...under the CSA and corresponding regulations, DEA has the right to conduct administrative inspections or audits. They prefer to show up unscheduled and unannounced and to obtain the provider’s consent to search. They will provide a DEA Form 82, entitled Notice of Inspection of Controlled Premises, and will ask the provider to consent by signing the form. As the form makes clear, the provider has a right to refuse to consent, has a right not to have the inspection take place without an administrative inspection warrant, and incriminating evidence that is found can be used against the provider in a criminal case. The DIs will state that if the provider refuses to consent they will be back shortly, the implication being that same day, with an administrative search warrant. This is not totally accurate; although the administrative inspection warrant will almost always be routinely granted, it is not as “immediate” as one would think. In actuality it can take days or weeks in order for the agents to obtain and return with an administrative inspection warrant.
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Whether an inspection takes place by consent or by warrant, it should be the same scope. DEA is authorized by regulation to “inspect, copy, and verify the correctness of records required to be kept” under the CFRs. Basically they are looking at proper record keeping of controlled substances and whether there is any evidence of diversion. Thus, it should be limited to a review of the provider’s records to determine compliance with the laws and regulations surrounding controlled substances.

He was then paged at his gate by Port Authority police and confessed the marijuana placed inside a small plastic bag and wrapped in seven Mary Jane candy wrappers was his, Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo said.