(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - Four Anchorage residents have been charged for attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Anchorage Correctional Complex (“ACC”). Steven Cao, 32, a federal inmate at the time of the offense, Brandon Beltz, 26, Jennifer Delossantos, 33, and Allyson Moore, 20, all...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has returned two indictments involving the illegal distribution of and fraudulent billing for prescription opioids by health care professionals, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the...

SEATTLE - Over the last few days investigators executed search warrants at 17 different Puget Sound area locations, and a commercial property in New Jersey, in connection with an internationally funded drug trafficking organization sending thousands of pounds of marijuana grown in Washington to the New York City area. One...

SEATTLE - Nationwide Americans did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications at close to 6,000 sites across the country on April 28th, 2018. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed close to one...

NORTH TEXAS & OKLAHOMA - The final total is in from the 15th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 28, 2018. DEA and its partners, 142 participating agencies in total, took back prescription drugs at 179 locations throughout North Texas and Oklahoma. A total of 39,217 pounds of...

Oklahoma City, OK - Christopher Thomas Caplinger, 55, of Edmond, Oklahoma and three others have been charged with conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA, and Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. On March 20, 2018...

DALLAS - Fifty-seven individuals, who are connected to various white supremacist gangs have been charged in a case led by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division and coordinated by the Texas Anti-Gang Center with participating partners such as the Dallas Police Department Criminal Intelligence Unit and the...

SEATTLE - This weekend DEA and its partners will host one of the most popular DEA community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday April 28th, 2018, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose of their unused and unwanted prescription medications at one of the...

AMARILLO, Texas - This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Noel Cuellar, 37, of Amarillo, Texas, for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Amarillo area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Seven defendants charged in an indictment returned in November 2017 were sentenced in recent weeks by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Lubbock, Texas area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr...