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New Bedford Woman Sentenced To Prison For Operating Drug Stash House

… she could be sure that her conduct “contributed” to the “pain and suffering” of drug addicts and their families.  In …
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Five North Shore Individuals Charged With Oxycodone Distribution

… highly-addictive controlled substance used to treat severe pain.  According to the criminal complaint, since March …
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DEA Reduces Amount Of Opioid Controlled Substances To Be Manufactured In 2017

… a reduction in prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain.  For years, DEA and others have been educating …
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DEA Releases 2015 National Heroin Threat Assessment

… recent new heroin users had previously abused prescription pain relievers.  The reasons an individual shifts from one …
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Connecticut Doctor Charged With Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone, Other Controlled Substances

… as a general practitioner and was not a licensed as a pain specialist.  A long-term Drug Enforcement …
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Former Marlborough Resident Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Robbing 5 Connecticut Pharmacies

… that he used most of the pills to fuel his own addiction to pain medication and sold the rest.  He has been detained …
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DEA Philadelphia Field Division Conducts Town Hall Meeting In Haverford Township About The Dangers Of Heroin And Prescription Drug Abuse

… heroin abuse as well as several parents who spoke about the pain of recently losing a child to a heroin overdose.  On …
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Dirty Doctor Pleads Guilty To Writing Illegal Opioid Prescriptions For Patients

… - (619) 671-4500 SAN DIEGO - Physician Naga Raja Thota, a pain specialist with an office in El Cajon, pleaded guilty … of one of the patients in order to supply her with the painkillers. The brother and father had no legitimate medical purpose for the painkillers, and no doctor-patient relationship with Thota. …
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Wasilla Man Sentenced To 64 Months In Federal Prison For Attempting To Traffic Methamphetamine Into Alaska

… that the human toll of illicit drug trafficking was painful and substantial, both to citizens of the United …
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Omaha DEA Taskforce Honored By Midwest HIDTA For Investigative Effort

… business owner suspected of trafficking the powerful painkillers oxycodone and hydromorphone in the region.  The … the country to obtain prescriptions by fraud from various pain clinics. These prescriptions were brought back to the … huge amounts of powerful, addictive prescription narcotic painkillers. While the case remains ongoing and specific …
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Two Men Admit Roles in Drug Trafficking Organization

… revealed that, on numerous occasions, large narcotics deliveries took place in or around the Rotunda Recreation …
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Chula Vista man sentenced to 10 years for being source of fentanyl that resulted in non-fatal overdoses in Alpine

… agents, digital scales and pay-owe sheets documenting drug deliveries and payments. Rodriguez also admitted that he …
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Puerto Rican and Buffalo Men Going to Prison for Selling Cocaine

… sent on to its destination. On Feb. 12, 2020, a controlled delivery of the package was conducted at a residence on …
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Georgia Inmate Convicted of Trafficking Methamphetamine

… 2019 and into the fall of 2021, Brito orchestrated the delivery of more than 100 kilograms of methamphetamine from …
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Providence Man Admits to Possessing Cocaine with Intent to Distribute

… that was mailed from Puerto Rico and was addressed for delivery to a Providence residence, announced United States …
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Warwick Woman Admits Role in Methamphetamine Trafficking Conspiracy

… one occasion, she enlisted another individual to make the delivery. Appearing in U.S. District Court, Greene pleaded …
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Dominican National Admits Role in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… was sent to a residence in Johnston and was scheduled for delivery in March 2022. Appearing in U.S. District Court, …
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Pawtucket Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Crack Cocaine While on Supervised Release

… detectives witnessed Lobo make a hand-to-hand crack cocaine delivery to another person.  At the time of his arrest, Lobo …
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Boston Man Convicted Of Money Laundering Conspiracy

… at trial established that Figueroa used clandestine deliveries of cash to currency couriers to launder the …
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Twice Convicted Drug Trafficker Detained in Third Drug Trafficking Investigation

… Security Investigations determined that the intended delivery address was the home Tovar shared with his …
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Woonsocket Man Admits to Participating in Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… Ortega, 33, of Woonsocket, in which multiple purchases and deliveries of fentanyl were executed.  Davila admitted that …
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Massachusetts Man Charged In Rhode Island After Federal Agents Seize More Than Three Pounds of Crystal Meth

… and Boston Police detectives allegedly interrupted the delivery of more than three pounds of crystal …
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Providence Man Sentenced, Faces Deportation for Possessing Nearly 2 Kilos of Cocaine

… a Postal Service employee was unable to make a controlled delivery of the package to a Providence residence addressed … communications included an image of the Postal Service redelivery slip for the package containing the cocaine. …
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Johnston Man Admits to Trafficking Thousands of Fentanyl Pills

… R.I., – A Johnston man who arranged for the sale and delivery of thousands of fentanyl pills plead guilty in …
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West Warwick Man Sentenced for Trafficking Thousands of Fentanyl Pills

… the undercover DEA Task Force officer arranged for a second delivery. As Delsanto arrived at an agreed-upon meeting …
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Central Falls Men Sentenced For Roles in Drug Trafficking Organization

… names on the packages were not associated with the delivery addresses listed on the packages. According to …
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Providence Man Admits to Possessing Nearly 2 Kilos of Cocaine

… a Postal Service employee was unable to make a controlled delivery of the package, addressed to “Jose Azcona,” to a … informed that the addressee would have to inquire about a redelivery and personally claim the package. Two days later, … communications included an image of the Postal Service redelivery slip for the package containing the cocaine. …
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International Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 8 Years

… Drug Enforcement Administration then conducted a controlled delivery of the methamphetamine. Federal agents arrested …
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Mississippi Man Sentenced for Smuggling Meth, Heroin Aboard Train

… and heroin aboard a train from Los Angeles for delivery in St. Louis. Inside the suitcase, five bundles …
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Joplin Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Meth Conspiracy

… methamphetamine. A federal agent conducted a controlled delivery of the package to its Seneca destination on May 7, …