NEW YORK - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country...

NEW ORLEANS, La. - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past 8 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the...

BOSTON, Mass - This weekend DEA will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday April 28 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at one of 580 collection...

WASHINGTON - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past 8 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country on...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Seven defendants charged in an indictment returned in November 2017 were sentenced in recent weeks by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Lubbock, Texas area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and a former PRI Party candidate for Mexican President, has been extradited to the United States. Ruvalcaba is charged in a Brownsville indictment which includes allegations of racketeering, drug smuggling, money laundering and bank fraud...

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Two indictments were unsealed today charging 15 individuals with federal drug trafficking violations. In one indictment, the individuals below are charged with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Jesus Manuel Rodriguez, a/k/a...

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Kevon (22, Bradenton) was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute carfentanil and cocaine. He pleaded guilty on January 12, 2018. According to court documents, on February 14, 2017, law enforcement officers with the Drug Enforcement (DEA)Tampa...

ATLANTA - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Joseph Manuel Hunter, a U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army, and two co-defendants, Adam Samia and Carl David Stillwell, both U.S. citizens, were convicted by a federal jury...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Carig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a second Burlington County, New Jersey, pharmacist was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a...