The Los Angeles Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), along with its partners at the Glendale Police Department, made a major, potentially lifesaving, drug seizure earlier this week in support of Operation Take Back America. Investigators from the Los Angeles HSTF, working in partnership with the Glendale Police Department, stopped a...

The hunt is over. This week, Bolivian law enforcement captured Sebastián Enrique Marset Cabrera, transferring custody to DEA Agents, who escorted him to the U.S. following his expulsion from Bolivia. Described as a ‘modern day Pablo Escobar’, Marset will face justice in the United States for his alleged crimes. “Nearly...

The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of State, has announced reward offers of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrests and/or convictions of brothers René Arzate-García, also known as “La Rana,” and Alfonso Arzate-García, also known...

As millions of Americans turned their attention to football’s biggest stage ahead of Super Bowl LX in San Francisco, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and NFL Alumni Health (NFLAH) leaned into the power of the week, because it’s not just about entertainment, it’s also about influence. For the third consecutive...

First Lady Melania Trump joined Acting DEA Administrator Uttam Dhillon on October 7 for DEA’s National Red Ribbon Rally to celebrate the official launch of the 2019 Red Ribbon campaign, dedicated to preserving the memory of DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena – a DEA special agent who was kidnapped...

In 2005, the United States reached what was thought to be the peak of the methamphetamine epidemic. Thousands of domestic labs dotted the country. Users were overdosing at unthinkable rates and law enforcement agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), were doing their best to keep the synthetic substance off...

DEA is aware that registrants are receiving telephone calls and emails by criminals identifying themselves as DEA employees or other law enforcement personnel. In an attempt to create the illusion that these criminals are DEA employees, they have masked their telephone number on caller id with a phone number for...

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon traveled to Colombia, the week of March 25, 2019. During the trip, Acting Administrator Dhillon met with Kevin Whitaker, the United States Ambassador to Colombia, and conducted numerous bilateral meetings with the Colombian Attorney General, Dr. Nestor Humberto Martinez Neira; the Colombian...

Seven members of Congress visited Arizona and the DEA Yuma Resident Office to receive a briefing on the drug threat along the Southwest border, and an aerial tour of Arizona’s border with Mexico. The delegation was greeted by Special Agents in Charge Doug Coleman (Phoenix Division) and Gary Hill (Aviation...

In anticipation of round-up number two in 2019, in September 24-28, 2018, the Asheville Post of Duty (POD), along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Swain County, Jackson County and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Offices, the Cherokee Indian Police Department, the Asheville Police Department and several other state and...