U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

In this image taken from video released by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, a law enforcement officer with a weapon drawn is shown at a nightclub where a raid occurred Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP)

Soldier at a Colorado nightclub during an immigration raid charged with distributing cocaine

A soldier present at an after-hours nightclub where more than 100 immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally were taken into custody has been charged with distributing cocaine. Staff Sgt.
 
Attorney General Pam Bondi holds vials containing a genuine oxycodone pill and a counterfeit one at a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) research laboratory on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

At little-known US research lab, Bondi meets with scientists studying illicit drugs to stop the flow

 
U.S. Marine Corps pallbearers carry the casket holding the body of slain U.S. Drug Enforcement agent Enrique Camarena after it arrived at North Island Naval Air Station, in San Diego, March 8, 1985. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

Mexican drug lord convicted in killing of DEA agent released after completing sentence

 
Barricade tape set up by authorities cordons off parts of Izaguirre Ranch during a tour for the press, days after skeletal remains were discovered on the premises, in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, Mexico, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfredo Moya, File)

Jalisco cartel lures recruits with fake jobs through social platforms and kills those who resist

 
In this image released by the FBI shows the wanted posted for Rafael Caro Quintero. (FBI via AP, File)

Mexican drug lord charged with killing DEA agent could face death penalty

 

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Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero is charged with the 1985 killing of US federal agent

A Mexican drug lord who was one of U.S. authorities’ most wanted men has been brought into a New York courtroom to answer charges that include orchestrating the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent. (AP video by Joseph B. Frederick)
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Ex-Colombian official sentenced to 12 years in money laundering case tied to DEA misconduct

 
In this image released by the FBI shows the wanted posted for Rafael Caro Quintero. (FBI via AP, File)

Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero pleads not guilty in 1985 killing of US federal agent

 
In this image released by the FBI shows the wanted posted for Rafael Caro Quintero. (FBI via AP, File)

Mexico sends drug lord Caro Quintero and 28 others to the US as officials meet with Trump team

 

Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, behind 1985 killing of DEA agent, extradited to US

 
This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File

Prominent Miami defense lawyer charged in DEA bribery scheme

 
Drug Enforcement Administration agents are seen in Florida, June 13, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

A Florida officer who pleaded guilty to stealing seized DEA drugs gets 17 years in prison

 

Leader of Japanese crime syndicate pleads guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran

 

A former DEA agent is convicted of protecting drug traffickers

 
FILE - Drug Enforcement Administration agents are seen in Florida, June 13, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Watchdog blasts DEA for not reporting waterboarding, torture by Latin American partners

 
FILE - A bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va., on Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

DEA closing 2 offices in China even as the agency struggles to stem flow of fentanyl chemicals

 
FILE - A cashier rings up a marijuana sale, July 1, 2017, at a cannabis dispensary in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

A decision on a major policy shift on marijuana won’t come until after the presidential election

 
FILE - This June 13, 2016 photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. Thousands of secret law enforcement documents offer a never-before-seen window into a rape case and a culture of corruption among federal narcotics agents who parlayed the DEA’s shadowy money laundering operations into a worldwide pursuit of binge drinking and illicit sex. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Takeaways from AP’s investigation into DEA corruption, agent accused of rape

 
illustration includes a photo obtained by The Associated Press of then-U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Jose Irizarry and other images from DEA documents. (AP Illustration/Marshall Ritzel)

Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in a WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it

 
FILE - DEA Administrator Anne Milgram speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, April 14, 2023. The Biden administration’s push to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug is going forward without the support of the nation’s premier narcotics agency. Newly released government records show the Drug Enforcement Administration requested more information on supporting science to reclassify marijuana but the Justice Department decided to move ahead without the drug agency’s signoff — an unprecedented omission. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Top US drug agency a notable holdout in Biden’s push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions

 
FILE - This image provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York on Oct. 26, 2023 shows Manny Recio, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor. The former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor was sentenced Tuesday, May 14, 2024, to three years in prison for bribing a longtime colleague to leak DEA intelligence to Miami defense lawyers seeking to profit off the timing of indictments and other sensitive information about federal drug investigations. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)

Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence

 
FILE - Marijuana plants are seen at a secured growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

What marijuana reclassification means for the United States

 
FILE - In this Friday, March 22, 2019, file photo, a marijuana plant is visible at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple-effects across the country. The DEA’s proposal still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana in historic shift, but it’ll remain controlled substance

 
FILE - This image provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York on Oct. 26, 2023 shows John Costanzo Jr. A federal judge sentenced the longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent to four years in prison for leaking DEA intelligence to defense lawyers. Costanzo's sentence was announced Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Manhattan federal court months after he was found guilty of bribery and honest-services wire fraud. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP, File)

Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 4 years for leaking intelligence in Miami bribery conspiracy

 
FILE - Former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni arrives at the Robert H. Jackson U.S. Court House for a hearing for an upcoming trial on drug and bribery charges, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A federal jury on Friday, April 12, 2024, convicted Bongiovanni of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File)

Jury convicts former DEA agent of obstruction but fails to reach verdict on Buffalo bribery charges

 
Former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni arrives at the Robert H. Jackson U.S. Court House for a hearing for an upcoming trial on drug and bribery charges, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent is on trial in Buffalo, N.Y., on charges he took $250,000 in bribes from the Mafia to derail investigations and keep his childhood friends out of prison. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP)

‘Little dark secret': DEA agent on trial accused of taking $250K in bribes from Mafia

 
FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a small copy of his nation's constitution during ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 31, 2024. A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law

 
FILE - This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York on Oct. 26, 2023, shows John Costanzo Jr., left, and Manny Recio. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan filed court papers Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, accusing the lawyers of bankrolling the scheme and asking a judge to allow prosecutors to review nearly 1,000 emails, text messages and recordings of protected phone calls between the attorneys and Manny Recio, a former DEA agent who later worked for the attorneys as a private investigator. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)

Miami attorneys bankrolled DEA bribery scheme, federal prosecutors say

 
This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York on Oct. 26, 2023, shows John Costanzo Jr., left, and Manny Recio. A federal jury convicted the two former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors, Costanzo Jr. and Recio, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, of leaking confidential information to defense attorneys as part of a bribery conspiracy that prosecutors said imperiled high-profile cases and the lives of overseas drug informants. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)

‘Greed and corruption': Federal jury convicts veteran DEA agents in bribery conspiracy

 
FILE - Pedestrians walk near a poster asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting Saab for alleged money laundering. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

DEA agent leaked secret information about Maduro ally targeted by US, prosecutor says

 
FILE - This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. Jorge Hernández is expected to play a key role in the October 2023 Manhattan federal trial of two veteran DEA agents charged in a $73,000 bribery conspiracy involving leaked information about ongoing drug investigations. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Shadowy snitch takes starring role in bribery trial of veteran DEA agents

 
Law enforcement agents stand outside a Pennsylvania State Police barracks at Avondale Pa., where Danilo Cavalcante is being held on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Cavalcante was captured Wednesday after eluding hundreds of searchers for two weeks. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

How they got him: Escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante arrested after 2-week pursuit in Pennsylvania

 
FILE - Marijuana plants are seen at a growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. The Health and Human Services Department has recommended removing marijuana from a category of drugs deemed to have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The agency advised moving pot from that “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.” The decision is up to the Drug Enforcement Administration. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here’s what that would mean

 
FILE - Marijuana plants are seen at a growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. The Health and Human Services Department has recommended removing marijuana from a category of drugs deemed to have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The agency advised moving pot from that “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.” The decision is up to the Drug Enforcement Administration. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Marijuana recommendation by US health agency hailed as first step to easing weed restrictions

 
FILE - A Tucson Police Department SWAT truck is parked near the last two cars of an Amtrak train in downtown Tucson, Ariz., Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, following a shooting. Devonte Okeith Mathis, 24, who tried to smuggle drugs aboard an Amtrak train in Arizona before getting caught in a shootout that led to the deaths of his accomplice and a DEA agent was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Man involved in deadly 2021 Arizona Amtrak train shooting gets 10 years in prison