DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Aspen And Los Angeles Residents Indicted For Cocaine Distribution

DENVER, CO. - DENVER - Ten defendants, six from Aspen and four from Los Angeles, were charged in a sealed indicted returned by a federal grand jury in Denver on April 19, 2011, United States Attorney John Walsh and Acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin Merrill announced today. Of the...
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Floridian Fuzz Guilty Of Hauling Cocaine Through East Texas

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...
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DEA Announces Colorado, Utah, Wyoming And Montana Prescription Drug Take-Back Results

DENVER, CO. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the overwhelmingly successful results of the second national prescription drug “Take-Back” campaign in the states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. The American public turned in more than 22,000 lbs. of prescription drugs for safe and proper disposal in...
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Ten Arrests Made In Connection With Alleged Crystal City Cocaine And Heroin Trafficking

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...
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-Media Advisory-

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...
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Former Police Chief Of Sullivan City Sentenced To Prison

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...
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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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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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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...