The DEA issued an alert about an emerging public safety threat – fentanyl mixed with xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer that has been involved in an increasing number of overdoses.
By Allan Lengel Two law enforcement officers who were members of a DEA task force in Northeast Florida have been arrested on drug related charges, the Florida Times-Union reports. Last Friday authorities arrested Sgt. James Darrell Hickox, 37, of Callahan, who worked for the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, and Joshua Earrey, 44, of the Florida…
“He was just a once-in-a-generation leader, charismatic, intelligent, brave.”
Prosecutors finally filed charges in connection with a shooting that claimed the life of a DEA agent at a Tucson Amtrak Station in October 2021.
In a three-year investigation targeting the Sinaloa Cartel, the DEA and local police in Arizona have seized narcotics worth more than $13 million, including more than 4.5 million fentanyl pills, 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, and large amounts of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl powder.
Mexican cartels are using social media to sell fentanyl in the U.S., and they’re often targeting children, the DEA’s top official told lawmakers Wednesday.
A Texas man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for operating a fentanyl pill-pressing operation.
Less than two years before the DEA quietly removed a former top DEA official from Mexico, he held a lavish birthday party for himself at a mansion in Mexico City.
