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

Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Narcotics Trafficking Charges

July 15, 2016
… to distribute heroin in Bernalillo and Santa Fe Counties from Sept. 2012 through Dec. 2013.  It also charged Gene … and property and assets obtained directly or indirectly from the commission of the crimes alleged in the … 2012 and Dec. 12, 2013, he received heroin on consignment from a co-conspirator and redistributed the heroin in …
July 15, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Over 30 Arrested In Heroin And Gun Trafficking Sweep

August 04, 2011
… As a result, more than 38 “bricks” of heroin were purchased from Stevenson and his associates. A “brick” contains … revealed that Stevenson obtained most of the heroin he sold from Uwenzen Jenkins, 39, of West Orange. On July 1, 2011, … July 21, 2011, Stevenson sold two assault rifles, obtained from Leroy Taylor, to an undercover officer in the parking …
August 04, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

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

March 01, 2013
… and Mendez obtained kilogram quantities of narcotics from Arguijo on Sept. 3 and Nov. 26, 2012, and from Valencia-Pantoja on Nov. 30, including the cocaine that … of illegal weapons and narcotics in our communities from every angle,” said Garry F. McCarthy, Superintendent of …
March 01, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

DEA News: Huge Synthetic Drug Takedown

May 07, 2014
… 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 …   B-roll from Project Synergy Phase II is available at: …
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
… 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 … significant quantities of cocaine and using proceeds from drug sales to further finance the acquisition of a …
April 01, 2015
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

8:30 AM - 5:30 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...
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DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

March 20, 2023
… 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
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Museum
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

DEA Museum Lecture Series: The Kingpin Strategy

3:00 AM - 4:00 AM (EST)
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Former Administrator Robert C. Bonner joins us in the first installment of the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum & Visitor Center’s fiscal year 2021 lecture series Disrupt, Dismantle, and Destroy. Mr. Bonner will speak about leading DEA as it put the “Kingpin Strategy” into place in the early 1990s to combat...
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Fentanyl Awareness

August 20, 2025
… 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 … the public on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs. National Fentanyl …
August 20, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Sacramento Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

June 30, 2025
… seized cellphone, law enforcement found messages from at least March 2020 through December 2022 between … and sale of counterfeit M-30 pills (in quantities ranging from hundreds of pills to thousands of pills) and cocaine in … of seized jewelry, valued at over $50,000, that was seized from his residence. This case was the product of an …
June 30, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Illegal Alien and Mexican National Convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Kilograms of Meth

May 05, 2025
… in Hazlehurst, Georgia at trial for receiving a package from Jalisco, Mexico containing over two kilograms of 100% … 2024, the Defendant attempted to receive a package directly from Mexico containing what was described as a horse saddle. … States Postal delivery. The Defendant accepted the package from law enforcement and brought it inside his residence. …
May 05, 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
PRESS RELEASE

Seven Defendants Charged for Laundering Over $28 Million for DTO

July 21, 2021
… law enforcement agents seized over $6.5 million from the defendants’ money laundering organization, and, in … those who launder the proceeds of drug trafficking profit from the sale of dangerous narcotics that wreak havoc in …
July 21, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

August 21, 2022
… the public on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs.  DEA supports the … ever encountered,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.  “From large cities to rural America, no community is safe …
August 21, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Duplin Man Receives 15 Years in Federal Prison for Heroin and Methamphetamine Trafficking

May 11, 2022
… Office purchased approximately 2 ounces of methamphetamine from Hall at his residence.  Hall had the person come to his … because he was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor from a prior state felony conviction.  On July 30, 2019, … ATF received information that Hall was selling narcotics from a hotel room in Onslow County.  Law enforcement stopped …
May 11, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Suffield Man Sentenced to Nearly 8 Years in Prison for Trafficking Cocaine While on Supervised Release

June 07, 2023
… and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior narcotics trafficking conviction. According to … Horta-Molina arranged the shipment of a package from California to Juan Sanchez-Razon’s residence in … offense.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was released from prison early in May 2020, and he was on federal …
June 07, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Dominican National Sentenced to 45 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

May 24, 2023
… documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from a joint investigation headed by the DEA New Haven Task … received large quantities of fentanyl and heroin from suppliers in Connecticut and New York and distributed … narcotics transactions, and drug ledgers seized from the Sosa-Ortiz organization in October 2019 indicated …
May 24, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Ansonia Man Sentenced to 44 Months in Federal Prison for Drug Offense, Violating Supervised Release

April 19, 2023
… followed a previous federal conviction. This matter stems from an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement … and package illegal drugs.  Investigators also seized from Wiley jewelry valued at more than $100,000, and a 2021 … died of an overdose in August 2016.  He was released from prison in February 2020 and was on supervised release …
April 19, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Dominican National Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

April 11, 2023
… documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from a joint investigation headed by the DEA New Haven Task … received large quantities of fentanyl and heroin from suppliers in Connecticut and New York and distributed … narcotics transactions, and drug ledgers seized from the Sosa-Ortiz organization in October 2019 indicated …
April 11, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

New Haven Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Federal Prison for Role in Cocaine Trafficking Ring

February 16, 2023
… suspicious package that had been sent through the U.S. Mail from New Haven to an address in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.  The … kilogram quantities of cocaine that had been shipped from Puerto Rico to addresses in and around New Haven, the … Investigators seized the cocaine and a loaded 9mm handgun from their vehicle.  Correa-Ortiz, who had traveled to the …
February 16, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Money Courier For Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking Ring Sentenced To More Than 9 Years In Federal Prison

April 29, 2022
… kilogram-quantities of narcotics, primarily fentanyl, from a source of supply, and then distributing the drug to … 2019, investigators seized more than $200,000 in cash from members of the drug trafficking organization. Members … imprisonment for his prior federal conviction, was released from prison in August 2019, and was on supervised release at …
April 29, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Dominican National Sentenced to Prison for Heroin Trafficking and Immigration Offenses

March 17, 2022
… were receiving bulk quantities of heroin and fentanyl from out-of-state suppliers.  They then stored, processed … made multiple controlled purchases of heroin and fentanyl from De La Cruz, DeJesus-Concepcion and other members of the … Supermarket. DeJesus had previously been deported from the U.S. after a conviction for a federal narcotics …
March 17, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Remove Unneeded Prescriptions, Prevent Addiction

April 20, 2023
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers anonymous disposal … for a nonmedical purpose obtained that medication from a family member or friend. “Every day, the men and women of the DEA work to protect Americans from deadly drugs and drug poisonings,” said DEA …
April 20, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Mother of Three Children Sentenced to 23 Years for Meth Trafficking

December 05, 2023
… that Gonzales obtained large quantities of methamphetamine from a supplier in Arizona by traveling to and from Arizona while concealing contraband in a spare tire, or … he/she received one or two pounds of methamphetamine from Gonzales every one to three weeks. The informant …
December 05, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Dealer Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for One Fatal, Two Nonfatal Drug Overdoses

May 11, 2023
… friend were spotted in a car in a neighborhood a few blocks from R.P.’s house. Authorities were called when the car … overdose victims, and an undercover officer bought fentanyl from Craig later that day in a transaction that was recorded … for the money. The only safe solution to avoid dying from fentanyl is to avoid drugs, especially if there’s a …
May 11, 2023