HUNTINGTON, Wv. – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced that it has effectively dismantled an illegal steroid manufacturing and distribution facility, operating out of a private residence in Huntington. DEA Special Agents, working closely with their law enforcement partners, discovered a fully-operational clandestine laboratory used to manufacture illegal steroids...

MINNEAPOLIS – Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents from the Minneapolis/St. Paul District Office are reporting a significant increase in counterfeit pills entering Minnesota from drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) in California, Arizona and Mexico. In Minnesota, agents have recovered approximately 46,000 counterfeit pills during the first seven months of 2020, nearly...

OMAHA, Neb. – Between March 2015 and September 2018, the DEA Omaha Division office in cooperation with the Douglas and Sarpy County Sheriff’s Offices, Omaha Police Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska, conducted a complex, multi-jurisdictional investigation into a methamphetamine distribution organization with direct links to...

OMAHA, Neb. – The Omaha Division Drug Enforcement Administration is reminding people to secure prescription medications in an effort to avoid misuse, abuse and diversion during this time in which families are staying home over concerns of the Coronavirus pandemic. In 2018, 67,367 people died from a drug overdose with...

RED LAKE, Minn. – Agents with the DEA Omaha Division spent two days talking with approximately 300 middle school students on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota about the dangers of drugs, the science behind drug abuse and ways to avoid allowing drugs an opportunity to steal their futures...

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months of investigative and...

OMAHA, Neb. –Drug Enforcement Administration Omaha Division agents and staff celebrated Read Across America Week (which took place March 2-6) by reading to more than 1,000 elementary school students in Nebraska and Iowa. Reading from books like, “Green Eggs and Ham,” “Wacky Wednesday,” and “Hooray for Diffendoofer Day,” agents talked...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Louisville Division today announced that a prescription drug collection box is now available in the lobby of the Mazzoli Federal Building, located at 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Place, in downtown Louisville. This is the first permanent prescription drug collection box in...

MINNEAPOLIS – Agents and staff from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Minneapolis District Office participated in the 21st annual Government on Display Exposition held at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, on January 25. One of 23 agencies represented, the event drew approximately 7,000 people to the booths located...

DES MOINES, Iowa – Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration Des Moines Resident Office partnered with the Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, United States Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations to take down 21 high-ranking members of the Jesse Sanchez Drug Trafficking Organization based out of...