DEA Archived Press Releases

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Mexican Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 40 Years In Federal Prison

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that on October 19, 2012, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Jesus Tijerina (54, Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon, Mexico) to...
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Heads Of Nationwide Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Organization Sentenced To Federal Prison

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and Sue McCormick, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Tampa, announced today that U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced...
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California Man Convicted On Federal Drug Charges

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that a federal jury found Sergio Godinez Del (46, Napa, California) guilty yesterday of conspiracy to distribute, and possession with...
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Former Colombian Prosecutor Pleads Guilty To Role In International Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced yesterday that a former Colombian prosecutor pled guilty to providing law enforcement information to drug traffickers as part of a conspiracy...
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Holiday CVS Final Order Reveals Gross Negligence By Two CVS Pharmacies In Stanford, Florida

(MIAMI, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced the Federal Register publication of Holiday CVS, L.L.C., d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order, on October 12, 2012. The order is effective 30 day from the date of publication in...
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Convicted Felon Sentenced For Planning Murder

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that yesterday U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Asieba Imadjam (26, Tampa) to 30 years in federal prison for...
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DEA’s Fifth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Results In Another Big Haul

MIAMI - For the fifth time in two years, Americans emptied medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs and took them to collection sites located throughout the United States as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday...
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Kentucky Woman Sentenced To 27 Years Federal Prison For Illegally Providing Rx Drugs

LONDON, Ky. - A Jackson, Ky., woman who illegally provided prescription drugs to a woman who died of an overdose was sentenced to 327 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove. This marks the first federal sentence in the Eastern District of Kentucky for a...
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Captain Of Refueling Boat For Drug Traffickers Sentenced To More Than 24 Years

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. sentenced Celin Javier Puerto-(43, Honduras) to 24 years and 4 months...
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Wauchula Man Sentenced To More Than 24 Years For Cocaine Distribution

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Juan Ramirez, Jr. (40, Wauchula) to 24 years and 3 months...