EL PASO - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at more than 5,300 collection sites. That...

The public returns record number of potentially dangerous prescription drugs WASHINGTON - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs...

DENVER - This Saturday, October 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will conduct its National Take Back (NTBI) giving the public an opportunity to rid their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and...

ROSWELL, N.M. - In spring 2017, federal, state and local agencies joined forces to disrupt and dismantle a criminal organization that allegedly was trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine and numerous firearms in southeastern New Mexico. Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Acting Special Agent in Charge Steve Borak of the...

(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) - Wesley Eugene Parker, 25, of Fernandina Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine. He pleaded guilty on May 22, 2017. According to court documents, on December 28, 2016, and again on January 10, 2017, Parker sold powder cocaine to a confidential...

EL PASO - This afternoon, U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne T. Berton ordered 36 year-old Martin Arody Sanchez Aguirre held without bond pending trial on federal drug trafficking charges. Sanchez Aguirre is one of five individuals indicted earlier this month for trafficking in cocaine and heroin throughout the El Paso area...

EL PASO, Texas - Seven residents of Lea County, New Mexico, including four Mexican nationals, and a resident of Yuma, Arizona, are facing federal narcotics trafficking and money laundering charges alleging that they imported methamphetamine and cocaine into Lea County from Mexico through Arizona. The charges are the result of...

JUL 20 - (ORLANDO, Fla.) - Jeremy Achey, 43, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand in Boynton Beach, Florida, with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of controlled substance analogues. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. According to court...

JUN 28 - (FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) - Porsha Session, 31, of Boynton Beach, Florida, a Broward County School District employee was sentenced in federal court to three years in prison for obstructing a drug investigation. Session previously pled guilty to obstructing an official proceeding. According to the court record, federal...

DEA, Denver P.D. net 74 Defendants charged in the trafficking of illegal marijuana to out of state markets DENVER - Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman was joined by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Denver Police Department, and other area law enforcement agency partners to announce the indictment of the largest...