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PRESS RELEASE

DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 24, 2015
SEATTLE - -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...
September 24, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 24, 2015
SEATTLE - -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...
September 24, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 24, 2015
SEATTLE - -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...
September 24, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Long-Time Drug Trafficker And Money Launderer Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Supplying Drugs To Alaska And Missouri

September 15, 2015
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - - On September 14, 2015, Steven Nicholas Taylor, aka “Nicky”, aka “Louie V”, 44, was sentenced in Alaska U.S. District Court for his convictions in two separate federal cases. In the Alaska case, Taylor was sentenced on his pleas of guilty for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances...
September 15, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces Major Steroid Operation

September 01, 2015
(WASHINGTON - DEA officials today announced a nationwide series of enforcement actions targeting every level of the global underground trade of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, the vast majority of which are manufactured and trafficked from underground labs in China. DEA-led Operation Cyber Juice comprised of over 30 different...
September 01, 2015
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Texas Man Sentenced To 70 Months For Role In International Drug And Money Laundering Conspiracy

August 27, 2015
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - - Jose Ramon Canales, 37, of El Paso, Texas was sentenced on August 26, 2015, to 70 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to launder drug money out of the United States and into Mexico. Canales previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to...
August 27, 2015
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Seventeen Arrested In Connection With Lengthy Heroin & Meth Investigation

August 06, 2015
SEATTLE - -A lengthy drug trafficking investigation of a criminal group with ties to California and Mexico has resulted in seventeen arrests and the seizure of pound quantities of methamphetamine and heroin. Over the last 36 hours, teams of local, state and federal law enforcement agents searched 20 locations across...
August 06, 2015
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DEA Announces Tip Line, Wanted Poster For Chapo

August 05, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today a toll-free tip line where the general public in the United States, Mexico, Central and South America can report any information that could aid in the apprehension of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera, who escaped a Mexican prison in...
August 05, 2015
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

July 28, 2015
SEATTLE - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded...
July 28, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

July 28, 2015
WASHINGTON - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time in every state but Pennsylvania and Delaware, where the event will take place on September 12. As with the previous nine Take-Back events...
July 28, 2015
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