United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DENVER, CO - Earlier this week the Drug Enforcement (DEA)-led Southwest Drug Task Force and the 22 nd Judicial District Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force arrested five people responsible for trafficking highly pure methamphetamine in the Cortez area, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin Merrill announced...

MISSOULA, MT. - - The United States Attorney for the District of Montana, Michael W. Cotter, announced today the culmination of a 12‑month multi‑agency investigation into the drug trafficking activities of a criminal enterprise operating in the State of Montana. A total of 12 criminal search warrants were executed on...

SAN JUAN, PR. - - Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Division, announced the unsealing of a July 12, 2011 indictment in the Southern District of Florida against Carlos Ruben Morales-Davila...

SAN JUAN, PR. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Caribbean Division collected approximately 992 pounds of prescription drugs in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during the DEA National Take Back Day Initiative announced Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Caribbean Division. “This is our third National...

DENVER, CO. - Four Denver men were charged based on a Criminal Complaint for the distribution and possession with intent to distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants, United States Attorney John Walsh and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin Merrill announced today. The four defendants are Ha...

SAN JUAN, PR. - On September 23, 2011, a federal grand jury indicted 28 individuals as a result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and the United States Postal Inspection Service, with the collaboration of the Federal Bureau of (FBI) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD), United States...

DENVER, CO. - Kevin R. Merrill, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Luis Velez, Chief, Pueblo Police Department, and Bill Thiebaut, District Attorney, Colorado’s Tenth Judicial District, announced today the successful completion of a major heroin investigation with the arrest of 24 defendants. There are an additional five...

DENVER, CO. - Two Western Colorado doctors, Sam Jahani, M.D., 49, of Cleveland, Texas, and Eric Peper, D.O., 53, of Summerland Key, Florida, were indicted by a federal grand jury on August 3, 2011 on charges related to health care fraud, money laundering and dispensing controlled substances in which four...

ST. GEORGE, UT. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that on July 16, 2011, the DEA, along with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, seized 13,806 marijuana plants found growing in the mountains outside of Veyo, Utah, and arrested 38 defendants who were in the process of...

DENVER, CO. - Louis Hampers, MD, of Denver, pled guilty this morning before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to 14 counts of obtaining a controlled substance, hydrocodone, by misrepresentation, fraud, deception or subterfuge. Hampers, who was present at today’s hearing, is on 24-hour home detention. Judge Blackburn is...