OMAHA, Neb. –Two members of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration Minneapolis District Office spoke with the Minnesota chapter of the International Association of Special Investigative Units last November in Eagan, Minn., on the deadliness of opioids in America and how the DEA is addressing the epidemic at the local...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that Knoxville will be the 13th pilot city to be part of a comprehensive law enforcement and prevention “360 Strategy,” designed to help cities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic, and the violent crime that accompanies it...

CELINA, Tenn. -- DEA investigators this week conducted inspections at several pharmacy locations in the Clay County, Tennessee town of Celina, following an inquiry into irregular patterns of pill purchases from drug distribution companies. DEA is now investigating possible criminal activity involving the illicit diversion of controlled prescription pharmaceuticals at...

OMAHA – Matthew R. Barden, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the DEA Omaha Division today announced a hugely successful month within the Omaha Division in the constant battle against drug trafficking. The past month has consisted of prison sentences of almost two decades in federal prison for methamphetamine traffickers...

(OMAHA, Neb) - Matthew R. Barden, the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the DEA Omaha Division today announced that a prolific heroin trafficker who was responsible for two overdoses, one of which ultimately turned fatal, was sentenced to over 27 years in federal prison. Donald Johnson (a.k.a. Scony), a...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart is encouraging everyone to participate in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event, held from 10:00am to 2:00pm, provides an opportunity for people to safely dispose of unwanted, unused or expired prescription medications. The service is free...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart and the Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, D. Christopher Evans announced today a major takedown of drug traffickers and related drug networks recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Huntington, as well as other narcotics, violent crime and firearm...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman pleaded guilty to a federal drug crime, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge D. Christopher Evans. Lorie A. Mayhon, 43, entered her guilty plea for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Special Agent in Charge Evans commends the investigative efforts of the West Virginia...

DALLAS - Jose Humberto Solis, 39, of Farmers Branch, Texas, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to serve a total of 128 months in federal prison following his guilty pleas in January 2016 and September 2017 to drug offenses as charged in two Northern District...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Gregory Jerome Mitchell, a.k.a “Jimmy Jombo Kalu,” 33, was sentenced on January 19, 2018 by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 262 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox...