As DEA honors Police Week 2026, we also celebrate the 25th anniversary of the time-honored tradition of the DEA Black and Gold Pipes and Drums. This esteemed group was established in 2001. After learning non-DEA employees were performing at sacred events such as the DEA Memorial Service, six DEA Special...

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...

DEA is committed to making sure patients can get the care they need in the event a doctor or medical facility is unable to provide treatment due to enforcement action against the medical provider. On October 5, 2023, DEA arrested a nurse practitioner in Buffalo, New York, on charges of...

Fentanyl is the greatest threat facing Americans today. It is a threat to our public health, our public safety, and our national security, and it is the cause of the most devastating drug crisis in United States’ history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is committed to using every tool...

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is focused on saving American lives by defeating the cartels responsible for bringing fentanyl into our country. The threat of fentanyl is deadlier and more pervasive than ever before. When I joined DEA in 2021, DEA laboratory testing indicated 4 out...

On July 26, 2023, DEA temporarily scheduled five synthetic benzodiazepine substances – etizolam, flualprazolam, clonazolam, flubromazolam, and diclazepam – in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Individuals who handle these substances will now be subject to regulatory controls, as well as to administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions applicable...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are updating the American public on the ongoing threat of illicit xylazine. In April 2023, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) designated fentanyl adulterated or associated with xylazine as an emerging threat to the...