United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The people of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands discarded almost a half-ton of unused, expired, or unwanted drugs as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) on Saturday, September 26. This past weekend, the DEA, with the assistance...

BOSTON - Twenty-five individuals were indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in connection with a southeastern Massachusetts heroin trafficking ring. Arrests were made this morning in Fall River, Lawrence, Taunton, Marshfield, New Bedford, Berkley and Providence. This indictment follows four other recent federal indictments charging 17 individuals in connection with...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Oct. 1, 2015, Faith Blake, 40, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 44 years in federal prison by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Judge. Upon her release from prison, Blake will serve a three year period of supervised release. Additionally, she was ordered...

SAN FRANCISCO - Results from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday demonstrate the public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs. On September 26, 2015, Northern California and Central Valley residents turned in approximately 24,832...

SEATTLE - -Residents of the Pacific (PNW) responded overwhelmingly to the most recent DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On September 26th, 2015, in a four hour period, residents of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska combined, turned in a record breaking 33,919 (17 tons) of unwanted or expired medications...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Cedric Moss, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert. Moss pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer, on October 9, 2014. The...

ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico issued orders today dismissing a lawsuit filed by a drug addict against the United States and five DEA agents and supervisors. Plaintiff Aaron Romero filed his lawsuit on July14, 2014, in which he alleged that undercover DEA agents...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Mushed Salam, 47, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced on September 28th to one year probation in U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to...

ATLANTA - Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, a.k.a. “La Barbie,” and Carlos Montemayor Gonzalez, who are charged in the Northern District of Georgia with importing drugs and money laundering, are among 13 defendants extradited from Mexico this afternoon to face pending charges in the United States. Valdez and Montemayor are alleged to be...

ROME, Ga. - James Earl Chapman, Jr., a doctor from Macon, Georgia, has been convicted after a two-week jury trial on 49 counts of drug trafficking for prescribing and dispensing controlled narcotics at a Cartersville, Georgia, “pill mill” pain clinic that served as a front for the mass distribution of...