President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Terry Cole to lead the DEA, elevating a longtime agency veteran with more than two decades of experience at the DEA and a current role as Virginia’s top public safety official.
A Florida police officer has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after admitting to stealing drugs, cash, and firearms from federal investigations, including swapping a DEA-seized kilogram of cocaine with a fake kilo made from a 3D printer.
The Trump administration is working to expand the number of federal law-enforcement officials involved in immigration enforcement by giving agents from various federal agencies the same powers as immigration officers
In an effort to tackle the growing fentanyl crisis and curb the influence of Mexican drug cartels, the Trump administration has appointed veteran counternarcotics agent Derek Maltz as the acting administrator of the DEA.
The alleged leader of a crime syndicate based in Japan admitted in federal court Wednesday to charges accusing him of conspiring to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, believing the materials would be used by Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
A federal judge has formally dropped a negligent homicide charge against a DEA agent in connection with the 2023 death of a Salem cyclist.
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the DEA, Chad Chronister, announced Tuesday that he is withdrawing from consideration, marking the second withdrawal of a Trump pick in recent days.
The Justice Department has directed the DEA to suspend its long-standing practice of searching passengers at airports and seizing their cash.
