DEA Archived Press Releases

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DEA Billboard Offers Reward For Wanted Drug Trafficker $5 Million Reward Leading To The Capture Of Rafael Caro-Quintero

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...
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DEA’s Eighth Statewide Prescription Drug Take Back Day Results In Another Big Haul More Than 12,000 Pounds Of Prescription And Over-the-counter Medicine Collected

(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...
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On April 26 Take-Back Day To Help Residents Clean Out Their Medicine Cabinets Of Old, Unwanted, Potentially Harmful Drugs

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...
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Underground Steroid Distribution Ring Busted Raw Steroid Materials From China; 11 Search Warrants; Cash, Bank Accounts And Weapons Seized

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...
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Federal Designer Synthetic Drug Manufactures And Dealers Sentenced To Imprisonment Part Of Nationwide Effort Under Operation Log Jam

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...
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Omaha DEA Taskforce Honored By Midwest HIDTA For Investigative Effort

ST.LOUIS - The Executive Board of the Midwest HIDTA has recognized Omaha DEA's Task Force Tactical Diversion Squad with the 2013 Outstanding Prescription Drug Investigative Effort Award for 2013. This award is given to the initiative or group that exhibits outstanding investigative results in utilizing the cooperative spirit and tenets...
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Jackson County Man Sentenced For Methamphetamine Conspiracy

ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis Division announced that Charles W. Scallion, 41, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. This announcement was also made by Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for...
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Eldon Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Meth Conspiracy, Attempted Jail Escape

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced today that an Eldon, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Cole...
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Kansas City Woman Sentenced To 30 Years For Large-Scale Cocaine Conspiracy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy that was responsible for distributing hundreds of...
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Treasury Continues Targeting Sinaloa Cartel Leadership

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...