The Los Angeles Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), along with its partners at the Glendale Police Department, made a major, potentially lifesaving, drug seizure earlier this week in support of Operation Take Back America. Investigators from the Los Angeles HSTF, working in partnership with the Glendale Police Department, stopped a...

The hunt is over. This week, Bolivian law enforcement captured Sebastián Enrique Marset Cabrera, transferring custody to DEA Agents, who escorted him to the U.S. following his expulsion from Bolivia. Described as a ‘modern day Pablo Escobar’, Marset will face justice in the United States for his alleged crimes. “Nearly...

The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of State, has announced reward offers of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrests and/or convictions of brothers René Arzate-García, also known as “La Rana,” and Alfonso Arzate-García, also known...

As millions of Americans turned their attention to football’s biggest stage ahead of Super Bowl LX in San Francisco, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and NFL Alumni Health (NFLAH) leaned into the power of the week, because it’s not just about entertainment, it’s also about influence. For the third consecutive...

While much of our attention is centered around the opioid crisis, meth has been making a comeback across Virginia, playing a large role in overdose death rates, and spreading. Methamphetamine is not just a rural area problem anymore – with international cartels taking over its production, it’s been flooding Virginia...

Law enforcement has seen them in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore metro areas since 2019, and they are becoming an increasing trend. What you should know about “trash cans” and how these plastic capsules, haphazardly packed with deadly fentanyl, can kill. What are “trash cans”? On local streets, these capsules...

On June 10th, the DEA’s Washington Division partnered with the Milken Institute to host an invite-only virtual roundtable event with local businesses. Major employers like Leidos, the Baltimore Ravens, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the American Medical Association, Sesame Street, and many others, joined to discuss the impact of addiction and...

This year, the DEA’s Washington Division, under their new Operation Engage DMV initiative, partnered with Baby Scientist (a nonprofit organization delivering fun and engaging STEM programs to socioeconomically disadvantaged students) to bring inspiring programs and prevention messaging to kids across the D.C. metropolitan area. Dr. Kristy L. McDowell, founder of...

Today, Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the DEA Washington Division issued a warning that drug dealers are marketing to teenagers through popular social media apps, selling drugs that look like prescription medication, and delivering counterfeit pills to kids and young adults in our area. Law enforcement officials...

Just this past week, three people in Arlington, Virginia overdosed on fentanyl-laced drugs – resulting in two deaths and one in critical condition. Like the majority of the overdose deaths recorded this past year, these overdoses involved suspected, counterfeit prescription pills laced with the deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl. Throughout the...