He lives in Tennessee but not anywhere near Nashville...

He has the same area code as me. East Tennessee probably...

Got a call from a man claiming to be DEA agent in Nashville.
Claimed I bought drugs illegally over seas.
I have no idea what he is talking about.
Must be a SCAM..hung up and never heard from him again.

YES JEFF I'VE WORE THEM OUT!    THEY HAD ME SCARED TO DEATH!   BOUT WRECKED TRYING TO GET TO BANK TO GET MONEY!   THANKFULLY MY BROTHER HAS KNOWLEDGE OF DEA AND TOLD HIM HE WAS AN IDIOT, NOT SUCH THING AS LIEUTENANT!   HE CUSSED HIM AND SAID THEY WERE GONNA ARREST HIM!  LOL!   SO I FELT SO STUPID, BUT LUCKILY I WAS STOPPED BEFORE I SENT THEM THE MONEY!  

SO JEFF, WEAR THEM OUT AT THEIR OWN GAME, HARRASSING CALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LARKS I'M WITH YOU.   EMAIL ME AT carol.john1@live.com and i'll tell you all the steps i've gone through to get this bastards.   This is my new mission in life.   I will see them prosecuted or absolutely bust a gut!

my wife got this call yesterday from  2022390426. scared her to death. i knew it was a scam..legal system doesn't work this way. i called this "william rice" back and let him have it. i got his spill he gave my wife. i asked him to fax the papers and his badge number and a copy of his photo id. he hung up after that. i have called him repeatedly to mess with him. just hit *67 first or the scum bag will call you back. i have an internet phone dialer calling the above number over and over.(again put in *67 first). i even have a fax machine calling him over and over. my turn to have fun. everyone should do this...jam him up. and yes..this is a total scam.

Come on people! It's innocent until proven guilty here.

No-one is going to PHONE you and tell you that you are going to jail for ANYTHING without going to court and through lawyers etc. etc.

There is a legal process that has to be followed so if anyone ever phones you like this you should know that it is a scam and just hang up and don't worry at all about it.

you are wrong here. i talked to the guy myself. and that is exactly what he said would happen if
$950 WASN'T SENT in a couple of hours this past sunday. had the wife scared to death. i told her the system didn't work like this but she didn't calm down until i asked this william rice for his photo id and badge number. he hung up on me. but he gave me the whole story line. he messed with me so i am gonna mess with him for a little bit.

Wow, I also got a call from a Lt William Rice from 865-332-0167. He left a message that he had confiscated drugs and said I received some in 2007 and 2008 I was to call him ASAP. I called and kept getting answer machine. I was also worried, we have had a very bad year, my daughter had just died and I thought oh my god now what? Scared me to death, anyway I decided to google his name and read all these comments,. Thank God, I really hope the jerk gets caught. Who do we report this to? Thank God for google

I also got a call from a Lt William Rice from 2022390426. He left a message that he had confiscated drugs and said I received some in 2007 and 2008 I was to call him ASAP .  Scared me to death, anyway I decided to google the phone # 2022390426 and read all these comments, Thank God for google
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the person to contact and report these extortion scams is Kerry Hamilton #315-538-4864. I got the info from the REAL DEA office in D.C. They said get as much info as you can and report all calls to her, it seems they have a task force working on this international extortion scam. EVERBODY CALL!

So a foreign country can have a court trial in Washington DC.  How ridiculous.

It seems as if someone else is using your tactic. I got a call from 813-355-7202 with a voice mail that was screaming "you call me all day long, I don't want you f-ing calling no more...so on and so forth. Sounded Aisian with a lot of f..words. You can call and will get the message but cannot leave one. Don't know if it's related. My DEA harrassment has stopped after I baited one and acted scared until he got to the extortion part. I told him that International extortion is a Federal crime and I had already reported him to the task force. If you go to CCS pharmacy scam there is a list of some of the people's names that started my problems. They also call themselves pharmamedics. they are involved on both ends.

Sue, I am so so very sorry about your daughter! How horrible that you have to deal with the worst thing that could ever happen to you and then have the son's of Bit***'s do this to you!! I am so very sorry!! I hope you are finding a way to heal!! Melissa

just received call from same people stating they were in D.C. and if i didn't pay by 5pm they would have me processed to spend 12 months in jail! I called back three times they passed the phone from person to person named: Lit. Rice, Director Richard King both Wash D.C DEA agents to send $1500 to Randy Olivo at Fed Building 1600 George Washington Ave suite 107 Moca Dominican Republic 00809... Stated they would, after receiving my wire transfer, fax me a declaration excusing me of charges of ordering medications in 2007. When I questioned who they were or why I had yet to receive anything in writing regarding this they became defensive and rude stating that they would send agents to my home to prove to me, "an ungrateful scaming low income law breaker" that they were in fact trying to brake me a deal. As I asked more questions asking for something in writing or even by fax before I sent anything, they hung up, I called back, when the phone answered it was "Wash. D.C. DEA please hold" they transferred me back again to the same Lit Rice character. This person again was quick to dismiss my questions saying I was being difficult and that they were presently submitting my paperwork to the Luitenent General to have me processed for court on Sept 30 to receive my charges since I was unwilling to follow their advice. they read my partial rights over the phone repeatedly told me to contact a lawyer. When I asked them who and where my lawyer should contact, they hung up again. I called back and they again passed the phone around and ended w the same quick response of send the fine to the Dom Rep or the paperwork will go through today at 5 Est time. I quickly looked up the number and found this strand...I have however, contacted a lawyer

I just got same message today LT. william rice  saying to call him back about prescription meds from overseas i never ordered i left him a nasty message his number is 202-241-5763 DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY IT IS A SCAM!!!!

Has anyone received a call from an Eric Williams, supposed DEA agent in Dominican Republic, asking $3,500

I rcvd a call from "Special Agent Eric Williams" on Sat 2/5/11 at 10:10 AM EST.  He stated that I had committed a felony in importing controlled substances from a Domincan Republic pharmacy many years ago. He told me I was facing 3 1/2 - 7 years and that if I did not cooperate he was sending two DEA agents to my home to arrest me that afternoon and then he gave me my home address.  When I asked him what he wanted he replied that he wanted me to answer a few questions.  I then told him to speak to my attorney and he became belligerent and yelled at me that he would see me in court.  I called myattorney who then called im and reached him and when my attorney asked for his address, badge number, home office and contact number of his supervisor, he hung up.  We then  referred the matter to the real DEA in our home state.  When I called the number today upon their request, a non-Eglish speaking person answered and hung up immediately.

i rec'd the exact same call word for word last week as you did. It alarmed me at first , because the way my luck goes it would be me catching the runt of it for something I had no clue of what was happening

I too received a voice message from 865-332-0167.  Man stated to be a Lieutenant with the Nashville TN Drug Enforcement Agency and was calling regarding confiscated drugs.  Have not called back yet.  Going to do more research before doing so.

Got the same phone call from a Lt. William Rice in the Knoxville, TN. office. Spoke to him for a while and had me shaken up. Said I was going to have to appear in court on March 30th or I could pay afine of $1500.00 to the Dominican Republic who had brought the charge against me. Made it sound like he was goin to court today to convict people for similar charges and I should get that money wired to Officer Julio Santana, 1600 Washington Ave., Suite 107, Moca, Dominican Republic,00809 within the hour. Actually was stupid enough to wire the money and called back "Lt. William Rice" with the reference number. I changed my mind after talking to a friend about 20 minutes later and I was able to cancel the transaction and got my money back but still paid the transaction fee. Anyway I beat them to the punch cause not 5 minutes later I got a call from a D.R. # claiming to be Officer Julio Santana. Since then they have called me at least 25 times today from various #'s. I contacted my local DEA office and said this is a scam. Dont send these scumbags anything and warn your friends.

I got a call said I had 1 and 1/2 hours to wire money to dominican republic or I would have to do 3 to 9 months jail time. He stated that I had to pay as charges were being filed to day would not answer any questions about himself or ID

My wife got the same message on her voice mail only from a Lt. William Rice, DEA.   It's a scam and this is just a new number than he was using last fall.    There's a longer thread about this scam using the number 410-929-8358.   Sounds like he's just mixing up the scam with new names and numbers.

Received the same call as mentioned above, After reading the comments I'm going to have some fun with this guy. I love a goose chase.

4/22 Same thing happened to me wanting $900 said there was a warrant out for my arrest in knoxville TN for buying diet pills over sea. I contacted Knoxville police and they called the number and the man answered and hung up on them. I also contacted DEA and they said it was a scam...I wish they would catch this jerk!

Got several calls from people claiming to be from the dea office in knoxville tennesee. 865-332-1067.  Unless I wired via western union 850.00 to julio santana in the dominican republic i would have to appear in court because they claim they intercepted a package of medication with my name and address on it from the dominican republic. they claimed I could pay an 850.00 fine or go to prison for 60 days.  Since I did not order any drugs, never had any contact with the dominican replublic I knew this was a scam.  I contacted the federal authorities who told me this scam has been going on for quite some time.  They feds said they have a case opened and agreed to e-mail me a questioner to fill out and return. They also told me I would most likely continue to get calls.  beware of this scam.  the dea or fbi do not sork this way.

I recieved this same call today from a 2022390426 number on my cell but I didn't answer...they left a message saying he was Lt William Rice stating that he was from the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Washington DC. He said to call him back as soon as possible regarding a package of medicine they had confiscated from overseas. I googled the number and saw it was a scam....Called back and surprisngly it was this "Lt William Rice" that answered the phone. (they must never have tried to get through to a governemtn agency!!) I told him I was returning a call. He asked my name & I told him and he told me that I need to have an attorney because illegal drugs were confiscated from 2008-09.  Before he said any more (I kinda wished I would've let him go on!), I told him that I was with the county police force and that we have been trying to catch to scammers for the last 2 yrs and I wanted to hook up the DEA so we could get our share of the collar!  I asked him who the US attorney handling the case was and he said he would have to get back with me.  I then asked which office of DEA he was with and he just said Ditrict of Columbia (like there's only one DEA office there).  When I asked for the person in charge of the case, he just hung up!!!  Fight fire with fire!!!!
I have been getting  10-15 calls/day for the last year or so that are either hangup, or they leave a msg, or they want to let me know that my Rx is ready to ship but they need a Credit card number...figured it is all part of same sort of scam...I tried to get some sction with the phone company, but the numbers that show up on my phone do not come across on my bill so they do not have a record of the harrassing calls.
If someone has any idea to get these calls to stop, I'd like to know...the Do NOT call registry does not work...I have tried that a few times.

Same thing here around 11 am Eastern Time on April 27, 2010.  This thread is a real relief!

omh i just got the same call today! Super shady! Thank God for google! Word for word the same thing!!!

Just received a call from an Officer Jason Hale. He requested me to send $850 within an hour to the address by the name of Edison Joseph, and call him back with the ref#. If I didn't do so I would serve time in my local facility. I called a good friend who is chief of police in local area and he said to call my city police station. And file a report. It's all to fishy. Scared the crap out of me though..