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Oxycodone Drug Trafficking Ring Faces Federal And State Operating From Massachusetts, Florida And Puerto Rico

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Robert E. O’Neill, United States (U.S.) Attorney for the Middle District of Florida; Carmen M. Ortiz, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida; and Palm Bay Police...
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Treasury Designates Honduran Drug Traffickers

WASHINGTON - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (“OFAC”) today announced the designation of Honduran national Jose Miguel Handal (a.k.a. “Chepe Handal”), as a Specially Designated Narcotics (“SDNT”) pursuant to the Foreign...
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Florida Doctors No Longer Among The Top Oxycodone Purchasers In The United States

APR 05 - (Weston, Fla.) - In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders (ARCOS) reported that 90 of the top 100 oxycodone purchasing physicians in the nation were located in Florida. The number of Florida doctors appearing in that nationwide list dropped from 90 to...
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Pulaski Man Sentenced To 70 Months

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Frank Dwayne Randolph a/k/a Tubbs, 48, of Pulaski, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. U.S. District Judge Aleta A.Trauger also sentenced Randolph to serve...
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Forty-Two Indicted On Charges Relating To Manufacture And Distribution Of Methamphetamine In Anderson County

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 19, 2013, 42 individuals, many of whom reside in Anderson County, were indicted by a federal grand jury for various charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine. In addition to manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, the charges also include: conspiracy to manufacture and distribute...
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Sarasota Man Sentenced To 5 A½ Years In Federal Prison For Narcotics And Firearm Charges

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Oneil Marlon Martin, a/k/a David Lawrence (33, Sarasota) to 66 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Martin to forfeit...
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Two Narcotic Treatment Programs Face Financial Penalties

ATLANTA - New Horizons Treatment Center and Epiphany Center, Rome Inc. located in Rome, Ga., have agreed to civil settlements and will pay penalties to resolve allegations they violated inventory requirements of the Controlled Substances Act. Epiphany Center, Rome Inc. has also agreed to voluntarily surrender its Drug Enforcement (DEA)...
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Rutherford County Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested For Cocaine Trafficking

NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - Luis Reynaldo Parra Flores, 35, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a deputy with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, was charged in a federal complaint in Nashville yesterday, with conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee...
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16-Month Narcotics Investigation Yields Arrests

GREENVILLE, S.C. - On March 5, 2013, the Greenville County Sheriff’s (GCSO) and the Greenville City Police (GCPD) arrested 39-year old Shannon Tekoites Davis, 30-year old Mikesha Renee Maddox, 50-year old Billie Joyce Glenn and 24-year old Renee Ann Wakefield, in connection with a 16-month long joint investigation with the...
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Elisa Baker Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Conspiracy To Distribute Prescription Drugs

STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Court Judge Richard Voorhees sentenced today Elisa Annette Baker, 44, of Hickory, N.C., to serve 120 months in prison for conspiracy with intent to distribute prescription drugs, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Baker was also ordered to...