United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SAN FRANCISCO - 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, 2016, Northern California...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Rosalio Laredo-Garcia, 21 of Hutchins, Texas, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $1,900 fine on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Co-Defendant, Hado Zepeda-Garcia, 25 of Wilmer, Texas was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in federal...

NOV 02 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Juan Alexis Diaz Pena, 26, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with the...

NOV 02 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Reginald Miles, Jr., also known as “Rocky,” 26, of Waterbury, was sentenced by Senior U.S...

NOV 02 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kevin Everett, 29, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A...

NEW ORLEANS - 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. On October 22, 2016, DEA’s 12th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, the New Orleans Field (NOFD)...

NOV 01 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Shawn Miller, also known as “White Boy Shawn,” 32, of Hamden, was sentenced today by...

NOV 01 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jorge Medina, 25, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, oxycodone and...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division announced today that 39,418.87 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware during DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event this past Saturday, October 22nd. A specific breakdown of amounts collected by regions...

TRENTON, N.J. - - Belarmino Amaya, 58, of Hesperia, California, was sentenced to 12 years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Michael A. Toto in Middlesex County. Amaya pleaded guilty to first-degree charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and money laundering. The 12-year sentence includes four...