Drug Enforcement Administration
Latest Stories
rogue_dea_agent_54447.jpg
FILE - This June 13, 2016 file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, a federal judge threatened to throw out the guilty plea of Jose I. Irizarry, a veteran U.S. narcotics agent who conspired with a Colombian cartel money launderer — an unexpected twist that could derail one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the history of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
9_202022_immi-rainbowfentanyl8202.jpg
Two New York City men were charged after the Drug Enforcement Administration seized 300,000 rainbow-colored fentanyl pills and 22 pounds of powdered fentanyl worth $9 million, and an assault weapon, from a Bronx apartment. (DEA photo)
fentanyl.jpg
In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl that was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
mexican_cartel-money_launderers.jpeg
In this August 2013 surveillance photo provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Francisco Salgado and his sister Alejandra walk on New York's Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan where authorities say they made multiple cash deposits at banks within a few blocks of each other as part of a Mexican cartel money-laundering scheme. Authorities say the pair entered seven different banks making cash deposits of just under $10,000, all from piles of drug money they were carrying in designer purses and shopping bags. (DEA via AP)
dea_agent_overdose_kit.jpeg
Cam B. Strahm, assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shows an opioid overdose kit in portland, Ore., on Oct. 5, 2016, that he carries with him when he goes into the street. Strahm, the DEA’s top agent in Oregon says that as an opioid epidemic sweeps the country and the state, he wants to be ready to save a life if someone collapses in front of him from an overdose. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
DEA.jpg
An unidentified man, center, is escorted from a medical clinic in Little Rock, Ark., by Drug Enforcement Administration officers Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Early-morning raids in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi were the final stage of an operation launched last summer by the DEA's drug diversion unit, a senior DEA official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
DEA Strip Club.JPEG-0f2bf.jpg
Drug Enforcement Administration telecommunications specialist Glen Glover leaves court in New York, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. were arrested Wednesday on charges they flouted their duties by running a lucrative strip club in New Jersey where prostitution was captured on security video. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
ae3af1118b5a0816770f6a7067002d93.jpg
An unidentified man, center, is escorted from a medical clinic in Little Rock, Ark., by Drug Enforcement Administration officers Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Early morning raids in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi were the final stage of an operation launched last summer by the DEA's drug diversion unit, a senior DEA official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) ** FILE **
8899832c62b3f316760f6a706700d8e6.jpg
A firearm and 154 pounds of heroin worth at least $50 million are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration news conference, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 in New York. The DEA called the heroin seizure its largest ever in New York state. Officials said on Tuesday that most of the drugs were found in an SUV in the Bronx following a wiretap investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
b76a922ee0f35211740f6a7067004077.jpg
FILE - In this April 12, 2013 file photo, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Obama administration official says the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to resign soon. Leonhart is a career drug agent who has led the agency since 2007 and is the second woman to hold the job. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
4ec5a7e5c124ac10730f6a7067004728.jpg
Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Michele Leonhart speaks in Arlington, Va., on July 26, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**
License Plate Surveil_Live.jpg
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michelle Leonhart testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 12, 2013. Leonhart says the agency never installed surveillance cameras to photograph vehicle license plates near gun shows. The idea was proposed in an internal DEA email as part of an effort to investigate gun-trafficking crimes. Leonhart told The Associated Press in a statement Wednesday that the plan was only a suggestion, never authorized by her agency and never put into action. The AP also learned the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives didn’t authorize or approve the license plate surveillance plan. (Associated Press) **FILE**
DEA AP.jpg
Drug Enforcement Administration special agents (Associated Press) **FILE**
73f262db354fa80f510f6a7067006248.jpg
Surrounded by local law enforcement leaders, United States Attorney Andrew Luger and Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Riley, Drug Enforcement Administration, left, announced that more than 65 suspected heroin sellers were arrested and about 2.5 kilograms of the drug were taken off the street as part of a coordinated crackdown to rid Minnesota of the substance that has ruined lives, destroyed families and caused an alarming increase in deaths in recent years, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glen Stubbe)
d3c557053550a80f510f6a7067009f40.jpg
Surrounded by local law enforcement leaders, United States Attorney Andrew Luger, right and Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Riley, left, Drug Enforcement Administration announced that more than 65 suspected heroin sellers were arrested and about 2.5 kilograms of the drug were taken off the street as part of a coordinated crackdown to rid Minnesota of the substance that has ruined lives, destroyed families and caused an alarming increase in deaths in recent years, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glen Stubbe)
70246e78f2508f0e510f6a7067008ab1.jpg
William J. Bennett, the nation's first drug czar, is critical of the Obama administration -- especially the president -- for not using the "bully pulpit" of the White House to speak out against illegal drug use. A drug bust in New York City (pictured) netted more than $12 million in heroin and $500,000 in crystal methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York)
3_4_2014_legal-marijuana-78201.jpg
Thomas M. Harrigan, deputy administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, told the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations on Tuesday that easing laws governing marijuana threatens U.S. institutions. (Associated Press)
