DOCUMENT

2017 National Drug Threat Assessment

October 01, 2017
Publication
… of the threat posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit … public health data; open source reporting; and intelligence from other government agencies to determine which substances … homicide. In 2015, approximately 140 people died every day from drug poisoning (see Figure 1). DIR-040-17_2017-NDTA.pdf …
October 01, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Communities Across the Country Remove Nearly 664,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications to Prevent Drug Misuse

May 15, 2023
… came together once again to protect our communities from prescription misuse by safely disposing of 663,725 … more than 17 million pounds of unnecessary medications from communities across the country. For more than a decade, … their homes of unneeded medications to protect loved ones from deadly drugs and drug poisonings,” said DEA …
May 15, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

October 17, 2016
… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 17, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA-New Jersey instrumental in establishment of statewide “Handle With Care” program

October 06, 2020
… of a search warrant in the home; being forcibly displaced from a home by a fire, eviction, or other event; or having a … a child the critical support he or she needs to recover from a traumatic event,” said Attorney General Grewal. “By … in motion a compassionate response that may save that child from the harmful, potentially lifelong effects of an adverse …
October 06, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Nearly 40 Pounds of Heroin and Fentanyl Seized in the Bronx: Three Indicted

July 16, 2021
… seizure of nearly 40 pounds of alleged heroin and fentanyl from a large-scale narcotics packaging operation in the … recovered approximately 19 kilograms of heroin and fentanyl from the apartments and a vehicle. The DEA estimates the … that remove bulk shipments of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin from the drug market before they hit the streets have never …
July 16, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces Results of Enforcement Surge to Reduce the Fentanyl Supply Across the United States

September 27, 2022
… 36 Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Removed from Communities between May and September NEW ORLEANS – The … the results of an enforcement operation that spanned from May to September and resulted in significant fentanyl … is equivalent to more than 36 million lethal doses removed from the illegal drug supply. Additionally, 338 weapons were …
September 27, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Two Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

September 19, 2023
… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … are unacceptable.  I commend the work of the investigators from the DEA and NYPD and our partners at the Southern …
September 19, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Operation Oxy-Concourse: NY Attorney General’s Office and DEA take down narcotics distribution ring in New York City

May 02, 2019
… Operation Oxy-Concourse: NY Attorney General’s Office and DEA take down narcotics distribution ring in New York … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … is destroying our communities, we must tackle the issue from every angle and this investigation is our latest effort …
May 02, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Former Union General Hospital CEO and two Blairsville doctors sentenced to federal prison for illegally prescribing and obtaining pain pills

June 29, 2020
… Former Union General Hospital CEO and two Blairsville doctors sentenced to federal prison for … among law enforcement agencies keeps drug users and dealers from hiding across state lines to conduct their illegal …
June 29, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 25, 2024
… Engage Ft. Lauderdale Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from 4 out of 10 pills in 2021 and 6 out of 10 pills in … lives lost.  Nearly 70% of these drug poisonings are from fentanyl.    “Fentanyl continues to be the greatest …
January 25, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Doctor Convicted at Trial for Unlawfully Dispensing Controlled Substances

January 19, 2024
… prescriptions for oxycodone, morphine, and alprazolam from the office staff without seeing Morales. One patient’s … but he continued prescribing them. Medical records from Morales’s office described a number of medical … he prescribed opioids to them. However, official records from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed …
January 19, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Matriarch of Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

December 22, 2022
… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … into the United States. According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Herlinda … received maritime and clandestine air shipments of cocaine from sources in South America.  Individual shipments of …
December 22, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Former Head of Gulf Cartel Receives Life Sentence for Importing Kilos of Drugs

September 15, 2022
… Mexican national who was head of Cartel del Golfo (CDG) from 2003 to 2012 has been ordered to serve life in prison and to pay millions for his role in conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States, announced Drug …
September 15, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

March 11, 2020
… and internationally, to protect Florida’s communities from being harmed and destroyed.”    The Justice Department … “Menchito,” and second in command of CJNG, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on charges of alleged drug … Florida Medical Examiners.  Fentanyl, increasingly sourced from Mexico, caused more deaths than any other drug.  …
March 11, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Alert - Extortion Scam - Alert

October 25, 2012
… David S. Olesky Domestic Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah Additional Division Info Salt Lake City District … Utah, and Wyoming, is regularly receiving telephone calls from concerned citizens who are the victims of this … themselves as DEA agents or law enforcement officials from other agencies.  The impersonators inform their victims …
October 25, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Over 30 Arrested In Heroin And Gun Trafficking Sweep

August 04, 2011
… Over 30 Arrested In Heroin And Gun Trafficking Sweep August 04, 2011 New Jersey Contact … Suspicious Pharmaceutical Activities: (973)776-1172 Towanda Thorne-James Special Agent In Charge View Towanda … As a result, more than 38 “bricks” of heroin were purchased from Stevenson and his associates. A “brick” contains …
August 04, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Seventeen Defendants Facing Federal Narcotics Or Firearms Charges Alleging Nexus Of Guns And Drugs In Chicago

March 01, 2013
… Narcotics Or Firearms Charges Alleging Nexus Of Guns And Drugs In Chicago March 01, 2013 Chicago Contact Info … @DEAChicagoDiv Shane Catone Domestic Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Additional Division Info Community Outreach: … and Mendez obtained kilogram quantities of narcotics from Arguijo on Sept. 3 and Nov. 26, 2012, and from …
March 01, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

DEA News: Huge Synthetic Drug Takedown

May 07, 2014
… WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Customs and Border (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement … DEA has identified between 200 and 300 new designers drugs from eight different structural classes, the vast majority … (see B-roll video link below) Chemists and other scientists from DEA’s Office of Forensic Science, as well as CBP …
May 07, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Nine Members Of Major Narcotics Ring Extending Throughout Manhattan, The Bronx, And New Jersey Indicted On Conspiracy And Drug-Related Charges

April 01, 2015
… Narcotics Ring Extending Throughout Manhattan, The Bronx, And New Jersey Indicted On Conspiracy And Drug-Related … four years, he evaded drug distribution charges stemming from alleged hand to hand sales to multiple kilogram sales, … filed in court and statements made on the record in court, from July 2012 to March 2015, the defendants engaged in a …
April 01, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Four Charged In Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

April 11, 2016
… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … of the unit. Investigators observed items being unloaded from the tractor trailer into the warehouse.  A short time …
April 11, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

16 Defendants Charged In A Commercial Burglary Ring And Drug Conspiracy

July 19, 2013
… 16 Defendants Charged In A Commercial Burglary Ring And Drug Conspiracy July 19, 2013 Washington, DC Contact … heroin, methadone, buprenorphine, cocaine and alprazolam from 2010 to the present: David Paschall, age 54, of … crimes, and interstate transportation of stolen goods from September 2011 to the present.  Three of the defendants …
July 19, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Owner Of Bronx Clinic And 23 Other Individuals Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than Five Million Oxycodone Pills

February 05, 2014
… Avenue in the Bronx to reclaim their neighborhood from drug dealers are the end results of unified police work … obtained can be deadly, and more people have been dying from prescription drug abuse than heroin and cocaine …
February 05, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Thirty-Six People Indicted For Their Roles In Nassau And Suffolk Heroin Ring That Operated Along Rte. 110

April 04, 2017
… arrested and arraigned on various felony charges ranging from Operating as a Major Trafficker, Criminal Sale of a … profiting off heroin’s potency by selling heroin bundles from locations, including hotels, along Route 110 that paved … Task Force to eradicate drugs and those who sell them from our neighborhoods,” said Nassau County Police …
April 04, 2017
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Family Summit
October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023

Rocky Mountain Field Division Family Summit in Salt Lake City, UT

4:30 AM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
Salt Lake City, UT
The Rocky Mountain Field Division will host its next Regional Family Summit on Thursday, October 19, 2023 in collaboration with the Utah Attorney General's Office. The event is free and open to families who have lost a loved one to a drug poisoning or overdose. The Family Summit will take...
ALERT

DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

March 20, 2023
… known as “Tranq,” is a powerful sedative that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for veterinary use.   … 107,735 Americans died between August 2021 and August 2022 from drug poisonings, with 66 percent of those deaths … Jalisco Cartel in Mexico, using chemicals largely sourced from China, are primarily responsible for the vast majority …
PRESS RELEASE

Jury Convicts Cocoa Man of Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Fentanyl

December 11, 2020
… scales covered with fentanyl and cocaine, and firearms from Swanson’s bedroom.          This case was investigated … Administration Orlando District Office, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Florida …
December 11, 2020
LANDING PAGE

Fentanyl Awareness

August 20, 2025
… Hours DEA will recognize National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day with extended DEA Museum hours from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 21. View Press … The Faces of Fentanyl, to commemorate the lives lost from fentanyl poisonings or overdoses. You are invited to …
August 20, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Sacramento Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

June 30, 2025
… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas Additional Division Info Community … seized cellphone, law enforcement found messages from at least March 2020 through December 2022 between …
June 30, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

April 22, 2022
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This bi-annual event offers free, … . “Disposing of unneeded medications can help prevent drugs from being misused,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
April 22, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Pacific Beach Resident Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl that Caused Two Overdoses

June 25, 2021
… of Kol’s fentanyl—also fatally overdosed that weekend from the same batch of fentanyl powder, which was … different and then became woozy and nearly lost his balance from the effects of it. Despite his own troubling experience … his remaining fentanyl powder down the toilet.  J.E. died from the fentanyl powder Kol sold to him. J.H. survived the …
June 25, 2021