PRESS RELEASE

DEA National Take Back Day set for April 27

… often that a family member or friend will steal one or two pills, maybe even an entire bottle, from the cabinet of a …
PRESS RELEASE

Opioid prosecutors continue to be focus of Southern District task force

… Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr., for stealing opioid pills oxycodone and hydrocodone from her employer, said U.S. …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Releases 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment

… 65 individuals, nearly $1 million, over 77,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, 250 lbs. of methamphetamine and …
PRESS RELEASE

Las Vegas Doctor Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Writing Unlawful Oxycodone Prescriptions

… state and federal law enforcement partners to put illegal pill-pusher doctors like Dr. Bruce in prison and out of …
PRESS RELEASE

Merrick Doctor Arrested For The Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone To An Undercover Police Officer

… the distribution of over half a million oxycodone pills throughout the streets of Long Island. I commend the …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

… from the community, can remove the unwanted prescription pills found in homes to prevent harm.  This collaborative …
PRESS RELEASE

Ten Defendants Charged with Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Alleging Prescription Drug Fraud

… 25 fraudulent prescriptions to procure in excess of 2,000 pills. The defendants named in the indictment, and their …
PRESS RELEASE

Three Eastern Kentucky Treatment Centers And Two Pharmacies Pay Over $1 Million To U.S. Government For Violations Of Controlled Substance Act

… they no longer have the authority to possess or dispense pills.  The investigation was conducted by the DEA.  …
PRESS RELEASE

Heroin, fentanyl trafficking targeted in Operation Jump Start, with seven indicted on federal charges

… identified distributors of heroin, cocaine and prescription pills in the Glynn and McIntosh County area. With assistance …
PRESS RELEASE

Former Veterans Affairs Doctor In Ohio Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

… pad.  The prescription was issued for 72 Oxycodone pills the individual requested.  The individual was not a …
PRESS RELEASE

Pharmacist Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Painkillers

… illegally dispensed over 11,000 oxycodone and oxymorphone pills. Today’s arrests are the culmination of a ten month …
PRESS RELEASE

Head Of Newman Drug Ring Pleads Guilty In Huntington

… to aggressively pursuing and shutting down illegal pill trafficking, eliminating open air drug markets, and …
PRESS RELEASE

O.C. doctor arrested on federal narcotics charges that allege prescriptions to ‘patients’ who suffered fatal overdoses

… ago when the doctor could not justify the number of opioid pills he was prescribing to individual patients. During two …
PRESS RELEASE

Huntington Man Pleads Guilty In Major Federal Drug Sweep

… in the distribution of cocaine, crack cocaine, prescription pills, heroin, (commonly known as Ecstasy) and marijuana. …
PRESS RELEASE

Uxbridge doctor sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute over 3.5 kilograms of amphetamines

… 1,500 prescriptions for Adderall—amounting to over 110,000 pills—were filled in Massachusetts alone based on Caraceni’s …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Operation Engage Spokane to Target Fentanyl

… Spokane Album  or   https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzGXGv . Fake Pills Press Conferences Outreach/Drug Prevention Synthetic …
PRESS RELEASE

SoCal Doctor Charged With Illegally Writing Prescriptions For Addictive Narcotics And Laundering Proceeds Of His Drug Dealing

… the “maximum” allowable number of extra-strength Vicodin pills. Based on review of the undercover recordings and …
PRESS RELEASE

Anchorage doctor sentenced for prescribing medically unnecessary opioids in health care fraud scheme

… to 30 different recipients, totaling 32,109 meperidine pills, knowing that the recipients did not truly need the …
PRESS RELEASE

Four Indicted For Federal Prescription Drug Fraud

… thousands of Schedule II, III, and IV, prescription pills, such as Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, and (Xanax).  …
PRESS RELEASE

Physician Arrested For Allegedly Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe

… care.  Furthermore, the approximately 300 OxyContin pills that Babu allegedly prescribed to the undercover agent …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Denver Division sets new record for 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… participants dropped off nearly 42,000 pounds of unused pills DENVER – With the robust participation of Americans …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA achieves significant milestone during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 815-4513 Americans across the country dropped off unused pills reaching a program total of nearly 11 million pounds …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA achieves significant milestone during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 815-4513 Americans across the country dropped off unused pills reaching a program total of nearly 11 million pounds …
PRESS RELEASE

Member Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Sentenced To 115 Months For Drug Trafficking And Attempting To Assassinate Criminal Associate Over Drug Debt

… and Peru, and large quantities of diverted prescription pills, such as oxycodone. The drugs were distributed in …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Atlanta Divisional Office & Partners to Hold 16th Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Columbia, South Carolina district office & partners to hold 16th prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… 234-8542 DEA aims to dispose of 10 million pounds of unused pills NEW ORLEANS – After collecting a total of more than …
PRESS RELEASE

Las Vegas Physician Charged With Unlawfully Prescribing Large Quantities Of Oxycodone

… cases and continue working to shut down dangerous unlawful “pill mill” operations.” According to the indictment, Bruce …
PRESS RELEASE

West Michigan Pharmacy Owner And Eight Additional Employees Indicted For Conspiracy To Misbrand Controlled Substance Pharmaceutical Drugs

… incorrect lot numbers and expiration dates and into amber pill vials that bore no lot numbers or expiration dates. The …
PRESS RELEASE

Four Members of Violent Bridgeport Gang Guilty

… distributed heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and Percocet pills; used and shared firearms; and committed at least six …