SAN DIEGO, CA - Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman, San Diego Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrests of 60 defendants as part of a takedown targeting Mexican and Iraqi drug trafficking organizations called Operation Shadowbox. In January of 2011, El Cajon PD...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman, San Diego Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Bonnie Dumanis, District Attorney for San Diego County announced today the arrests of 23 defendants as part of “Project Delirium,” a national takedown targeting Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...

DENVER, CO. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the overwhelmingly successful results of the second national prescription drug “Take-Back” campaign in the states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. The American public turned in more than 22,000 lbs. of prescription drugs for safe and proper disposal in...

SAN DIEGO, CA - The final tally is in from the second National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 30, 2011. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 29 locations in San Diego County and five locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four hours, 5,890.5...

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Alberto Benjamin Arellano-Felix, an alleged leader of the Arellano-Felix (AFO), was extradited today by the government of Mexico to the United States to face racketeering, money laundering and narcotics trafficking charges in the Southern District of California. The extradition was announced by U.S. Attorney Laura E...

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman and United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced the arrest of ten individuals and unsealing of a five-count indictment charging those individuals with narcotics and federal firearms violations, and money laundering. A federal grand jury sitting in San...

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...