- WHAT: “STATEWIDE PRESCRIPTION TAKE-BACK EVENT” - WHEN: SATURDAY, APRIL 30th--10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - WHERE: STATEWIDE-over 90 drop-off locations - WHO: DEA and over 40 state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies - DETAILS: - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its state, local and tribal law enforcement partners...

ATLANTA, GA. - The United States Attorney’s Office, along with the David G. Wilhelm Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) Strike Force and the Henry County Police Department announce today that 10 individuals have been indicted for alleged drug trafficking and firearms-related crimes stemming from their operation of marijuana grow...

ATLANTA, GA. - On April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and numerous state and local law enforcement agencies will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring...

BRUNSWICK, GA. - A federal indictment, unsealed yesterday in federal court, has charged 21 defendants with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine and marijuana in Georgia and Florida. Several of the defendants have also been charged with weapons charges. The charge results from a joint investigation by the Drug...

COLUMBIA, SC. - Fourteen defendants were arraigned in Federal Court on a thirty-seven count indictment. The indictment alleges that all were members of a criminal street gang and that gang members conspired to distribute more than 280 grams of “crack” cocaine, more than 100 grams of heroin, and marijuana, and...

TUCSON, AZ - . - Federal authorities have broken up a drug trafficking organization operating along the United States-Mexico border. The organization is allegedly responsible for trafficking kilo quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States from Mexico, according to a case unsealed on Thursday. On Wednesday, agents...

- TUCSON, AZ. - Federal District Judge David C. Bury sentenced David Alejo-Martinez, Victor Manuel Bermudez-Chavez, and Abelardo Grajeda-Encinas each to 188 months imprisonment following their convictions at trial on May 13, 2010 for conspiracy to distribute 100 kilograms of cocaine and for distribution of cocaine. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s...

GREENEVILLE, TN. - Michael Norman Dube, 49, of Johnson City, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on March 23, 2011, in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, to omitting material information from records required to be kept under the Controlled Substances (CSA) and making a false statement in connection with the renewal of his...

PHOENIX, AZ. - Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee sentenced Rogelio Anton Perez on Tuesday to 12 years in the Bureau of Prisons. Perez, 30, of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty to the charge of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Cocaine. “The drug trade has...

ATLANTA, GA. - DEVON SAMUELS, 45, and KEISHA JONES, 30, both of Stockbridge, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in federal district court. SAMUELS pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder drug money and attempting to smuggle guns onto an airplane. In a separate case, SAMUELS and JONES pleaded guilty to conspiring to...