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Colombian Drug Kingpin Charged With Smuggling 35 Pounds Of Heroin Destined For New York In Freight Containers

MANHATTAN - 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 indictment...
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Drug Kingpin And Eight Others Indicted For Smuggling Millions Of Dollars In Heroin From Colombia To New York City

MANHATTAN - 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 indictment...
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Heroin Pipeline From The Bronx To Otsego County Shut Down

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Brian R. Crowell, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr, Oneonta Police Chief Dennis R. Nayor and Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl announce the arrest of a major trafficking ring...
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Two Men Sentenced To Prison For Cocaine Trafficking

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Two men were sentenced on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, in U.S. District Court for their part in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., sentenced Ildefonso Madrid Flores, 28, of...
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Six Defendants Charged In Controlled Substance Dispensation Conspiracy

SAVANNAH, Ga. - A federal indictment, unsealed today in federal court, has charged six defendants with conspiracy to traffic oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs through a purported pain clinic known as East Health Center, which operated in Garden City, Georgia from February through May of 2011. The indictment alleges that...
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Doctor Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that Felix Rodriguez, a licensed medical doctor, pled guilty to a one-count...
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Undercover Operation Nabs Two Defendants Charged In Federal Court With Distribution Of Synthetic Drug Known As “Bath Salts”

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief Egidio Tinti of the (N.Y.) Police Department, announced the arrest today of...
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Two Members Of Manhattan Trinitarios Gang Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court For Racketeering And Firearms Offenses

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that Jonathan Feliz, the former leader of the Manhattan branch of the “Trinitarios,”...
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Two Distributors Of Oxycodone Powder Arrested

- ALBANY, N.Y. - Two former Oneonta residents, Dylan J. Clark and Michelle L. Slonaker, were arrested last Friday as part of “Operation Gold Rush” that was conducted by the Otsego County Sheriff’s (OCSO), the Oneonta Police (OPD), and the Albany District Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, into...
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Manhattan Doctor Illegally Sold Painkiller Prescriptions To Drug Trafficking Organization

MANHATTAN - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; Raymond W. Kelly New York City Police Commissioner; James C. Cox Medicaid Inspector General; Nirav R. Shah, M.D., New York State Commissioner of Health M.P.H...