Drug Enforcement Administration News

In the past few months we've seen police sieze a pound and a half of cocaine in Augusta, and nearly 3000 marijuana plants in Washington County.

Authorities say they arrested more than 50 North Carolina residents as part of drug raids that netted hundreds of arrests across the country.

Detroit Police and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents have seized about $662,000 in suspected drug money after a tip on narcotics activity at a Detroit motel.

Medicare may be cut and Medicaid expanded as part of President Obama's health care plan, but there's no one permanently in charge of the two federal programs.

A U.S. border agent piloting a Black Hawk helicopter interrupted a million-dollar drug deal at a remote Michigan airport, leading to the arrest of two Canadians who remained jailed Monday.

With Americans increasingly engaged in prescription-drug abuse, law enforcement is attacking their supply line: home medicine cabinets.

The last two men who pleaded guilty to drug charges stemming from a $4 million raid in Gladwin County are headed to federal prisons.

Agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency have been watching a house on Coombs Street where they arrested a man four months ago for dealing cocaine, and their efforts paid off last week when they arrested four others.

After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia, assumed a new identity and lived a low-profile life as an architect in Argentina.

Two members of Mexico's deadliest drug trafficking organizations and major methamphetamine suppliers to the U.S. were arrested in St.

A multi-organizational drug bust recently led to the arrest of eight people in three metro counties, including two from Cherokee, who are alleged to be part of a Mexican drug trafficking organization.

Here's a detailed look at South Mississippi's most-wanted criminal suspects, including name, age, charge, details of the alleged crimes and the agency in charge of the investigation.

A Vaughan man, who considered using a submarine to smuggle dope, is wanted in Detroit for allegedly bringing more than a metric tonne of marijuana into the U.S. Hassan Mohammed Abboud, 37, led a group that used boats, trucks and had even thought of getting a personal submarine to cross the watery border, the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit ...

One million bucks! That's what Stamford Police officers and DEA agents say they found Thursday after searching a Stamford apartment allegedly being used to manufacture cocaine.

Investigators say they've stopped a six year drug ring. Drug agents say it's an operation that spanned Columbia and McDuffie counties.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 5:35 pm US/Central 1 of 3 Darrell Whitlock, 37, is charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, drug possession and multiple traffic violations in a Nov.

Collection boxes have been distributed this week throughout Gloucester County for Operation Medicine Cabinet, an effort by law enforcement and other partners to remove from homes unused prescription medicines that are commonly abused.

A multi-agency squad that targets drug traffickers in the San Diego area seized a record amount of marijuana plants being grown locally over the first 10 months of this year, authorities announced Thursday.

Operators of medical marijuana dispensaries in California are quickly learning that, contrary to recent news headlines, federal raids of medical marijuana clubs aren't going to stop -- an assertion the US attorney for northern California is unequivocally making.

An Auburn Gresham neighborhood motorist has been charged with murder for the death of a woman killed Tuesday morning on the South Side when a minivan driven by a drug suspect rammed her car after attempting to run over police officers.