GREENBELT, MD - . - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Howard Ray Barnes, age 60, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, today to 140 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for distributing heroin, possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a gun in furtherance of...

BOISE - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Idaho will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous way to...

SEATTLE - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Washington will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous way to...

ANCHORAGE, AK - - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Alaska will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Keith Gidelson, a Philadelphia Police Detective, and 14 others were charged in a 17-count indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Also named in the indictment are fellow police officers Joseph McIntyre and George Sambuca, Gidelson’s wife, Kirsten...

MIAMI, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Miami Field Division Special Agent in (SAC) Mark R. Trouville announced today that DEA Miami has partnered with Clear Channel Radio South Florida and Mobile Mike to promote this month’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 10 a.m...

PROVIDENCE, RI. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against two men arrested in January in connection with the seizure of 65 kilos of cocaine and more than 1.2 million dollars in cash in North Kingstown. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration...

PORTLAND, ORE. - - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Oregon will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous...

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 JUAN, PUERTO RICO- - Ángel Ayala-Vázquez, aka “El Negro,” “Ángelo Millones,” “El Buster,” and “Papa Upa” and Luis X. Cruz-Vázquez, aka “El Mono,” were found guilty today of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin; crack; cocaine; marijuana; Percocet; and Xanax, following a two-month jury trial, announced Rosa...