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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… opioid medications such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, Percocet®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), and alprazolam (Xanax®); …
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Keeping Area Families Safe This Summer

July 16, 2021
… SAC Forget explains they may look just like a Xanax or Percocet, but can, and often do, contain fatal amounts of …
July 16, 2021
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63 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking In The Municipality Of Ponce

… (crack), heroin, cocaine, marihuana, (commonly known as Percocet) and (commonly known as Xanax), all within 1,000 …
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Multi-Agency Law Enforcement Operation Tackles Gang And Gun Violence In Palm Beach

… and 80 stolen firearms; --12,451 Oxycodone pills; -- 819 Percocet pills; -- 260 Endocet pills; -- 250 Lorcet pills; …
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Doctor Charged In Illegal Sales Of Prescriptions For Controlled Substances: Medical Practices At JFK International Airport And On Long Island

… Dr. Surya also wrote prescriptions for Xanax, Vicodin, Percocet and other medications. Following Dr. Surya’s arrest …
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El Paso Doctor Enters $200,000 Settlement Following State and Federal Fraud Allegations

… imposed on Texas physicians in treating patients for pain or chronic pain conditions; documenting a legitimate medical purpose; …
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Defendants Sentenced for Drug Trafficking that Resulted in Two Deaths

… are enriching their lives by profiting off someone else’s pain. The number of lives forever changed as a result of … Attorney Hairston. “While nothing will ever erase the pain of the families who suffered these tremendous losses, …
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Atlanta News 2010

July 15, 2021
… 21, 2010 Operators and Employees of Two Marchyville Pain Clinics Arrested December 21, 2010 Federal Search and … and Accomplice Charged with Illegally Distributing Pain Pills in Atlanta November 1, 2010 More Than One Pound … Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Prescription Painkillers May 13, 2010 Murrell's Inlet Man Indicted for …
July 15, 2021
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Twenty-One Individuals Charged With Using Fraudulent Prescriptions To Obtain Oxycodone

… in Bernalillo County.  Oxycodone is opioid narcotic pain reliever similar to morphine that is medically prescribed to treat moderate to severe pain and can be habit-forming. “The abuse of prescription …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Doctor And 10 Other Individuals Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than One Million Oxycodone Pills

… illegal drug distribution ring involving the prescription painkiller oxycodone.  As detailed further below, the … will help prevent more illegally prescribed prescription pain killers from reaching our streets and will hopefully … narcotic used to treat severe and chronic pain conditions.  Every year more than 13 million Americans …
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Upper West Side Doctor And Wife Indicted For Conspiracy And 37 Illegal Prescription Sales: Over $600,000 Cash Seized

… - (914) 682-6256 Pill mill pumped over $77 million in painkillers onto black market since 2009 nyc060915_fig1.jpg … selling prescriptions for oxycodone, a powerful opioid painkiller, in exchange for cash over the course of six and … for individuals with no legitimate medical need for the pain medication. Meanwhile, his wife assisted in collecting …
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Six Colombian Nationals and Owner of Consumer Electronic Business Charged for Their Roles in Money Laundering and Unlicensed Money Transmission Business Offenses

… of international wires in the United States, and (b) the delivery of a corresponding amount of pesos in Colombia to … the pick-up of funds throughout the United States, and the delivery of a corresponding value of pesos to them in …
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Leader of Sophisticated Sinaloa Cartel Money Laundering Organization Sentenced to 120 Months

… employees in hotel rooms and parking lots. Following the delivery of the illegal monies, the criminal organization … November 2020 the FBI conducted surveillance on a bulk cash delivery from Idsel Valenzuela and Sugey Caro Salazar in …
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Two Brothers From Des Plaines Among 24 Defendants Charged With Trafficking Large Quantities Of Cocaine And Heroin

… Alberto Cruz-Carrera, 42, helped Cruz with pickups and deliveries of heroin and by counting the proceeds from the … the affidavits state. Acosta used the stash house to accept deliveries of narcotics from his supplier’s couriers, and to …
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Seventeen Defendants Facing Federal Narcotics Or Firearms Charges Alleging Nexus Of Guns And Drugs In Chicago

… on at least a dozen phones to intercept conversations and deliveries of narcotics and firearms.  In a telephone … in the vehicle. Believing that the cocaine was destined for delivery to the nearby residence of Johnny Mendez, located …
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Former Hinsdale Man Pleads Guilty To Crack Cocaine Conspiracy Charges

… On a third occasion, Racine fled after being provided with buy money but before providing the crack cocaine.  Racine …
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Judge Sentences Caruthersville Man to 6 Years for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth

… others and sold methamphetamine through several controlled buys with an undercover agent. Black would agree to meet …
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Kansas City, Kansas, defendants sentenced to 20 years in meth lab fire

… as well as business surveillance video showing a defendant buying items found in the meth lab. The Drug Enforcement …
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Jamestown man going to prison for selling methamphetamine

… a controlled purchase with the defendant. During the buy, which took place inside Bess’s vehicle, the defendant …
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Fresno Man Sentenced to Over 6 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl That Caused Overdose Death

… an undercover law enforcement officer, posing as a drug-buying customer, ordered fentanyl pills from Gonzalez and …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 5 Years for Trafficking Cocaine and Possessing Firearms

… County Drug Task Force arranged to make controlled buys of cocaine from Resendiz-Gomez, a previously convicted …
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Houstonian Sent to Prison for Trafficking Meth and Heroin

… area. Law enforcement set up numerous controlled drug buys. Delgado-Santacruz would negotiate the sale price of …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years for Meth Trafficking

… August 2022, law enforcement conducted six controlled buys of methamphetamine from Fisher. A search of his …
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Two Face Life for Drug Trafficking in Local Parking Lot

… Jr., 28. Authorities were conducting surveillance at a Best Buy parking lot in McAllen They saw vehicles approach, after …
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Indianapolis Man Sentenced to Over 24 Years for Meth Trafficking

… in the case, in May 2019, Hicks agreed with others to buy methamphetamine in California to bring back to the …
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Tulare County Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute 6 Pounds of Methamphetamine

… methamphetamine. A law enforcement source negotiated to buy a pound of methamphetamine from Meza and Chavez …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 12 1/2 Years in Federal Prison for Meth Trafficking

… in this case, in May 2019, Reid agreed with others to buy methamphetamine in California to bring back to the …
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Former lawyer for Mexico’s attorney general sentenced for drug trafficking

… next day, undercover authorities again meet with Velasco to buy an additional two kilograms of cocaine. Law enforcement …
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Wisconsin Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking

… with the DEA communicated with Norton and arranged to buy two pounds of methamphetamine from him in Madison in …
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 16 Years for Attempted Cocaine Trafficking

… the intent to distribute. Tinch in May 2018 attempted to buy a kilogram of cocaine from an individual in a grocery …