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STAT
April 24, 2018
ASHINGTON — With pressure building on the the Drug Enforcement Administration to stem the supply of prescription drugs, a new proposal aims to empower ... “This doesn't get us anywhere, because in the end you're opening the door for a lot of challenges to your quota process,” said Joe Rannazzisi, theÃÂ ...
Beaumont Enterprise
April 24, 2018
This undated photo provided by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) shows Daniel Rendon-Herrera, an alleged drug-ring leader also known as "Don Mario," who was extradited from Colombia to the United States on April 23, 2018. He pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn on Tuesday April 24 toÃÂ ...
AL.com
April 24, 2018
U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton announced the sentence Tuesday ... During their investigation, DEA agents seized 8.8 kilograms of cocaine intended to be delivered to Ward from Arizona, and 4.6 kilograms of fentanylÃÂ ...
KTAR.com
April 24, 2018
“The opioid epidemic is a significant public safety concern that continues to kill a record number of Arizonans,” First Assistant United States Attorney Elizabeth ... According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), it only takes a small amount of exposure to the drug or its derivatives to cause severe andÃÂ ...
Herald-Mail Media
April 24, 2018
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Several sites in Jefferson County, W.Va., will take back unneeded or expired medications Saturday as part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's Drug Take Back Day. Medications can be dropped off from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the following locations: • Jefferson County Sheriff'sÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
April 24, 2018
Green Spirit Industries Inc. Names Luis F. Toledo to Advisory BoardFormer DEA Specialist and Security Specialist to Serve as Advisor to Cannabis Company Headquartered in ... Early in his career, Toledo worked as a Special Agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami in the 1990s.
NPR
April 23, 2018
Former Drug Enforcement Administration official Mike Vigil tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why adding more tech to the battle against Mexican heroin production is unlikely to do much. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email. Get The Stories That Grabbed Us This Week. Delivered to your inbox, these are theÃÂ ...
Huntington Herald Dispatch
April 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed an order that would reduce the influx of opioids pumped into areas highly ... "Under the proposed rule, DEA's opioid production limits would be more responsive to the risk of drug abuse by explicitly taking diversion into account," heÃÂ ...
State Gazette
April 22, 2018
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is set for Saturday, April 28. As part of this major health and safety initiative, the Prevention Alliance of Dyersburg & Dyer County (PADD), along with the Dyer County Health Department and the Dyer County Sheriff'sÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
April 21, 2018
The US Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating corruption allegations against an agent suspected of providing intelligence on multiple cases to Colombian drug traffickers, three sources familiar with the probe told BuzzFeed News. The sources said the scope of the case is believed to beÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating a former agent who was previously stationed in Colombia for misconduct, an American ... Congressional Democrats have called for an investigation into D.E.A.-led operations in Mexico, in which information passed from United StatesÃÂ ...
Homeland Preparedness News
April 16, 2018
DEA and U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue for the Eastern District of New York also announced the unsealing of an additional indictment against Quintero ... The indictment details his leadership role in trafficking methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana into the United States and elsewhere andÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
April 16, 2018
DEA confirms Arizona's first carfentanil death case ... The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed to us the victim was a 21-year-old man in Peoria. "The best ... "You can order it from a manufacturer in China, and they send it to the United States, and it lands on your doorstep in four days," Coleman said.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 16, 2018
Combine that with her parents' encouragement to work in a role that serves the public good, and perhaps her longtime stint as a Girl Scout, and she ended up at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Her 27-year career has brought her to San Diego as the DEA's newest special agent in charge — andÃÂ ...
CNN
April 13, 2018
Washington (CNN) US law enforcement officials announced a $20 million reward Thursday for the newest member of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, ... Caro Quintero, a senior leader in the Sinaloa cartel, was charged with conspiring to murder Drug Enforcement Administration agent EnriqueÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
Federal officials added new urgency on Thursday to the hunt for a drug kingpin convicted of orchestrating the 1985 death of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, announcing that the fugitive had been added to the F.B.I.'s 10 most wanted list. The notorious kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, who rose toÃÂ ...
Above the Law
April 3, 2018
Researchers here in the U.S. are eager to run trials with high quality Israeli cannabis strains they cannot get anywhere else. ... If the DEA licenses importers, only a limited quantity of marijuana comes into the United States, and protection against diversion from the grow operation is ultimately the problem ofÃÂ ...
cleveland.com
April 3, 2018
The killing never happened and the three men were taken into custody March 24, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said. The missing drugs were actually seized by federal ... The complaint says the DEA began its investigation into Rogers in January. Chief U.S. District Judge Patricia GaughanÃÂ ...
National Pain Report
April 3, 2018
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reports it is increasing the pressure on prescribers and pharmacies that it believes “dispensed disproportionately large amounts of controlled prescriptions.” For 45 days in February and March, the DEA used special agents, diversion investigators and intelligenceÃÂ ...
Pain News Network
April 3, 2018
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has arrested 28 people and revoked the registrations of over a hundred others in a nationwide crackdown that targeted prescribers and pharmacies that dispense “disproportionally large amounts” of opioid medication. For 45 days in February and March, a specialÃÂ ...
HSToday
April 2, 2018
The Inspector General has found that the Drug Enforcement Administration should investigate whether divisions are improperly fundraising for the Survivors ... The OIG was responding to two complaints that DEA officers were operating a store selling goods to raise proceeds for the Survivors Benefit fund,ÃÂ ...
Syracuse.com
April 2, 2018
About 92 percent of cocaine in the U.S. comes from Colombia, according to the DEA. " ... trends since 2013 reveal a remarkable increase in cocaine production, which poses an increasing threat to the United States," a DEA report says. Coca cultivation plummeted 53 percent between 2007 and 2012 asÃÂ ...
East Bay Times
April 2, 2018
DEA busts multi-million dollar Afghanistan heroin smuggling ring; defendant said to have Taliban ties ... Fakhoury also referred to a U.S. Department of Justice report that described Mexico and Colombia, not Afghanistan, as North America's primary sources of heroin. “For many Afghans, drugs are not just aÃÂ ...
The Montgomery Herald
April 1, 2018
Every aspect of the pharmaceutical supply chain bears responsibility for the havoc and senseless death unleashed upon West Virginia — and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is no exception. The DEA — the agency tasked with effectively limiting how many opioid pain pills can be manufacturedÃÂ ...
The Fayette Tribune
March 31, 2018
Every aspect of the pharmaceutical supply chain bears responsibility for the havoc and senseless death unleashed upon West Virginia — and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is no exception. The DEA — the agency tasked with effectively limiting how many opioid pain pills can be manufacturedÃÂ ...
The Examiner News
March 31, 2018
Members of the county Heroin and Opioid Task Force, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Diversion Task Force and the Pleasantville Police Department accompanied the lead law enforcement agencies in executing a search warrant at Bordin's home. “Bordin's drug delivery service wasÃÂ ...
KRON4.com
March 30, 2018
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A year-long investigation targeting a cartel drug ring operating out of an Austin mechanic shop netted more than three dozen arrests and copious amounts of narcotics. In a news conference Wednesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice releasedÃÂ ...
wtkr.com
March 30, 2018
Law enforcement with the Portsmouth Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency, recovered multiple ounces of heroin on Thursday. According to a tweet from the Portsmouth Police Department, the joint operation yielded a recovery of 4.5 ounces of heroin and $1,924 in U.S. currency.
KXAN.com
March 29, 2018
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A year-long investigation targeting a cartel drug ring operating out of an Austin mechanic shop netted more than three dozen arrests and copious amounts of narcotics. In a news conference Wednesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice releasedÃÂ ...
Press Herald
March 29, 2018
WASHINGTON — Two kinds of people visit the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center: those who could pass a DEA background check, and those who could ... Perhaps the most thrilling displays – especially to those of us who have never seen them in real life – are the actual drugs.
The Hill
March 28, 2018
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is deploying 250 additional task force officers and dozens more analysts across the U.S. in an effort to crackdown on the opioid epidemic. The additional manpower will be in areas the epidemic has hit the hardest, the DEA announced this week. A press releaseÃÂ ...
The Cannabist
March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON – Two kinds of people visit the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center: those who could pass a DEA background check, and those who could ... Perhaps the most thrilling displays – especially to those of us who have never seen them in real life – are the actual drugs.
The Pew Charitable Trusts (blog)
March 23, 2018
But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which regulates dispensing of the FDA-approved addiction medicine, has refused to license any new ... of the methadone industry's professional organization, the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, DEA official James Arnold said aÃÂ ...
KGW.com
March 23, 2018
Banned in a handful of states in the U.S., the DEA is considering making it a schedule one drug, the same class as heroin. "We want to get in front of the new drugs that are coming into the area," says Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple. Law enforcers like Apple say his deputies have been on the lookout forÃÂ ...
Stillwater News Press
March 23, 2018
Richard Salter, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Oklahoma, explains the business model he said was ... “This investigation is connected to even a broader one led by the DEA in the Oklahoma City area, which involved high-ranking members in a drugÃÂ ...
Cannabis Now
March 23, 2018
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced this week that it was now accepting comments on a Virginia-based biotechnology company's application to ... We asked Patterson how someone could import marijuana for research since the marijuana used in U.S.-backed studies must be provided by theÃÂ ...
Mountain Xpress
March 22, 2018
MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK: Delays introduced by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration meant growers had to scramble to get last year's ... North Carolina laid the legal groundwork for industrial hemp cultivation in 2015, and during their flyovers of Franny's Farm, those DEA agents did littleÃÂ ...
Wheeling Intelligencer
March 22, 2018
Yet law enforcement agencies in the Mountain State continue to raid drug stores handling enormous quantities of opioid pain pills. Robert Patterson, the DEA's acting administrator, had excuses. “Where we have fallen short in the past is by not proactively leveraging the data that is available to us” on painÃÂ ...
KSAT San Antonio
March 22, 2018
SAN ANTONIO - The Seguin Police Department and the US Drug Enforcement Administration teamed up in a joint operation that resulted in 19 arrests Thursday, officials said. Seguin police said that the people arrested range in age from 20 years old to 50 years old.
Law360
March 21, 2018
By Emily Field. Law360 (March 20, 2018, 8:33 PM EDT) -- The acting head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday told a congressional panel that the agency would be willing to hand to other legal challengers the same opioid sales data it has agreed to provide to the multidistrict litigation centered in Ohio.
Sentinel & Enterprise
March 21, 2018
PARAMUS, N.J. -- A Fitchburg couple was arrested on Tuesday by several law enforcement agencies after seven pounds of heroin, two pounds of cocaine and over $40,000 in cash was discovered in their car after a traffic stop, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Candido Tomasini, 35ÃÂ ...
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise
March 21, 2018
Guadalupe County Attorney David Willborn (left) receives recognition from the Drug Enforcement Administration assistant special agent in charge San Antonio District F. Dante Sorianello for his assistance in ... “Just recognizing our partners here in Guadalupe County is very important to us,” he said.
Charleston Post Courier
March 21, 2018
Personnel with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are assisting in the investigation of a suspicious fire in Mount Pleasant. ... Jason Sandoval, resident agent in charge at the DEA's Charleston field office, confirmed the federal agency was testing to determine what kind of chemicals were present.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 20, 2018
The dilemma reflects a philosophical crossroads for U.S. drug policy. President Donald Trump — who again on Monday called for the death penalty for major drug dealers — is holding fast to a punitive drug policy characterized by the decades-old “war on drugs.” “This is about winning a very, very toughÃÂ ...
Law360
March 20, 2018
By Emily Field. Law360 (March 20, 2018, 8:33 PM EDT) -- The acting head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday told a congressional panel that the agency would be willing to hand to other legal challengers the same opioid sales data it has agreed to provide to the multidistrict litigation centered in Ohio.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 20, 2018
Federal lawmakers railed against the Drug Enforcement Administration Tuesday for failing to stop prescription drug distributors from shipping tens of millions of opioid painkillers to ... “Where we have fallen short in the past is by not proactively leveraging the data that is available to us,” Patterson said.
Cato Institute (blog)
March 19, 2018
A recent story by Pauline Bartolone in the Los Angeles Times draws attention to some under-reported civilian casualties in the government's war on opioids: hospitalized patients in severe pain, in need of painkillers. Hospitals across the country are facing shortages of injectable morphine, fentanyl, andÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 19, 2018
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday that 62-year-old Philip Dean of Warrenton also is accused of lying to Medicare and Medicaid programs. ... The DEA says that in one case, Dean exchanged text and social media messages that were sexual in nature with a woman before prescribing drugs.
Miami's Community Newspapers
March 19, 2018
Kevin Pedersen, a former Senior Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will be the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club of ... School, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the U.S. Army before beginning his 21-year career with the DEA.
Saipan Tribune
March 18, 2018
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Kirk F. Johns disclosed that a review of the purchase logs for a pharmacy showed that Sablan bought 1,968 milligrams of active pseudo-ephedrine last Jan. 13. The U.S. Marshal served an arrest warrant on Sablan last Thursday after the DEA filed aÃÂ ...
