Drug Enforcement Administration News

The Treasury Department has targeted under the "Kingpin Act" 18 persons and five companies tied to a Mexican drug trafficker convicted in the brutal 1985 kidnapping and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent - prohibiting U.S. residents from conducting financial or commercial transactions with them and freezing any assets they have ... (more)

Dominick Gormanson, 20, has been charged in the June 29, 2012, traffic death of Christopher Blake Hicks, 20, of Ringgold.

AMRI announced today that its Burlington, Mass., site has received approval to expand its current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration registration to handle Schedule 2 and 2N controlled substances.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer inspecting packages shipped from overseas at the Kennedy Airport International Mail Facility, where seizures of steroids from China are increasing.

Federal drug agents opened the container of bodybuilding supplement to find a powdered substance.

Two Rikers guards busted in a two-year DEA probe for selling drugs and other contraband met their downfall thanks to a jailhouse snitch, The New York Post reports .

John Martorano, the self-confessed killer of at least 20 people, admitted today he has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars selling his life story and thousands more from the federal government after agreeing to testify against notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger and other members of Bulger's Winter Hill Gang.

On 06-11-2013 and 6-12-2013 the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, United States Forest Service, United States Marshal Office assisted the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration Metro Narcotics Task Force and the Davis Metro Narcotic Strike Force out of Salt Lake City, Utah regarding a 3 year long marijuana ... (more)

A Bronx, N.Y. man has been arrested on larceny and drug charges for allegedly using stolen electricity to power grow lights at a marijuana farm.

I. John Dryden is a teacher who told his students they didn't have to answer a questionaire on drug use.

LEAP representative Patrick Heintz , former Correctional Officer, discusses the failed "War on Drugs" and the absurd mandatory/minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders in a video posted with this article.

Federal and state authorities say 23 people have been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in western Arkansas.

Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a leading functionary of the New Patriotic Party, has called for a dispassionate public enquiry into the arrest of the Sohin Security CEO, Solomon Adelaquaye, by the US Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States.

The DEA today announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated 18 individuals and 15 entities linked to Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug trafficker.

There's both good and bad in the news reported earlier this week detailing an undercover drug investigation involving the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

DAGUPAN City may no longer simply be notorious for being a hub for illegal drug trading, but also home to a drug laboratory and or a major drug financier.

A former Kansas City, Kan., police detective filed an appeal Friday after losing a lawsuit in which he claimed he was punished for refusing to conceal a motorist's beating by federal agents.

Lauren Lanmon llanmon@cbs7.com June 14, 2013 Alpine - Federal agents make a break on a case involving drugs found on a school bus.

On this Father's Day weekend, a Claiborne County father will share a jail cell with his sons, convicted Friday in a $3 million pill ring.

President Obama has said cracking down on medical marijuana in states where it's legal, like California, wouldn't be a priority for his law enforcement agencies.