DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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DEA Reminds Americans to Keep Medications Secure

OMAHA, Neb. – The Omaha Division Drug Enforcement Administration is reminding people to secure prescription medications in an effort to avoid misuse, abuse and diversion during this time in which families are staying home over concerns of the Coronavirus pandemic. In 2018, 67,367 people died from a drug overdose with...
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DEA Agents Visit Red Lake Indian Reservation

RED LAKE, Minn. – Agents with the DEA Omaha Division spent two days talking with approximately 300 middle school students on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota about the dangers of drugs, the science behind drug abuse and ways to avoid allowing drugs an opportunity to steal their futures...
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DEA Omaha Division Celebrates Read Across America Week

OMAHA, Neb. –Drug Enforcement Administration Omaha Division agents and staff celebrated Read Across America Week (which took place March 2-6) by reading to more than 1,000 elementary school students in Nebraska and Iowa. Reading from books like, “Green Eggs and Ham,” “Wacky Wednesday,” and “Hooray for Diffendoofer Day,” agents talked...
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DEA warns of increasing extortion scam calls by Special Agent impersonators

SAN FRANCISCO – The Drug Enforcement Administration San Francisco Division urges its DEA-registered practitioners and members of the public to be cautious of telephone calls from criminals posing as DEA or other law enforcement personnel threatening arrest and prosecution for supposed violations of federal drug laws or involvement in drug-trafficking...
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Chinese national residing in Fresno charged in illegal marijuana grow operation

FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Yunquan Jiang, 48, a Chinese national residing in Fresno, charging him with cultivating and possessing with intent to distribute over 1,000 marijuana plants inside his residence, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent...
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San Mateo doctor charged with unlawful distribution of opioids and health care fraud

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal grand jury indicted Timothy Mulligan for the unlawful distribution of opioids, including fentanyl, outside the scope of professional practice and health care fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux. According to the...
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Eight members of South Bay-based drug trafficking organizations charged in federal indictments

SAN FRANCISCO – Eight defendants were indicted on narcotics trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The defendants were arrested on November 6, 2019, and February...
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Stockton man sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for fentanyl distribution

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Manuel Felix-Rivera, 34, of Stockton, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and DEA Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced. According to court documents...
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Three indicted for conspiring to traffic 20,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of methamphetamine

FRESNO, Calif. — Tirso Garcia-Valdez, 27, of Mexico, Misael Garcia-Carranza, 23, of Mexico, and Brenda Carmona-Venegas, 37, of Los Angeles, were indicted Thursday for conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute approximately 20,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and approximately 20 pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott...
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West Sacramento man indicted for transporting 85 pounds methamphetamine

FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Simeon Hernandez-Ortiz, 24, of West Sacramento, charging him with possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced. According to court...