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Attorney General William Barr and Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said the U.S. would drop the charges and allow Mexico to investigate and determine if Salvatore Cienfuegos Zepeda should be tried in that country.

Walmart is suing the U.S. government in a pre-emptive strike in the battle over its responsibility in the opioid abuse crisis

“These two seizures are more than enough to provide a dose of meth for every man, women and child in the United States and Mexico,” said DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea.

A months-long, nationwide crackdown on Mexican cartels that distribute methamphetamine into the United States resulted in the seizure of nearly 4,500 pounds of the drug and 81 arrests in the Southern California area, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) San Diego Field Division announced.

San Diego’s DEA field office was one of nine involved in the months-long operation.

The father of a North County teenager who died from an apparent fentanyl overdose is hoping his beloved daughter’s death will cause young people to think twice about who they trust. Brianna Moore, 18, of Oceanside, graduated from Mission Vista High School with a 4.3 GPA. She ran the Los Angeles Marathon twice, and was a concert violinist. She became…

NBC 7’s Dave Summers has the father’s warning.

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.