United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DENVER - The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning the public about criminals posing as DEA special agents or other law enforcement personnel as part of an international extortion scheme. This criminal activity has occurred in the Rocky Mountain region in the past, but is now occurring with much more frequency...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nine individuals, who allegedly participated in a Deming, N.M., based conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine, have been charged with narcotics trafficking offenses in a federal indictment that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in Las Cruces. The indictment...

DENVER - Leslie Renee Hee, 40, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 180 (15 years) in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute, dispense, and possess with intent to distribute and dispense controlled substances, including prescription and illegal narcotics, United States...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Special Agent in Charge, Joseph Arabit, Drug Enforcement Administration-El Paso Division, and United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that in Las Cruces, NM, today, United States District Judge Robert C. Brack sentenced four defendants to federal prison for their roles in a firearms trafficking operation. Judge...

DENVER - For the fifth time in two years, Americans emptied medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs and took them to collection sites located throughout the United States as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- - Twenty individuals, who allegedly participated in conspiracies to distribute marijuana and cocaine from Mexico in New Mexico, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee, and to launder drug proceeds, are charged with drug trafficking and money laundering charges in two federal indictments that were unsealed...

DENVER - Barbra M. Roach, the Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), John W. Suthers, Attorney General for the State of Colorado, Daniel J. Oates, Chief of Police of the City of Aurora Police Department, Kumar Kibble, Special Agent in Charge of...

DENVER - On August 3, 2012, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado sent warning letters to 10 marijuana dispensaries operating within 1,000 feet of schools warning them that if they did not close within 45 days they would be subject to federal enforcement action. This was the...

DENVER, CO. - National Jewish Health’s Dr. John Martyny has announced the results of a study designed to determine the health effects from indoor marijuana grow operations. The study was conducted in conjunction with the Colorado Drug Investigators (CDIA), Colorado Association of Chiefs of (CACP), and County Sheriffs of (CSOC)...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...