SEATTLE - After collecting an average of 400,000 pounds of expired, unwanted prescription medications at each of its previous five events in the past three years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country on...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments on April 16, 2013, charging 12 individuals with methamphetamine and pseudoephedrine related conspiracy offenses. The indictments were announced by Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for...

SEATTLE - Jeremy Peter Capodanno, 36, was arrested late yesterday following his indictment last week for manufacturing marijuana, and two counts for discharging and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug crime. On December 6, 2012, Capodanno shot two people who had broken into the garage of his Puyallup residence...

SEATTLE - A Seattle man who had a home loaded with drugs, guns and cash, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison. Bernard Amin Mustafa III, 37, was arrested April 19, 2012, when agents with a search warrant found multiple drugs, fentanyl, cocaine...

SEATTLE - Jing Jing Mo, 32-year-old Seattle woman who co-owned and operated two marijuana storefronts was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Mo was a co-owner of Seattle Cannabis Cooperative with...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Robert E. O’Neill, United States (U.S.) Attorney for the Middle District of Florida; Carmen M. Ortiz, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida; and Palm Bay Police...

WASHINGTON - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (“OFAC”) today announced the designation of Honduran national Jose Miguel Handal (a.k.a. “Chepe Handal”), as a Specially Designated Narcotics (“SDNT”) pursuant to the Foreign...

APRIL 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On April 8, 2013, Derneval Rodnell Dimmer, 36, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 228 months in prison for his involvement in two separate cocaine investigations. The court also imposed a ten-year period of supervised release that will follow the nineteen-year prison term...

APR 05 - (Weston, Fla.) - In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders (ARCOS) reported that 90 of the top 100 oxycodone purchasing physicians in the nation were located in Florida. The number of Florida doctors appearing in that nationwide list dropped from 90 to...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Oneil Marlon Martin, a/k/a David Lawrence (33, Sarasota) to 66 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Martin to forfeit...