United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PHOENIX - On June 18, 2014, the final defendant was sentenced in connection with Operation Clean Green - a multi-year investigation conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Internal Revenue Service. Hector Raul Ortiz-Tarazon, Sr. and his son, Hector Francisco Ortiz, Jr. ran a drug trafficking (DTO) that shipped...

TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA)Special Agent in Charge, Doug Coleman, today announced the seizure of 89 pounds of white heroin and the arrest of seven defendants as part of an 11-month investigation. The seizure marks one of the state’s largest heroin busts. The investigation coined, “Operation Smack Talk”...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman today announced that o - n June 9, 2014, John Kweku Eshun, 52, of Ellenwood, Ga., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 41 months in prison. Eshun is the 12th and final defendant sentenced in...

PHOENIX - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) unveiled a billboard in Phoenix, Arizona seeking information for the capture of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero - . The new reward is being offered by the U.S. Department of State under the Narcotics Reward Program for information leading to the arrest and/or...

(PHOENIX)- - Today, Douglas W. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that over 12,000 pounds of prescription medications were collected during the eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Event. When added to the collections of previous Take Back events, DEA and its state, local and tribal...

PHOENIX - With public participation at an all-time high after seven prior events in three-and-a-half years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners will hold another Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 26th. Arizonans can take their pills to one of over 85...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman today announcedthe culmination of "Operation Bad Mussels", a 15-month investigation targeting an illegal anabolic steroid distribution ring that led to the indictment of eight individuals and 11 federal search warrants: five in Surprise, AZ, three in Omaha, NE, two...

PHOENIX - DEA Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo, District of Arizona today announcedthat Nicholas Pascal Zizzo, 27, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced on April 2, 2014 by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 54 months imprisonment and ordered to forfeit approximately $1.3...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ashley Gries, 19, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Danny Guy Forrester, 48, of Shippensburg; Gabriel John Stouffer, 30, of Newburg, Pennsylvania; Michael Anthony DeCarlo, 31, of Shippensburg; and Jeffrey Lynn Wright, Jr., 31, of Shippensburg, have...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) reported the designation of Jose Guadalupe Tapia Quintero, a Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico based senior lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel. Jose Guadalupe Tapia Quintero was designated...