By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In November 1993, St. Louis Police officer Stephen Strehl, 35, was killed in a helicopter crash during a training operation in Jefferson County with the DEA. He was a passenger and a member of the DEA task force. On Dec. 13, Strehl’s son Joseph Strehl graduated from the St. Louis County and…
The DEA, with the help of American Special Forces and an Afghan counternarcotics, seized a whopping 20 tons of drugs in what officials have described as “the largest known seizure of heroin in Afghanistan, if not the world.”
A former DEA agent who demanded cash in connection with a drug trafficker was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison.
The DEA is taking a page from Donald Trump’s playbook – blame the media.
A cocaine production boom in Colombia has increased use and availability of the drug in the United States for the first time in nearly a decade, the DEA reports.
Many of these deaths result not from painkillers, but from the DEA’s war on painkillers.
The DEA is waging a war against a deadly cousin of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to curb abuse and overdoses.
When Mike Vigil retired from the DEA in 2014, he was an expert in cracking down on drug cartels in Central America.
