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You should send Him $00.25 for the acting job he did for ya

Same thing happened to me.  Call from commanding officer bryan collier had me convinced I was going to jail.  I had three options, first fight the charges and go to jail immediatly, or plead guilty and be on lrobabtion and do 455 hours of community service.  Or finally, i could do a civil agreement and pay a fine. I chose 3, and not until he asked me to western union money to barvara perez in the domonican republic did I realize it was a scam.  He had a lot of my personal information so it was not a cold call.

I got the same call today from the same ppl as "Also Scammed in Phoenix, AZ". At first it took me totally by surprise. You see the cell phone # I have now is my deceased Mom's number. Yet he had my name. My Mom had Alzheimer's in 2005 and never used her phone. She passed away in 2010. To honor her I took her number. How they got my name is beyond me. My Yahoo email address (my spam email acct) has been hacked last year. I called my brother who is a Police Officer and he now has a REAL Trap n Trace on my phone so maybe they can catch this man. The number that this man and his so called supervisor Brain Collier was 301-637-6111. Another name was Manuel Castillo.

picked up, and no answer. Has any one or this Website ever found out who they are?

AGHHHH Cant believe this jerk.  D.E.A  - NAME OF CALLER - BRIAN COLLIER - GAVE BADGE NUMBER.... ASKED IF I HAD BLOCK BUSTER ACCOUNT THEN SAID HE WAS WITH THE DEA AND I WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR DRUGS.  I  TOLD THE JERK TO CALL MY PHAMACIST AT WALLGREENS AND MY DOCTOR IF HE HAD A PROBLEM WITH FEMALE HORMONE PERSCRIPTIONS AND THYROID MEDICATION...  I TOLD HIM HE SOUNDED LIKE A FAKE.... TOOK HIS INFO AND I TOLD HIM I'D CALL HIM AFTER I LOOKED INTO IT.  WHAT A JERK!!!

I received a voice mail, too, the other day (I think it was 19 Dec 10) from "Joe Santana" claiming to be a special Agent for DEA investigating the same things as stated above; search warrant, arrest warrant, etc. and I returned the call that went to voice mail and said I was returning his call and when I'd be home and requested Santana to return my call..

I never heard anyone announce to a suspect they had a search warrant for them on a voice mail.  They'll flush the "evidence" or take "foot bail."

So far, no return call.

oh my I got this call first from Joe Santana and then eventually got Brian Collier both supposed DEA agents.  They scared me!  I  finally looked up the # and was relieved to find it was a scam.  I lost sleep over this and was racking my brain trying to figure out what I had done.  They never got to asking me for $ but they did say warrants for me and search my house.  When I asked if I needed an atty he seemed to be a little aggravated and said do what I want.  He kept trying to get me to answer questions and then said he could see I was a good citizen and he was not trying to destroy my life.  When I told him I had to talk to an attorney he said good luck and have a Merry Christmas!  What jerks!!!

I received a call like those above,  " being investigated by the DEA " etc...As a former dept. sheriff and PO, this is obviously a scam. I doubt the DEA would ever call someone in an on going investigation, likely they would show up at your door to answer questions, never by phone. They just don't gather information that way, much too professional, and they certainly wouldn't ask for money!

I got a message on my answering machine from a "John" or "Joe" Santana (hard to tell, very heavy accent) telling me that he was a special agent from the "DEA" and they were conducting an investigation on the pharmaceutical industry.He said they had a warrant for my arrest and a search warrant, and instructed me to call him back at (973) 856-8223. After reading the previous posts, it definitely sounds like a scam, so I won't be calling back, and I will ignore any further calls from "Mr. Santana."

Thank you for posting what happened to you.  Until I decided to look and see where and who the phone number belonged to, I suffered hours of agony and fright not knowing if someone was coming to knock on my door and arrest me or what.  When I read what happened to you I decided that this was nothing but a nasty prank or way to try and scam me of thousands of dollars that I don't have.  I trully wish that something be done about these kinds of people.

Thank you!

This afternoon (12/18/2010) I received a call from someone posing as John Santana with the DEA from Newark, NJ, Badge #509277 also with a very heavy accent like the person before is describing.  He told me that he was conducting an investigation that had to do with a drug shipment that I had ordered thru a pharmaceutical from outside the country and that this shipment had been held by "customs" back in August of 2010.  He told me that I was facing federal charges for contraband of medicine into the United States and that the penalty for this crime is 3 to 3.5 years in federal penitentry or $250,000 fine.  He told me that there was a warrant for my arrest as well as a bench warrant and that he was going to try and speak with his superior commander who could try and reverse the charges.  He put me on hold for what it seem an eternety and when someone came back to the phone this man identified himself as Bryan Collier, General Commander officer with the DEA East Coast Facility and that his Badge number was 809297-NJDEA.  Also with a very heavy Southern accent and he used very vulgar language.  I made sure I wrote all this information down.  This man told me that he could try and speak with the Treasury Department in NY, if I was willing to pay $2,700 to have these charges removed and would never have to appear in court in front of a judge.  He told me to go to a location where there is a Western Union in town, chose the form that says to send "money or money transfer", fill out all my personal information, pick the "Money in minutes" option and in the "receiver information" use the Court Clerk's name which was "HAMLET MEJIA" and that if the person at Western Union asked me what was the purpose of my sending this money that I should just say that it was being sent to a friend or loved one who was in desperate need for the money.  That I was never to divulge the information because this is an investigation called "911" and very highly confidential.  It that moment the connection fell and they tried calling me three more times and I did not answer the phone.  I called a friend who is a PD and he told me that this was a scam and for me not to answer or return their phone calls again.  They almost had me!  But it was the way the payment was to be made that gave them away.

SOMEONE USING THIS NUMBER CALLED ME ON 11-22/10 AND LEFT A MESSAGE THAT HE WAS WITH THE DEA.  I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HIS NAME AS HIS FOREIGN ACCENT WAS QUITE THICK.. HE MADE THREATS ABOUT A "BENCH WARRANT" AND "SEARCH WARRANT" BEING IMPLEMENTED WITHIN 24 HOURS FOR ME IN MY STATE.  THE CHARGES WE ABOUT A "DRUG SHIPMENT" BEING HELD BY "CUSTOMS" AND THE FBI.  HE DEMANDED THAT I CALL BACK AT THIS NUMBER (SAME AS HE CALLED FROM).  i DID, SEVERAL HOURS LATER AND GOT A RECORDED MESSAGE THAT THE NUMBER WAS A NOT-IN-SERVICE "MAGIC-JACK" PHONE.  THIS WAS APPARENTLY THE RESULT OF A PREVIOUS SCAM THAT I WAS VICTIM OF, WHEN I DID ORDER SOME ASTHMA MEDICINE ON-LINE  I STUPIDLY PAID $264.00 COD  FOR WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE ABOUT 10 LARGE TABLET WRAPPED IN TOILET TISSUE AND SCOTCH TAPE!  NOT THE ADVAIR INHALERS I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING.  THAT SCAM HAD IDENTUIFIED ITSELF AS "NET GENERATION PHARMACY".  SLEEZEBAG SCAMMERS!