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DEA Missouri Office Seizes Thousands of Vials of Ketamine

photo - seized ketamine vials On April 21, 2002, the DEA Springfield Missouri Resident Office assisted the Missouri State Highway Patrol with the seizure of a shipment of Ketamine believed to be en route from Los Angeles to New York. Law enforcement officers discovered 5 suitcases containing a total of 20 sealed Federal Express Packages. Contained inside these boxes was a total of three thousand nine hundred ninety eight (3,998) ten milliliter vials of Ketamine.