PRESS RELEASE

Drug dealer who sold out of his home sentenced to 72 months

September 06, 2018
… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant during the second buy tested positive for heroin. On March 10, 2015, a New …
September 06, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Lockport Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl

May 10, 2018
… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant during the second buy tested positive for heroin. On March 10, 2015, a New …
May 10, 2018
DOCUMENT

Operation Blues Brothers

November 22, 2023
DEA Administrator Remarks
… pill—and died almost immediately. That pill looked like a Percocet but it was not; it was fentanyl. Diamond Lynch was …
November 22, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Bitcoin Exchangers, Including CEO Of Bitcoin Exchange Company, For Scheme To Sell And Launder Over $1 Million In Bitcoins Related To Silk Road Drug Trafficking

January 27, 2014
… 720-431-8836 Defendants sold Bitcoins to be used to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously on the Silk Road drug … Road," the underground website that enabled its users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously and beyond the reach … form of payment accepted on Silk Road - to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site. Upon receiving orders for …
January 27, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Six arrested after DEA Task Force investigation into fentanyl trafficking ring

April 29, 2020
… of Brooklyn, New York   Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the …
April 29, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

DEA & MPD Issue Public Safety Alert on Mass Overdose Events Across D.C. Metro Area

April 14, 2022
… Fentanyl Lab Testing Counterfeit Percocet Pill Washington, D.C., -- Today, the Drug …
April 14, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

October 01, 2021
… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
October 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

October 01, 2021
… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
October 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

October 01, 2021
… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
October 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

October 01, 2021
… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
October 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

October 01, 2021
… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
October 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Fentanyl Distributors Charged Following Fourth Fatal Juvenile Overdose

June 23, 2023
… cell phone. Inside her room, agents found ten counterfeit Percocet pills inscribed M/30, which later tested positive … similar to legitimate prescription pills like Oxycontin or Percocet but can pose significantly more danger. On the …
June 23, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Supplier in Juvenile Fentanyl Overdoses Case Charged with Drug Conspiracy

February 15, 2023
… a licensed medical provider, that pill your child thinks is Percocet, or OxyContin, or Xanax, or Adderall, may actually … similar to legitimate prescription pills like Oxycontin or Percocet, but can pose significantly more danger. On the …
February 15, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Grand Jury Has Indicted 13 Defendants With Drug Trafficking, Health Care Fraud And Possession Of Firearms

December 18, 2003
… used fraudulent prescriptions to obtain Oxycontin, Percocet and other prescription medications from Maryland … would then turn the prescription drugs such as Oxycontin, Percocet, Endocet, Xanax and other drugs over to Fulton, …
December 18, 2003
DRUG FACT SHEET

Fake Prescription Pills

February 25, 2025
Drugs of Concern
Many fake pills are made to look like prescription opioids – such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, Percocet®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), and alprazolam (Xanax®); or stimulants like amphetamines (Adderall®) – but contain fentanyl or methamphetamine. Criminal drug networks are mass-producing fake pills and falsely marketing them as legitimate prescription pills to deceive the...
February 25, 2025
ALERT

DEA Laboratory Testing Reveals that 6 out of 10 Fentanyl-Laced Fake Prescription Pills Now Contain a Potentially Lethal Dose of Fentanyl

November 21, 2022
… to real prescription medications, including OxyContin®, Percocet®, and Xanax®, and they are often deadly. In 2021, …
GENERAL INFORMATION

Caribbean News 2009

July 15, 2021
… Arrests Doctor for Illegally Distributing and Dispensing Percocet and Xanax May 8, 2009 30 Arrested in Joint …
July 15, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Cocaine trafficker sentenced in Western District of New York

February 13, 2020
… areas.  Sometime in December 2016, Hoover agreed to receive delivery of a U.S. Postal Service parcel, which contained a … a monetary payment in exchange for her role in taking the delivery and safeguarding the parcel. Prior to delivery, the parcel was intercepted by the U.S. Postal …
February 13, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Pakistani Father and Son Convicted in International Heroin Trafficking Scheme

December 05, 2005
… a McDonald’s restaurant in Beltsville, Maryland. During the delivery, the courier telephoned the Afridis at their … village a few kilometers outside of Peshawar. Following the delivery, the CW began negotiating directly with the Afridis … packages of heroin buried in the struts. At the time of the delivery, the Afridis sent a series of faxes to the CW, …
December 05, 2005
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Washington Division Calls on the Community to Have Important Conversations on Dangers of Drugs and Fake Pills in Back-To-School Routines

August 22, 2024
… fake pills so closely resemble legitimate prescription meds that it is almost impossible to tell the difference …
August 22, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican National Who Supervised a Drug Trafficking Organization Operating in Orville, Washington, Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

February 19, 2025
… law enforcement conducted a series of controlled drug buys from Medrano and others selling drugs on his behalf. On … “Drug traffickers like Mr. Medrano profit from the pain they cause selling poison to our neighbors,” said David …
February 19, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Leader Of Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced To 22.5 Years In Prison

February 08, 2025
… Millions of Fentanyl Pills Made to Look like Oxycodone and Percocet BOSTON – A Rhode Island man was sentenced in … designed to look like pharmaceutical grade Oxycodone or Percocet pills and sold these pills across multiple states. …
February 08, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Doctor indicted on Manslaughter and Reckless Endangerment Charges in Three Overdose Deaths

June 07, 2018
… narcotics. Choy, 65, allegedly prescribed addictive painkillers and other controlled substances in potentially … prescriptions for oxycodone (an addictive opioid painkiller) and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam (a … oxycodone-acetaminophen (commonly known by the trade name Percocet). A corresponding pill bottle was later found at …
June 07, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Pakistan Father Sentenced to Life and Son Sentenced to 30 Years in International Heroin Trafficking Scheme

February 16, 2006
… the CW at a restaurant in Beltsville, Maryland. During the delivery, the courier telephoned the Afridis at their … village a few kilometers outside of Peshawar. Following the delivery, the CW began negotiating directly with the Afridis … packages of heroin buried in the struts. At the time of the delivery, the Afridis sent a series of faxes to the CW, …
February 16, 2006
PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Mailing And Receiving Packages Of Cocaine Husband Who Was Charged With Her Sentenced Last Month

July 18, 2013
… packages of cocaine, which were mailed from Puerto Rico to delivery addresses along her mail route. Nunez intercepted … despite never delivering the packages to their actual delivery addresses, and ultimately transported them to … arrived in Kearny, N.J., law enforcement noted that the delivery address on the package would be assigned to Nunez’s …
July 18, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Doctor and Office Manager Indicted in Scheme to Defraud Medicare, Manufacture and Distribute Fentanyl

December 16, 2022
… Divsersion.SAN@dea.gov SAN DIEGO - Dr. David J. Smith, a pain management physician, and his office manager, Julia Ann … in the installation and maintenance of intrathecal pain pumps which are surgically placed in a patient’s …
December 16, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Two "Pill Mill" Owners Convicted

March 27, 2014
… laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Votrobek had previously been acquitted in … of similar charges stemming from his ownership of a Florida pain clinic. Harry S. Sommers, Special Agent in Charge of …
March 27, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Two ‘Pill Mill’ Owners Sentenced

June 23, 2014
… laundering charges for owning and operating a ‘pill mill’ pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge …
June 23, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

October 12, 2011
… of the defendants, including a doctor, a pharmacist and two pain clinic operators are currently in custody after a … Control and Prevention report that Schedule II prescription painkillers like oxycodone today cause more drug overdose … churning out pills that are fraudulently prescribed at area pain clinics. We will continue to tackle South Florida’s …
October 12, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Five Indicted In International Narcotics And Kidnapping Conspiracy: Mexican Source Of Supply

April 23, 2015
… organization remained in New York City following the drug delivery. Pagan was required to keep this individual in his … customer in Pennsylvania. Approximately 16 kilograms of (a pain reliever classified as a controlled substance) had also …
April 23, 2015