CHARLOTTE, NC - With public participation at an all-time high after four prior events in two years, on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., North Carolinians will be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge...

SEP (PHOENIX)- - With public participation at an all-time high after four prior events in two years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its state, local, tribal and community partners will hold its fifth Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day at various sites across Arizona on Saturday the 29 th. These Take...

ALBANY - , NY.DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Wilbert L. Plummer and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, announced today that he has embraced the Partnership at Drugfree.org to promote its national campaign entitled the ‘Medicine Abuse Project’ which begins on Sept. 23, 2012. Mr. Hartunian was joined by...

NEWARK, N.J.- - The United States Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, today launched the Right Prescription for New Jersey prescription drug abuse prevention initiative, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. The initiative is a collaboration of federal, state, and non-profit organizations and agencies, including the Drug Enforcement (DEA) New...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Kevin L. Lane, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Tristram J. Coffin, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, announced that Kristen Franco, 55, of Plant City, Florida, was sentenced on Monday, September 24, 2012, to 27...

Bangor, Maine - Acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin L. Lane Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Malcolm French, 50, of Enfield, Rodney Russell, 48, of South Thomaston, Kendall Chase, 55, of Bradford...

Gurdon, Ark. - William Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced that 23 individuals have been charged with drug trafficking offenses as part of Operation Ice Pick, which targeted drug trafficking activity in Gurdon, Arkansas and the surrounding area...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill for the Middle District of Florida, announces that a federal jury has found Samuel (42,Tampa) guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone outside the...

FRESNO, Calif. - Three defendants were indicted today for their involvement in a large marijuana cultivation operation in Squaw Valley, Calif., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The indictment charges Bounseuth Thourakhone, aka Boun Seuth Thourakhone, 52, of Fresno...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On September 14, 2012, Otagus Demond Coverson, a resident of Washington State who frequented Anchorage, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to life in prison without parole. In July 2011, jurors convicted Coverson of attempting topossess five kilograms or more of cocaine with intent to distribute...