DETROIT - Thousands of Americans in communities across the country discarded more than 350 tons of unused, expired, or unwanted drugs as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) on Saturday, September 26. This past weekend, more than 3,800 federal, state and local counterparts took...

SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 10th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, September 26, 2015. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 42 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...

DETROIT - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back...

SAN DIEGO - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, DEA and its law enforcement and community partners 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. On Saturday, September 26th...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Richard Spriggs, Sr., 47, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to commit money laundering and unlawful possession of a firearm. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan...

DETROIT - United States Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states will be meeting in Detroit on August 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region. The effort was announced jointly by United States Attorneys Barbara L...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Joseph Jackson, aka “Jo Jo,” the lead defendant of a nine defendant heroin distribution conspiracy centered in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was sentenced to 17 years in prison. All nine defendants have been charged, convicted and sentenced in the Federal...

SAN DIEGO - Evelio Padilla-Zepeda, a Honduran national, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he donned a wetsuit and scuba gear and smuggled 55 pounds of cocaine through an underwater drug tunnel that exited into the All-American Canal just north of the international border. Padilla-Zepeda entered his plea...

COVINGTON, Ky. - The leader of a large drug trafficking operation, that distributed large quantities of heroin and marijuana in northern Kentucky and southern Ohio, has been sentenced to 353 months in federal prison. Today, U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar sentenced Alberto Lara-Chavez, 45, of Pasadena, Calif., for conspiracy...

MARION, Ohio - A nine-count federal indictment was filed charging a Marion man with selling heroin and fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Agent in Charge Joseph P. Reagan. Eric L...