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DEA New York Enforcement Division announces Homeland Security Task Force Investigation Results in Arrests of Three Men for Their Roles in Narcotics Trafficking Operation

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Enforcement Division Special Agent-in-Charge Farhana Islam , U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo, and FBI Buffalo Special Agent-in-Charge Allen D. Davis II, announced today that Rodney Stanley, 58, of Greece, NY, Leonardo Gaskin, 36, of West Henrietta, NY, and Shanimba Nelson, 52, of Irondequoit...
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Interstate Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison Following Conviction at New York Trial

Carlos ALMONTE PALMERS, convicted for his role in an interstate narcotics trafficking organization, received a 14-year prison sentence for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree yesterday afternoon following a jury trial prosecuted by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York...
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Leader of Clan Del Golfo, The Colombian Drug Cartel and Terrorist Organization, Charged in Superseding Indictment With Expanded Criminal Conduct and Terrorism Offenses

NEW YORK - A fifth superseding indictment was filed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn against Jobanis de Jesus Avila Villadiego, also known as “Chiquito” and “Chiquito Malo,” which added new charges of narcoterrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and providing or attempting to...