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Pakistan Father Sentenced to Life and Son Sentenced to 30 Years in International Heroin Trafficking Scheme

… the CW at a restaurant in Beltsville, Maryland. During the delivery, the courier telephoned the Afridis at their … village a few kilometers outside of Peshawar. Following the delivery, the CW began negotiating directly with the Afridis … packages of heroin buried in the struts. At the time of the delivery, the Afridis sent a series of faxes to the CW, …
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Three Baton Rouge Individuals Sentenced to Federal Prison in Connection with The Department of Justice's 2024 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action

… Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act unemployment …
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Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

… of the defendants, including a doctor, a pharmacist and two pain clinic operators are currently in custody after a … Control and Prevention report that Schedule II prescription painkillers like oxycodone today cause more drug overdose … churning out pills that are fraudulently prescribed at area pain clinics. We will continue to tackle South Florida’s …
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U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Mailing And Receiving Packages Of Cocaine Husband Who Was Charged With Her Sentenced Last Month

… packages of cocaine, which were mailed from Puerto Rico to delivery addresses along her mail route. Nunez intercepted … despite never delivering the packages to their actual delivery addresses, and ultimately transported them to … arrived in Kearny, N.J., law enforcement noted that the delivery address on the package would be assigned to Nunez’s …
ALERT

Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… like prescription opioids such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, Percocet®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), and alprazolam (Xanax®); …
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Columbia Man Admits To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… laundering charges for owning and operating a ‘pill mill’ pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge …
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Northern District Of Georgia Targets Prescription Drug Abuse

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 ATLANTA - Abuse of pain medications like oxycodone continues to plague Georgia … last week for participating in a scheme to obtain and sell painkillers using forged prescriptions.   “Many of the … area to obtain what appeared to be legitimately obtained pain medication.  Once the conspirators received the drugs, …
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Two Men Detained In Federal Custody In Record Seizure Of Crystal Methamphetamine

… - (603) 628-7411 Vermont Burlington - (802) 951-2900 Delivery of nearly 14 kilos of crystal meth allegedly … Sanchez, a Mexican national, allegedly orchestrated the delivery of the drugs and payment for the drugs while …
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Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon, Museum of Natural History and Science

February 21, 2019
… 02-21-19 Target America Press Conference As Prepared for Delivery [in Spanish].pdf Methamphetamine Narcotics …
February 21, 2019
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Laredo Man Sentenced For Conspiracy To Distribute Cocaine

… undercover agents. On Dec. 21, 2015, in anticipation of a delivery of several kilograms of cocaine, law enforcement … later admitted his involvement with coordinating this delivery of narcotics. Garcia also admitted he was tasked with overseeing the delivery of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine to Dallas, …
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Bitcoin Exchanges Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With The Sale Of Approximately $1 Million In Bitcoins For Use On The Silk Road Website

… a black-market website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously and beyond the reach … form of payment accepted on Silk Road - to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site. Faiella never registered his … knowingly allowed Faiella to use the Company’s services to buy Bitcoins for his Silk Road customers; personally …
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Jury Finds Pill-Mill Doctor Guilty Of 51 Counts

… $2 million forfeited relating to the prosecution of a phony pain clinic in Garden City, Georgia SAVANNAH, Ga. - - Dr. … for oxycodone, a powerful and highly addictive pain killer.  Nearly two-thirds of the patients seen by … law which restricted non-medical doctors from owning pain clinics.  None of the other defendants had any …
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Another Pill-Mill Doctor Sentenced To Over A Decade In Federal Prison

… and $2 million forfeited relating to prosecution of phony pain clinic in Garden City, Georgia (SAVANNAH, Ga.) - - Dr. … for oxycodone, a powerful and highly addictive pain killer.  Nearly two-thirds of the patients seen by … previously pleaded guilty to offenses related to the phony pain clinic operation have also been sentenced by Judge …
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Nurse-Practitioner Indicted On Federal Charges, Accused Of Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

… - (540) 857-2555 Winchester - (540) 662-5879 Defendant ran pain management practice in Southeast Washington (WASHINGTON … to the government’s evidence, Robinson conducted a pain management practice from 2011 until 2013 in the 2000 … that he was operating a “pill mill” rather than a medical pain management practice.  Law enforcement executed numerous …
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New Jersey/Pennsylvania doctor indicted for accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for prescribing powerful fentanyl drug

…   According to the indictment, Sun owned and maintained a pain management medical practice named Progressive Pain Solutions LLC, which had two locations: one in …
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Founder And Owner Of Pharmaceutical Company Insys Arrested And Charged With Racketeering

… to prescribe fentanyl spray meant for breakthrough cancer pain BOSTON - The founder and majority owner of Insys … intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain.  John N. Kapoor, 74, of Phoenix, Ariz., a current … practitioners in various states, many of whom operated pain clinics, in order to get them to prescribe a …
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Multiple Defendants Arrested For Operating Prescription Drug "Pill Mill"

… their respective roles in operating a so-called “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the illegal distribution of addictive pain killers. John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) … Field (AFD) said, “The dispensing of addictive prescription pain medication under the guise of a doctor's care, as …
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Twelve Charged With Operating An Open Drug Market Inside A Bronx Apartment Building And Carrying Firearms

… S. Broderick. “These arrests have brought much needed relief to residents of an apartment building in the Fordham …
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Eight arrested in connection with Jake’s fireworks drug trafficking conspiracy

… City Highway location in Nederland.  This civil injunctive relief immediately shuts down operations of the business and …
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Four South Arkansas Men Sentenced To A Total Of Over 31 Years For Unrelated Drug Trafficking Offenses

… Street Crimes Unit arranged for multiple controlled buys of suspected crack cocaine in October, 2013 from the … of methamphetamine for $12,500 or $13,000 for the CI to buy. Bennett then instructed the CI to come to his residence …
STORY

New, Dangerous Synthetic Opioid in D.C., Emerging in Tri-State Area

June 01, 2022
… after a lab test, so people don't realize they're buying them until it's too late. “We want to get this info … being mixed together, you never know what you’re actually buying," says DEA Intelligence Analyst Maura Gaffney. Only …
June 01, 2022
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Pearl River Man Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Oxymorphone Causing The Overdose Death Of 21-Year Old Man

… to that of a person selling illegally obtained prescription pain medication. Some of these diverted pills, like Opana, … due to its shape. The misuse of this and other diverted pain medicine can cause people to become addicts leading to tragic overdoses. Diverted pain pills, not prescribed for the right reasons nor by the …
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Multi-Kilogram Cocaine Distributor Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison

… of cocaine, valued at an estimated $570,000, through a delivery service from an address in Puerto Rico to an … Orlando. On January 19, 2022, security specialists at the delivery service company detected the cocaine shipment and … On January 21, 2022, an undercover officer posed as a delivery driver and delivered a fake package to the address …
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Two Sentenced To 6 Years In Federal Prison For Conspiring To Traffic Crystal Methamphetamine

… - (603) 628-7411 Vermont Burlington - (802) 951-2900 The delivery of 9 kilos of crystal meth was orchestrated from … in this matter who orchestrated the shipment and delivery of crystal meth to Massachusetts from California … deliver the vehicle to a residence in Randolph, Mass. Upon delivery of the vehicle, agents observed a vehicle owned by …
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West Portsmouth Couple Sentenced For Operating “Pill Mill” In Waverly

… 210 months in federal prison for operating Ohio Medical and Pain Management, LLC, a “pill mill” in Waverly, Ohio. Her … was one of the primary sources for illegally-distributed pain pills in that region. Considering the scope of the …
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Wisconsin physician agrees to pay penalties to resolve allegations of prescribing opioids illegally and violating False Claims Act

… $175,000 to resolve allegations that he prescribed opioid pain medications in violation of the Controlled Substances … controlled substances. Until 2016, Dr. Heydarpour provided pain management services at his clinic in Brookfield, … prescribed controlled substances, including opioid pain medications such as oxycodone, without legitimate …
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Kentucky Man Receives 20 Year Prison Sentence For Distributing Powerful Opiate Fentanyl That Resulted In Overdose Death

… Gill Dewayne Garrett sold fentanyl that was disguised as a pain pill LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Versailles, Kentucky, man, who … admitted to distributing fentanyl, that was disguised as a pain pill and caused the overdose death of a Woodford County … a deadly drug, that killed a woman who was seeking a pain pill,” said Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the …
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Money laundering charges added in international marijuana conspiracy to grow marijuana in Sacramento and Placer Counties houses

… charged in 2017 in a scheme to use money from China to buy houses to grow marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. … to wire transfer approximately $870,000 from China to buy six houses for growing marijuana or to pay off the …
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DEA Announces Guilty Plea Of U.S. Congressman On Cocaine Charges

… area of Washington, D.C. At this time, Radel agreed to buy about 3.5 grams of cocaine from the undercover officer.  … that a sitting Member of Congress was routinely using and buying cocaine.  Once this information was confirmed, law …
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Ross Ulbricht, The Creator And Owner Of The “Silk Road” Website, Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court On All Counts

… 682-6256 Silk Road was used by more than 100,000 users to buy and sell hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and … Silk Road, a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and … Silk Road - a clandestine global marketplace that offered buyers and sellers of illegal goods and services a promise …