PRESS RELEASE

National healthcare fraud takedown results in charges against over 600 individuals, including several Chicago-area medical professionals

June 28, 2018
… is a betrayal of vulnerable patients, and often it is theft from the taxpayer,” said Attorney General Sessions. “In many … nurses, and pharmacists take advantage of people suffering from drug addiction in order to line their pockets. These … federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers from across America who made this possible. By every measure …
June 28, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Member Of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced

June 08, 2017
… imported large amounts of cocaine, marijuana and heroin from Mexico into the United States.  The indictment alleged … places in the United States, and smuggled drug proceeds from the United States to Mexico.  According to the …
June 08, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Investigation Of Alleged Chicago-Based Drug Trafficking Ring Results In 38 Defendants Federally Charged

June 22, 2011
… in Chicago, Cincinnati and New York who obtained narcotics from the Chicago-based group and others.  Twenty defendants … yesterday at the residences of six defendants stretching from the far south side to the north side of the city. DEA … the Blount-Bridges organization obtained heroin and cocaine from several different sources of supply, including a …
June 22, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

22 Charged, 7 Arrested In Major Los Angeles Strike Force Investigation

June 08, 2017
… - A major narcotics trafficking indictment resulting from an investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force was … hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin from Mexico into the United States. The narcotics were … via a network of cartel associates, and the proceeds from the domestic narcotics sales were then funneled back to …
June 08, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Operators Of Bogus Medical Clinics Charged In Conspiracy To Divert Massive Amounts Of Prescription Narcotics To The Black Market

August 03, 2017
… grand jury allege that members of the conspiracy profited from illicit prescriptions that were issued without any … supplied corrupt doctors in exchange for kickbacks derived from proceeds generated when the other sham clinics created … deter the investigation. After a load of Vicodin was seized from one of the conspiracy’s major customers, Matosyan …
August 03, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Leader Of Azusa Street Gang Involved In Drug Trafficking And Hate Crimes Sentenced To Nearly 20 Years

January 15, 2013
… would use violence in order to prevent African-Americans from moving into the City,” according to the indictment. … to aggressively defend those rights, and those residents, from harm.” Rios confirmed in court that members of the … racist incidents alleged in the indictment spanned a period from 1992 until May 2010, when an African-American high …
January 15, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

L.A. Garment District Money Laundering Cartel Scheme Exposed

September 10, 2014
… what is estimated to be at least $65 million in cash and from bank accounts around the world. In a BMPE system, a … finds business owners in the foreign country who buy goods from vendors in the United States and who need dollars to … drug trafficking organizations to collect money from their drug sales in the United States without having to …
September 10, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Life In Prison For Racketeering Kingpin

March 03, 2017
… nightclub in upper Manhattan. Rodriguez watched this murder from the safety of a nearby pool hall and later informed a … in the theft of a relatively small amount of marijuana from one of Rodriguez-Perez’s stash houses. In the shooting … return that firearm and, in spite, ensured that Perez died from a shot fired by the same weapon.   Marino Molina, on …
March 03, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Orlando Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring and Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Heroin

March 23, 2021
… at the same designated location and purchased narcotics from him. This occurred on six different dates and resulted … Santos-Garcia, at an address on Brosche Road in Orlando from which the co-defendants were distributing narcotics in … Administration Orlando District Office, with assistance from the Orlando Police Department. It is being prosecuted …
March 23, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

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

December 04, 2025
… commitment to protecting American lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed … contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76% of pills tested just two years prior in FY 2023. … fentanyl powder purity decreased to 10.3%, down from 19.5% during the same time period. These reductions in …
December 04, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

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

December 03, 2025
… commitment to protecting American lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed … contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76 percent of pills tested just two years prior in FY … fentanyl powder purity decreased to 10.3%, down from 19.5 percent during the same time period. These …
December 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Lawrence man faces 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to operating major fentanyl trafficking organization

October 08, 2019
… employed numerous individuals to sell fentanyl to customers from various New England states, including New Hampshire. … “Brian” and that most of the organization’s customers came from New Hampshire.  Distributors knew to identify customers … to as “the base” and dispatchers staffed “the base” from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Dispatchers took orders …
October 08, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

National Health Care Fraud Takedown: Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible For $1.3 Billion In Fraud

July 13, 2017
… to come.” “Last year, an estimated 59,000 Americans died from a drug overdose, many linked to the misuse of … the fight against heath care fraud to stop those who steal from the government and deceive the American public.” … is a reprehensible crime.  It not only represents a theft from taxpayers who fund these vital programs, but impacts …
July 13, 2017
GENERAL INFORMATION

DEA Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Data

January 22, 2025
… 2010 to 2022 (Inclusive) Data Unit: Each Record is Data from a Single Analyzed DEA Laboratory Exhibit Source of … State: State where obtained. The DEA aggregated data from the four states of ND, NE, SD and WY to safely address the risk of privacy disclosure resulting from a low volume of data.   Limitations Please be advised …
January 22, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Key defendant in Operation Snowplow drug trafficking investigation sentenced to two decades in federal prison

October 13, 2020
… the highest priority of not only removing dangerous drugs from the street, but also on seizing the ill-gotten gains of … distributing kilogram-quantities of cocaine and other drugs from Texas and California in February and March 2018. The … shipment to Savannah, and distributed to mid-level dealers from several Savannah-area residences. On March 5, 2018, law …
October 13, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S Prescription Drug Take-Back Effort-- A Big Success

October 01, 2015
… are shocking-approximately 46,000 Americans die each year from drug-related deaths.  More than half of those are from heroin and prescription opioids,” said Acting DEA … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
October 01, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Collects Record-Setting Amount Of Meds At Latest National Rx Take-Back Day

May 06, 2016
… drug abusers report in surveys that they get their drugs from friends and family.  Americans understand that cleaning out old prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and bedside tables … drug overdoses-78 a day-in (the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).  Eight …
May 06, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Paterson Man Admits Distributing Heroin That Caused Death of New York Resident

April 22, 2021
… and Individual-2 sold the same heroin they had obtained from Byrd to Victim-1. On April 3, 2016, officers from the Warwick, NY Police Department responded to a … of Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson; detectives from the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, Gangs and …
April 22, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Meth on the rise in New Jersey

February 01, 2019
… of the more rural areas of the state. Some recent analysis from the DEA’s Northeast Regional Lab has found some purity … crystal methamphetamine in the southern part of the state. From 2015 to 2017, the DEA Northeast Regional Lab has seen a …
February 01, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

April 25, 2019
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … Karen Flowers. “You will help prevent your medications from being misused and abused by others and DEA will safely … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine …
April 25, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Crystal Meth Trafficker Sentenced 5 Years in Federal Prison

February 25, 2022
… learned that the individual had received the meth from a tractor trailer driver who regularly transported kilogram quantities of meth and other drugs from California to locations in the eastern U.S.  In October … to use the crate to ship them $60,000 in proceeds from the sale of the drugs. On November 11, 2020, law …
February 25, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Texas Man Sentenced for Transporting Cocaine

June 02, 2023
… EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A man from Texas was sentenced to four years and nine months in … significant quantities of cocaine were being transported from Texas, through Illinois, and on to St. Louis. On Dec. … identified the defendant as a passenger. Upon questioning from law enforcement, a positive alert from a trained …
June 02, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Las Vegas woman pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana in St. Louis

March 11, 2021
… to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of marijuana from sources of supply based in California and launder the … couriered between 700 and 1,000 kilograms of bulk marijuana from Las Vegas to various cities including St. Louis. The … of approximately 100 pounds of bulk marijuana obtained from the source of supply and destined for the organization. …
March 11, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Utica men found guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy after jury trial

February 07, 2020
… and the distribution of cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. Additionally, Peralta was … fingerprints on some of the packaging material seized from the stash location. The cocaine base Peralta possessed … of between four years and life following their release from imprisonment. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a …
February 07, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Trafficking Approximately 50 Pounds of Meth into New Hampshire

August 20, 2024
… to traffic approximately 50 pounds of methamphetamine from Massachusetts to New Hampshire on five occasions.  From March through October 2023, Ramos received five …
August 20, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Lebanese businessman tied by Treasury Department to Hezbollah is sentenced to prison for money laundering scheme involving the evasion of U.S. sanctions

August 09, 2019
… support of Hezbollah. The designation prohibited Tajideen from being involved in, or benefiting from, transactions involving U.S. persons or companies without a license from the Department of the Treasury.   “This defendant …
August 09, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 17, 2024
… a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from 4 out of 10 pills in 2021 and 6 out of 10 pills in … lives lost.  Nearly 70% of these drug poisonings are from fentanyl.     DEA has responded to this unprecedented … both. These Counter Threat Teams draw on the intelligence from our 334 offices around the world to map the cartels’ …
January 17, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 20 Pounds of Fentanyl

August 09, 2023
… officers safeguarded countless members of our communities from the poison the defendant was intending to pollute into … with this poison. Today’s sentence removes Rodriguez from our community and sends a strong message that the FBI … and bring to justice drug dealers who seek to profit from the misery of others.” On September 26, 2022, Rodriguez …
August 09, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Rocky Mountain Diversion Investigator Named “Outstanding Citizen of the Year”

March 17, 2023
… in Bozeman.  DI St. Peter was nominated by a colleague from the Montana Department of Justice, Criminal … St. Peter is described as a humble leader in this excerpt from his nomination form. “ Applying his experience from time served working drug enforcement in Boston, and …
March 17, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Local Banker Sent to Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy

March 09, 2023
… to violate his position of trust for easy money, money from organizations that are destroying our communities.” … organization would transport multi-kilogram cocaine loads from the Rio Grande Valley to northern states. Upon … ensured the proceeds were successfully withdrawn from his branch in Harlingen.  Co-conspirators would …
March 09, 2023