United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WASHINGTON, D.C. and SILVER SPRINGS, Md. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), DEA Educational Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today the finalists of the inaugural Operation Prevention Video Challenge-a peer-to-peer platform for communicating messages about the dangers...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events. On Saturday, April 29, the event brought in 900,386 (450 tons) at close...

WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), DEA Educational Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today the finalists of the inaugural Operation Prevention Video Challenge-a peer-to-peer platform for communicating messages about the dangers of opioid misuse. The public...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Jake Lindsey Hardin, a/k/a “Cash,” 33, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 240 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Hardin pleaded guilty to one...

DALLAS, Texas - Lee Robertson, 33, and Tasmin Stewart, a/k/a “Taz,” 30, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater stemming from their involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Judge Fitzwater sentenced...

MAY 05 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that ario Lee, a/k/a “Moe”, 42, of Bangor, and formerly of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Juan Pablo Martinez, 47, of Queens, New York, was arrested Wednesday after a search of his backpack revealed two kilograms of cocaine, the majority of which was concealed as individually wrapped candies. James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the DEA and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that a federal grand jury has returned a three count indictment charging Matthew S. Jones, 30, and Beau K.C. Jones, 32, both of...

BRONX, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (“DEA”), Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (“NYPD”), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York...

LOS ANGELES - Two men were arrested Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport and charged in federal court with attempting to smuggle heroin in luggage on two commercial airline flights. Cristian Santos, 21, of Compton, California was arrested by special agents with the Drug Enforcement (DEA) after boarding a Delta...