PHILADELPHIA - Gary Tuggle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division, announced today that 3,383 drug-related overdose deaths were reported across Pennsylvania in 2015; an increase of 23.4% from the total number of overdose deaths reported in 2014. The DEA released its Analysis of Drug Related...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York along with James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced five members of the Pólicia National de Honduras, i.e., the Honduran National Police, charged...

DETROIT - A medical doctor has been sentenced on charges of unlawfully distributing prescription drug controlled substances, including the Schedule II prescription drug (oxycodone), and health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by the Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge...

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 Joshua Bickmore, 29, of Guilford, Maine, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to distribution of heroin. According to court records, on...

CONCORD, N.H. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Rigoberto Ramirez Aldava, 40, of 345 Putnam Street, Apartment #1, Manchester, New Hampshire, appeared today before United States Magistrate Daniel Lynch and...

CONCORD, N.H. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Geoffrey McIntosh, 36, was sentenced by United States District Judge Paul Barbadoro to serve 100 months in federal prison for his participation...

PHILADELPHIA - Gary Tuggle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division, announced today that the DEA will release its Analysis of Drug Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2015 report. As the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic continues to plague the Commonwealth, a significant increase in overdose...

DETROIT - A Detroit Police Lieutenant and a second police officer from the now-disbanded Narcotics Unit of the Detroit Police Department were convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit on charges of robbing drug dealers and stealing drugs and money obtained in police searches, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade...

SEATTLE - The Department of Justice announced on July 7, 2016, that it has reached a settlement with Seattle Cancer Care (SCCA) relating to losses of more than 96,000 pills of oxycodone between 2011 and 2013. SCCA self-reported the diversions after discovering that a nurse employed at the cancer care...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Ruben Hernandez, 39, of southern Florida, pleaded guilty on Thursday, July 7, 2016 in federal court to charges stemming from his role in the operation of a “pill mill” that existed in Opelika, Alabama between 2012 and 2013, announced Clay Morris, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of...