Drug Enforcement Administration News

Somewhere in the remote wilderness of southern Utah on land controlled by the federal government, members of a Mexican cartel are putting marijuana plants in the earth in hopes of reaping a multimillion dollar harvest this fall.

Federal agents arrested a high-ranking DPNR official at the Red Hook ferry dock on Friday after they said they saw him using a DPNR boat for drug trafficking and found him in possession of 7 kilograms of cocaine.

The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office says two city residents have been arrested for possessing nearly $2 million worth of steroids and other controlled pharmaceuticals.

The third former wife of Charlie Sheen is embroiled in an on-going investigation to decide whether she can retain custody of the pair's twin sons, and her 'medical records' could be made available.

Two weeks ago, President Obama traveled to Costa Rica to observe a summit of Central American leaders, focused in part on regional security.

Jesus A. Carrera: 24, of 615 N. DuPage Ave. in Addison, was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration Thursday on charges of delivery of drugs and participating in a calculated criminal drug conspiracy.

Veronica Cabada hugs Alondra Lucio, who is 33 weeks pregnant with the child of Cabada's late son, Johann Sebastian Cabada.

This week the United States Drug Enforcement Administration made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances Act for the next two years.

When Hadiya Pendleton was shot in a Chicago park, she quickly became a symbol of the deadly street violence in the city.

A seaside view from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the head of the three-island U.S. Caribbean territory's environment agency was arrested on drug trafficking charges.

A man undergoing treatment for drug addiction and substance abuse reads a Koran at a rehabilitation centre of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Amman April 2, 2013.

During a four-hour period one Saturday morning in April, Mahwah police officers say dozens of area residents went to the police station to turn in old prescriptions and unused medications.

The Talladega County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force has several displays showing the types of drugs and drug paraphernalia they have come across over the years, from marijuana to methamphetamine to heroin, prescription drugs and dubious synthetics frequently available in convenience stores until recently.

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested and charged three people with trafficking in methamphetamine and endangering the welfare of a child on Tuesday, Jan.

HOUSTON One suspect was sent to the hospital after being shot by an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration Saturday afternoon near the Houstonian Hotel, police said.

NBC 5's Scott Friedman reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration says this isa dramatic change they've noticed for about six years.

The Drug Enforcement Agency took more steps to attempt to keep people from smoking a popular drug called K2, or spice.

Federal investigators with the Drug Enforcement Agency say drug cartels are using North Texas neighborhoods as a distribution hub for illegal drugs sent all over the country.

According to a 1997 report from a link on the Drug Enforcement Administration website, marijuana is the most used illegal drug in the United States.

Federal officials have arrested six people and charged them with hauling 4,890 pounds of marijuana to Kentucky for packaging and sale.