PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced that on Oct. 6, 2014, Everardo Duarte, 38, of Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 12 years imprisonment. Duarte pleaded guilty on July 21, 2014 to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Columbia, South Carolina Charlotte District Office and other DEA offices throughout South Carolina, are partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its ninth and final National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Charlotte District Office and other DEA offices throughout North Carolina, are partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its ninth and final National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Nashville, Tennessee District Office and other DEA offices throughout Tennessee, are partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its ninth and final National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014...

ATLANTA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its ninth and final National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This one-day...

PHOENIX - On Sept. 25, 2014, the final defendant was sentenced in connection with Operation Push the Pawn - an investigation of a Phoenix area drug rip crew conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Internal Revenue Service and the Phoenix Police Department...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, U.S. District Judge Margaret B. Seymour sentenced Joenathan Shelly Chaplin, an attorney in Columbia, S.C. to three years of probation for making a false statement to a federal agent, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina...

PHOENIX - This Saturday, September 27, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and over 65 law enforcement partners will hold the ninth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Arizonans can take their expired, unneeded, or unwanted prescription drugs to one of over 90 collection sites across Arizona between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal indictment has charged six men with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today’s announcement by John S. Comer, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Lance C. Tew, age 26, of Greer, Jessica R. Hollingsworth, age 24, of Taylors, and Mary Virginia Merritt, age 42, of Greer, were sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, a violation of Title...