United States Drug Enforcement Administration

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal jury convicted a Richmond man today for possessing with the intent to distribute a mixture of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. According to court records and evidence presented at trial in May 2019, law enforcement initiated an investigation into certain heroin and cocaine trafficking activities in...

GREENBELT, Md. – A federal grand jury has indicted the owner and operator of a purported pain management clinic, as well as two nurse practitioners who were employed at the clinic, on federal charges for conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone and for distribution and dispensing of oxycodone. Charged in...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging four Ecuadorian nationals after they were intercepted on the Pacific Ocean while traveling on unflagged vessels with over 700 kilograms of cocaine. According to the indictment and to a criminal complaint filed earlier this year, Julio Luis...

BALTIMORE, Md. – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced David Robinson, age 51, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 171 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the federal charges of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and alprazolam and for murder for hire. Robinson, formerly...

BALTIMORE, Md. – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Cephus Albert Powell, age 54, of Baltimore, today to 188 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after Powell pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and to possession with intent...

ABINGDON, Va. – Michael Dube, who formerly owned and operated American Toxicology Labs, was sentenced was today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia to 36 months in federal prison. Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar, and Virginia...

Washington, D.C. – Today, DEA Acting Administrator D. Christopher Evans, and Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division, Jarod Forget, announce the release of the 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment – DEA’s annual publication outlining the threats posed to the U.S. by domestic and international drug trafficking and...

SAN DIEGO – With opioid overdose deaths increasing during the pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced its 20th Take Back Day scheduled for April 24. At its last Take Back Day in October, DEA collected a record-high amount of expired, unused prescription medications, with the public turning in close to...

Washington, D.C. – With opioid overdose deaths increasing across the Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia during the pandemic, Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Washington Division announces the 20th Drug Take Back Day scheduled for April 24th. At its last Drug Take...

Lynchburg, Va.- A federal grand jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville has indicted five individuals for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, Acting United States Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division; Attorney Daniel P. Bubar; Ashan...