United States Drug Enforcement Administration

After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following the upcoming fall 2018 Take Back...

NEWARK, N.J. – This Saturday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement partners will once again give the public an opportunity to safely dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications during the 16 th National Prescription Drug Take...

PHILADELPHIA -- Jon Wilson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division, announces the release of The Opioid Threat in Pennsylvania, a comprehensive assessment of the Commonwealth’s opioid crisis achieved through the collection and analysis of supply and demand indicators, as well as county level...

DETROIT – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following the upcoming fall 2018...

MAYS LANDING, N.J. – Atlantic County is the latest region to be assigned the designation of being a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) through the federally funded HIDTA program, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner and Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New...

BOSTON – Two Dominican nationals were arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with fentanyl trafficking in connection with the seizure of approximately 32 kilos of fentanyl with an alleged street value of $28.8 million. A firearm and $20,000 were also recovered. Angel Javier Morell-Oneill, 33, a Dominican...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Noel Carter, 46, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring with Bakersfield police officers Damacio Diaz and Patrick Mara to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana that Diaz and Mara seized in the course of their duties as police officers, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration...

NEW YORK – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following the upcoming fall...

SAN FRANCISCO – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds nationwide (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following the...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Whitley, 35, of Hartford and New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey...