Drug Enforcement Administration News

Following the arrest of 31 people in Operation "Arctic Chill," some items seized during the investigation were displayed for a press conference Thursday, July 2, 2009.

The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.

The discovery of a potent anesthetic at Michael Jackson's mansion renewed speculation about the role of drugs in the singer's death as preparations for the star's memorial gathered pace Saturday.

The DEA is like King Canute of old, who commanded the tides of the sea to go back.

Federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration along with state and local law enforcement officers have arrested 31 people following a lengthy investigation into a drug trafficking organization that supplied methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico for distribution in Washington.

A dozen people have been arrested, and 33 pounds of heroin worth $30 million and stuffed inside Build-A-Bear toys has been seized in a drug bust in the Bronx.

Dr. Allen Metzger was Jackson's personal medic on his 1996 HIStory tour, and even filmed the star's nuptials to first wife Debbie Rowe.

Jarvis Brown, 28, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced to five consecutive life imprisonment sentences, plus an additional 20 year sentence, late yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young, according to Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana.

Law enforcement sources have reportedly recovered a potent anesthetic from inside Michael Jackson 's Holmby Hills home.

Authorities say they seized 902 marijuana plants during a raid on an indoor growing operation in Owen County.

The Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug and Violent Crime Task Force conducted two separate raids on Wednesday, resulting in the discovery of local marijuana growing operations.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has joined the police investigation into Michael Jackson 's death.

Federal agents busted a drug-trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico in Washington state and carried unusually powerful weaponry, injecting a dangerous new factor into drug crime in the region.

The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claims the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.

The ousted president of Honduras says he will return home on Thursday with the president of the U.N. General Assembly, the head of the Organization of American States and the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador.

Michael Jackson's former British bodyguard says the star had a girlfriend in the months before he died, and recalled "confiscating" bags of prescription medicine from the singer out of fear that he might die.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is joining the investigation into Michael Jackson's death, a law enforcement official said late Wednesday.

The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.

The U.S. government said Tuesday that it was not renewing valuable tariff exemptions for Bolivia, complaining that the world's No.

Florida continues to see a rapid rise in fatal overdoses caused by prescription-drug abuse -- a trend fueled by a cottage industry of cash-only pain clinics -- while deaths from illegal drugs wane, according to a report from the state's medical examiners released Tuesday.