SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that two Texas men were sentenced for conspiring to transport approximately 28 kilograms of powder cocaine. Ricardo Garcia, 28, and Jesus Christian Martinez, 34, both of Brownsville...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that two more defendants have been convicted in Operation Goldy Locks for their roles in a multi-state heroin ring which involved disguising heroin as oxycodone pills in...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 53, of LaGrange, Georgia, was arrested yesterday after being indicted by a federal grand jury, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and George L. Beck, Jr, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Dr. Ritchea, who...

NEW ORLEANS - On National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day held on April 30, 2016, the New Orleans Field (NOFD) and its community law enforcement partners collected 35,993 - pounds of unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs at 378 collection sites throughout the division. The amounts collected for each state within...

SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 11th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 30, 2016. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 43 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...

NEW ORLEANS - After collecting and destroying 5.5 million pounds-2,762 tons-of unused prescription drugs in the past five years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications. The DEA invites the public to bring their potentially dangerous, unwanted medicines to...

SAN DIEGO - Federal officials have seized what is believed to be the longest cross-border tunnel ever discovered with an estimated length of more than eight football fields, plus more than a ton of cocaine was confiscated, making it the single-largest cocaine seizure ever associated with a tunnel along the...

OXFORD, Miss. - A federal jury in the Northern District of Mississippi convicted two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of (ABM) gang for their participation in various criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy, methamphetamine production and trafficking, kidnapping, murder and other federal offenses. The verdicts marked the culmination of a 2...

SAN DIEGO - A suspected smuggler’s recent attempt to bring hundreds of counterfeit oxycodone pills through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry has raised serious concerns among law enforcement officials here because the pills turned out to be ultra-deadly fentanyl. In Sacramento, California, there have been dozens of overdoses and...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Miguel Angel Carbajal, 27, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised...