DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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-Media Advisory-

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...
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Former Police Chief Of Sullivan City Sentenced To Prison

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...
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Large Scale Colorado Springs And Pueblo Drug Trafficking Organization Dismantled

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. - On April 14 and 15, federal agents led by the DEA, working closely with local and state law enforcement, arrested 15 people from Southern Colorado who had been named in four separate indictments by a federal grand jury in Denver for drug trafficking offenses. The arrests...
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Michigan Based Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Harvard Drug Group To Pay U.S. $8,000,000 In Settlement

United States Attorney Barbara McQuade and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today a settlement between the government and Harvard Drug Group, LLC, which resolves allegations that Harvard violated the Controlled Substances (CSA). Harvard is alleged to have violated the CSA by failing to...
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The U.S. Attorney For The District Of Montana Announces The Execution Of 26 Criminal Search Warrants And 4 Civil Seizure Warrants In Montana

HELENA, MT. - The United States Attorney for the District of Montana, Michael W. Cotter, announced today the culmination of a 18-month multi-agency investigation into the drug trafficking activities of criminal enterprises operating throughout the State of Montana. In furtherance of that investigation, a total of 26 criminal search warrants...
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DEA And Colorado Attorney General Topple International Cocaine Trafficking Organization

DENVER, CO. - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that his office, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement (DEA), has shut down a cocaine ring that imported multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexico into Colorado. According to the indictment the cocaine trafficking operation was led by Noel “Chihuas” Loya...
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Loveland Meth Connection Broken

NOV 17 - Denver- Today, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), District of Colorado United States Attorney Bill Leone, and Larimer County Drug Task Force Commander Craig Dodd announced the conclusion of an eight month investigation into a major methamphetamine...
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DEA and El Paso County District Attorney Team Up

NOV 1 - Denver- Today, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) along with El Paso County District Attorney John R. Newsome announced the arrest of eight defendants, the seizure of 14 kilograms of cocaine, approximately a kilogram of methamphetamine “ice”...
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Money Laundering Scheme Exposed

NOV 1 - Denver- On October 31, 2005, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and United States Attorney for the District of Utah Paul M. Warner announced that a federal grand jury has indicted 15 individuals in Utah and Colombia...
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Record 7 Million Dollar Settlement

Denver, CO - Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division and Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, announced today that King Soopers, City Market, and their parent company, Kroger, have agreed to pay a record $7...