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DEA Graduates the Sixth Annual Citizens Academy Class in Richmond, Virginia

… our hardworking employees, learn more about what we do, and how they can be a part of keeping their families and …
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Major Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty To Drug Distribution And Money Laundering

… Major Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty To Drug Distribution And Money Laundering December 31, 2014 Washington, DC … Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … titled “Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity; How to Disappear Until You Want to Be Found”; and pieces of …
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Methuen Man Pleads Guilty To Role In Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl, Fentanyl Analog And Cocaine

… Guilty To Role In Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl, Fentanyl Analog And Cocaine March 07, 2024 New …
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Norcross cousins plead guilty to operating meth lab

… pleaded guilty to methamphetamine trafficking on premises where a minor child resides and within 1,000 feet of a … a drug lab in a residential neighborhood demonstrates how little the defendant cared for the safety of neighbors … Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “Also, a child lived in the residence where the three operated the lab. Clearly, Garcia only cared …
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DEA Los Angeles issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

… quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in …
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Connecticut Man Charged With Distributing Fentanyl, Steroids

… Connecticut Man Charged With Distributing Fentanyl, Steroids January 20, 2017 New England Contact Info …
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15 Individuals arrested on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges

… possess with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl;    Christopher Stearns, 46, Rochester, NH  - … of law enforcement’s determination to disrupt the sale of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other dangerous drugs in New … possess firearms.  These prosecutions are an example of how federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies can …
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High-Ranking Member of Los Zetas Cartel Sentenced in Eastern District of Texas to a Term of Life Imprisonment

… Accounts X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info … Defendant’s Participation in the 2011 Allende Massacre, Where Over 100 Men, Women, and Children Were Slaughtered by … of the American justice system, but his lengthy sentence shows how mistaken he was.  His criminal career now at a …
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DEA Columbia District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… medication, no questions asked. This is just one of example how DEA is working hand-in-hand with its law enforcement and … “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they can enter their zip code.  Or they can call … Law enforcement continues to have autonomy with respect to how they collect controlled substance prescription drugs …
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DEA Charlotte District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… medication, no questions asked. This is just one of example how DEA is working hand-in-hand with its law enforcement and … “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they can enter their zip code.  Or they can call … Law enforcement continues to have autonomy with respect to how they collect controlled substance prescription drugs …
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DEA Nashville District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… medication, no questions asked. This is just one of example how DEA is working hand-in-hand with its law enforcement and … “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they can enter their zip code.  Or they can call … Law enforcement continues to have autonomy with respect to how they collect controlled substance prescription drugs …
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DEA Atlanta Divisional Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… medication, no questions asked. This is just one of example how DEA is working hand-in-hand with its law enforcement and … “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they can enter their zip code.  Or they can call … Law enforcement continues to have autonomy with respect to how they collect controlled substance prescription drugs …
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DEA Rocky Mountain Seizes Record 1.7 Million Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills in Colorado, Sixth-Largest U.S. Pill Seizure

… DEA Rocky Mountain Seizes Record 1.7 Million Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills in Colorado, Sixth-Largest U.S. Pill Seizure … history. “This played out like an episode of a TV show, where a winning bidder legally bought a storage unit and …
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Sumter Man Sentenced for Drug Conspiracy in Sumter, Richland Counties

… 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, and a quantity of cocaine and crack cocaine. … in both counties.  RCSD deputies made several undercover buys of methamphetamine and fentanyl from Tucker over a …
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Carrizo Springs doctor and office manager arrested on federal drug, health care fraud and identity theft charges

… Carrizo Springs doctor and office manager arrested on federal drug, health care … substances – including Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, and fentanyl – to patients outside the bounds of accepted … prescriptions to the offices and instructing the staff on how to fill them out. Dr. Luevano is also alleged to have …
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Teacher Resources

January 30, 2026
… educate your students about issues that affect their health and safety. Use the information and resources below to get smart about fentanyl and fake pills, then share what you have learned …
January 30, 2026
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Baltimore Drug and “Ghost” Gun Trafficker Sentenced

… sentenced to 136 months in federal prison for distributing fentanyl and heroin and for selling two “ghost” guns. … Gayle was arrested while in possession of 400 grams of fentanyl, 58 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as …
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DEA Rolls Out Operation Engage

… and will focus its Operation Engage efforts on illicit fentanyl, illicit stimulants such as methamphetamine, and … statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control show an alarming rise in drug overdose deaths, with synthetic …
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DEA & MPD Issue Public Safety Alert on Mass Overdose Events Across D.C. Metro Area

… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … Roanoke - (540) 857-2555 Winchester - (540) 662-5879 Fentanyl Lab Testing Counterfeit Percocet Pill Washington, …
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for One Fatal, Two Nonfatal Drug Overdoses

… pay $8,544 for his victim’s funeral. Craig first supplied fentanyl to a man in the bathroom of the Ameristar Casino in … substances known to man: fentanyl. Despite knowing just how dangerous and deadly fentanyl was, the defendant …
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DEA Launches Bold Bilateral Initiative to Dismantle Cartel Gatekeepers and Combat Synthetic Drug Trafficking

… are essential to cartel operations, directing the flow of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine into the United … Cole. “Project Portero and this new training program show how we will fight - by planning and operating side by …
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January 21, 2025
… & Administrative Support DEA offers professional and administrative career opportunities in a variety of … with the best of the best, a career that contributes to the well-being of the American public, and you're ready … Office of Chief Counsel offers a professional environment where attorneys derive job satisfaction from a job well done …
January 21, 2025
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DEA Social Media Blog: iDEAte 2.0 COMPETITION 2024, DEA's second innovation competition

January 16, 2025
… an agency-wide, grassroots, innovation competition designed to rapidly identify data-centric solutions for our most … provide a new perspective.  Data helps shine a light to see where you should be going. It's about helping people find … iDEAte 2.0 invites employees to submit an idea about how DEA can better harness data and technology to make its …
January 16, 2025
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Three Plead Guilty In Portland Area Drug Conspiracy Case

… to distribute controlled substances, including heroin, fentanyl, and alpha-(a-PVP), commonly known as a “bath … obtaining a-PVP from a Chinese source.  Stolkner placed online orders and wired money to the supplier.  The supplier …
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DEA Releases 2016 National Heroin Threat Assessment Summary

… and (435,000).  Deaths due to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl and its analogues, increased 79 percent from 2013 … this year’s summary is information on a recent phenomenon-fentanyl disguised as prescription pills-something allegedly … priorities, and allocate resources. The can be viewed online. hq062716_attach.pdf On …
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Texas Doctor Convicted for Illegally Distributing More than a Million Pills

… mirrored windows, in a Houston strip mall: Image of Clinic Where Marino Prescribed Drugs (Gov’t Trial Ex. No. 301)   … MIGHT BE A PILL MILL IF…” checklist. The evidence at trial showed that Marino intentionally disregarded all the red … carisoprodol. The patient’s OB/GYN testified at trial about how dangerous that drug cocktail was for both the woman and …
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Six Arrested for Multi-State Drug Conspiracy Spanning Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Texas

… distributing oxycodone pills. A series of controlled buys were conducted and Campbell’s telephone calls and text … with Russell at the Twin River Casino, in Lincoln, R.I., where Russell allegedly distributed oxycodone pills to …
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Seven Charged With Oxycodone Conspiracy In Broward County Pill Mill Operation

… including drug addicts and traffickers, seeking to buy large quantities of oxycodone and other controlled … encouraged the use of “sponsors,” a practice in pill mills where an individual “sponsors” a group of patients in the …
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President Obama Adds NEFD International Drug “Kingpin” To OFAC List

… to “remailers” in the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and elsewhere, who repackaged the drugs as individual orders and … using bank accounts in Austria, Bulgaria and elsewhere, and through the use of internet-based payment … Karner has also used drug trafficking profits to buy, among other things, a ski lodge in the Austrian Alps, …
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Two Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Cocaine Offenses

… arrests of two subjects who have allegedly been dealing or buying cocaine in the city for years, with little regard for … together in a taxi.  They arrived at the Chelsea building where Holder lived at approximately 4:25 a.m., and walked …