United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Keith Gidelson, a Philadelphia Police Detective, and 14 others were charged in a 17-count indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Also named in the indictment are fellow police officers Joseph McIntyre and George Sambuca, Gidelson’s wife, Kirsten...

MIAMI, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Miami Field Division Special Agent in (SAC) Mark R. Trouville announced today that DEA Miami has partnered with Clear Channel Radio South Florida and Mobile Mike to promote this month’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 10 a.m...

PROVIDENCE, RI. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against two men arrested in January in connection with the seizure of 65 kilos of cocaine and more than 1.2 million dollars in cash in North Kingstown. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration...

PORTLAND, ORE. - - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Oregon will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous...

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO- - Ángel Ayala-Vázquez, aka “El Negro,” “Ángelo Millones,” “El Buster,” and “Papa Upa” and Luis X. Cruz-Vázquez, aka “El Mono,” were found guilty today of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin; crack; cocaine; marijuana; Percocet; and Xanax, following a two-month jury trial, announced Rosa...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on April 22, 2011, a Centralia, Illinois, man, convicted of various crack cocaine charges, was sentenced to 180 (15 years), in federal prison. Frederick L. Webster, 49, of Centralia, Illinois, previously pleaded...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman and United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced the arrest of ten individuals and unsealing of a five-count indictment charging those individuals with narcotics and federal firearms violations, and money laundering. A federal grand jury sitting in San...

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Drug Enforcement Administration and its Los Angeles area community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. O n Saturday, April 30 th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time...

ATLANTA, GA. - A few weeks prior to the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back (Saturday, April 30, 2011) 5,146 (25% more sites than were established for the event last fall) nationwide have joined the effort that seeks to prevent pill abuse and theft. The free event will...