United States Drug Enforcement Administration

EL PASO, TX -- - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that a federal jury this afternoon returned a guilty verdict against an El Paso pharmacist for illegally dispensing controlled substances. Jurors found Peter Victor Ayika, 55, guilty of...

FT. WORTH, TX. -- - Following a year-long Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation into narcotics trafficking in North and East Fort Worth, law enforcement arrested eight members and associates of the Crips criminal street gang on October 19th. The narcotics trafficking charges are outlined in several federal...

ATLANTA, GA. - Donald Bristol, 41, of Lilburn, Georgia was sentenced today by United States District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr., to serve over a year in prison on charges that, while he was employed as a DeKalb County police officer, he helped others hide a stolen vehicle, unlawfully accessed...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that United States District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Dana Scott McIntire, 53, of Stockton, to 25 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine for distributing and possessing pseudoephedrine knowing...

Federal Law Enforcement to Hold Prescription Drug Abuse Summit Responding to the Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis PHOENIX, AZ. - The United States Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Arizona (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) and DrugFreeAz.org, The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Arizona Affiliate are hosting an educational summit to...

LOS ANGELES, CA - An 18-month task force investigation this morning resulted in the arrest of 23 individuals - mostly gang members - who are named in a federal drug trafficking indictment that alleges they participated in a methamphetamine distribution organization that operated in Whittier and surrounding communities. The main...

COLUMBUS, OH. - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and representatives from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Outdoor Advertising Association of Ohio today unveiled an electronic billboard PSA campaign to remind Ohioans to dispose of unused and expired medications on National Drug Take Back Day on October 29, 2011...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Twelve individuals have been indicted as members of a Virginia-based international drug trafficking organization that has utilized a distribution network to smuggle cocaine from Mexico to northern Virginia. This indictment was the latest in an ongoing investigation that has previously led to the conviction of 41 individuals...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Julio Ramirez Pérez, 33, an undocumented alien from Oaxaca, Mexico, to five years in prison to be followed by five...

DETROIT, MI - Michael Madu, 41, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was charged in a Superseding Indictment unsealed today for conspiring to distribute controlled substances including Opana, Vicodin, and Xanax. The Indictment also charged Madu with money laundering in connection with the purchase of two luxury vehicles and the purchase of...