Drug Enforcement Administration

A Colombian man once referred to as the country’s most notorious drug lord since Pablo Escobar has pleaded guilty to cocaine smuggling charges in the U.S.

José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sports cars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.

Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration said their latest seizure of “rainbow fentanyl” is the largest ever in New York, with 15,000 brightly colored pills containing the drug found hidden in children’s toys.

Investigators say a woman in Manhattan was busted for selling rainbow fentanyl and hiding it in Lego boxes, Erica Byfield reports.

Officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration are warning of fentanyl appearing in bright colors, sometimes resembling sidewalk chalk or candy.

Three men are facing charges for taking part in a drug trafficking scheme that would have brought about a ton of cocaine to New York streets, authorities said. The bust marks the largest cocaine seizure destined for the streets of New York in over a decade. Jorge Aponte-Guzman, Nelson Agramonte-Minaya, and Carlos Maisonet-Lopez, who were initially arrested Sept. 29, were…

The NYPD and the city are using
confiscated drug money to help rebuild parks and communities. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Authorities say a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was killed when a passenger opened fire as officers were doing a routine inspection for illegal contraband on an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona

The DEA and its law enforcement partners have seized 9.5 million counterfeit pills so far this year, with fake tablets containing fentanyl making up the majority of that figure

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended the 2013 ruling that freed one of the drug lords most wanted by U.S. authorities, even though Mexico’s Supreme Court later ruled it was a mistake.

Last year, 17-year-old Zach Didier of Rocklin, California, died when he took what he thought was a prescription pain pill he purchased from someone he met on Snapchat. The pill ended up being a counterfeit with a lethal amount of the powerful opioid fentanyl.

Alarming amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl were seized in New York last year, reflecting a disturbing trend that has been overshadowed in part by coronavirus-related deaths, officials say. The state saw a whopping 214 percent increase in meth seizures and a 59 percent rise in fentanyl seizures in 2020 compared with the year prior, according to the New York Division…

Authorities seized animals including a white Bengal tiger, bobcat, kinkajou, porcupines, llamas, emus and deer after finding them at a South Texas residence while executing a search warrant last week.

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigator has been arrested on charges he sent sexually explicit images to an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old boy. Frederick L. Scheinin, 29, was charged with attempted production of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor. He appeared Friday in Manhattan federal court and was released on house arrest with electronic monitoring. A…

The Los Angeles Angels’ director of communication told federal investigators that he provided oxycodone to Tyler Skaggs and abused the drug with the pitcher, according to an ESPN report published Saturday.

A federal narcotics agent has admitted his role in a decadelong drug conspiracy that took thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York.

The Justice Department is moving forward to expand the number of marijuana growers for federally-authorized cannabis research.

An employee of a South Jersey fertility clinic is accused of swiping dozens of doses of the powerful narcotic fentanyl.

Three Georgia women bought a box of Legos while visiting a South Carolina consignment shop, only to find that the box was actually filled with about $40,000 worth of methamphetamine. Bulloch County Sheriff’s Investigator Jim Riggs tells The Statesboro Herald that the women gifted the box to a child, who opened it and discovered the three pounds of drugs. Deputies...

Federal prosecutors say an 83-year-old Manhattan doctor has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally dispensing thousands of opioid prescriptions to patients, one of whom died of an overdose two days after visiting the doctor.