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Operation Lockport Led To The Arrest Of 25 People And Dismantled A Major Drug Trafficking Ring In Western New York

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Forty people were indicted for operating two different drug trafficking rings that operated throughout Erie, Genesee and Niagara counties. Through parallel investigations that included undercover operations, GPS tracking devices and hundreds of hours of covert surveillance, investigators seized more than $100,000 in cocaine along with large quantities...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Bitcoin Exchangers, Including CEO Of Bitcoin Exchange Company, For Scheme To Sell And Launder Over $1 Million In Bitcoins Related To Silk Road Drug Trafficking

MANHATTAN - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal...
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Member Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Sentenced To 115 Months For Drug Trafficking And Attempting To Assassinate Criminal Associate Over Drug Debt

BROOKLYN - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bajram Lajqi, a member of an international drug trafficking syndicate led by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada, and (the "syndicate"), was sentenced to 115 months in prison -- with credit for the 31 months he has already...
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DEA And Otsego County Sheriff's Office Arrest Two Defendants On Drug Charges

OTSEGO, N.Y. - Over the weekend, the Drug Enforcment Administration'(DEA) Albany District Office and the Otsego County Sheriff's Office Investigation Division effected two arrests in separate investigations. On January 3, 2014, Casandra Marie Remillard, a former Oneonta woman, was arrested as part of a joint narcotics investigation dubbed "Operation Gold...
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Colombian Drug Kingpin And Cohort Extradited In New York Heroin Trafficking Scheme Millions Of Dollars In Heroin Smuggled In Freight Containers

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the...
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Medical Professionals Performed Perfunctory Exams On Longshoremen And Filled Scripts For Narcotics In Elaborate Scheme To Rip Off Insurance Companies

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York (DEA), Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner Ronald Goldstock of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, Chairman Robert Beloten of...
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Joint Drug Takedown Results In 61 Arrests

CLINTON COUNTY, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA) and Clinton County District Attorney Andrew J. Wylie announced today that a unified law enforcement drug investigation resulted in the filing of Grand Jury Indictments against 61 individuals during the current...
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Jose Morales Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering A Witness In A Baltimore City Case

GREENBELT - , Md. - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jose Joaquin Morales, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, to life in prison for using a cell phone to arrange the murder-for-hire of Robert Long, who was a cooperating witness in a case pending against Morales in the Circuit...
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Corrupt Colombian Government Employee And Criminal Defense Attorney Convicted In Obstruction Of Justice Case

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl M. Pollak at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to obstruction of justice for stealing selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of...
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Operation Dial Tone Dismantles Heroin Trafficking Organization

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of drug kingpin Edgar Joe...