the Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty in...

DALLAS - Nancy Pineda, 27, of Farmers Branch, Texas, remains in federal custody today following her arrest late Friday evening by investigators with the Farmers Branch Police Department and special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration on a federal criminal complaint stemming from her selling the heroin that caused a...

SEATTLE - Six years after the DEA launched its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Americans continue to turn out in large numbers to rid their homes of unused medications, including controlled prescription (CPDs) such as painkillers, tranquilizers, and stimulants. The Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington State, Idaho and Alaska) made...

SAN DIEGO - The final tally is in from the 12th National Prescription Take-Back Day which took place Saturday, October 22, and DEA and its partners took back nearly 8,000 pounds of prescription drugs at 39 locations in San Diego County and four in Imperial County. Over the course of...