PRESS RELEASE

Fresno Man Pleads Guilty To Structuring Drug Proceeds

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

… 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 …
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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
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican National Residing in Sacramento Indicted for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

… and two loaded Glock handguns. Hernandez is prohibited from possessing firearms because of prior felony … Additionally, in May 2021, Hernandez was deported from the United States, and on Nov. 6, 2025, was charged in … Office conducted the investigation with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Special Assistant …
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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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA to Hold 21st Take Back Event on Saturday, October 23rd, 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 …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Shutdown of drug-infested hotel that bred violence and death

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Historic Methamphetamine Bust for DEA Los Angeles Division

… 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. …
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Indictment Charges 19 in Alleged Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Missouri Man Sentenced to 28 Years for Leading Meth Conspiracy

… a conservative estimate of the total proceeds he obtained from the drug-trafficking conspiracy. On March 8, 2022, … acquired kilogram-level quantities of methamphetamine from Mexico and supplied co-defendants Patrick A. Dodson, … to others during the three-year-long conspiracy that lasted from Feb. 28, 2017, to Feb. 28, 2020. Fithen was arrested on …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
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Four Defendants Plead Guilty to Meth Conspiracy Near Elementary School

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Wake County Man Responsible for Trafficking Methamphetamine Sentenced to 10 Years

… (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. …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s OD Justice Devotes Critical Resources to Fatal Drug Poisoning and Overdose Death Investigations Across the United States

… based cartel source of supply multiple levels removed from the street dealer that provided the deadly dose of … who was sentenced to life without parole. This case stemmed from the fentanyl poisoning death of a young father. Investigators tracked the distribution chain from local dealers to Tulali, uncovering a major drug …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Indictment Charges Brothers with Trafficking Narcotic Pills

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Omaha Division Notes Record Fentanyl Seizures in 2023

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Melvin Hill Convicted by Jury on Federal Drug and Firearms Charges

… narcotics investigators that the source could buy narcotics from Hill. In February and March, this source made two controlled purchases of fentanyl from Hill in transactions that were recorded and surveilled … on March 10 and recovered a loaded pistol and crack cocaine from his person. In his car and hotel room, officers seized …