Tens of thousands of fentanyl pills recently seized by the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Field Division are pictured on July 1, 2024. (Credit: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) On the heels of a massive bust, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, expects the number of fentanyl pills seized in Utah this year to be record-breaking. In […]
A raid by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has taken over 22,000 fake oxycodone pills off the streets of DeKalb County. The bust happened on June 26. The pills are believed to contain deadly fentanyl. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] DEA Atlanta Field Division Deputy Special Agent Jae Chung says […]
One Drug Enforcement Agency agent was injured in a vehicle during an altercation with one of two people the agency was taking for an appearance in federal court Monday in Hattiesburg. For about an hour, West Pine Street, between First Avenue and Hardy Street was blocked off by Hattiesburg Police Department while the situation was […]
Mexico’s “most powerful and ruthless” cartels operate in all 50 states and clash in American cities, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a May report. The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels have flooded major U.S. cities with meth and fentanyl and use violence to protect their turf, the report found. “The deadly reach of the […]
Cannabis stocks are experiencing a surge in Tuesday’s afternoon trading session, fueled by an Associated Press report indicating that the US Drug Enforcement Administration is gearing up to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Trulieve (TCNNF) CEO Kim Rivers joins Market Domination to provide insight into the potential implications of this news. Rivers acknowledges […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent to four years in prison for leaking DEA intelligence to defense lawyers in a $100,000 bribery scheme that prosecutors said jeopardized drug cases and the lives of confidential informants. John Costanzo Jr. was found guilty last year of bribery […]
A longtime Florida Highway Patrol trooper on a federal task force in Jacksonville pleaded guilty Thursday to helping plan the theft of money and pounds of drugs confiscated from criminals. Joshua Grady Earrey, 45, faces at least five years in prison under a plea deal where he admitted three charges from an 11-count indictment filed […]
Drug enforcement agents conducting surveillance earlier this week of a luxury apartment in Hell’s Kitchen ended up arresting two suspects and seizing a cache of cocaine and methamphetamines with a street value of more than $1 million, authorities said Friday. A court authorized search of the W. 54th St. apartment revealed about 30 pounds of […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration, as part of its efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis, has identified a way to hit drug traffickers in a practical way: by going after high speed pill press machines. DEA Deputy Assistant Administrator Scott Oulton said these machines are capable of pumping out thousands of illegal pills an hour. Hundreds […]
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine were taken off the streets in Clayton County. In a Channel 2 Action News Exclusive, Gwinnett County Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents recovered $250,000 worth of meth on a truck in Clayton County. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Channel 2′s Matt Johnson […]
Feb. 12—EL PASO — The Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Division has a new Special Agent in Charge (SAC). On Sept. 11, 2023, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram named Towanda R. Thorne-James as the new Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the El Paso Division, which serves New Mexico and West Texas. Thorne-James reported to El […]
A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. Joseph Vincent, a dual Haitian-American citizen who lived in the U.S. and attended meetings in South Florida and Haiti ahead of the assassination, is the […]