United States Drug Enforcement Administration

May 3, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, who used proceeds from trafficking cocaine to purchase houses and vehicles, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for multiple federal offenses. U.S. District Judge Karen C. Caldwell sentenced 35-year-old Marquis Deron Heard on...

WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) Sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills than the previous one, demonstrating the American public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables...

Date: April 26, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Jack Conway, Kentucky Attorney General jointly announced today that two eastern Kentucky pain clinic...

WASHINGTON - After collecting more than 1,000 tons of expired, unwanted prescription medications at previous events over the past three years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country on Saturday, April 27th. Collection sites...

Date: April 23, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 BAY CITY, Mich. - A Grand Blanc, Michigan resident was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison yesterday after having been found guilty on federal drug trafficking offenses, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. Salah Dado, 34, was...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today named two Lebanese exchange houses, Kassem Rmeiti & Co. For (Rmeiti Exchange) and Halawi Exchange Co. (Halawi Exchange), as foreign financial institutions of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT (Section 311) - the first time the...

Date: April 19, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA) jointly announced today that a physician from Prestonsburg, Ky., paid the U.S. Government $50,000...

WASHINGTON - - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against Antonio Indjai, the head of the Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces, for conspiring to provide aid to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de (the...

Date: April 17, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 WARREN, Ohio - Nineteen separate federal indictments were unsealed today, charging 55 people with various violations of federal narcotics and/or firearms laws in and around Warren, Ohio, law enforcement officials announced. At the same time, an additional 42 people...

WASHINGTON - Today the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) published a Final Rule to permanently control 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-(methylone) and a Notice of Intent to temporarily schedule three synthetic cannabinoids. The first of two notices published in the Federal Register this morning is a Final Rule permanently placing methylone, a synthetic stimulant...