Copyright 2005 David AltfederThe US DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) has declared the results of Operation "Cyber Chase", a year long fashioned evildoing take enforcement task force enquiry that targeted planetary cyberspace caregiver traffickers operative in the United States, India, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. DEA Administrator Karenic P. Tandy declared the success of the program, part of the ongoing effort by the DEA to shut downbound "rogue" cyberspace pharmacies which distribute drugs illicitly in the United States.

Over the course of 48 hours, there were 20 arrests in the U.S. and overseas. Arrests occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ft. Lauderdale, Floria, Sarasota Florida, metropolis Texas and Tyler Texas. In addition, arrests occurred in San Jose, Costa Rica, New Delhi, Agra, and Bombay, India. Operation "Cyber Chase" targeted major caregiver take traffickers who allegedly shipped Schedule II-V caregiver controlled substances including amphetamines, narcotics and anabolic steroids directly to buyers of every ages without the medical communicating by a physician required by U.S. law. The take traffickers used more than 200 websites to illicitly distribute these substances.DEA Administrator Tandy; Scott comedian Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP); Brian Lampkin, Section Chief, agent Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Financial Crimes Section; Deputy Assistant Director of Investigations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Apostle Kilcoyne; Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, John M. Taylor; Apostle J. Trimbur, Inspector in Charge, Mail Theft, Violent Crimes and Narcotics Investigations, U.S. Postal Inspections Service (USPIS); and Commissioner Mark W. Everson, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made the announcement today. The enquiry was joined by the agencies traded above.DEA Administrator Karenic P. Tandy said, "For too long the cyberspace has been an open penalization compartment with cyber take dealers illicitly doling out a vast array of narcotics, amphetamines, and steroids.

In this first major planetary enforcement state against online rogue pharmacies and their sources of supply, we've logged these traffickers off the Internet."John Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy said, "Prescription drugs support millions of Americans every day. But their misuse is decent a serious problem, abetted by take traffickers who are using the cyberspace to attempt to subvert our medical medication system. E-traffickers that target teen people and those pain from the disease of dependency are now the target of accumulation enforcement action, while we move to ensure proper access to necessary medications. I would like to thank and applaud the agencies and offices involved in this enquiry as their efforts truly make USA safer."This enquiry destroyed a major source of illicit pharmaceuticals that posed a significant public health threat. Closing downbound these illegal, cyberspace take pipelines is essential to protecting consumers of pharmaceuticals," said archangel J. Garcia, Assistant Secretary, Immigration and Customs Enforcement."The FBI relic committed to investigating the illegal understanding of pharmaceuticals over the Internet. The FBI's cyberspace Pharmaceutical Fraud Initiative is employed with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and another federal, state, topical and planetary accumulation enforcement partners to combat this evildoing and dismantle the responsible criminal enterprises," said FBI Director Robert Mueller. "Illegal pharmaceuticals bear a enthusiastic risk to the health and welfare of the American public.

These drugs are existence manufactured overseas in unregulated facilities, smuggled into the United States in an uncontrolled environment, and distributed without oversight of a licensed physician or pharmacist."Operation Cyber Chase sends an instant communication to 'cybercriminals' that the cyberspace is not their safehouse. Criminals, disguised as entrepreneurs, use the cyberspace to invade your bag and push their poison. Whether the effort is on the street or on the Web, the outcome relic the same: Postal Inspectors will move employed with our accumulation enforcement partners to bring offenders to justice," said Chief Postal Inspector Lee R. Heath"Consumers ordering medication drugs from a website they're not old with place themselves in a 'buyer beware' situation," said John Taylor, Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration. "The medications may be reaching from unknown sources, may not be stored or labeled properly, and may not meet quality assurance standards fashioned to display innocuous and effective products. Many of the safeguards that exist for brick and mortar pharmacies do not exist for cyberspace Pharmacies and the potential for bruising take interactions is magnified."The compounded efforts of accumulation enforcement agencies in an enquiry of this magnitude display a alarming force against narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Individuals and businesses utilizing the cyberspace to delude pharmaceuticals are bound by the same laws and regulations that apply to the corner take store," said Nancy Jardini, Chief, bureau Criminal Investigation. "The unification between where the money comes from, who gets it, when it is received, and where it is stored or deposited, can wage evidence that a evildoing was committed. Finding and connecting those course is what bureau brings to this cooperative effort."The compounded agency initiative underscores the grandness for consumers to see online pharmacy sites carefully. Avoid sites which substance narcotics, ampthetamines, anabolic steroids and another drugs of abuse. Avoid online pharmacies settled outside the United States. The only jural online pharmacies in the U.S. are sites which either require a medication from your physician or which have a licensed U.S. physician write your prescription.Both are jural U.S. online pharmacies.