The investigation following a 20-year-old man’s fentanyl overdose death led the DEA to arrest his ex-con father who was allegedly leading an illegal hallucinogenic mushroom grow operation in Clairemont. The overdose victim, who lived with his father, died several weeks ago, according to the DEA. The DEA Narcotics Task Force was under the suspicion he was a drug dealer....

The Drug Enforcement Administration searched a Chula Vista home Tuesday morning, resulting in the arrest of one man, officials confirmed.

Agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency raided a home in Chula Vista, where a man surrendered to the authorities.

Mexico has extradited the son of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to face drug charges in the United States, leading to fears his gang may stage retaliations. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that Ruben Oseguera will appear in Washington D.C. to answer a drug-distribution indictment.

Five people were arrested and several ounces of suspected fentanyl powder were confiscated in connection with an overdose death, San Diego DEA agents confirmed.

Three of the suspects were taken into custody at a hotel in Clairemount where DEA agents also found suspeced fentanyl powder NBC 7s Dave Summers has the story

A Massachusetts woman has filed a class action lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Transportation Security Administration. Rebecca Brown says she had taken about $82,000 in cash from her father’s Pennsylvania home and was bringing it to Massachusetts because the time had come for her to take charge of his finances. The money was confiscated before her flight…

NBC 7’s Gaby Rodriguez explains the difficulties prosecutors had in the case.

A woman arrested in September following her boyfriend’s deadly fentanyl overdose in their shared apartment – where DEA agents seized enough fentanyl to kill 1.5 million people – was sentenced to probation Tuesday.

European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids in three southern states on allegations they operated the so-called the “Wall Street Market” darknet platform, which...

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

Your child’s teacher could soon be trained on how to bring them back to life in the event they overdose on opioids.

NBC 7’s Danica McAdam talked to a mother who thinks the life-saving drug should be in every classroom.

Federal officials have a new tool to battle the opioid crisis: data. The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program is using a web portal called the “OD Map” to track overdoses caused by opioids in real time. The program will help the agency target high-problem areas with resources and track the sources of...

Ninety-one people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related overdoses, but there’s a tool that can reverse the effects of an overdose that more and more law enforcement agencies and paramedics are now carrying with them as part of their standing operating protocol. It’s called Narcan, and here is what you need to know about what it is, how...

A San Diego-area medical marijuana business owner is declaring a legal victory after pleading guilty to two misdemeanors nearly two years after his business was raided by law enforcement.

As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis.

A Queens man and a New Jersey woman have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute dangerous designer drugs, including a synthetic opioid several times more potent than morphine that has been blamed for at least one overdose death, authorities said Tuesday.

A high ranking Mexican drug cartel leader was arraigned on drug trafficking charges October 11, immediately after his arrest at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.