United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles Field Division today announced Operation Faux Pharmacy, a multi-pronged initiative aimed at attacking the opioid epidemic by targeting rogue pharmacies throughout southern California, Hawaii and Nevada. DEA investigations over the last year identified as many as 26 pharmacies in these areas that...

WASHINGTON - Continuing to follow President Trump’s strong leadership on combatting the deadly opioid crisis, Attorney General Sessions today announced new resources and stepped up efforts to address the drug and opioid crisis. Joined by Acting DEA Administrator Robert Patterson, Attorney General Sessions announced the following efforts during a press...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Gilberto Sanchez, 56, of Cecil, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to drug distribution conspiracy, health care fraud, and money laundering charges, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. from the Middle District of Alabama. According...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced that the Drug Enforcement (DEA) intends to take immediate action against the flow of illicit fentanyl analogues into this country and the alarming increase in overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids by scheduling all fentanyl-related substances on an emergency basis. When the...

SHREVEPORT, La. - The last defendant remaining in a Shreveport/Bossier City area methamphetamine distribution case was sentenced Monday to more than 15 (188 months) in prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Jose Mejia Jr., 33...

NEW ORLEANS - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at more than 5,300 collection sites. That...

WASHINGTON - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at more than 5,300 collection sites. That is...

NEW ORLEANS - Luis J. Cotto, a/k/a “Luis Pereira,” age 31, of New York, was arrested, following the unsealing of a Second Superseding Indictment charging an array of federal narcotics and firearm violations by members of a drug trafficking organization operating in south Louisiana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent...

WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the establishment of six new enforcement teams focused on combatting the flow of heroin and illicit fentanyl. “At a time when overdose deaths are at catastrophic levels, the DEA's top priority is addressing the opioid epidemic and pursuing the criminal organizations that...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A Texas man was sentenced last week to 120 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine in the Shreveport area and possessing a firearm, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Daniel D. Garza, 26...