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News Releases - 2007

 JAN 8, 2008 Spike TV Takes A First-Hand Look At One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The World With The Drug Enforcement Administration
 DEC 27, 2007 Drug Enforcement Administration to Hire 200 Special Agents
 DEC 14, 2007 Four Members of International Khat Trafficking Ring Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court
 DEC 14, 2007 United States Announces Historic Extradition of Iranian Heroin Trafficker To New York
 DEC 11, 2007 Mexican-Based International Drug Trafficking Organization Takes Big Hit in US
 DEC 6, 2007 Three-Year Undercover Investigation Leads to Nationwide Drug Bust, More Than 100 Charged Prosecutors Say San Diego Was Operation’s “Ground Zero”
 DEC 6, 2007 Violent Colombian Drug Kingpin Convicted For Importing Thousands Of Kilograms Of Cocaine Into The United States From Colombia
 DEC 5, 2007 DEA, IRS, NJSP & Newark Police Department, Execute Operation: “Follow The Money”
 DEC 4, 2007 Massachusetts State Trooper Charged with Cocaine Distribution
 DEC 4, 2007 Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances: Addressing Health Care and Law Enforcement Priorities
 DEC 3, 2007 $2 Million of LSD Seized by DEA
 NOV 28, 2007 U.S. Arrests Colombian Police Officers And Airline Employees For Facilitating Shipments Of Heroin On Commercial Flights Into New York City
 NOV 20, 2007 Drug Kingpin Pleads Guilty to Drug and Money Laundering Charges
 NOV 8, 2007 White House Drug Czar, DEA Administrator Release New Data Showing Significant Disruptions in U.S. Cocaine and Methamphetamine Markets
 NOV 8, 2007 New Data Show Significant Disruptions In U.S. Methamphetamine, Cocaine Markets Price Of Meth Soars 73 Percent; Purity Down By Nearly A Third
 NOV 7, 2007 Afghan National Arraigned on Drug Charges
 NOV 6, 2007 Former Leader of Arellano-Felix Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Life in Prison
 NOV 5, 2007 DEA Prescription Drug Abuse Exhibit "Good Medicine, Bad Behavior: Drug Diversion in America"
 NOV 1, 2007 DEA Announces Marijuana Bust In Tonto National Forest
 OCT 30, 2007 DEA: Largest So. California Federal Gang Case; 102 Linked to South Los Angeles' Florencia 13 Gang Now Face Racketeering, Narcotics Charges
 OCT 29, 2007 DEA to Host Prescription Drug Abuse Symposium “Good Medicine, Bad Behavior: Drug Diversion in America”
 OCT 24, 2007 DEA Providing Assistance to California Firefighting Effort
 OCT 22, 2007 Statement of Administrator Karen P. Tandy on Retirement from the Drug Enforcement Administration
 OCT 22, 2007 U.S. Announces Extradition of High-Ranking Member of Mexican Drug-Trafficking Organization
 OCT 16, 2007 United States Announces First Extraditions from Romania on Terrorism Charges
 OCT 16, 2007 18 Defendants, Including 10 JFK Airport Employees, Charged in International Drug Smuggling and Distribution Schemes
 OCT 15, 2007 Five Indiana Men Indicted in Alleged Marijuana Conspiracy
 OCT 5, 2007 Heroin Kingpin Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Over 15 Years In Prison
 SEP 24, 2007 DEA Announces Largest Steroid Enforcement Action in U.S. History
 SEP 18, 2007 Union Bank of CA Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement and Forfeits $55 Million to Resolve Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act Violations
 SEP 18, 2007 Leader and Senior Lieutenant of Arellano-Felix Organization Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges
 SEP 13, 2007 DEA New Jersey Division Hosts First State-Wide Pharmaceutical Diversion Investigative Training Seminar
 SEP 6, 2007 DEA Arrests Doctor and Pharmacists For Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone and Alprazolam
 AUG 31, 2007 U.S. Military Officer Sentenced to Over 17 Years in Prison for Importing Ecstasy on U.S. Air Force Aircraft
 AUG 30, 2007 Three California Marijuana Distribution Centers Shut Down
 AUG 23, 2007 Multi-Agency Operation Results in Over $5 Million in Cash Seizures
 AUG 16, 2007 Locally, Operation Puma Has Seized 277 Kilograms of Cocaine, 900 Pounds of Marijuana, and Nearly $2,500,000 in U.S. Currency
 AUG 16, 2007 International Team of Agencies Seize Over 20 Tons of Marijuana and $7 Million in Assets from Mexican-based Organization
 AUG 14, 2007 "Hooked on Ponics" Investigation Leads to Dismantling of Marijuana Grow House Operation
 AUG 6, 2007 American Express Bank International Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement and Forfeits $55 Million to Resolve Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act Violations
 AUG 1, 2007 88 Doctors Charged in Connection with False Passing Scores in Puerto Rico Medical Bar Test
 JUL 31, 2007 Two Mexican Nationals Sentenced to 35 Years Each for Leading Vast Drug Conspiracy
 JUN 27, 2007 Peruvian Kingpin and His Wife Indicted
 JUL 25, 2007 Nature Preserve Eradicated
 JUL 24, 2007 Mexican Fugitive and Co-Conspirator Arrested on U.S. Drug, Money Laundering Charges
 JUL 24, 2007 DEA Arrests Alleged Meth Trafficker
 JUL 20, 2007 Leader of Norte Valle Colombian Drug Cartel Extradited To United States
 JUL 19, 2007 Global Investigation Leads to Extradition of Dominican Drug Trafficker
 JUL 17, 2007 Local Marijuana Dispensary Operators Indicted on Drug Trafficking Charges
 JUL 17, 2007 Round Two: Second Search Warrant Served at Bakersfield Marijuana Distribution Center
 JUL 12, 2007 Cross-Border Tunnel Discovered In Nogales
 JUL 12, 2007 Statement of Joseph T. Rannazzisi Deputy Assistant Administrator Office of Diversion Control Drug Enforcement Administration United States Department of Justice
 JUL 12, 2007 22 Arrested In Methamphetamine Conspiracy
 JUL 10, 2007 Long Island Co. Pays $800k for Failing To Report Suspicious Orders To Web Pharmacies
 JUL 2, 2007 Doctor Charged with Illegal Drug Distribution
 JUN 29, 2007 Probe By DEA and ICE Leads To Discovery of Cross-Border Drug Tunnel in Nogales
 JUN 27, 2007 Three Members of International Khat Trafficking Ring Convicted
 JUN 26, 2007 Last of 15 Defendants in International Heroin Ring Pleads Guilty to Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Offenses
 JUN 21, 2007 DEA Arrests Owner of Trim Tech Labs, Inc. in Puerto Rico 
 JUN 20, 2007 DEA Arrests Salt Lake City Ecstasy Distribution Organization
 JUN 18, 2007 Colombian Drug Kingpin Found Guilty
 JUN 12, 2007 Operation Fowl Play
 JUN 8, 2007 DEA Investigation Nets International Arms Dealer With Ties To Terrorist Organizations
 JUN 7, 2007 16 Arrests In Prescription Drug Trafficking Organization
 JUN 6, 2007 Nine Defendants in Vicksburg Charged with Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy
 JUN 4, 2007 DEA New Jersey Holds Meth Safety Seminar at FDU
 JUN 1, 2007 Operation Pill Crusher Nets 10 Arrests
 MAY 23, 2007 Baby Blankets Used To Hide Heroin
 MAY 23, 2007 Operation “High Roller” Takes Down Milwaukee Cocaine Distribution Ring
 MAY 21, 2007 Oakland Landlord Sentenced for Allowing Marijuana to be Grown on Multiple Commercial Properties
 MAY 17, 2007 Treasury Identifies Financial Network of Ismael Zambada Garcia
 MAY 16, 2007 DEA Official Testifies Before Senate About Rogue Internet Pharmacies
 MAY 14, 2007 Operation GhostRider Nets 28 Arrests, Gang Targeted
 MAY 11, 2007 United States Announces Arrest of Taliban-Linked Afghan Heroin Trafficker On Charges of Conspiring To Import Millions of Dollars Worth Of Heroin
 MAY 11, 2007 Cali Cartel Front Man Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced On Money Laundering Charges
 MAY 8, 2007
 MAY 8, 2007 Multi-Million Dollar International Internet Based Sports Betting and Gambling Enterprise Taken Down
 MAY 4, 2007 U.S. Seizes Over $5.6 Million From Dubai-Based Money Launderer
 MAY 4, 2007 Major Drug Trafficker Connected To Black Mafia Family (BMF) Gets Life Sentence
 MAY 3 , 2007 Survey Shows DEA a Government Leader; Great Place to Work

 APR 27, 2007

Two Tijuana Cartel Figures Plead Guilty
 APR 27, 2007 DEA Takes Part In Major Gang Round-Up In Denver
 APR 25, 2007 Operation King & His Court Nets 21 Arrests in NJ
 APR 18, 2007 Mexican Meth Distribution Network Dismantled  
 APR 18, 2007 Cocaine Cowboys-Rounded Up At Last
 APR 16, 2007 El Paso Marijuana Trafficker Receives Life in Federal Prison
 APR 12, 2007 Seven College Students In VA Arrested On Drug Distribution Charges
 APR 9, 2007 Marijuana Grow Operation Found in Manhattan Apartment
 APR 6, 2007 Ecuadorian National Charged With Attempting To Kill A DEA Agent Extradited To The U.S. From Colombia
 APR 5, 2007 Routine Cleaning: DEA Arrests Dental Office Manager
 APR 4, 2007 DEA Seizes Operational GHB Lab in Newport Beach, California
 APR 4, 2007 25th-Annual IDEC to be held in Spain
 APR 3, 2007 New Photos Show Sophistication of Indoor Marijuana Grow in California
 MAR 30, 2007 First Arrest In The Nation For Violating The Combat Methamphetamine Act
 MAR 26, 2007 Over $5 Million in Forfeited Drug Proceeds Distributed to State and Local Law Enforcement in Indiana
 MAR 22, 2007 Pharmacy Ring Busted
 MAR 21, 2007 DEA, Coast Guard Make Record Maritime Cocaine Seizure
 MAR 20, 2007 Statement by Administrator Karen P. Tandy on Two Hundred and Seven Million in Drug Money Seized in Mexico City
 MAR 6, 2007 DEA Arrests Lead To Largest Ever Meth Seizure In NJ
 FEB 28, 2007 Sandbagged! DEA Case Nets 400 Arrests, $45 Million and 18 Tons of Drugs
 FEB 22, 2007 Successes in the Fight Against Drugs
 FEB 22, 2007 Detroit Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Deaths
 FEB 15, 2007 Drug Impostor Nabbed
 FEB 15, 2007 Over $18 Million In Forfeited Drug Proceeds Distributed To Federal, State And Local Law Enforcement In New York In 2006
 FEB 9, 2007 Chicago Target America Exhibit Now at Navy Pier
 FEB 7, 2007 International Law Enforcement Summit on Transnational Gangs
 FEB 2, 2007 Arrests Made In International Drug Distribution Conspiracy
 FEB 1, 2007 Colombian Cocaine Kingpin Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison
 JAN 31, 2007 Pharmacy In Kenner, LA Closed, Two Arrested
 JAN 30, 2007 U.K. Couple Face Extradition for Supplying Chemicals to U.S. Meth Labs
 JAN 30, 2007 DEA Announces First 2007 Meth Lab Seizure in New York
 JAN 29, 2007 Seven Doctors Indicted in Puerto Rico
 JAN 25, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales Announces Additional Federal Law Enforcement Resources To Fight Violent Crime In New Orleans
 JAN 22, 2007 Extradition of 15 Mexican Criminals
 JAN 22, 2007 Brothers Indicted After 21 Lb. Seizure of Meth
 JAN 17, 2007 11 Search Warrants Served at Marijuana Distribution Centers
 JAN 17, 2007 Israeli Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty
 JAN 8, 2007 Second Significant Sentence Handed Down in "Operation Director's Cut"

 

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