Drug Enforcement Administration

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended the 2013 ruling that freed one of the drug lords most wanted by U.S. authorities, even though Mexico’s Supreme Court later ruled it was a mistake.

Last year, 17-year-old Zach Didier of Rocklin, California, died when he took what he thought was a prescription pain pill he purchased from someone he met on Snapchat. The pill ended up being a counterfeit with a lethal amount of the powerful opioid fentanyl.

Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration are warning the general public of a widespread fraud scheme in which telephone scammers impersonate agents in an attempt to extort money or steal information. The agency’s Miami division issued an alert Wednesday, saying agents have received information on callers asking their targets for social security numbers and bank account information after falsely...

Law enforcement seized crystal meth from a stash house in Miami Beach. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports

NBC 6 cameras recorded law enforcement arresting four people authorities say are connected to a South Florida meth ring with ties to the Mexican cartel.

Thousands of guns, thousands of pounds of drugs, and millions of dollars in cash have been seized in South Florida by the Drug Enforcement Administration since August. In Florida, the DEA worked with over 70 leads and arrested 426 people. Thousands more were arrested nationwide, the sweeping numbers a result of Project Safeguard, which intensifies the agency’s efforts to combat…

Authorities seized animals including a white Bengal tiger, bobcat, kinkajou, porcupines, llamas, emus and deer after finding them at a South Texas residence while executing a search warrant last week.

For the first time, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will be accepting vaping devices and cartridges as part of its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day initiative, which will take place in over 200 locations in Florida this Saturday with the goal of reducing the amount of potentially dangerous unused, expired or unwanted prescription drugs in the nation’s households.

The Los Angeles Angels’ director of communication told federal investigators that he provided oxycodone to Tyler Skaggs and abused the drug with the pitcher, according to an ESPN report published Saturday.

The Justice Department is moving forward to expand the number of marijuana growers for federally-authorized cannabis research.

A 22-year-old man was arrested on drug trafficking charges after he allegedly sold LSD to an undercover agent.

Here are some of the top stories of the past week from the NBC 6 Weekend Digest:

Three Georgia women bought a box of Legos while visiting a South Carolina consignment shop, only to find that the box was actually filled with about $40,000 worth of methamphetamine. Bulloch County Sheriff’s Investigator Jim Riggs tells The Statesboro Herald that the women gifted the box to a child, who opened it and discovered the three pounds of drugs. Deputies...

The pharmaceutical industry executive hit Tuesday with criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis doesn’t have his name on a museum wing, and his company isn’t within earshot of Apple or anyone else on the Fortune 500. Even his $1.5 million paycheck was a paltry sum compared to his peers. Laurence Doud III, the retired CEO of the Rochester Drug...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

In the same Brooklyn courthouse where jurors have heard testimony about Mexican politicians protecting Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s drug empire, a former Mexican state attorney general pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes from narcotraffickers. The juxtaposition underscored a recurring theme of Guzman’s New York trial: how pervasive official corruption in Mexico complicates American authorities’ efforts to investigate and apprehend...

Newly unsealed documents about notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman contain claims by witnesses that he had sex with minors he called “vitamins,” a disturbing allegation coming just as a jury is about to start deliberating in his U.S. drug-trafficking case. According to papers made public late Friday, a key government cooperator told authorities Guzman had him drug...

As the police investigation into the alleged attack against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett continues, it was revealed Tuesday that in 2007 Smollett pleaded no contest to DUI, driving without a license and providing false information to law enforcement, the L.A. City Attorney’s office confirmed to NBC News.

A doctor who owns an urgent care facility in Irvine was arrested Tuesday on charges of illegally distributing opioids, including to a man charged with running over and killing an off-duty Costa Mesa fire captain riding his bicycle in Mission Viejo.