Spokane, Washington - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Field Division joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington and other federal, local, and state partners on May 8, 2025, to announce charges against twenty-one (21) individuals. Fifteen separate indictments were...

SEATTLE, Wash.– Today, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced the results of a year-long national operation, “Operation Last Mile,” targeting operatives, associates, and distributors affiliated with the Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels responsible for the last mile of fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution on our streets and on social media. DEA’s top...

TACOMA, Wash. – Twenty-seven people were indicted by a grand jury for drug trafficking, and many of those in the indictment are tied to the “Aryan Family,” a white supremacist prison gang, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Twenty-four of the defendants have been arrested over the last five days in...

SEATTLE – Three significant drug trafficking groups responsible for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine and hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills are facing federal charges tonight. Federal investigators and local law enforcement partners seized two RVs packed with meth and fake pills after they were driven from California...

EUGENE, Ore.—On September 15, 2021, a coordinated law enforcement operation targeting the leader and several associates of a Lane County drug trafficking cell led to the seizure of 384 pounds of methamphetamine, the largest single methamphetamine seizure in Oregon State history and valued at over a million dollars. The operation...

SEATTLE - Three key players in a drug distribution ring that spanned seven counties in Washington State were sentenced late Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to long prison terms. The leader of the drug distribution ring Baltazar Reyes-Garcia 45, of Camano Island, WA, was sentenced to 18 years...