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Two Separate Investigations Result In Significant Sentences For Drug Dealers In Cedar Rapids

May 23, 2018
… court authorized wire taps revealing the trios attempts to buy and sell crack cocaine. Additionally, all three men were … Spates’ criminal history includes convictions for delivery of a controlled substance and domestic assault. …
May 23, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Two California Men Charged With Participating In ‘Black Market Peso Exchange’ Scheme Used To Move Money Out Of U.S.

March 05, 2013
…  The peso broker finds business owners in Mexico who buy goods from vendors in the United States, such as Peace & … cash as directed by a peso broker in Mexico to couriers for delivery to other United States-based businesses on behalf …
March 05, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Two San Gabriel Valley Men Who Participated In ‘Black Market Peso Exchange’ That Moved Money Out Of U.S. Sentenced To Federal Prison

April 24, 2014
… pesos. The peso broker finds business owners in Mexico who buy goods from vendors in the United States, such as Peace & … cash as directed by a peso broker in Mexico to couriers for delivery to other United States based businesses on behalf …
April 24, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Florida Pill Mill Doctor Found Guilty On 17 Counts Of Drug Charges

January 31, 2014
… Trafficking in oxycodone, and four counts of  illegal delivery of controlled substances, including: oxycodone, … Methadone and alprazolam.  Rodenberg, a board certified pain management doctor, faces up to 350 years in prison. …
January 31, 2014
GENERAL INFORMATION

DEA Asset Forfeiture

March 28, 2025
… $807,007,592.33 FY2020 11,669 $607,974,884.82 $595,886,329.36 DOJ Equitable Share Distribution Report for FY20-FY23 …
March 28, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Springfield, Mo., Man Sentenced to 18 Years for Meth Trafficking

June 29, 2022
… two plastic bags that contained a total of approximately 329 grams of methamphetamine. Later that month, according to …
June 29, 2022
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Smithtown man arrested for allegedly posing as medical professional, running illegal health clinic

February 21, 2020
… practice called Men’s Health of Smithtown, located at 329 E. Middle Country Road in Smithtown, despite his not …
February 21, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Former Kent Resident Sentenced to Prison for Selling Narcotics Near Drug Treatment Center

August 19, 2024
… he was selling drugs.   In January, Muse started staying overnight at a Lynwood, Washington apartment.  On February …
August 19, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Danbury Man Sentenced To 16 Years In Federal Prison For Armed Home Invasions

March 10, 2016
… driven to a trap house where he was locked in a bathroom overnight.  The next day, Patterson and Whitehurst directed …
March 10, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Attacks Indiana Opana Painkiller Epidemic

February 05, 2016
… happy to assist but it is not a problem which can be cured overnight and requires a comprehensive approach. Arresting …
February 05, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

6s Are Wild – And Under Arrest

September 17, 2015
… during a five year period ending August 20, 2015. Arrests overnight followed a six-month-long investigation conducted …
September 17, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Milton woman arrested for running multimillion-dollar black market marijuana enterprise

April 02, 2019
… and management of Northern Herb, a black-market marijuana delivery service that operated in Massachusetts from 2015 to … more than $300,000 towards the mortgage on her house and to buy a 2017 Porsche Boxster, among other things.  It is …
April 02, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Israeli National Indicted And Extradited To Boston On Cocaine Conspiracy And International Money Laundering Charges

February 16, 2017
… Altarabeen and his co-conspirator allegedly negotiated to buy 50 kilograms of cocaine from an undercover officer … to Beersheba, Israel, where the defendants expected to take delivery of the cocaine.  Altarabeen agreed to make an …
February 16, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA showcases the dangers of drug addiction through travelling museum exhibit

February 21, 2019
… as Afghanistan, to the goal of preventing the extraordinary pain, anguish, and loss that comes with drug use.”   …
February 21, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Three Arrested In Connection With Pharmacy Forgery Ring

October 20, 2016
… the defendants obtained thousands of pills of narcotic pain medication, such as oxycodone, using the forged … to have gained unauthorized access to online-prescription delivery systems, which allowed them to send digital …
October 20, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Jury Convicts Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico Associate of Murdering Federal Witness, Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

December 13, 2023
… Padilla possessed with the intent to distribute more than 329 strips of suboxone while incarcerated at the …
December 13, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Washington Man Sentenced for Involvement in Shooting Death of Coeur d’Alene Teen

July 22, 2023
… morphine.  Pharmaceutical fentanyl was developed for severe pain management and prescribed in the form of transdermal … like prescription opioids such as oxycodone (Oxycontin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and alprazolam (Xanax); or …
July 22, 2023
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Spokane Man Sentenced for Involvement in Shooting Death of Idaho Teen

December 21, 2022
… morphine. Pharmaceutical fentanyl was developed for severe pain management and prescribed in the form of transdermal … like prescription opioids such as oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and alprazolam (Xanax); or …
December 21, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Dentist Pleads Guilty to Exchanging Prescriptions for Sex

January 15, 2004
… in which he was charged with the unlawful distribution of Percocet. As part of the plea agreement, Dr. Webster … female patients for several controlled substances including Percocet, Oxycodone, Vicodin, Hydrocodone, and Alprazolam … after an undercover Maryland State policewoman, posing as a Percocet addict, received prescriptions for Percocet on two …
January 15, 2004
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California Man Sentenced to 21 Years for Meth Conspiracy in Southwest Missouri

February 09, 2023
… box at a Mt. Vernon truck stop to mail parcels, priority overnight, to Magallon. On April 3, 2020, investigators …
February 09, 2023
DRUG FACT SHEET

Barbiturates

January 21, 2025
Depressants
Depressant drug used to help sleep, relieve anxiety, muscle spasms, and prevent seizures. Prescribed names: Fiorina®, Pentothal®, Seconal®, or Nembutal®.
January 21, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

TSA And Law Enforcement Officers In Nevadaand Florida Charged In Prescription Drug Ring Narcotics Trafficking Network Results In 20 Arrests

September 13, 2011
… not only uncovered the trafficking of diverted pain medications but also exposed the alleged corrupt … stated DEA Special Agent in Charge Derr. “Prescription pain medication abuse is rampant in New England and this … the use of consensually recorded conversations, controlled deliveries of oxycodone, physical surveillance, and …
September 13, 2011
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Federal grand jury charges three men for distributing fentanyl-laced pills that caused death of rapper Mac Miller

October 02, 2019
… providing McCormick with genuine oxycodone when he made the delivery during the early morning hours of Sept. 5, Pettit … law enforcement is using informants and undercover to buy them on the street do they can start putting ppl in …
October 02, 2019
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Five Defendants Charged in San Jose Drug Distribution Schemes

February 11, 2021
… source, Lozano negotiated the price, and Alvarez made the delivery in a parking lot in San Jose. On that day, a … price of the methamphetamine if the source were willing to buy larger quantities.  Like De La Cruz, Torres Cruz is …
February 11, 2021
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San Francisco man sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for crimes related to illegal fentanyl pill manufacturing operation

January 24, 2020
… admitted that his role in the conspiracy included buying a pill press, using it to manufacture pills, and … assisted him by maintaining a post office box for the delivery of the fentanyl powder that he used to make pills …
January 24, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Leader Of International Money Laundering Organization Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Nine Years In Prison

July 11, 2011
… multi-level marketing scheme, through which customers could buy pre-paid debit cards. DMG sold these pre-paid debit … cash transportation operations, including overseeing the delivery of cash to money laundering agents and attempts to …
July 11, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Indictment targeting massive international cocaine conspiracy unsealed with arrival in U.S. of extradited Colombian kingpin

September 14, 2018
… seizures during the investigation included: approximately 1,329 kilograms of cocaine recovered when a plane that …
September 14, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Defendants Sentenced for Trafficking Methamphetamine in Middle Georgia

July 10, 2025
… Informants (CI) to conduct three methamphetamine buys from Mendez and two heroin buys from Willis; the substances were later tested and … area. Fuller was Willis’s courier for resupply trips and deliveries to mid-level dealers. This case is part of …
July 10, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Two North Texas doctors, one nurse sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violation

May 09, 2019
… morphine, oxycodone, alprazolam and zolpidem, from his pain management medical offices in Sherman and Paris, Texas, … Office and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Stevan A. Buys and Jonathan R. Hornok.   # # #   On …
May 09, 2019
GENERAL INFORMATION

Detroit News 2004

July 15, 2021
… State Fair  NOV 1, 2004 DEA MET Team Deployment Brings Relief To Southwest Michigan  OCT 28, 2004 DEA Red Ribbon …
July 15, 2021