DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Owner And Employees Of Indiana Medical Center Charged With Multiple Felony Counts

INDIANAPOLIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Howard County Prosecutor’s Office announced today felony charges against the owners and employees of the Wagoner Medical Center. The Wagoner Medical Center has offices in Burlington and Kokomo, Indiana. The charges arise out of an intensive investigation by the DEA, Kokomo Police...
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Antonio Indjai, Chief Of The Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces, Charged With Conspiring To Sell Surface-to-Air Missiles To A Foreign Terrorist Organization And Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy

WASHINGTON - - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against Antonio Indjai, the head of the Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces, for conspiring to provide aid to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de (the...
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DEA Continues To Act Against Synthetic Drugs

WASHINGTON - Today the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) published a Final Rule to permanently control 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-(methylone) and a Notice of Intent to temporarily schedule three synthetic cannabinoids. The first of two notices published in the Federal Register this morning is a Final Rule permanently placing methylone, a synthetic stimulant...
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DEA Leads Major Narco-Terror Operation

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York announced that five defendants - Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, the former head of the Guinea-Bissau navy; Manuel Mamadi Mane; Saliu Sisse; Papis Djeme; and Tchamy Yala - arrived in...
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CVS To Pay $11 Million To Settle Civil Penalty Claims Involving Violations Of Controlled Substances Act

WASHINGTON - CVS Pharmacy, Inc., and Oklahoma CVS Pharmacy, L.L.C., (collectively “CVS”), have agreed to pay $11,000,000 to the United States to settle civil penalty claims for record-keeping violations under the Controlled Substances Act and related regulations, announced Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Sanford C...
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Pekin Man Charged With Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man faces federal charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin resulting in three deaths. Anthony Mansini, 22, of the 4400 block of Meadow Drive, made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday and was ordered to remain in the custody of the...
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Seventeen Defendants Facing Federal Narcotics Or Firearms Charges Alleging Nexus Of Guns And Drugs In Chicago

CHICAGO) - Seventeen defendants are facing federal narcotics and/or firearms charges which demonstrate again the intersection of drugs and illegal gun possession in Chicago. An investigation by the Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of alleged drug-trafficking by a father and son that started less than a...
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High Ranking Gulf Cartel Member Convicted In Washington For Drug Trafficking

WASHINGTON - Aurelio Cano Flores, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, was found guilty today by a federal jury of conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal...
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High-Ranking Member Of Mexican “Los Zetas” Cartel Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy Charges

WASHINGTON - Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, aka “Mamito” and “Caballero,” a high ranking member of the “Los Zetas” drug cartel, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Assistant Attorney...
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DEA And Chicago Heights Police Department Make Arrests, Seize Weapons And Drugs

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), working closely with the Chicago Heights Police Department, arrested 3 individuals last Friday, and seized 3.5 kilograms of cocaine, ½ kilogram of heroin, a Romanian made AK-47 assault rifle, a Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol and a 2004, Nissan 350 Z convertible...