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Armed Career Criminal Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances and Being a Felon in Possession of A Firearm

August 27, 2024
… at Heifner’s residence where law enforcement seized over 300 pills resembling oxycodone but which were in fact …
August 27, 2024
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Two Stockton Men Plead Guilty in a Fentanyl and Meth Pill Trafficking Criminal Enterprise

July 31, 2024
… for a federal wiretap and intercepted communications over Barnes cellphone. During this wiretap investigation, …
July 31, 2024
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Member of Fentanyl Trafficking Ring is Sentenced for Distributing Deadly Fentanyl Pills to Members of the Lummi Nation

July 15, 2024
… – a tribe that is dealing with tragically high fentanyl overdose deaths,” said U.S. Attorney Gorman. “I appreciate … to a mini-mart where two people involved with the drug ring overdosed on fentanyl and had to be revived and transported … taken into custody.  She had about 1,000 fentanyl pills and over $1300 in cash when she was arrested. Lummi Nation …
July 15, 2024
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Georgia Woman Sentenced To Nine Months In Prison For Role In Drug Conspiracy

July 15, 2024
… development. It is alleged that the DTO assumed control over multiple apartments, where they stored, cooked, …
July 15, 2024
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Armed Drug Trafficker from Springfield, Massachusetts Sentenced to 87 Months

May 16, 2024
… demanding payment of a drug debt, and pistol-whipping a man over missing cash. Witnesses also reported that Maldonado …
May 16, 2024
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Springfield, Massachusetts Man Who Left Drug Trafficking for Barbering Sentenced to Probation

May 14, 2024
… law enforcement found in Torres-Santiago’s possession over 2,000 bags of fentanyl/heroin packaged for sale, …
May 14, 2024
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Meth “Cooks” Sent to Prison in Custom Importation Scheme

April 18, 2024
… how Duarte planned and orchestrated a scheme with undercover authorities to trade guns in exchange for drugs. In … such narcotics represent to the United States. An undercover investigation around 2021 revealed Duarte and … the course of the investigation, the individuals delivered over 11 kilograms of meth in the McAllen area. Duarte served …
April 18, 2024
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Maine Man Sentenced To 12 Years in Prison for Role in Meth Conspiracy

March 25, 2024
… dozen firearms and approximately $95,000 in cash was seized over the course of the investigation. Parlin is the ninth …
March 25, 2024
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Five Men Indicted in Connection with a Drug Trafficking Organization

March 19, 2024
… one count each of distribution of controlled substances. Over the past week, law enforcement arrested four of these … upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and statutes which govern the determination of a sentence in a criminal case. …
March 19, 2024
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Five Individuals Sentenced to Prison for Meth Trafficking and Money Laundering

February 15, 2024
… a courier approximately 1-2 times per month and distributed over 3 pounds of methamphetamine per week. Finally, court documents demonstrated that Rodrigo Diaz oversaw the organization’s finances and frequently traveled …
February 15, 2024
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Repeat Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison

August 12, 2022
… 70 firearms, more than $385,000 in cash, and over $800,000 in other property.  OCDETF identifies, …
August 12, 2022
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Supplier of Drug of Drug Ring Operating in Asheville Sentenced to 25+ Years in Prison

February 25, 2022
… crack cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and other narcotics. Over the course of the investigation, law enforcement seized …
February 25, 2022
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Federal Judge Sentences Methamphetamine Trafficker to More than 17 Years in Prison

November 16, 2021
… Lincoln, Caldwell, and Alexander Counties and elsewhere.  Over the course of the investigation, law enforcement seized … of supervised release.   -Cynthia Roxanne Shook, 36, of Conover, N.C., was sentenced to 60 months in prison and two … Sheriff’s Office; the Newton Police Department; the Conover Police Department; the Maiden Police Department; the …
November 16, 2021
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Jury finds podiatrist guilty of operating pill mill

June 12, 2019
… and ultimately eliminating physicians who recklessly overprescribe pharmaceutical pills – particularly prescribed … the time her clinics were open, Avery-Kelly prescribed over 275,000 30mg oxycodone pills, along with 104,000 8mg …
June 12, 2019
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Meth Trafficker is Sentenced to 11+ Years in Prison

January 17, 2024
… of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which oversees the Charlotte District Office, Sheriff Doug Farmer … driving with a suspended license. Court documents show that over the course of the traffic stop law enforcement …
January 17, 2024
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Honduran Drug Dealer Indicted and Detained Pending Trial for Possessing more than a Kilogram of Fentanyl on Multiple Dates in 2023

January 17, 2024
… black Mercedes that belonged to Arteaga and his partner and over $13,000 in cash in their bedroom.  All of the fentanyl … of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. Section …
January 17, 2024
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Indiana Meth Trafficker Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison

January 11, 2024
… and would not travel for less than three pounds at a time. Over the course of the six months leading up to his arrest, …
January 11, 2024
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Major Supplier and Two Others Involved in the Carrollton / Flower Mound Juvenile Overdose Case Sentenced

January 11, 2024
… Others Involved in the Carrollton / Flower Mound Juvenile Overdose Case Sentenced January 11, 2024 Dallas Contact Info … children in our north Texas community died—and more overdosed and almost died—as a direct result of these … more than 200,000 fentanyl pills to North Texas customers over the course of five or six months, at a rate of about …
January 11, 2024
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Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty In Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

November 07, 2023
… Practitioner 571-362-9171 Defendant possessed over two kilos of fentanyl concealed inside cereal box … in and around the Lawrence, Woburn, Wilmington and Andover areas. As part of the conspiracy, Perez Medina …
November 07, 2023
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Three Individuals Charged in Drug Conspiracy Involving Juveniles

November 07, 2023
… law enforcement seized a black 9mm Ruger SR9c handgun, over 55 grams of bulk fentanyl, and a gram of cocaine base. …
November 07, 2023
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Mexican National Sentenced to 136 Months for Drug Trafficking in the Tri Cities

August 25, 2023
… A. Bastian sentenced Amado De La Mora Cardenas, age 35, to over 11 years in in federal prison after his guilty plea to … thereafter, DEA Tri-Cities stopped the Chevy Cruze and recovered the backpack, which was inside the car, next to the child.  Inside the Spider-Man Backpack, the DEA recovered 10 pounds of methamphetamine supplied by De La Mora …
August 25, 2023
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Final Defendant Sentenced for Tucson-Based Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Conspiracy

July 10, 2023
… in Tucson, Arizona. Parrado-Herrera and Campos laundered over $250,000 of narcotic proceeds using this method.  This …
July 10, 2023
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San Jose Doctor Convicted of Twelve Counts of Illegally Prescribing Opioids

June 22, 2023
… investigators reviewed a California state database and discovered that Siao had written 8,201 prescriptions for … Oxycodone and Hydrocodone in increasing quantities in over seventeen visits with four separate undercover law enforcement agents posing as patients.  The …
June 22, 2023
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Fentanyl Dealer Responsible for Two Drug Overdoses Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

April 20, 2023
… Fentanyl Dealer Responsible for Two Drug Overdoses Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison April 20, 2023 … a substance that contained fentanyl and caused two overdoses, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the … of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which oversees North Carolina, and Sheriff Doug Farmer of the …
April 20, 2023
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Ellensburg Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Federal Prison for Fentanyl Distribution that Resulted in the Deaths of Two Young People

April 13, 2023
… in Ellensburg, Washington beginning in at least June 2021. Over a nine day span in August 2021, Rivera-Venegas … District of Washington. ### Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Overdose Synthetic drugs Fentanyl On On Press Release Image …
April 13, 2023
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30 Charged in Ft. Worth Meth Distribution Ring

October 15, 2020
… Wednesday in “Operation Ice Tank.” Five were bonded over from state custody and four remain fugitives. All 30 … in Fort Worth.  Inside the kitchen of the home, agents discovered 27 igloo coolers, a bucket of methylsulfonylmethane … in the master bedroom. Investigators collectively recovered 8 kilograms of methamphetamine from inside the …
October 15, 2020
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Moses Lake Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking and Firearm Offenses

October 19, 2022
… with the Washington State Patrol attempted to pull Valdez over. Valdez, while driving 90-100 miles per hour, was … was searched and 604 grams of methamphetamine was recovered, some from inside his minor child’s bedroom.  “We …
October 19, 2022
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Berkeley Brothers Plead Guilty to Selling Fentanyl in San Francisco's Tenderloin

September 29, 2022
… yellow as slang for fentanyl, and he sold the buyer just over two grams of fentanyl in exchange for $40 in cash.  … Unbeknownst to Hernandez-Ordonez, the buyer was an undercover law enforcement agent. Hernandez-Ordonez further … 29, 2022, he exchanged text messages with the same undercover law enforcement agent and negotiated the sale of 2.5 …
September 29, 2022
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Local Santa Rosa Lima Cartel Cell Head Sentenced for Drug Crimes, Money Laundering

April 21, 2022
… drug deliveries, spanning from Texas to South Carolina, over the course of at least four years. He also admitted to …
April 21, 2022
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Groveton man sentenced to 65 months for participating in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

June 25, 2019
… in Lawrence and resold the fentanyl in New Hampshire. Over the course of the investigation, McLain ordered …
June 25, 2019