United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SEATTLE - Over the last few days investigators executed search warrants at 17 different Puget Sound area locations, and a commercial property in New Jersey, in connection with an internationally funded drug trafficking organization sending thousands of pounds of marijuana grown in Washington to the New York City area. One...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Gordon Owen Miller, 60, of Clayton, to 20 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. On February 7, 2018, after a five-day trial, a federal...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, just as trial was set to begin, Martin Gasca-Rojas, 49, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. According to court documents, between October 2016 and May 2017...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peyton Erwin Eidson was sentenced this morning to 36 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service San Francisco Field Office...

SEATTLE - Nationwide Americans did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications at close to 6,000 sites across the country on April 28th, 2018. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed close to one...

SAN FRANCISCO - Northern Californians did their part to drop off unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at more than 150 sites in the region. Together with our local, state, and federal partners DEA collected and destroyed 30,172 (15 tons)...

SAN FRANCISCO - Steven J. Nemec was sentenced today to 57 months prison and ordered to forfeit $80,000 for structuring cash transactions. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Judge, following Nemec’s entry of a guilty plea on September 1, 2017. According to his guilty...

FRESNO, Calif. - A Modesto physician, Sawtantra Kumar Chopra, 71, was arrested today, charged with prescribing opioids to patients outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. On April 19, 2018, a federal grand jury in Fresno brought a 22-count indictment against Chopra. He...

SEATTLE - This weekend DEA and its partners will host one of the most popular DEA community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday April 28th, 2018, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose of their unused and unwanted prescription medications at one of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 28th. Since 2010 Northern California residents have turned in more than 413,000 (206 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted medications. The service is...