PRESS RELEASE

Case Update: Central Valley Marijuana Traffickers

March 31, 2014
… 571-387-5018 FRESNO, Calif.) - Marijuana cultivators from Kern, Stanislaus, and Fresno Counties entered guilty … material, and ammunition and seized $3,179 in drug proceeds from Hernandez's residence on the property.  Hernandez also agreed to forfeit the money seized from his residence. Hernandez faces a maximum prison term of …
March 31, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Fresno-Based Investigation Results In Nationwide Arrests For Drug Distribution And Cash Structuring Conspiracy

October 28, 2014
… into suspicious cash transactions led to eight individuals from California, Louisiana, Florida, and Ohio being charged … 25, of Monroe, Ohio. According to charging documents, from July 2012 through October 2014, Thomas and Gonzalez … the defendants would withdraw cash in equivalent amounts from the bank accounts at locations in California. In …
October 28, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Enforcement Administration Western Lab Wins EPA Federal Green Challenge Award For Electronics Recycling

June 09, 2015
… hope they inspire more organizations to keep electronics from ending up in landfills,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA … resulting in a nearly 10 percent increase over its baseline from the previous year, an increase greater than any of the … can reduce the environmental and human health impacts from improper recycling, divert waste from landfills, help …
June 09, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Fresno Man Pleads Guilty To Structuring Drug Proceeds

January 29, 2013
… pleaded guilty today to structuring proceeds derived from an interstate drug trafficking operation, Drug … acknowledged that he structured $693,905 in cash derived from marijuana grown in Fresno and shipped to Alabama in … people to obtain California medical recommendations from a local physician for the purpose of growing marijuana, …
January 29, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Jury Convicts Three Individuals Of Illegally Distributing Controlled Substances Over Internet

November 16, 2012
… beginning in 2004 through 2006, customers selected drugs from the SafescriptsOnline and PharmacyUSA web sites.  The … generated more than $24 million in revenue from the sale of the controlled substances.  The majority of … through international accounts in the form of transfers from credit card processors in Israel and Canada, as well as …
November 16, 2012
GENERAL INFORMATION

Responding to America's Overdose Crisis

January 23, 2025
… of controlled pharmaceuticals and listed chemicals from legitimate sources, while ensuring an adequate and … between the ages of 18 to 45, and it kills Americans from all walks of life, in every state and community in this … financial network to pocket billions of dollars in revenue from those sales.   Read Full Testimony No No Show Title No …
January 23, 2025
STORY

Educational Program Launched at San Diego High Schools to Educate Teenagers about Drug Smuggling

January 28, 2019
… Mexican cartels are increasingly recruiting juveniles from high schools in southern San Diego County to smuggle … dangers of juvenile drug smuggling; and to prevent youth from being pressured and used by drug cartels to smuggle … to provide dramatic examples of the consequences that flow from juvenile and young adult smuggling. Content includes: …
January 28, 2019
STORY

Houston Prepares to Embark on its 6th Annual Citizens Academy

March 12, 2019
… 2014 Citizens Academy and moreover the positive feedback from class participants, DEA Houston Division senior … of this program, an estimated 109 community members from the Houston metropolitan area have successfully graduated from the program.  In 2015, a group of graduates …
March 12, 2019
LANDING PAGE

DEA Chicago Podcast Series

April 22, 2025
… individuals working tirelessly to keep our communities safe from illicit, deadly drugs, from DEA Special Agents to parents, teachers and students.  … and DEA Chicago's commitment to keeping communities safe from illicit drugs.  Episode 2: Fentanyl Education in …
April 22, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Armed Meth Dealer Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

April 11, 2025
… surveilled by narcotics agents in January 2024 traveling from Mobile to Pensacola, Florida, where she would purchase … a pound of methamphetamine and a loaded .380 caliber pistol from Carlock during a traffic stop. Carlock admitted to agents that she had just obtained the methamphetamine from a supplier in Pensacola. She confessed that she …
April 11, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA to Hold 21st Take Back Event on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021

October 20, 2021
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease … Back Day has removed more than 7,000 tons of medication from circulation since its inception. These efforts are …
October 20, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

October 20, 2021
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease … Back Day has removed more than 7,000 tons of medication from circulation since its inception. These efforts are …
October 20, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Shutdown of drug-infested hotel that bred violence and death

March 08, 2019
… to shut down a drug-infested hotel located just 1000 feet from a Dallas elementary school, DEA Dallas Division Special … anyone other than Han Gil proprietors and immediate family from occupying the hotel, which the Court agreed likely … Mrs. Mun allegedly permitted dealers to distribute drugs from inside guest rooms.   The motion alleges that at least …
March 08, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Historic Methamphetamine Bust for DEA Los Angeles Division

October 05, 2022
… DEA agents and Task Force Officers, with assistance from detectives with the Fontana Police Department, … observed an individual carry out three weighted boxes from the residence and put them in a vehicle. A search of … seizure of approximately 3,552 pounds of methamphetamine from numerous boxes located in the garage of the residence. …
October 05, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Indictment Charges 19 in Alleged Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine

June 10, 2021
… conspired to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine from their suppliers in Mexico into and throughout the … to the indictment returned on May 5 and unsealed today, from April to August 2020, lead defendants Timoteo Gomez, … “Harvey,” 54, of Riverside, purchased methamphetamine from their suppliers in Mexico as well as Los Angeles and …
June 10, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Colorado Attorney General, DEA Task Force Dismantle Major Drug Trafficking Ring

February 12, 2021
… the last 20 years in Colorado, nearly 5,000 Coloradans died from a prescription opioid overdose. More than 900 of those … fentanyl. That number has risen sharply in recent years, from 49 deaths in 2016 to 220 in 2019, according to the …
February 12, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Two Waterbury Residents Involved In Fentanyl And Heroin Trafficking Ring Sentenced To Prison

March 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 … $50,000 in cash.  Nearly 50 grams of fentanyl were seized from Sanchez-Martinez’s Charlevoux Street residence. Imirici …
March 24, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Joins with Families Across the Country to Increase Awareness about the Dangers of Fentanyl

November 18, 2022
… The St. Louis Division invited more than 100 family members from across the division, from southern Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, with 43 … with the hope DEA and groups dedicated to reducing deaths from deadly drugs could help them learn how to build …
November 18, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Kansas City Man Sentenced for $1 Million Meth Conspiracy Near Elementary School

August 04, 2022
… 43, a lawful permanent resident of the United States from Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. … to distribute methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school from Jan. 1, 2014, to May 18, 2018. Co-defendants Jose … informant purchased one-half pound of methamphetamine from Eubanks for $3,000 in a transaction that involved …
August 04, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Four Defendants Plead Guilty to Meth Conspiracy Near Elementary School

February 04, 2022
… to distribute methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school from Jan. 1, 2014, to May 18, 2018. Eubanks also pleaded … Missouri, a lawful permanent resident of the United States from Mexico, pleaded guilty to his role in the … informant purchased one-half pound of methamphetamine from Eubanks for $3,000 in a transaction that involved …
February 04, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Texas man pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 720 kilos of cocaine

February 07, 2020
… in drug proceeds KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An El Paso, Texas, man, from whom officers seized nearly $500,000 in illegal drug … to participating in the drug-trafficking conspiracy from October 2013 to Nov. 15, 2018. Zaragoza-Navarrette … metropolitan area, and transporting illicit drug proceeds from the drug-trafficking organization back to Texas and/or …
February 07, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl That Contributed to Two Overdose Deaths

November 13, 2023
… showed that the fentanyl that Victim-1 used was purchased from Carter about two days before Victim-1’s death and that … Department of Justice, in 2019, nearly 71,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of …
November 13, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Wake County Man Responsible for Trafficking Methamphetamine Sentenced to 10 Years

December 20, 2024
… (919) 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Evidence seized from Michael Lynn Russell.jpg RALEIGH, N.C. – Michael Lynn … Fuquay-Varina Police Department to protecting our community from the devastating impact of methamphetamine trafficking. …
December 20, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Second-in-Command of Drug Distribution Organization Tied to Aryan Prison Gang Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

December 16, 2024
… and our partners work tirelessly to protect our community from people who sell drugs that harm and kill our citizens.  … that there is no other way to keep our communities safe from them.  Make no mistake:  If you deal drugs in … $338,000 of suspected drug proceeds, and 48 firearms from members of the conspiracy. In addition, during the …
December 16, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Former Mexican Police Officer and CJNG Cartel Member Sentenced in El Paso to 25 Years in Federal Prison

September 05, 2024
… that this particular group smuggled hundreds of firearms from the United States into Mexico from August 2022 to August 2023. Ramos pleaded guilty in … and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon Holderfield from Customs and Border Protection Office of Chief Counsel …
September 05, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Southeastern Connecticut Drug Trafficker Sentenced to More Than 16 Years in Federal Prison

September 06, 2024
… and firearm possession offenses. This matter stems from an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement … Amy Sarcia, Whyte obtained heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine from various sources in Connecticut, New York, and … distributed and used cocaine, accepted narcotics proceeds from Whyte and provided Whyte with weekly paychecks from her …
September 06, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Fugitive "Queen of the South" Returned to United States to Face Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges

July 29, 2024
… a downtown Tucson motel and apprehended Miller as she ran from the scene. In one of the rooms, agents discovered … represented to the undercover officer that she was “direct from [the] [S]inaloa [C]artel.” Over the ensuing months, … and money laundering activity that allegedly occurred from September 2021 through the end of 2022, again while …
July 29, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Indictment Charges Brothers with Trafficking Narcotic Pills

May 07, 2024
… had received approximately 34 similar packages mailed from the same source in Michigan, and also received approximately 46 packages from California and Oregon suspected to contain multiple … purchases of counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl from Kyle Petersen’s brother, Erik Peterson. Kyle and Erik …
May 07, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Omaha Division Notes Record Fentanyl Seizures in 2023

January 17, 2024
… lethal doses of fentanyl both in pill and powder form, from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota … communities. Sadly, none of these communities are exempt from the tragic consequences that can come from experimenting with or using fentanyl. This drug is …
January 17, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Fourth Circuit Upholds Former Tabor City Doctor’s Conviction for Operating a Pill Mill

June 26, 2023
… prescription pills NEW BERN, N.C. – A three-judge panel from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous, … dates to March 2017, when he was forced to resign from his medical practice due to concerns over his opioid … confidential informant (“CI”) obtained opioid prescriptions from Kim on twelve occasions.  On one occasion, he obtained …
June 26, 2023