WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions travelled to the FBI Academy on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, on Friday, January 26, 2018, to deliver remarks to graduates of the Drug Enforcement Administration Basic Agent Trainee class. Attorney General Sessions was hosted by DEA’s Acting Administrator Robert Patterson and Training Division...

WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration today announced a deregulatory measure that will make it easier for residents of underserved areas to receive treatment for opioid addiction. As published today in the Federal Register, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can now become DATA-Waived qualifying practitioners, which gives them...

WASHINGTON - A member of the Honduran National Congress faces U.S. charges for drug trafficking, weapons and conspiracy thanks to a DEA-led international drug investigation, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Honduran Congressman Fredy Renan Najera Montoya has been charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to import cocaine into...

WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration is streamlining the application process for researchers who study or wish to study Schedule I substances not currently approved for medical use. Schedule I drugs are defined as drugs, substances, or chemicals with no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, such...

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a California man who swallowed plastic bags containing approximately 600 grams of heroin and later admitted that he possessed the drug with...

CAMDEN, N.J. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that southern New Jersey has been designated as part of a comprehensive law enforcement, diversion control, and prevention effort called the “360 Strategy” to help cities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic, and its associated violent...

WASHINGTON - China’s Ministry of Public Security last week announced scheduling controls on two fentanyl precursor chemicals - NPP and 4ANPP, substances that can be used to make illicit drugs. The scheduling controls will take effect on February 1, 2018 and is the result of the ongoing collaboration between the...

NEWARK, N.J. - On October 30, 2017, new Special Agent in (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Valerie A. Nickerson, reported for duty. SAC Nickerson is replacing former SAC Carl J. Kotowski, who retired on October 27. SAC Kotowski oversaw the DEA’s New Jersey Division since April...

WASHINGTON - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond Donovan, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division, announced today that Efrain Antonio Campo (“Campo Flores”) and Franqui Francisco Flores De (“Flores De Freitas”) were each sentenced...

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced an Anaheim, California, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for laundering money on behalf of...