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DEA And Partners Across Michigan Continue Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

… Kalamazoo, Marquette, and Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Over 200 Take Back Locations Across Michigan Disposing of … prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 percent of the …
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DEA And Partners Across Kentucky Work To Prevent Drug Abuse Prescription Drug Take Back Day Is This Saturday

… Kalamazoo, Marquette, and Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Over 80 Take Back Locations State Wide Disposing of Unused … prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 percent of the …
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Two Mobile Pain Doctors Convicted After Seven-Week Trial

… showed that Ruan and Couch purchased approximately $1.6 million worth of stock in Galena Biopharma, the manufacturer … with high reimbursement rates.  These monthly guaranteed amounts reached $80,000.00 per month for Ruan and $20,000.00 per month for Couch. The millions paid in kickbacks to the defendants associated with …
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Emergency Schedules All Illicit Fentanyls In An Effort To Reduce Overdose Deaths

… prescription drugs. As a consequence, users who buy these substances on the illicit market are often unaware …
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Department of Justice announces regulatory steps to address opioid epidemic

… being diverted for misuse, this allows DEA to reduce the amount that can be produced in a given year. These revised …
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Investigation Interrupts International Trafficking Ring

… Act in April 2013. As part of its investigation, the Government obtained a court order authorizing the interception of e-mail communications occurring over an e-mail address belonging to the source of supply in China. …
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DEA’s Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take Back Day Being Held Saturday September 27

… expired, unneeded, or unwanted prescription drugs to one of over 5,200 collection sites across the country between 10 … currently abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than … Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 from …
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Marijuana Dispensary Owner Sentenced To Five Years In Prison

… to marijuana cultivation charges on September 21, 2012. Over $160,000 was previously forfeited in the case. … to action by the City of Stockton, generated more than $2.2 million in marijuana sales in less than a year. Similarly, …
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Stockton/Sacramento Marijuana Enterprise Defendants Sentenced

… charges related to the same two Stockton grow operations. Over $160,000 was previously forfeited in the case.  Last … to action by the City of Stockton, generated more than $2.2 million in marijuana sales in less than a year. Similarly, …
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Two Indicted as Law Enforcement Captures Largest Fentanyl Seizure in South Carolina History

… people. The seized fentanyl had the potential to kill 36 million people and a street retail value of $1.7 million. Two brothers operating the tractor trailer were … of all the agencies involved to take this massive amount of drugs off of our streets," Lexington County …
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Abingdon Man to Serve More Than 17 Years for Trafficking Methamphetamine

… two-and-a-half years, and then escalated to trafficking over a pound of methamphetamine every two weeks.  As part of …
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Virginia Beach Man and Woman Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking and Firearm Charges

… and his co-conspirator Deshowna Corprew, 30, were pulled over for a traffic stop after exiting the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The police discovered in their vehicle 14,000 tablets of fentanyl, one … is prosecuting the case. ## Task Forces/Task Force Officers Overdose Fake Pills Guns/Weapons Arrests/Convictions - Major …
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Member of Meth Conspiracy Sentenced to 25 Years for Narcotics Trafficking & International Money Laundering

… for the massive quantities of methamphetamine.  In total, over $75,000 was wired to Mexico by various co-conspirators. …
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Member of International Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced

… of cocaine every other week to members of Barth’s DTO over a two-month period. In return, Rodriguez-Preciado …
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Bristol Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Role in Trafficking Methamphetamine

… and nine years (for Mullins) in prison for distributing over 50 grams of methamphetamine.  Brittany Cornelia Hale, …
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Man Sentenced for Sale of Fentanyl and Illegal Possession of Firearms

… sold nearly 1,000 pills containing fentanyl to an undercover law enforcement agent. During the course of the sales, … in April of 2021, sold a semi-automatic rifle to the undercover law enforcement agent. In June of 2021, Perez was taken … number or other unique identifier, various ammunition, and over $9,000 in cash. Perez had previously been convicted of …
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Richmond Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking

… found that in addition to fentanyl, Pair also distributed over a half-kilogram of cocaine. Jarod Forget, Special Agent …
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DEA Washington Division Announces 20th Drug Take Back Day To Help Local Families

… Winchester - (540) 662-5879 In the midst of COVID-19-fueld overdose crisis, DEA prepares with local partners for most … important collection to-date Washington, D.C. – With opioid overdose deaths increasing across the Maryland, Virginia, … medications from members of the community across the area. Over the 10-year span of Take Back Day, the DEA has …
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Beltsville cocaine dealer sentenced to 11 years in federal prison

… Montgomery County police officer attempted to pull Robinson over, however Robinson fled to a nearby apartment complex.  … being pursed, Robinson dropped the tote bag, which was recovered by law enforcement and Robinson was subsequently … plea agreement, a black and silver 9mm rifle was recovered from the tote. The butt stock of the firearm was …
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Silent No More Overdose Symposium brings opioid crisis experts to Virginia Commonwealth University to discuss real solutions

… Silent No More Overdose Symposium brings opioid crisis experts to Virginia … (540) 857-2555 Winchester - (540) 662-5879 RICHMOND, Va. – Over 160 law enforcement, medical, education, and community … at Virginia Commonwealth University for the Silent No More Overdose Symposium. “The coming together of this highly …
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Virginia dentist running elaborate prescription scheme, reported to DEA tip line, sentenced

… elaborate scheme with friends, other dentists, preyed on impoverished patients, wrote illegal prescriptions for over 40,000 oxy pills NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Beach … that were loyal to him – personal friend of his, impoverished individuals that could not afford needed dental …
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Armed Hampton-area drug dealer sentenced to 25 years in prison

… to law enforcement in February and March 2018. Golden took over a residence in the 400 block of East Pembroke Avenue … residence and a storage unit connected to Golden. They recovered scales, cellular phones, five firearms, ammunition, …
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Career criminal, selling deadly heroin and fentanyl around Norfolk, off the streets

… to Virginia communities for years, causing numerous overdoses, sentenced to 13 years in prison today. NORFOLK, … to 13 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin. Over the last five years, Alexander sold quantities of … Alexander sold heroin mixed with fentanyl to a customer who overdosed on the substance and had to be revived with …
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Alexandria Man Sentenced for Conspiring to Distribute Thousands of Fentanyl Pills

… hour on Interstate 95. The resulting crash led to the discovery of over 18,000 fentanyl pills in the back of the stolen …
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Co-Defendant in Cross Country Methamphetamine Conspiracy Sentenced

… through April 2022.  When the defendants were arrested, over two pounds of crystal ice methamphetamine was seized.  …
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Member of Bristol, Virginia Methamphetamine Drug Ring Sentenced

… were arrested.  When arrested in May 2021, Wallace was discovered in possession of over 120 grams of 99% pure methamphetamine. In a related …
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Zenobia Penn Sentenced in Cocaine Conspiracy

… month of January 2001, she carried or caused to be carried over $140,000 intended for the purchase of cocaine. Witness …
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DEA 360 Degree Strategy Partnerships Target Violent Drug Traffickers And Gang Members In Wisconsin

… Southeast Wisconsin communities.  Investigators seized over­­ 425 grams of heroin, 600 grams of cocaine, and 2000 … gained during the operation also cleared three open, heroin overdose death investigations, the arrest of six suspects … Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Helpline at 855-378-4373 or online at www.drugfree.org and the SAMSHA 24/7 Helpline at …
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Members Of Portsmouth Cocaine Trafficking Organization Plead Guilty

… Police Department, supported by DEA, has identified over 30 individuals affiliated with the group, several of …
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Hyattsville Man Sentenced For Selling Misbranded Prescription And Non-Prescription Drugs

… defects and increases the risk of blood clots to an undercover agent who claimed to be pregnant and have blood clots … prescription and nonprescription drugs to an undercover law enforcement agent. According to court documents and testimony at today’s hearing, the undercover agent told Jimenez that she was pregnant and had a …