DEA Archived Press Releases

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Task Force Arrests Two Involved In Heroin/Fentanyl Overdose Death

CHICAGO - Aaron Moore, 28, of Chicago, IL was arrested in Chicago by agents from the DEA and members of the Oak Park Police Department. He was charged by the Kane County State’s Attorney Office with drug induced homicide for his role in the overdose death of Richard Gregoire. Richard...
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Doctor Arrested For Providing Prescriptions In Exchange For Sex Acts

SAN DIEGO - Physician Naga Raja Thota, a pain specialist with an office in El Cajon, was arrested this morning and charged with distributing oxycodone and other highly addictive drugs without any legitimate medical purpose in exchange for sex acts. The doctor was taken into custody by San Diego Drug...
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DEA 360 Degree Strategy Partnerships Target Violent Drug Traffickers And Gang Members In Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE - Operation “Smack” down, begun in March and led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) in partnership with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies targeted violent drug traffickers and gang members in an effort to reduce the availability of heroin, or “smack,” and prescription opiates. Sales of these drugs...
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DEA Prescription Drug Take-Back Numbers

SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 11th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 30, 2016. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 43 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...
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Feds Seize Longest Tunnel On California-Mexico Border

SAN DIEGO - Federal officials have seized what is believed to be the longest cross-border tunnel ever discovered with an estimated length of more than eight football fields, plus more than a ton of cocaine was confiscated, making it the single-largest cocaine seizure ever associated with a tunnel along the...
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Hundreds Of Counterfeit Oxycodone Tablets Seized At Port Of Entry Contained Ultra-Deadly Fentanyl

SAN DIEGO - A suspected smuggler’s recent attempt to bring hundreds of counterfeit oxycodone pills through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry has raised serious concerns among law enforcement officials here because the pills turned out to be ultra-deadly fentanyl. In Sacramento, California, there have been dozens of overdoses and...
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Feds Seize Another Tunnel; Multiple Arrests And A Ton Of Marijuana Seized

CALEXICO, Calif. - Federal officials seized a cross-border tunnel this morning following a lengthy multiagency investigation that resulted in the arrests of four people in Calexico, California and Arizona and the confiscation of more than a ton of marijuana. The tunnel, approximately 415 yards in length, stretches from El Sarape...
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DEA Attacks Indiana Opana Painkiller Epidemic

INDIANAPOLIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced 10 arrests for drug trafficking charges related to Opana and methamphetamine in southern Indiana. Launched last year, this operation involved state, local and federal law enforcement in attacking the opioid and recent HIV epidemic Scott and Clark Counties. In April of 2015...
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Sixth Madison-Area College Student Sentenced For Conspiracy To Import & Distribute Marijuana In Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Yotam Israeli,23, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute marijuana in the Madison area...
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Organizer Of Madison Marijuana Conspiracy Sentenced To 2 A½ Years In Federal Prison

- MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Amadou Camara,Sun Prairie, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 30 months in prison for conspiring with others to import and distribute marijuana in the Madison...