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New York Man Imprisoned 69 Months For Heroin Trafficking

… used confidential informants to make controlled buys of the heroin from Willis and Murphy in the Rutland …
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Man Sentenced To 36 Months In Prison For Making Meth

… process, Billings engaged in the practice of “smurfing” (buying small quantities) at local pharmacies. The sentencing …
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Man Pleads Guilty To Cocaine Charge

… Roosevelt Avenue, after previously making three controlled buys of cocaine from the defendant. During the execution of …
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Federal Jury Convicts Pinehurst Doctor Of Drug Conspiracy

… a witness, and an audio recording of a government informant buying a prescription from him in a bathroom stall. …
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Doctor Sentenced To 16 Years For Distributing Drugs

… an audio recording of a person working with law enforcement buying a prescription from Beier in a bathroom stall. …
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Two Men Sentenced On Meth Charges

… Varney and Carter engaged in the practice of “smurfing” (buying small quantities) at local pharmacies to get around …
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Fresno County Man Sent To Prison For Mortgage Fraud Scheme

… prison for a scheme to defraud mortgage lenders in order to buy houses in Fresno and Mendocino Counties, Drug …
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Bakersfield Businessman Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison For International Drug Conspiracy

… both of Bakersfield, negotiated with an undercover agent to buy 70 kilograms of cocaine. During the negotiations, and in …
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Drug Seizures Surge in 2020, Fentanyl Remains a Threat in Nebraska

… kilograms of fentanyl, or the equivalent of one-and-a-half million lethal doses, also making its presence known across … these drugs have a street value of approximately $13.3 million. Multi-pound methamphetamine seizures have become …
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Cocaine and Fentanyl Seizures Rise in Iowa

… Administration (DEA) investigators took an estimated $2.8 million worth of methamphetamine and marijuana off the … last year carries enough lethal doses for four-and-a-half million users. “Last year in Iowa, we seized more lethal …
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Coronavirus-stamped heroin/fentanyl glassines seized in the Bronx: Six individuals charged

… Westchester - (914) 682-6256 Packaging mill produced over $1 million worth of individual dose envelopes stamped … glassine envelopes of suspected heroin/fentanyl worth over a million dollars, as well as $25,000 cash and drug …
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Sky Global Executive and Associate Indicted for Providing Encrypted Communication Devices to Help International Drug Traffickers Avoid Law Enforcement

… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Anthony Chrysanthis … more than a decade, Sky Global has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in profit by facilitating the criminal … indictment alleges that Sky Global generated hundreds of millions of dollars providing a service that allowed …
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DEA and its Partners Remove More than 670,000 Pounds of Unused Medications

… Prescription Take Back Day has removed more than 18.6 million pounds of unneeded medications from communities …
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Last Defendant in Missouri/Oklahoma Drug Ring Sentenced to 22 Years

… Investigators Found Storage Unit with Meth, Guns and Half a Million Dollars SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Bakersfield, …
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Grand jury indicts more than a dozen people in drug ring stretching from LA to St. Louis

… a maximum term of imprisonment of life, a fine of up to $10 million or both. The money laundering offense carries a …
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Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Updates on Operation Legend

… 12 kilos of cocaine, 268 firearms, and approximately $5.19 million in drug proceeds; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, …
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DEA and its Partners Remove More than 670,000 Pounds of Unused Medications from Communities Nationwide

… Prescription Take Back Day has removed more than 18.6 million pounds of unneeded medications from communities …
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Attorney General William P. Barr Joins DEA Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea to Announce results of Operation Crystal Shield

… of more than 28,560 pounds of methamphetamine, $43.3 million in drug proceeds, and 284 firearms. In the DEA El …
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Former Chihuahua, Mexico State Police Officer Sentenced to Prison on Federal Racketeering Charge

… the United States. Law Enforcement also took possession of millions of dollars in drug proceeds which were destined to …
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El Paso, Texas Man Sentenced To Twenty Years In Federal Prison For Heroin Trafficking Conviction

… 686-4085 32 pounds of heroin with a retail value of $2.9 million found secreted in defendant’s vehicle during routine …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Nine Years Imprisonment

… Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Law Enforcement Seized $2 Million in Drug Proceeds and Two Firearms from the … of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which oversees the Charlotte District Office, and Johnny Jennings, …
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Florida Man Admits Role In Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Scheme

… a Miami man admitted that he was responsible for depositing over $4.7 million in fraudulently obtained tax refund checks as part … court to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government funds, one count of theft of government funds, and …
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DEA Announces Intent To Schedule Kratom

… half of 2016 than any previous year and easily accounts for millions of dosages intended for the recreational market, … health risks to users.  From February 2014 to July 2016, over 55,000 kilograms of kratom material were encountered by …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… of Unused Medications Prevents Drug Thefts, Abuse, and Overdoses SAN FRANCISCO - Addictive prescription drugs that … prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 percent of the … 350,000 pounds of unused medication.  Nationwide, over 7.1 million pounds-more than 3,500 tons-of pills have been …
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Stanislaus County Couple Indicted For Growing Marijuana On Agricultural Land

… Agents found and eradicated 491 marijuana plants weighing over four tons. If convicted, Lee faces a sentence of five to 40 years in prison, and a $5 million fine for each count. Because Saelee was convicted in … of 10 years and a maximum of 80 years, along with a $10 million fine. Cultivating marijuana near a school carries an …
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Havelock Man Convicted of Multiple Drug Offenses

… at trial, Daryl Lee Godette, 36, conspired to distribute over a kilogram of heroin in the Havelock area for … also maintained a separate residence for storing bulk amounts of heroin and preparing it for sale. A search warrant of that residence revealed over 1,200 grams of heroin and extensive drug distribution …
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Green Bay Woman Sentenced to 8 Years for Trafficking Fake Pharmaceutical Pills Laced with Fentanyl

… from the Brown County Drug Task Force, successfully recovered and seized over 8,400 fake pharmaceutical pills containing fentanyl, … she glamorized the life of a drug dealer, posing with large amounts of cash that she made by distributing drugs. This …
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Cincinnati Man Receives 13 Year Federal Prison Sentence For Heroin Conspiracy

… after he completes his prison term.  Moore admitted that over the course of approximately 15 months he distributed over 100 grams of heroin throughout northern Kentucky and southern Ohio.  He also acknowledged transporting large amounts of a substance used to cut heroin for distribution.  …
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Narcotics Task Force Announces Marijuana Seizures Numbers For 2011 Are Released

… and Health Advocates Rejecting (HARM) announced the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego … year 2011, NTF and our law enforcement partners seized over 199,599 marijuana plants from 150 separate grow … Of additional significance is the fact that almost (over 91,995 of these plants) were removed from our public …
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Arizonans Turn In 5 Tons Of Prescription Drugs To DEA

… DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.  In all, over 10,601 pounds of controlled substances were removed … with federal, state and local law enforcement partners in over 75 locations throughout Arizona, hosted collection … pounds of controlled substances.  Nearly 12% of that total amount was collected this past Saturday. On …