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Drug Distribution Investigation Uncovers Massive Health Care Fraud

… Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Twelve Pharmacists, four doctors, an accountant, and a psychologist among those charged … insurers for services supposedly provided to the patients, without regard to the medical necessity of those … would then dispense the controlled drugs to patients without medical necessity. The distribution of controlled …
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Orlando Pharmacist Convicted Of Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

… outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose and 10 counts of … outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.   Okonkwo faces a …
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Operators Of Bogus Medical Clinics Charged In Conspiracy To Divert Massive Amounts Of Prescription Narcotics To The Black Market

… profited from illicit prescriptions that were issued without any legitimate medical purpose through a series of … began selling fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone without the doctor’s knowledge or consent.  The conspirators …
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Authorities Arrest 5 Linked To LA "Pill Mill"

… act outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose,” and Southfork … doctor who wrote prescriptions at Southfork, allegedly without any medical necessity, before the Medical Board of …
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Drug Traffickers Used Staten Island Barber Shop To Sell Drugs And Oversee Gun Sales

… 4 Dierauf Street, SI NY Arraigned 10/16/13, Remanded without bail If convicted of all charges, he faces a maximum … 5/10/84 35 Knox Street, SI NY Arraigned 10/16/13, Remanded without bail If convicted of all charges, he faces a maximum …
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Pain Clinic Owners And Medical Directors Indicted For Alleged “Pill Mill” Relocated From Florida To Maryland

… Pain Clinic Owners And Medical Directors Indicted For Alleged “Pill Mill” Relocated From Florida … “Medical professionals who distribute oxycodone without valid medical need place users in grave danger,” … can be just as harmful as illegal drugs when they are used without proper oversight.” According to the indictment, from …
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Two Charged with Connection with Scheme to Operate Industrial-Scale Illegal Narcotics Pill Pressing Operations Throughout New York City

… Two Charged with Connection with Scheme to Operate Industrial-Scale Illegal Narcotics … from prescription medications such as Xanax, Adderall, and OxyContin, though in fact they contain, among …
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Wallingford Man Charged with Trafficking 16 Kilograms of Fentanyl into Connecticut

… Wallingford Man Charged with Trafficking 16 Kilograms of Fentanyl into Connecticut … “Max,” 44, of Wallingford, has been charged by indictment with a fentanyl trafficking offense. As alleged in court … Thereafter, investigators arranged a controlled delivery of the drug shipment to Montanez using …
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Dominican National Sentenced to 28 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Meth in the New Hampshire Seacoast

… guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute and one count of distributing … law enforcement efforts and our strong partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.” Mendez Carmona was part of … area.  In late 2023, Mendez Carmona made at least three deliveries of controlled substances to undercover law …
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Central Oregon Man Charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

… Central Oregon Man Charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine September 25, 2025 … of a firearm case and has multiple prior convictions for delivery of a controlled substance. The case is being …
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Approximately 32,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized at JFK Airport Hotel: Two Men from California Arrested

… Barajas-Valencia allegedly orchestrated the shipment and delivery of the approximately 32,000 fentanyl pills. Both …
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Eleven area residents indicted for $1.7 million meth, heroin conspiracy, numerous illegal firearms

… pounds of marijuana. Investigators conducted a controlled delivery of the parcel, the affidavit says, which Ruiz …
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12-Person Cocaine Trafficking Ring Dismantled

… ordered quantities of cocaine and made arrangements for the delivery of the narcotics for resale. Calderon, Martinez, …
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Peruvian citizen pleads guilty to role in transnational drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy

… and money laundering conspiracy October 19, 2020 New York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 … M. Heino Recruiter Name SA Romona Sy 571-776-1634 NewYorkSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events … $472,000 in drug proceeds, and arranging for the delivery of approximately 140 kilograms of cocaine to …
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Ghostface Gangster Members, Associate Plead Guilty to Meth Trafficking Conspiracy from Georgia Prisons

… pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on Nov. 13. … pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on Aug. 15 and … before her arrest. Wallace admitted she had performed 10-15 deliveries of 250 grams or less of methamphetamine at …
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China-Based Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Employees Indicted for Alleged Fentanyl Manufacturing and Distribution

… have been charged in the Middle District of Florida with federal crimes including attempted distribution of … of fentanyl. Five of the indictments also charge defendants with money laundering. “Today, the Justice Department … in the United States. The defendants offered special delivery procedures such as mislabeling the contents of …
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Sarasota Meth Trafficker Pleads Guilty

… Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, conducted a controlled delivery of a portion of the methamphetamine to the …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 23 years in Prison

… Sanchez sometimes used telephones to arrange sales or delivery of methamphetamine, in violation of federal law. …
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30 Multi-State Drug Trafficking Ring Members Arrested, Charged

… Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 230 S. Dearborn Street Ste. 1200 Chicago , IL 60604-1745 United States … Fidel.ArroyoJr@dea.gov Division Contacts Illinois Rockford - (815) 987-4494 Springfield - (217) 585-2750 Indiana … were federal prisoners at the time – to orchestrate the delivery and distribution of methamphetamine to Indianapolis …
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35 defendants to include the ring leader charged in major take down of international drug trafficking organization based in Lane County

… and prepared for distribution in large pound quantities for delivery to local distributors in Eugene, Springfield, and …
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DEA Emergency Schedules Bromazolam

… altered mental state, and respiratory depression associated with the abuse of drugs known collectively as “designer … benzodiazepines.” The increase in the co-abuse of opioids with designer benzodiazepines has become of particular … continues in the United States.    More information is available in the temporary scheduling order. # # # Drug …
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DEA Gears Up for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… are removed. A location finder and partner toolbox are available at www.DEATakeBack.com for easy reference to …
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DEA Hosts 25th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… are removed. A location finder and partner toolbox are available at www.DEATakeBack.com for easy reference to …
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DEA’s Commitment to Expanding Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment

… want medication-assisted treatment to be readily and safely available to anyone in the country who needs it.” Recently, …
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DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

… Program Report on the recent drug sampling and testing is available on the DEA.gov website.       On …
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Observant bystander travelling through Indiana led DEA Chicago Field Division to historic 225 pound methamphetamine seizure

… and our state, local, and federal partners are using all available resources to prevent them from peddling poison …
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Bakersfield trucker sentenced for shipping drugs sourced from Mexico

… States Attorney General's drug strategy to reduce the availability of drugs by disrupting and dismantling major …
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Dallas DEA/Texoma HIDTA Launches Heroin Task Force Initiative

… which produces the same effects and is often more readily available and cheaper to obtain.   To combat this issue, the …
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DEA Schedules Deadly Synthetic Drug U-47700

… Roulette” scenario for any user. DEA's Final Order is available for public viewing today in the Federal Register …