United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ROME, Ga. - Bryson-Taylor Wayne Banks, 31, of Cartersville, Georgia, has been arraigned on multiple federal charges, including unlawfully accessing a law enforcement database and disclosure of confidential information. Banks was a Cartersville Police Officer who was assigned to a DEA task force and allegedly used his access to law...

DEA, Denver P.D. net 74 Defendants charged in the trafficking of illegal marijuana to out of state markets DENVER - Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman was joined by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Denver Police Department, and other area law enforcement agency partners to announce the indictment of the largest...

ATLANTA - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 9,635 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount exceeded the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 26, 420 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 7,404 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 24,594 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount exceeded the...

Participation in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana Shows Continued Community Involvement in Addressing the Abuse of Prescription Drugs DENVER - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its nationwide law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the federal court in the Western District of North Carolina has ordered the final forfeiture of a Henderson County residence used in the illegal distribution of oxycodone and other narcotics. The forfeiture of the residence to the United States...

DEA’s Denver Field Division teams with Law Enforcement and Community Organizations to provide safe, easy to access disposal of old prescription drugs. DENVER - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by...

DENVER - The DEA-led Denver OCDETF Strike Force, including the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office, DEA and the Aurora Police Department, today arrested multiple defendants throughout Colorado and California on various drug related charges, the Justice Department announced. The arrests were the result of a one year investigation into the inner...