Drug Enforcement Administration

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.

Police in suburban Park Forest are warning residents of an ongoing scam in which individuals are identifying themselves as government agents and demanding payment of fines with gift cards. According to an alert released by Park Forest police, authorities have received two calls of residents receiving the phone calls in recent days. The individuals placing the calls are identifying themselves…

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.

Of the more than 600 arrests made in a federal Drug Enforcement Administration sting against a Mexican drug cartel, about 50 of them were made in the agency’s Chicago division. On Wednesday, the DEA announced the conclusion of “Project Python,” the six-month sting targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. The DEA is offering a $10 million reward for information leading...

Illinois and federal officials are encouraging people to bring expired and unused prescription drugs to collection sites.

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.

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

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...

The pharmaceutical industry executive hit Tuesday with criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis doesn’t have his name on a museum wing, and his company isn’t within earshot of Apple or anyone else on the Fortune 500. Even his $1.5 million paycheck was a paltry sum compared to his peers. Laurence Doud III, the retired CEO of the Rochester Drug...

A modern version of a dangerous drug that ravaged the Midwest in the early 2000s is making a comeback in Illinois.

A modern version of a dangerous drug that ravaged the Midwest in the early 2000’s is making a comeback in Illinois. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey investigates.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

In the same Brooklyn courthouse where jurors have heard testimony about Mexican politicians protecting Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s drug empire, a former Mexican state attorney general pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes from narcotraffickers. The juxtaposition underscored a recurring theme of Guzman’s New York trial: how pervasive official corruption in Mexico complicates American authorities’ efforts to investigate and apprehend...

Newly unsealed documents about notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman contain claims by witnesses that he had sex with minors he called “vitamins,” a disturbing allegation coming just as a jury is about to start deliberating in his U.S. drug-trafficking case. According to papers made public late Friday, a key government cooperator told authorities Guzman had him drug...

Identical twin brothers from Chicago made a fortune by distributing nearly 40 tons of cocaine worth $800 million for Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before signing up as cooperators who spied on the cartel, one of the them testified Tuesday at a U.S. trial.

A doctor who owns an urgent care facility in Irvine was arrested Tuesday on charges of illegally distributing opioids, including to a man charged with running over and killing an off-duty Costa Mesa fire captain riding his bicycle in Mission Viejo.

Southern Illinois University is creating new programs for students who want to know more about marijuana.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says meth hidden inside wax figurines depicting Disney characters has been confiscated near Atlanta and is worth roughly $2 million. It is one of the biggest meth busts ever in Gwinnett County, the DEA told WSB-TV. The drugs were concealed inside 500 figurines depicting Winnie the Pooh, Donald Duck, Pluto and other Disney characters. DEA Atlanta...