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.
As the federal government considers easing restrictions on marijuana, the DEA faces a legal challenge from cannabis-reform advocates who accuse it of improperly influencing a key court hearing.
On the 15th anniversary of his death, DEA agents in El Paso honored the life and legacy of Special Agent Forrest Nelson Leamon, who was killed in Afghanistan.
A former DEA agent from Buffalo, N.Y, was convicted Thursday of corruption after a second trial on charges that he used his position to protect drug traffickers with alleged ties to organized crime.
A New York woman has been arrested for allegedly posing as a DEA agent and scamming a Cape Cod resident out of $46,000, officials announced.
A federal watchdog is criticizing the DEA for failing to promptly report human rights violations committed by its Latin American law enforcement partners, who admitted to torturing crime suspects through waterboarding, suffocation, and other brutal methods.
The DEA is set to shutter two of its critical offices in China, a move revealed by The Associated Press as the agency grapples with the ongoing challenge of disrupting the flow of precursor chemicals from China fueling the fentanyl epidemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives.
