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DEA encourages communities nationwide to Go Red for Red Ribbon

…   to see key places and images from where Special Agent Camarena lived and worked.   For more …
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DEA achieves significant milestone during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and abused by family members and …
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DEA Announces Step To Increase Opioid Addiction Treatment

… DEA Announces Step To Increase Opioid Addiction Treatment January 23, 2018 … Deregulation enables mid-level practitioners to prescribe and dispense buprenorphine to addicts WASHINGTON - The … physician and 30 million people living in counties where treatment is unavailable. As a result, rural patients …
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code. Four days after DEA’s first …
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DEA Hopes To Remove A Third Of A Million Pounds Of Expired Prescription Drugs From Circulation On Its Sixth Take-Back Day April 27

… “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code.  Only solid medicines may …
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DEA Announces Arrest Of Alleged International Narcotics Trafficker

… Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (“DEA”) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and, announced today that on August 29, 2013, Panamanian … country are apprehended and brought to justice, no matter where they live.” DEA Special-Agent-in-Charge Derek Maltz …
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

… unwanted prescription medications over the past three-and-a-half years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and more than 4,200 national, tribal, and community law … “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code.  Or they can call …
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DEA Hero Joseph Piersante Honored By U.S. Secretary Of Defense

… and from his alma mater, Adrian College in Michigan, where he played football. The Secretary of Defense Medal for …
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Southern California Man Brings Methamphetamine And Heroin To Fresno For Sale

… to a parking lot located at Jensen and Highway 99 in Fresno where, after agents viewed the drugs, Ramon was arrested.  …
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Madera Marijuana Grower Indicted

… was arrested at a Madera county marijuana grow site where more than 17,000 marijuana plants were under …
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Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

… a co-defendant maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where law enforcement officers seized seven pounds of …
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San Jose Woman Pleads Guilty To Heroin Conspiracy

… behind the arm rest panel of the rear passenger seat near where Angulo’s infant child was sitting in a car seat. This …
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Repeat Marijuana Grower Pleads Guilty To 2013 Grow

… found on a rural parcel of land on E. Kings Canyon Road where approximately 31,500 marijuana plants were being …
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Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To Over 11 Years In Prison

… and his cousin maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where law enforcement officers seized seven pounds of …
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Bay Area Brothers Sentenced For Ecstasy Trafficking

… and cocaine were then transported to Canada, where it could be sold at a premium. This case was the …
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Fresno County Marijuana Cultivator Pleads Guilty

… documents, Sonephady was arrested at the marijuana farm where he lived. Law enforcement officers found and seized …
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Madera Man Sentenced For Marijuana Cultivation

… marijuana plants in the Fresno County mountains. One site where he tended plants was Soaproot Saddle in Fresno County. …
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Madera Vineyard Pot Grow Yields Five-Year Prison Sentence

… were also found within a mobile home on the property where Pérez admitted he resided. This case was the product …
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Fresno Conspirator Indicted For Marijuana Cultivation

… documents, Sonephady was arrested at the marijuana farm where he lived and the farm is within a mile of Central High …
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Operation Engage Anchorage

March 28, 2025
… Anchorage Anchorage Operation Engage Anchorage has moved to Spokane Welcome Letter from Frank Tarentino, Special … Alaska, to include rural villages. Opioids (illicit fentanyl and heroin) and prescription drugs are among the …
March 28, 2025
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DEA-led multi-agency investigation dismantles major New Mexico poly-drug trafficking drug trafficking organization

… cocaine base (more commonly known as “crack”), heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. During the course of the … of heroin, 2.68 kilograms of methamphetamine, and 2,000 fentanyl pills.  Investigators also recovered more than 30 …
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Dominican Authorities Extradite to the United States an International Drug Supplier Who Coordinated Local Distribution Through Encrypted Messaging Apps

… in connection with his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl to New Hampshire residents, U.S. Attorney Erin … controlled substances, specifically more than 40 grams of fentanyl. He appeared in federal court on September 30, …
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Drug Courier Arrested in Orange Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison

… followed by 18 months of supervised release, for a fentanyl trafficking offense.  Judge Oliver also ordered … as part of an undercover investigation, the DEA arranged a fentanyl purchase with an individual.  On May 24, 2023, …
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Two Pensacola Men Charged with Armed Drug Trafficking

… possession with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl, more than 500 grams of cocaine, and marijuana; one … possession with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl, more than 500 grams of cocaine, and marijuana; one …
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Multiple Defendants Indicted on Federal Drug and Gun Charges

… possession, straw purchasing of firearms, and trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. … is charged with multiple counts of distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine. The indictment alleges that …
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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion

… Engage Philadelphia Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … and distribution of tons of dangerous drugs such as illicit fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine across the … of 28 kilograms of heroin, seven kilograms of illicit fentanyl, 110 kilograms of cocaine, eight pounds of …
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Multi-Agency Investigation Shuts Down Violent Drug Trafficking Ring

… 8 grams of suspected cocaine, 320 grams of suspected fentanyl, comprised in hundreds of pills, 6.8 pounds of …
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Niagara Falls man sentenced to 78 months for role in drug conspiracy tied to Sinaloa Cartel

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … 2015, the defendant conspired with others to sell heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. Specifically, Mitchell received … of cocaine, 17.5 kilograms of heroin and 8.5 kilograms of fentanyl. Using standard dosage amounts, the seized drugs …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison on Drug Charges

… Operation Engage Seattle Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … in possession of 122 grams of methamphetamine, 365 grams of fentanyl, 29 grams of cocaine, $3,415 in cash, and a 9mm …
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Five indicted for running a pill mill in Hamilton

… The 114-count indictment alleges patients were prescribed fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine and other … for purported speaking engagements about a product called Fentanyl Spray, a medication intended for breakthrough …