A longtime Mexican drug trafficker accused of helping transport tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. over the span of four decades was sentenced Friday to 21 years and 10 months in prison.
The DEA appointed Steven T. Bell to serve as special agent in charge of the agency’s Omaha Division.
A DEA Agent accused of fatally striking a cyclist in Oregon in March is seeking immunity from prosecution because the incident happened when he was trying to track a major drug dealer.
Officials from four federal law enforcement agencies shot 223 people between 2018 and 2022.
The FBI and ATF are investigating whether the shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont was a hate crime.
A former and current DEA agent were convicted by a jury this week on charges related to a bribery scheme.
The identities of more than 100 agents with the DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies were revealed in a cyber breach at a Columbian prosecutor’s office.
A DEA agent leaked internal agency secrets about forthcoming charges against a criminal target in Venezuela as part of a bribery scheme, a jury was told this week, the Associated Press reports.
