PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 17, 2024
… Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl January 17, 2024 Seattle Contact Info Contact Us … deadly dose is considered just two milligrams of fentanyl, which is approximately the amount that fits on the …
January 17, 2024
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 17, 2024
… Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl January 17, 2024 New Jersey Contact Info Contact Us …
January 17, 2024
GENERAL INFORMATION

Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow from the Southwest Border

January 23, 2025
… crisis in our nation’s history. This is because one drug—fentanyl—has transformed the criminal landscape. Fentanyl is … a global supply chain to manufacture, transport, and sell fentanyl, and rely on a global illicit financial network to …
January 23, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Former Health Care Worker Sentenced for Fentanyl Thefts

March 29, 2023
… Former Health Care Worker Sentenced for Fentanyl Thefts March 29, 2023 St. Louis Contact Info … a day in prison for stealing fentanyl from two hospitals where she worked. Faith Naccarato, 42, of Kansas City, …
March 29, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Transnational drug trafficker sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine and for money laundering

December 19, 2018
… Transnational drug trafficker sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine and for money … and then took direction from Calvillo and Casillas as to where the laundered drug money should be wired. During this …
December 19, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Hobbs Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Chase that led to Fentanyl and Meth Bust

August 08, 2025
… Hobbs Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Chase that led to Fentanyl and Meth Bust August 08, 2025 El Paso Contact Info Contact …
August 08, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 18, 2024
… Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl January 18, 2024 Phoenix Contact Info Contact Us … deadly dose is considered just two milligrams of fentanyl, which is approximately the amount that fits on the …
January 18, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 19, 2024
… Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl January 19, 2024 El Paso Contact Info Contact Us … deadly dose is considered just two milligrams of fentanyl, which is approximately the amount that fits on the …
January 19, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Seven Indicted in Seattle in Connection with Coast-to-Coast Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

March 03, 2023
… Seven Indicted in Seattle in Connection with Coast-to-Coast Drug Trafficking Conspiracy March 03, 2023 Seattle … Operation Engage Seattle Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … Seized cash and cars.jpg Seized firearms.jpg suitcases with fentanyl pills.jpg SEATTLE – Seven people have been indicted …
March 03, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Matriarch Sentenced for Role in Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization

March 28, 2023
… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … through Honduras into Guatemala and, eventually, Mexico, where the cocaine would then be imported into, and … Washington, D.C. “There is no way to know for sure just how much damage Ramos-Bobadilla left in her wake; however, …
March 28, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Woman Admits Role in Drug Conspiracy and Distribution of Fentanyl

November 03, 2021
… Woman Admits Role in Drug Conspiracy and Distribution of Fentanyl November 03, 2021 New Jersey Contact Info Contact … M. Heino NewJerseySpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 80 Mulberry Street 2nd Floor …
November 03, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Utica Man Pleads Guilty to Large Fentanyl Conspiracy

December 08, 2022
… Utica Man Pleads Guilty to Large Fentanyl Conspiracy December 08, 2022 New York Contact Info … with intent to distribute fentanyl and to distribute fentanyl, and one count of possession with the intent to …
December 08, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Dominican national sentenced to 70 months in prison for fentanyl conspiracy

March 22, 2019
… Dominican national sentenced to 70 months in prison for fentanyl conspiracy March 22, 2019 New England Contact Info … intent to distribute and to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, one count of possession with intent to distribute … a search warrant at Diaz Tejada’s residence in Lawrence, where they seized an additional 977 grams of fentanyl, 141 …
March 22, 2019
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Community Event
June 28, 2022
June 28, 2022

Town Hall Meeting

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
Kansas City, KS
Join DEA and the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department on June 28 to learn how counterfeit pills and fentanyl are threatening our community. In addition to DEA and KCKPD explaining how this dangerous drug is infiltrating the region, you will hear from Libby Davis, who lost her 16 year old...
PRESS RELEASE

Buffalo man going to prison for selling heroin and fentanyl

June 30, 2020
… Buffalo man going to prison for selling heroin and fentanyl June 30, 2020 New York Contact Info Contact Us … of possessing with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, and U-47700, was sentenced to serve 38 months in … walking in the Towne Gardens Housing Complex in Buffalo, where Buffalo Police officers observed him holding what …
June 30, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Four Co-Conspirators Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl and Meth in Idaho's Magic Valley

February 27, 2024
… Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl and Meth in Idaho's Magic Valley February 27, 2024 … that Morris had just returned from the Mexico border where she obtained these drugs before bringing them to …
February 27, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

December 04, 2025
… DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic … 571-362-2476 WashingtonDiversionOutreach@dea.gov WDO-FentanylPill-VA-2025 Approximately 1,400 counterfeit pills … lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed nearly 50,000 lives last year …
December 04, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Washington Chief Issues Public Safety Alert: Dangerous Increase in Fake Rx Pills Containing Fentanyl

September 27, 2021
… Alert: Dangerous Increase in Fake Rx Pills Containing Fentanyl September 27, 2021 Washington, DC Contact Info … died of a drug overdose in the United States last year. Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid most commonly found in …
September 27, 2021
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Major Seizure of Approximately 300,000 “Rainbow Fentanyl” Pills and Over 20 Pounds of Powdered Fentanyl in the Bronx

October 12, 2022
… Major Seizure of Approximately 300,000 “Rainbow Fentanyl” Pills and Over 20 Pounds of Powdered Fentanyl in the Bronx October …
October 12, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

5 Sinaloa Cartel Members plead guily to trafficking charges in Operation Cookout

January 29, 2021
… 5 Sinaloa Cartel Members plead guily to trafficking charges in Operation Cookout January 29, 2021 … terms in prison for distributing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Newport News and North …
January 29, 2021
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Mariah Ferry and Jose Torrez plead guilty to federal kidnapping charges for abducting and brutally beating two victims suspected of stealing drugs and money

February 14, 2020
… and money back. Ferry drove Smothermon to Torrez’s home where Smothermon and co-conspirators brutally beat J.S. with … drove Smothermon and J.S. to another co-conspirator’s home where Ferry beat J.S. further using the blunt end of an … contacted M.T. under a ruse that Smothermon wanted to buy marijuana from M.T. When M.T. arrived at Smothermon’s …
February 14, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán is found guilty on all counts

February 12, 2019
… (571) 387-3643 DenverSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 12154 East Easter Avenue … Cartel, under Guzman’s leadership, supply cocaine and fentanyl encountered in the Rocky Mountain markets through … This verdict will show the world no matter who you are, or where you are located, or how powerful you become, the DEA …
February 12, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Iraqi National Dealing Fentanyl from Glen Allen Hotel Room Sentenced to Prison

August 15, 2025
… Iraqi National Dealing Fentanyl from Glen Allen Hotel Room Sentenced to Prison August 15, 2025 Washington, DC Contact Info …
August 15, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Honduran Nationals Extradited to the United States to Face Federal Fentanyl Trafficking Charges

September 17, 2025
… Nationals Extradited to the United States to Face Federal Fentanyl Trafficking Charges September 17, 2025 Seattle … trafficking organization, Rodas Dubon returned to Honduras where he resumed coordinating the distribution of fentanyl …
September 17, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Washington Jury Finds Mexican National with Ties to the Jalisco Cartel Guilty of Trafficking in Hundreds of Pounds of Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine in Eastern Washington and Montana

April 18, 2025
… Cartel Guilty of Trafficking in Hundreds of Pounds of Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine in Eastern …
April 18, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Bakersfield Resident Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl

June 17, 2022
… Resident Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl June 17, 2022 San Francisco Contact Info Contact Us … today to six years in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug …
June 17, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

March 18, 2022
… Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy March 18, 2022 San … pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug …
March 18, 2022
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Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty for Attempting to Sell Fentanyl

February 04, 2022
… Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty for Attempting to Sell Fentanyl February 04, 2022 San Francisco Contact Info … guilty today to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in …
February 04, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Stamford Nurse Who Stole and Tampered with Hydromorphone and Fentanyl Vials Sentenced to Prison

August 12, 2025
… Stamford Nurse Who Stole and Tampered with Hydromorphone and Fentanyl Vials Sentenced to Prison August 12, 2025 New … hydromorphone and fentanyl at a surgical clinic in Stamford where she was employed as a nurse.  Judge Oliver also …
August 12, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Jury Convicts Winchester Man of Distribution of Heroin Resulting in an Overdose

November 03, 2021
… heroin pipeline and conducted dozens of controlled heroin buys, traffic stops, search warrants, and interviews with …
November 03, 2021