United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ATLANTA - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, October 26, 2013, turned in 8,153.25 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, October 26, 2013, turned in 10,880 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. Harry S. Sommers, the Special...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, October 26, 2013, turned in 5,527.18 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. Harry S. Sommers, the Special...

ATLANTA - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Division Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Charlotte District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Columbia District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Tennessee District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...

BALTIMORE - - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Lenny Cain, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, on September 27, 2013, to 160 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and for possession with intent to...

ATLANTA - Otis Henry has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking over 700,000 pills of BZP, a drug similar to ecstasy. “Based on the staggering amount of drugs in the case, the defendant earned every day of his prison sentence,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates...

ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field (AFD),is sending a warning to the public about the dangers of “Molly,” a well-documented and dangerous designer drug that has recently surfaced at a number of large music events, with catastrophic consequences. The pure, high...