A former Washington State correctional officer, was sentenced to 46-months in federal prison for conspiring with inmates to smuggle drugs and cell phones in exchange for money.

In response to the spike in fatal overdoses of synthetic drugs, the Biden Administration is modernizing the Treasury Department's sanction authority and establishing an oversight council on organized international crime to combat the illicit drug trade.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has made a historic seizure of more than 1.8 million fentanyl-laced pills, an amount that could potentially kill more than 700,000 individuals.

On October 23, 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hosted its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. With nearly 5,000 collection sites nationwide, law enforcement officers collected nearly 745,000 pounds of unused prescription drugs (that’s about the weight of the Status of Liberty).

According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release dated July 27, 2021, Luz Irene Fajardo Campos, aka “La Comadre,” “La Madrina,” and “La Doña,” 57, of Culiacan, Mexico, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison following a 2019 trial for her role in in an international drug trafficking conspiracy that included Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, and the United States.