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Career Offender from Little Rock Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

Career Offender from Little Rock Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine March 04, 2026 New Orleans Contact Info Contact Us (504) 840-1100 571-362-2805 Public Information Officer (571) 362-4892 …
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Illegal Alien from Honduras Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Meth

… (601) 965-4400 Oxford - (662) 234-8542 LITTLE ROCK—Allan Ricardo Medina-Morales will spend the next 135 months in …
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Indian National Pleads Guilty To Plotting To Assassinate U.S. Citizen In New York City

Indian National Pleads Guilty To Plotting To Assassinate U.S. Citizen In New York City February 13, 2026 New York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA Romona Sy 571-776-1634 …
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Illegal Alien Faces Federal Charges for Selling Fentanyl at a Farmers Market Produce Stand

… the U.S. Attorney’s Public Affairs Office at USAGAN.PressEmails@usdoj.gov or (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 20 Years for Distributing Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills Resulting in a Fatal Overdose

Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 20 Years for Distributing Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills Resulting in a Fatal Overdose December 19, 2025 Atlanta Contact Info Contact Us (404) 893-7000 571-362-3458 DEA.Atlanta.Media@dea.gov SA Sheri Kindred 571-362-2922 …
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DEA’s Takeback Initiative Collects 25,430 Pounds of Unwanted Medications in the Carolinas and Georgia; 571,000 Pounds Nationwide

DEA’s Takeback Initiative Collects 25,430 Pounds of Unwanted Medications in the Carolinas and Georgia; 571,000 Pounds Nationwide November 03, 2025 Atlanta Contact Info Contact Us (404) 893-7000 571-362-3458 DEA.Atlanta.Media@dea.gov SA Sheri Kindred …
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Pennsylvania Man Sentenced To 33 Months In Prison For Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… Man Sentenced To 33 Months In Prison For Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme July … income tax returns to be filed, which sought more than $65 million in tax refunds and which resulted in losses to the …
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United States Reaches $34 Million Settlement With Cardinal Health For Civil Penalties Under The Controlled Substances Act

… United States Reaches $34 Million Settlement With Cardinal Health For Civil Penalties … Settlements SEATTLE - Cardinal Health has agreed to pay $34 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that the …
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Queens Pharmacist Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Illegally Distributing Oxycodone and Filing False Tax Returns

… Immediately prior to the sentencing, the defendant paid over $400,000 in restitution. Russo pleaded guilty in … pocket dirty money in return for illegally selling enormous amounts of oxycodone, which was invariably later sold on the …
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Kansas City Pharmacy Filled Forged Prescriptions

… a free prescriber registration validity application online, which Spalitto’s could have used to discover that …
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Missouri Man Admits Being Caught on Interstate 44 with Nearly 3 Pounds of Meth

… On July 2, 2022, a Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a dark blue Pontiac Trans Am for improperly passing a … After obtaining a search warrant, investigators recovered the packages, which contained 1.339 kilograms of … carries a penalty of 10 years to life in prison, a $10 million fine, or both prison and a fine. The Drug …
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St. Louis Man Sentenced to 23 Years for Murder, Witness Tampering and Drug Charges

… agents seized more than 70 kilograms of cocaine and well over $1 million, among other things. In furtherance of the drug … by Woodson to commit the murder-for-hire was an undercover law enforcement official. The Drug Enforcement …
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St. Louis man pleads guilty to murder-for-hire, witness tampering and drug charges

… agents seized more than 70 kilograms of cocaine and well over $1 million, among other things. In furtherance of the drug … by Woodson to commit the murder-for-hire was an undercover law enforcement official. The judge will sentence …
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Metro East fentanyl trafficker sentenced to 19 years in federal prison 

… “Nefer Ojeda-Elenes attempted to introduce more than half-a-million lethal doses of fentanyl into our Southern Illinois … certain justice to a drug dealer who prioritized money over the value of human lives.” Co-conspirator Mariano A. …
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Communities Nationwide Turn In Nearly 630,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications on DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… - (432) 686-4085 El Paso, Texas – On Oct. 26, DEA and over 4,400 law enforcement partners collected nearly 630,000 … National Prescription Take Back Day has removed nearly 19.2 million pounds of unneeded medications from communities …
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Five charged in El Paso for smuggling drugs and illegal aliens

… charging five individuals for smuggling an estimated $5.4 million worth of marijuana and methamphetamine and 77 … the Quitman Mountain range in Hudspeth County. Agents discovered a total of 77 illegal aliens inside four vehicles. The fifth vehicle, driven by Pinuelas, contained over 450 pounds of marijuana and more than 157 pounds of …
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Life Imprisonment

… Juarez Cartel-that was responsible for the distribution of over six tons of cocaine since 1996. Aguirre managed a … New York. Aguirre also directed the repatriation of tens of millions of dollars of drug proceeds from the United States …
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Wisconsin Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Trafficking Methamphetamine

… in Mauston. After the confidential informant purchased just over 25 grams of methamphetamine from Scheerer, Scheerer … asked the confidential informant if they would like to buy a “dirty” gun. The confidential informant agreed and …
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Phoenix mother indicted, accused of using 13-year-old daughter to hide cocaine

… of cocaine, inside of her bra as the car was being pulled over by officers on September 19, 2019. Two other children, … with a Phoenix drug trafficking organization, allegedly buying cocaine for resale.   Covarruvia faces multiple state …
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Pulaski Man Sentenced To 70 Months

… firearms, including several loaded assault rifles, were recovered from Randolph's residence in Pulaski, Tennessee … of search warrants. Approximately $2,100 in marked buy money, from a prior cocaine purchase from Gentry, was also recovered from a bank safe deposit box held by Randolph. A …
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Eagle Pass Brothers Sentenced To Federal Prison For Cocaine Distribution

… guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine. They also found Michael Cardona … cars that they showed at various car shows in Texas and to buy and remodel homes. During recorded phone calls played at … Diana Cruz-Zapata prosecuted this case on behalf of the government. On …
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Man Found Guilty Of Trafficking Crack Cocaine

… Department, and the Drug Enforcement (DEA). At trial, the Government presented evidence that on five separate instances Parker sold over 189 grams of crack cocaine to a confidential informant … videos selling crack cocaine, during one of the controlled buys Parker could also be heard cooking crack cocaine in the …
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Rutland Man Imprisoned 5 Years For Heroin Trafficking

… used a confidential informant to make three controlled buys of heroin from Murphy in Rutland. In November 2012, … Rose, Cruz, and Hercules are scheduled for sentencing over the next two months. United States Attorney Tristram J. …
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Sixteen Charged in East Texas Federal Methamphetamine Conspiracy

… began in November 2022, law enforcement has seized over 10 kilograms of methamphetamine and 14 firearms.  Those …
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2 Mobile Doctors Get Long Sentences For Running “Pill Mills”

… the judge ordered them to pay restitution in the following amounts: $6,282,023.00 to Medicare, $3,649,092.97 to Blue … other medical practitioners who are inclined to put profit over patient health and safety,” said Azzam. Prior to the … showed that Couch and Ruan purchased approximately $1.6 million worth of stock in Galena Biopharma, the manufacturer …
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Connecticut Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Methylone Conspiracy

… that Canfield sold numerous other controlled substances over the Internet, including through an online storefront called “The Online Source.” Canfield, …
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Fentanyl distributor who used the dark web and crypto currency sentenced to 30 years in federal prison

… Waco - (254) 297-0300 Fentanyl distribution resulted in the overdose of a U.S. Marine HOUSTON -- In what is believed to … Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra entered a $14.32 million money judgment against Allawi based on his online dark net sales profit. Judge Ezra also ordered that …
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Observant bystander travelling through Indiana led DEA Chicago Field Division to historic 225 pound methamphetamine seizure

… in the seizure of 225 pounds of methamphetamine.  This amount of methamphetamine has an estimated street value of over ten million dollars and is the largest single seizure of …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 26

…   Concerns have been raised across the United States over illnesses and death caused by vaping and the high youth … Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s … and teens. DEA has collected a total of more than 11 million pounds (almost 6,000 tons) of expired, unused and …
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DEA Teams up with more than 4,300 Partners to Remove Unneeded Prescription Medications from Communities

… National Prescription Take Back Day has removed almost 17 million pounds of unneeded medications from communities … the country. DEA’s New Orleans Field Division, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, … at over 450 collection sites throughout the division.  The amounts collected for each state within the division was the …