United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SAN DIEGO - Over the course of the last four days, members of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, in collaboration with their enforcement counterparts in Mexico, have uncovered two sophisticated smuggling tunnels connecting commercial buildings in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial park with warehouses in neighboring Tijuana, Mex. The...

March 18, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - A former doctor in Paintsville, Kentucky, has admitted to his role in a conspiracy that was responsible for illegally distributing more than 25,000 Controlled Substance prescription pills in the eastern half of Kentucky. On Monday, March 17th...

March 18, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - The former owner of pain clinics in Georgetown, Ky., and Dry Ridge, Ky., that illegally dispensed controlled substance prescription drugs to thousands of patients, was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Karen...

SAN DIEGO - Four baggage handlers at San Diego International Airport were indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on charges that they conspired to smuggle cocaine and methamphetamine onto aircraft by exploiting their ability to pass unchecked through security screening areas. It’s believed to be the first federal drug...

March 7, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A doctor, a pharmacist and a marketer were convicted today in federal court in Detroit for distribution of controlled substances and health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by...

January 14, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 CLEVELAND - Twenty people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy that brought heroin and other drugs to Akron, and an Akron man was charged with providing heroin that resulted in an overdose death, law enforcement officials announced today...

December 18, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LONDON, Ky. - A Manchester pharmacy owner and his wife will forfeit their home, more than a million dollars, and six cars that were proceeds or purchased with proceeds from a drug conspiracy. In that conspiracy, the pharmacy owner filled...

December 16, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - Marc R. Kamp of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan has agreed to pay $125,000, to settle civil claims against him under the Controlled Substances Act, announced Barbara McQuade, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Robert L...

SAN DIEGO - This morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) San Diego Field Division's Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2013. During calendar year 2013, NTF...

December 04, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville physician was charged today, by a federal grand jury, with multiple counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, healthcare fraud and money laundering. The charges were announced by David J. Hale, United States Attorney for...