DEA Archived Press Releases

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DEA Charlotte District Office Heads Up Seventh Prescription Drug Take - Back Event October 26

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Charlotte District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...
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DEA Columbia South Carolina District Office Heads Up Seventh Prescription Drug Take - Back Event October 26

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Columbia District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...
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DEA Nashville District Office Heads Up Seventh Prescription Drug Take - Back Event October 26

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Tennessee District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their...
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More Than 20 Defendants Charged In City-Wide Drug Bust

OCT (INDIANAPOLIS) - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a city-wide operation that dismantled a massive drug trafficking organization in the Indianapolis area. The...
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Six Defendants Federally Charged With Drug Conspiracy And Money Laundering

MILWAUKEE - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a 13-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging six defendants with various...
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Thirty-Three Alleged Gang Members Arrested In Early Morning Raids By Local, State And Federal Officials

CHICAGO - - In a major pre-dawn enforcement action by a combined team of Chicago Police officers, DEA agents and additional State and Federal partners 33 individuals with alleged ties to the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent, drug trafficking street gang, were arrested. Ten defendants who allegedly directed or...
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Major Drug Trafficker Receives 14 Year Sentence

ATLANTA - Otis Henry has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking over 700,000 pills of BZP, a drug similar to ecstasy. “Based on the staggering amount of drugs in the case, the defendant earned every day of his prison sentence,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates...
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In Advance Of Large Music Festival, DEA Atlanta Sends Warning To Public About Dangers Of Illegal Designer Drug “Molly”

ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field (AFD),is sending a warning to the public about the dangers of “Molly,” a well-documented and dangerous designer drug that has recently surfaced at a number of large music events, with catastrophic consequences. The pure, high...
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Goose Creek Men Plead Guilty To Manufacturing Methamphetamine In Apartment Where Fire Killed Three Residents

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney William N. Nettles stated today that Jerald McCabe, age 34, of Berkeley County, SC, was sentenced by the Honorable Richard M. Gergel to 25 years imprisonment (1) conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine; (2) manufacturing methamphetamine where children reside. McCabe had previously pled guilty on April...
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Funds Obtained In $4,078,713 Forfeiture Case Shared With Local And State Law Enforcement From Tennessee, North Carolina And California

(KNOXVILLE, Tenn - .) On Aug. 29, 2013, a press conference was held at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Knoxville, Tenn., to present 19 local and state law enforcement agencies with their share of funds forfeited in the case of U.S. v. Francisco Javier Cruz-Ramirez, et. al. Agencies receiving forfeiture...