United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Drug Enforcement Administration and its Los Angeles area community partners are providing the public with another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. On Saturday, October 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the public will...

LOS ANGELES, CA - An 18-month task force investigation this morning resulted in the arrest of 23 individuals - mostly gang members - who are named in a federal drug trafficking indictment that alleges they participated in a methamphetamine distribution organization that operated in Whittier and surrounding communities. The main...

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...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Federal and state authorities this morning arrested 10 defendants - including two doctors - who are named in a federal indictment that alleges members of a drug trafficking organization illegally obtained and distributed more than 1 million OxyContin pills obtained largely through fraud against public insurance...

LAS VEGAS, NV - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced that three men, including a Las Vegas physician, his assistant, and a local pharmacist, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they conspired to unlawfully distribute large quantities of highly addictive prescription drugs in and around...

Two Southern California men were charged today in a federal narcotics case stemming from their involvement in a conspiracy to transport 70 kilograms of cocaine from California to North Carolina. Bobby Ray Palacios, 40, of Buena Park, and Jose Carlos Rios, 43, of Pomona, were arrested Friday night after delivering...

A Simi Valley man pleaded guilty today to a federal narcotics charge of distributing heroin and cocaine that resulted in death, while admitting in court that he distributed drugs that killed two people and nearly killed two others who overdosed. David Ryan Tejera, 23, pleaded guilty to the federal charge...

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...

LOS ANGELES, CA - The lead defendant in a federal drug case involving the distribution of multi-pound quantities of methamphetamine in the Long Beach area has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison. Vincent Anthony Ramirez, aka “Toro” and “Big T,” 41, was sentenced August 4, 2011, by United...