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DEA Announces Step To Increase Opioid Addiction Treatment

… Deregulation enables mid-level practitioners to prescribe and dispense buprenorphine to addicts WASHINGTON - The … today in the Federal Register, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can now become DATA-Waived … and dispense the opioid maintenance drug buprenorphine from their offices. Prior to the enactment of the Drug Abuse …
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Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks At Special Agent Graduation Ceremony

Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks At Special Agent Graduation Ceremony January 26, 2018 Headquarters Contact Info Contact Us (202) 307-1000 (571) 776-2508 DEA Public Affairs HRA-SAA@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us Headquarters Quick …
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DEA Eases Requirements For FDA-Approved Clinical Trials On Cannabidiol

… seamlessly.  This waiver effectively removes a step from the approval process. Marijuana is a Schedule I …
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Two Indicted For Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute Heroin And Methamphetamine

… and one and a half pounds of methamphetamine were seized from a vehicle occupied by the defendants after a traffic …
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One Of Two Men Indicted In 11 Kilogram Heroin Conspiracy Pleads Guilty

… Norzagaray-Pereda admitted he was transporting the drugs from Arizona to Washington state. Norzagaray-Pereda is …
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Southern California Man Brings Methamphetamine And Heroin To Fresno For Sale

… methamphetamine and over one kilogram of heroin was seized from the vehicle Ramon arrived in. This case is the product …
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Selma Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced To Federal Prison

… and the Fresno County Sherriff’s Department with assistance from the Bakersfield Police Department and the Kings County …
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Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

… and a co-defendant maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where law enforcement officers seized seven pounds of …
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Bakersfield Man Pleads Guilty In Bakersfield To Memphis Marijuana Trafficking Scheme

… conspirators planned to send large quantities of marijuana from Bakersfield to Memphis, Tennessee.  On August 26, 2013, …
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Mother And Son Sentenced To Federal Prison For Trying To Sell More Than 50 Pounds Of Crystal Methamphetamine

… Methamphetamine Task Force, which is made up of agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Immigration …
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Two Bakersfield Drug Trafficking Cases Sentenced On Monday

… facility to aid racketeering. According to court documents, from June 1, 2012, to November 30, 2012, Barragan conspired …
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Drug Transporter Arrested In Kern County Sentenced

… officer asked for and received verbal and written consent from Reynosa to search the vehicle. During the search, the …
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Madera County Marijuana Cultivator Sentenced

… of approximately 663,898 marijuana plants primarily from public lands in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and …
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Bakersfield Residents Indicted For Drug Trafficking

… undercover purchases of crystal methamphetamine were made from Aguilar and Iniego. This case is the product of an …
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Marijuana Cultivator Convicted

… 13,849 marijuana plants and marijuana plant root balls from 20 of the homes. The homes in Sacramento and Elk Grove …
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DEA National Rx Take Back Social Media Campaign

March 31, 2026
… National Prescription Drug Take Back Campaign is underway, and we created this digital social media campaign to … the word about the upcoming Take Back Day, on April 25th, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., local time. During #TakeBackDay, … throughout the country.  Look out for social media posts from @DEAHQ and our  DEA Field Division X/(formerly Twitter) …
March 31, 2026
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Mexican Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Over 15 Years for Conspiracy to Distribute 167 Pounds of Meth

… to records, Anaya-Valencia has twelve prior removals from the United States and nine previous criminal …
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Pain management doctor pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and health care fraud

… guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and health care fraud January 07, 2020 New York Contact Info … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … failing adequately to review records provided to the office from other providers, and failing to obtain a complete …
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DEA investigation leads to 36 arrests in fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine conspiracy

… two Cincinnati businesses were used to launder proceeds from the narcotics conspiracy: Tri-State Jeweler on Race … allegedly concealed and packaged to be transported to and from the Cincinnati region. According to the 15-count …
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Charges filed against dozens in trafficking network responsible for diverting over 23 million oxycodone, hydrocodone and carisoprodol pills

… for diverting over 23 million oxycodone, hydrocodone and carisoprodol pills August 28, 2019 Houston Contact Info … of Massachusetts as well as the DEA and task force officers from greater Houston police departments and the FBI.   The … substances to the streets, with some pills trafficked from Houston to Boston.   “This type of criminal activity …
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Fifteen Suspects Entangled In Operation Synthetic Web

… 11 undercover purchases of synthetic cannabinoid products from several convenience stores in Broward County.  One of … by Donvelles Cornelius Stone and Charlisa Nicole Franklin from Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers throughout Florida.  …
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Seventeen Alleged Members And Associates Of MS-13 Indicted For Murder, Conspiracy To Commit Murder, Drug Trafficking

… Seventeen Alleged Members And Associates Of MS-13 Indicted For Murder, Conspiracy To … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … brutal violence, but today we took that control away from them. Not only did we arrest the highest-level Mara …
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DEA Emergency Schedules Bromazolam

… the tools they need to respond. Protecting our communities from emerging drugs is a top priority, and we will continue …
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Union County woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine

… approximately two pounds of crystal methamphetamine from the unit. Marquez was arrested the same day. In …
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Father and Son Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison in Large-Scale Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

… 951-2900 Defendants conspired to traffic cocaine and heroin from Mexico to Springfield area OCDETF/Task Force Drug …
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DEA Announces Completion of Foreign Operations Review

… , which was led by Jack Lawn, a former DEA Administrator from 1985 to 1990, and Boyd Johnson, a partner at …
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Man Sentenced to 110 Months for Distributing Methamphetamine in Sauk County, Wisconsin

… an undercover police officer purchased methamphetamine from Savannah on two separate occasions in Lake Delton, …
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 5 Years for Role in Drug Trafficking

… in interstate commerce in addition to over $100,000 cash from drug distribution activities.  Neal has two prior …
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Sumter County man indicted for distributing methamphetamine

… by the undercover officer showed McCray selling the drugs from a rental vehicle. On at least one occasion, McCray had …
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Chicago resident sentenced to 84 months for possessing heroin with intent to distribute

… enforcement determined that McGee transported the heroin from Chicago so he could sell it in Minneapolis, Minnesota. …