United States Drug Enforcement Administration

OCT 31 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel Lyons, 42, and Laura Lyons, 31, of Bangor were sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy...

OCT 31 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mario Lee, a/k/a “Moe”, 33 - , of Bangor, and formerly of the Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty in...

DALLAS - Nancy Pineda, 27, of Farmers Branch, Texas, remains in federal custody today following her arrest late Friday evening by investigators with the Farmers Branch Police Department and special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration on a federal criminal complaint stemming from her selling the heroin that caused a...

SEATTLE - Six years after the DEA launched its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Americans continue to turn out in large numbers to rid their homes of unused medications, including controlled prescription (CPDs) such as painkillers, tranquilizers, and stimulants. The Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington State, Idaho and Alaska) made...

SAN DIEGO - The final tally is in from the 12th National Prescription Take-Back Day which took place Saturday, October 22, and DEA and its partners took back nearly 8,000 pounds of prescription drugs at 39 locations in San Diego County and four in Imperial County. Over the course of...

NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New Jersey Division, announced that last weekend’s National Prescription Take Back Day resulted in the collection and destruction of 12,457 pounds, or 6.2 tons, of expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs throughout New Jersey. Nationally, 731,269 pounds-almost 366...

OCT 28 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Six years after the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) launched its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Americans continue to turn out in large numbers to rid their homes of unused medications, including controlled prescription (CPDs) such as painkillers, tranquilizers, and stimulants. On October 22...

OCT 28 - CONCORD, N.H. - Samantha Renehan, 29, of Lebanon, New Hampshire and Jamie Smith, 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possession of materials to manufacture methamphetamine and conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Michael J. Ferguson...

OCT 28 - CONCORD, NH - Mark Ross, 42, of Gonic, New Hampshire was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing a controlled substance that caused the death of Evangelique Tarmey. The sentencing was announced by Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug...

OCT 28 - CONCORD, NH - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New England Field Division and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Franklyn Morillo, 41, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, oxycodone and cocaine. Morillo...