DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Large Scale Colorado Springs And Pueblo Drug Trafficking Organization Dismantled

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. - On April 14 and 15, federal agents led by the DEA, working closely with local and state law enforcement, arrested 15 people from Southern Colorado who had been named in four separate indictments by a federal grand jury in Denver for drug trafficking offenses. The arrests...
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Michigan Based Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Harvard Drug Group To Pay U.S. $8,000,000 In Settlement

United States Attorney Barbara McQuade and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today a settlement between the government and Harvard Drug Group, LLC, which resolves allegations that Harvard violated the Controlled Substances (CSA). Harvard is alleged to have violated the CSA by failing to...
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DEA And Partners Holding Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In April

EL PASO, TX - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2...
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Federal And Local Law Enforcement Round Up Methamphetamine Manufacturing And Distribution Rings

EL PASO, TX -- - United States Attorney John E. Murphy and DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit announced the arrests of 11 El Paso area residents charged with conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine. The 11 defendants are charged in two separate indictments returned by the Federal Grand Jury...
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The U.S. Attorney For The District Of Montana Announces The Execution Of 26 Criminal Search Warrants And 4 Civil Seizure Warrants In Montana

HELENA, MT. - The United States Attorney for the District of Montana, Michael W. Cotter, announced today the culmination of a 18-month multi-agency investigation into the drug trafficking activities of criminal enterprises operating throughout the State of Montana. In furtherance of that investigation, a total of 26 criminal search warrants...
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Police Chief, Mayor And Village Trustee Of Columbus, New Mexico Indicted In Federal Firearms Trafficking Case

LAS CRUCES, NM- - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, ICE Special Agent in Charge Manuel Oyola-Torres, ATF Special Agent in Charge William Newell, and United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico announced today that a federal grand jury in New Mexico has...
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Six Arrested In El Paso On Federal Drug Trafficking Charges

EL PASO, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, Federal Bureau of (FBI) Special Agent in Charge David Cuthbertson and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced the arrests of six individuals based on two federal grand jury indictments in connection with two major drug...
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96 Charged And Dozens Arrested As The Result Of A Joint Investigation

MIDLAND, TX - Joseph M. Arabit Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) El Paso Division, United States Attorney John E. Murphy of the Western District of Texas, Midland County District Attorney Teresa Clingman, Midland Police Chief Price Robinson, Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter, and Ector County Sheriff...
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Sinaloa Drug Trafficker Extradited From Mexico

EL PASO, TX - Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and John Murphy, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, announced on January 27, 2011, that Carlos Mario Gomez-Muro was extradited by Mexico to the United States...
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DEA And Colorado Attorney General Topple International Cocaine Trafficking Organization

DENVER, CO. - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that his office, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement (DEA), has shut down a cocaine ring that imported multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexico into Colorado. According to the indictment the cocaine trafficking operation was led by Noel “Chihuas” Loya...