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Overdose deaths in the U.S. have officially hit the highest record ever, according to new data released by the CDC. DEA agents report a main culprit is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is dangerously addictive and deadly. That trend is unfortunately tracking in San Antonio too.

A San Antonio man and woman are in the Atascosa County Jail after they forged prescriptions from a doctor, according to police.

"They want to know what the Uber driver did as he witnessed a passenger dying," a statement from the family's lawyers said.

San Antonio are drug agents say a deadly synthetic opioid is in our streets and many victims are falling victim to it without knowing it.

A drug bust on the Northeast Side led to the discovery of about $350,000 in crystal meth, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

The DEA has seized 15,000 pounds of fentanyl powder seized so far this year – enough to kill every American, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan.

A UPS employee in San Antonio was arrested after he was caught on camera opening packages and stealing prescription medications, according to authorities.

The bust is the largest cocaine seizure destined for the streets of New York in more than a decade, officials said.

Those pills, which are marketed as legit prescription pills like Xanax or Adderall or Oxycodone, contain methemphatime and fentanyl and can be deadly. Hidalgo County District Attorney Ricardo Rodriguez Jr. also touched on the source of these pills, which he described as poison. And Hidalgo County is a gateway for these traffickers to smuggle these pills north, where they end up in cities across the country. Sifuentes said these drug trafficking organizations use several methods to smuggle pills, including vehicles, body carriers, concealment within commodities and through parcel shipping agencies. One of the suspects Sifuentes said was arrested Thursday used juveniles to smuggle pills through ports of entry, with the Progreso port being where the majority of cases where juveniles are being used to smuggle.

Valley Regional Medical Center will hold its second annual “Crush the Crisis” Opioid Take Back Day on Saturday in Brownsville.

Pedro Pardo/AFP via GettyTranscripts of newly released text messages between a crime boss and a deputy police chief have finally lifted the lid on the mystery of 43 students who went missing one night in southwestern Mexico.The messages indicate that the cops and the cartel worked together to capture, torture, and murder at least 38 of the 43 student teachers who went missing in September of 2014.The students had made the deadly mistake of commandeering several buses in order to drive to Mexico

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has repeatedly criticized the Merida Intitiative, saying it promoted an ineffective “war on drugs." But the longtime leftist saw few possibilities to renegotiate it with former president Donald Trump.

Her testimony comes less than 48 hours after she told "60 Minutes" that "there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook."

A prominent Dallas attorney pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to launder money he believed was linked to drug trafficking.

Former cartel boss Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo breaks his silence in an interview with Noticias Telemundo, his first since being apprehended in 1989 in connection with the deaths of DEA undercover agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena and Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala.Details: The man who once was considered “The Godfather” of narco crime and one of the most feared criminals worldwide is now a visibly worn down 75-year-old who calls himself a “corpse waiting to be buried by a tree’s roots.”Get market new

A Mexican man faces several years in federal prison for trying to smuggle about a kilo of meth, records show.

Bexar County deputies and DEA agents uncovered a fentanyl operation at a Best Western hotel in the Northwest Side of San Antonio, according to Sheriff Javier Salazar.

A Mexican man faces several years in federal prison for trying to smuggle about a kilo of meth, records show. According to court notes, Jesus Carlos Garcia Rodriguez is expected to change his not guilty plea on a drug smuggling charge to guilty later this week. Garcia was arrested in January after he tried to hide a kilo of meth under his shirt during a traffic stop, the complaint against him stated. That’s when the agent noticed Garcia’s shirt area appeared “bulgy” as he adjusted his waistband, the complaint said. After lifting Garcia’s shirt, the agent found a clear plastic package containing a clear crystal-like substance that was later determined to be methamphetamine, the document said.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyALFREDO ESTRELLAThe man who once held Mexico’s most senior law enforcement position has been arrested on charges of torturing a suspect in custody. If even Luis Cárdenas Palomino—who once earned a citation as “Mexico’s best police officer”—was abusing suspects, what does that say about the rest of the country’s police officers?The truth is torture has become a common feature of Mexican policing. We’ll dig deeper into the question of torturing detainees

A Laredo man who attempted to cross the Mexico-Texas border with drugs inside his “lunch” last year was recently sentenced to prison after pleading guilty, according to the Department of Justice.

Six people, including one who is believed to be a member of a White supremacist group, were arrested Wednesday afternoon following a drug raid at a home on the city’s Southeast Side.

DEA / M. BORCHI | De Agostini | Getty ImagesUnemployment benefits aren't reaching most jobless Americans — suggesting that lawmakers who wish to target aid to the unemployed would likely need to use stimulus checks or other relief measures. Congress passed a $900 billion measure in December, which enhanced jobless benefits and offered $600 checks per person. But stimulus checks may be essential for the unemployed workers who aren't tapping jobless benefits, Forsythe said. It would raise and extend unemployment benefits, and offer $1,400 stimulus checks per person. A group of 10 GOP lawmakers want to pare back a third round of stimulus checks to $1,000 a person.

A man wearing a face mask as a preventive measure walks past the New York State Department of Labor in Flushing, Borough of Queens, New York. John Nacion | LightRocket | Getty ImagesStates have tried clawing back unemployment benefits from thousands of people during the Covid pandemic. While new protections are meant to help, some fear states may not sign on. Most states do waive overpayments made through their traditional unemployment insurance programs. "We are still going through recent [U.S. Labor Department] guidance and hope to have a decision soon."

SAN ANTONIO – The Drug Enforcement Administration has conducted a series of raids in San Antonio on Tuesday, resulting in 11 people being taken into custody. Assistant Special Agent Dante Sorianello said agents raided more than a dozen locations across the city in connection to a meth trafficking scheme that has taken more than a year to investigate. One of the locations raided was a home in the 500 block of Secluded Grove on the Far West Side. A large amount of meth and firearms were found at the locations raided on Tuesday, according to Sorianello. Sorianello said the DEA can only release limited information at this point.

Today, I am here to talk about the former Maduro regime and its direct participation in narco-terrorism, corruption, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Joining me today is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoff Berman; the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ariana Fajardo; the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Brian Benczkowski, and; DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon. Further, the Southern District of Florida unsealed charges this morning against the Chief Justice of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, involving money laundering. With that, I will turn it over to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoff Berman. As alleged, the Maduro regime is awash in corruption and criminality.

Today, we are announcing the results of Project Python, a multilateral interagency operation targeting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, also known as CJNG. Project Python began on September 1, 2019, culminating in todays announcement. As Acting Administrator Dhillon will describe in more detail, Project Python was unprecedented in both scale and complexity. More than 100 investigations will now form the initial target deck for Project Python. And with Project Python, we are delivering results in the face of that threat for the American people.

SEGUIN, Texas – A massive web of drug activity is being torn apart little by little by Seguin and Guadalupe County law enforcement, with help from federal investigators. They revealed a list of 21 targeted suspects across the state indicted on charges involving methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. 11 of the suspects were arrested Tuesday morning in the Seguin area alone. Since the beginning of the investigation, officers have seized about 22 kilograms of methamphetamine, one kilogram of cocaine, 400 grams of crack cocaine and 145 grams of heroin. The entire investigation started with Seguin Police officers noticing an uptick in methamphetamine arrests and seizures.

A woman from Culiacan, Mexico was convicted after a seven-day jury trial for her role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy to transport thousands of kilograms of cocaine and dozens of pounds of methamphetamine into the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the District of Columbia presided over the trial and will impose sentence. According to the evidence introduced at trial, Fajardo Campos ran a drug trafficking organization with her adult children that was aligned with the Sinaloa cartel. She sourced cocaine directly from Colombia, employed pilots, and brokered the purchase of jets to fly the cocaine to Central America and Mexico. She partnered with other traffickers in the Sinaloa cartel and her children for further distribution of the cocaine into the United States.

Too big to prosecute, An American Terrorist, Airlift Whistleblowers: DEA attorneys went easy on McKesson, the country’s largest drug distributor; then, rejecting hate, after spending nearly a decade spreading it; and, saving rhino with helicopters

The scandal involving DEA agents and sex parties in Colombia was much worse than originally thought, according to a new report. Congress held a hearing Tuesday to go over the details of the parties that in some cases were paid for with U.S. government money. Chip Reid reports.

Alex Rodriguez's rocky return The Miami Herald is reporting that A-Rod admitted to the DEA that he used performance-enhancing drugs. New York Times investigative sports reporter Steve Eder weighs in on CBSN.

DEA cracks down on synthetic drugs in 29 states After a nationwide crackdown Wednesday, CBS News national correspondent Jan Crawford reports on a suspected link between the drugs and terror groups.