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Theo Brown poses for a portrait outside his home in Marietta, Ga., on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. While at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Training Academy, Brown said he was once pepper-sprayed three times in a single training exercise while other trainees were sprayed once. It got to the point, he said, that other trainees didn’t want to work near him because of the “special attention” he was receiving. (AP Photo/Elijah Nouvelage)

DEA recruits cite ‘monkey noises’ among claims of racism

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

As a Drug Enforcement Agency police office and National Guard soldiers watch, demonstrators protest Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

DEA’s undercover operations may be helping drug cartels: IG

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Demonstrators protest Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats express ‘deep and profound concerns’ over surveillance of George Floyd protesters

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This image provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a reward poster for Cliver Alcala-Cordones that was released on Thursday, March 26, 2020. The U.S. Justice Department has indicted Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolás Maduro and several key aides on charges of narcoterrorism. (Department of Justice via AP)

AP Sources: Alleged Maduro co-conspirator is in DEA custody

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This June 13, 2016 file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Florida. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, the FBI arrested U.S. federal narcotics agent Jose Irizarry and his wife, Nathalia Gomez Irizarry, at their residence in Puerto Rico, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the arrest. He has been charged with conspiring to launder money with the very same Colombian drug cartels he was supposed to be fighting. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Ex-DEA agent, wife, to leave Puerto Rico, face trial in US

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press

FILE - This June 13, 2016 file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Florida. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, the FBI arrested U.S. federal narcotics agent Jose Irizarry and his wife, Nathalia Gomez Irizarry, at their residence in Puerto Rico, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the arrest. He has been charged with conspiring to launder money with the very same Colombian drug cartels he was supposed to be fighting. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: DEA agent accused of conspiring with cartel

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Meth still a Missouri problem, but now it comes from Mexico

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar’

By Paul Davis

This photo provided Nov. 7, 2019, by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety shows some of the 75,000 THC vaping cartridges seized in drug busts by Minnesota's Northwest Metro Drug Task Force. (Minnesota Department of Public Safety via AP)

Marijuana vaping busts on rise; over 500K seized in 2 years

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

DEA warns of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl

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President Donald Trump speaks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and Exposition, at the McCormick Place Convention Center Chicago, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: Trump says big crackdown coming on crime, drugs

Associated Press

Flavored vaping products were forced last month to be taken off the market. Now, vaping devices and cartridges can be handed in on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. (Associated Press)

DEA to collect vaping cartridges, devices on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 11, 2019, photo, narcotics detective Will Pfeiffer shows a stored evidence bag that containing methamphetamine before it is destroyed in Barberton, Ohio. The tentative settlement involving the opioid crisis and the maker of OxyContin could mean that thousands of local governments will one day be paid back for some of the costs of responding to the epidemic. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Obama administration bungled opioid crisis response: IG report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Watchdog finds DEA was ‘slow to respond’ to opioid epidemic

By MIKE BALSAMO and GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press

US narcotics agent admits role in drug trafficking scheme

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 15, 2019, photo, marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, Calif. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DEA proposes lowering opioid production quotas, expanding marijuana research

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ** FILE **

Feds to allow more medical marijuana testing

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This June 2, 2018, file photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows weapons turned in by residents in a gun buyback program co-sponsored with the New Life Covenant Church Southeast in the 6th Police District. More than 400 guns and rifles were handed over in exchange for $100 gift cards. (CPD via AP) ** FILE **

DEA lost 26 firearms; OIG report warns to be more careful

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Key witness against DEA agent sentenced in conspiracy case

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, oxycodone pills are displayed in New York. Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) **FILE**

Q&A: Newly public data maps opioid crisis across US

By GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press