WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today identified the Ruelas Torres Drug Trafficking (Ruelas Torres DTO) and its leader, Mexican national Jose Luis Ruelas Torres, as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act). The Ruelas Torres DTO...

TOLEDO, Ohio - Two Toledo men were criminally charged after DEA agents arrested them for distributing six kilograms of heroin. Ricardo Rivera, 40, was arrested after DEA agents observed him take a black duffel bag from 1443 Western Avenue in Toledo and place it in the trunk of a vehicle...

DETROIT - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events. On Saturday, April 29, the event brought in 900,386 (450 tons) at close...

DETROIT - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events. On Saturday, April 29, the event brought in 900,386 (450 tons) at close...

DETROIT - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events. On Saturday, April 29, the event brought in 900,386 (450 tons) at close...

WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), DEA Educational Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today the finalists of the inaugural Operation Prevention Video Challenge-a peer-to-peer platform for communicating messages about the dangers of opioid misuse. The public...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events. On Saturday, April 29, the event brought in 900,386 (450 tons) at close...

DETROIT, Mich. - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - An Akron man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling Fentanyl that had been obtained from China, and resulted in a fatal overdose. Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja, and Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Detroit Field Division, Timothy J. Plancon...