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Fourth Defendant Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

NEW YORK CITY - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced today the unsealing of a criminal Complaint in Manhattan federal...
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Depew Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Fentanyl that Led to the Deaths of Two Individuals

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jonathan DiPirro, 33, of Depew, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra to distribution of acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl causing death, which carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life...
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Third Defendant Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

NEW YORK CITY - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced...
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Rochester Drug Conspiracy Leader Going to Prison for More than 17 Years

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jancarlos Gonzalez-Rivera a/k/a Los, 37, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribute, 400 grams of more of fentanyl, for his role as the leader of a large and long-standing illegal...
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Bronx Gang Member Convicted of Racketeering, Drug Trafficking, and Firearms Offenses

NEW YORK CITY - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a jury returned a guilty verdict against Yeltsin Beltran, a/k/a “Yells,” on three counts in a Superseding Indictment, including charges of racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, and a firearms offense. Beltran...
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Two Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

NEW YORK CITY - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lisa O. Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), and Edward...
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Two Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

NEW YORK CITY - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lisa O. Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Edward A...
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Former Auburn Physician Pays $135,000 and Forfeits DEA Registration, for Overprescribing Controlled Substances

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Dr. Jang Boo Chi, formerly a physician in Auburn, and his medical practice, Jang Boo Chi M.D. P.C., have agreed to pay the United States $135,000 in civil penalties for overprescribing opioids and other controlled substances in dangerous combinations. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, and...
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Syracuse Man Sentenced to Serve 157 Months for Possessing Fentanyl for Distribution and for Possessing Firearms in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Tramond G. Wallace, Jr., 28, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 157 months’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino...
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West Seneca Woman Pleads Guilty to Drug Possession

BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Kiara Hurd, 20, of West Seneca, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis A...