CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2018, turned in an impressive 29,412 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2018, turned in 8,502 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This was the...

NASHVILLE - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 28, 2018, turned in 20,590 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This was the third highest...

BOSTON - The final tally is in from the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on April 28th, 2018. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field (NEFD) and its partners, over the course of four hours, collected 88,182.07 pounds or 44 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs at...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Albert Angelucci, John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Connecticut, and Anthony Campbell, Chief of the New Haven Police Department, today announced the unsealing...

CONCORD, N.H. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Albert Angelucci and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray from the District of New Hampshire today announced that 45 individuals have been charged with participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Also participating in the announcement was Mary K. Daly, Director of Opioid...

BOSTON, Mass - This weekend DEA will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday April 28 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at one of 580 collection...

ATLANTA - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Joseph Manuel Hunter, a U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army, and two co-defendants, Adam Samia and Carl David Stillwell, both U.S. citizens, were convicted by a federal jury...

Atlanta - Darrick Lawrence, a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to 16 years, six months in prison for trafficking cocaine. Lawrence also faces charges in Virginia for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. A search of Lawrence’s Decatur, Georgia home resulted in the recovery of cocaine, two high-powered rifles, and...

Atlanta - Ten members of an alleged methamphetamine trafficking operation that sought to distribute more than $1 million worth of drugs have been indicted in a 13-count superseding indictment on charges of violations of federal drug, firearm, and immigration laws. Seven defendants were arraigned today in federal court. “Methamphetamine continues...