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Five Persons Charged With Heroin Trafficking

October 07, 2015
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … officers made multiple controlled purchases of heroin from the defendants, and also seized approximately ½ … task force consisting of agents, officers and detectives from the DEA, FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, Las Vegas …
October 07, 2015
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Henderson Doctor Pleads Guilty To Unlawful Distribution Of Controlled Substances

October 26, 2015
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … practice known as Desert Pain Management in Las Vegas.  From July 6 to November 15, 2012, Kuthuru wrote …
October 26, 2015
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Medical Doctor Arrested On Federal ‘Structuring’ Charges For Making Cash Deposits To Avoid Federal Reporting Requirements

May 26, 2016
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … four separate accounts for the purpose of preventing banks from reporting the deposits to the federal government, which … the cash for the purpose of concealing income he receive from thousands of fraudulent prescriptions that he issued …
May 26, 2016
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Medical Doctor Convicted Of Federal ‘Structuring’ Charges

November 18, 2016
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … deposits for the purpose of concealing income he received from thousands of prescriptions that he issued for narcotic … four separate accounts for the purpose of preventing banks from reporting the deposits to the federal government, which …
November 18, 2016
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Rite Aid Pays $834,200 Settlement For Alleged Controlled Substances Act Violations In Los Angeles

March 09, 2017
… Southern California Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … penalties to the United States to settle claims stemming from alleged violations of the Controlled Substances (CSA).  …
March 09, 2017
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Southern Nevada HIDTA Task Force Makes Record Seizure Of Methamphetamine

July 14, 2011
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … in the Las Vegas Area. On July 12, 2011, investigators from the Southern Nevada HIDTA Task Force developed … Nevada Drug Task Force is comprised of officers and agents from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the …
July 14, 2011
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Santa Barbara Doctor Known As ‘Candy Man’ Pleads Guilty To Illegally Writing Prescriptions For Huge Quantities Of Dangerous Narcotics

January 09, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … André Birotte Jr. “The diversion of powerful painkillers from legitimate medical uses to the hands of drug abusers is … prescription drugs that find their way to street users come from doctors who, like Julio Diaz, choose to betray their …
January 09, 2014
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Two Mexican Mafia Members Guilty Of Federal Racketeering Charges In Crackdown Targeting Ontario Street Gang

January 27, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … of the two leaders of the Black Angels gang stem from an indictment that charged violations of the Racketeer … (HIDTA) program, and includes agents and officers from DEA, IRS-Criminal Investigation, U.S. Immigration and …
January 27, 2014
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Provides Citizens Opportunity To Dispose Of Tons Of Medication

May 15, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … In the Los Angeles area, local law enforcement agencies from Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, … (97 tons) of prescription medication have been removed from circulation in the greater Los Angeles area, Nevada and …
May 15, 2014
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Former Las Vegas Doctor Sentenced To Over 3a½ Years In Prison For Selling Prescription Painkillers To Undercover DEA Agent

September 18, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … persons being able to easily acquire these dangerous drugs from corrupt doctors and pharmacists are coming to an … the possession of 2,038 oxycodone pills that were recovered from his vehicle on March 1, 2012, when he was arrested in …
September 18, 2014
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DEA Los Angeles Shuts Down Major Phony Prescription Printing Operation With Four Arrests

February 05, 2015
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … partners will not tolerate creative rackets that profit from the epidemic of painkiller addiction,” said Anthony D. … were routed to criminal associates who would screen calls from pharmacies attempting to verify the prescription, often …
February 05, 2015
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Large Scale Dark Web Heroin, Cocaine Trafficker Pleads Guilty

April 14, 2017
… and cocaine on AlphaBay, and then mailed the narcotics from post offices in New York to customers throughout the … law enforcement made two undercover purchases of heroin from “Area51,” which were delivered to a post office box in … agents were also able to determine that the encrypted email address used by “Area51” and “DarkApollo” was …
April 14, 2017
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Day Removes Almost 600,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications Across the Country

November 07, 2023
… removed nearly 17.9 million pounds of unneeded medications from across the country, with states from the DEA Omaha Division contributing 620,480 pounds. … for a nonmedical purpose obtained that medication from a family member or friend. Removing unnecessary …
November 07, 2023
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Two Mexican Citizens Face Mandatory Life In Federal Prison After Jury Convicts Them On Federal Charges Related To May 2013 Murder Of A Southlake, Texas, Man

May 23, 2016
… The government presented evidence during trial that from approximately March 1, 2011, until May 22, 2015, the … defendants traveled in interstate and foreign commerce from Mexico to Southlake, and elsewhere, with the intent to … father’s murder. The defendants exchanged information via email to locate Mr. Chapa - exchanging personal information …
May 23, 2016
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High-Ranking Members of Sinaloa Cartel Charged with Material Support of a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Narcoterrorism

September 24, 2025
… dismantling its operations, and protecting our community from its narcoterrorism.” The indictment alleges that the … 80 kilograms of methamphetamine and 50 kilograms of cocaine from communities in and around Southern Illinois. President … criminal organizations, and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back …
September 24, 2025
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to over 4 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Pill Distribution

August 29, 2025
… by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of … criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task …
August 29, 2025
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Former Connecticut Residents Charged with Operating Websites to Illegally Sell Misbranded and Unapproved Drugs

August 25, 2023
… Charged with Operating Websites to Illegally Sell Misbranded and Unapproved Drugs August 25, 2023 New England … Eastern District of Texas. As alleged in the indictment, from September 2021 to June 2023, Fields and Mahan operated … that the drugs they sold were for human use, and through emails and posts on the Pinned Aminos Facebook group, they …
August 25, 2023
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Reno Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Involuntary Manslaughter Of Patient And Unlawful Distribution Of Large Quantities Of Prescription Drugs

November 20, 2017
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … overdose and death in October 2015. Rand also admitted that from March 2011 to April 2016 he prescribed a total of … people in 2014, and over one-half of those deaths were from prescription opioids. In 2016, more than 64,000 …
November 20, 2017
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Meth traffickers shipped drugs to Hawaii disguised as Aztec objects

October 16, 2018
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … on July 17 of 11.7 kilograms of pure methamphetamine from a post office in Garden Grove. Those drugs were part of … of Garden Grove, who allegedly purchased methamphetamine from Pomele; James Arnold Borbon, also known as “Dino,” 58, …
October 16, 2018
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DEA’s National Take Back Day Set for April 24

April 20, 2021
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.  Iowa has 95 Take Back sites available … indicate that a majority of abused prescription drugs come from family and friends, sometimes taken from home medicine cabinets.  With that in mind, clearing …
April 20, 2021
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DEA’s National Take Back Day Set for April 24

April 20, 2021
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.  Minnesota has 79 Take Back sites … indicate that a majority of abused prescription drugs come from family and friends, sometimes taken from home medicine cabinets.  With that in mind, clearing …
April 20, 2021
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DEA’s National Take Back Day Set for April 24

April 20, 2021
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.  Nebraska has 29 Take Back sites … indicate that a majority of abused prescription drugs come from family and friends, sometimes taken from home medicine cabinets.  With that in mind, clearing …
April 20, 2021
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DEA’s National Take Back Day Set for April 24

April 20, 2021
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.  South Dakota has 26 Take Back sites … indicate that a majority of abused prescription drugs come from family and friends, sometimes taken from home medicine cabinets.  With that in mind, clearing …
April 20, 2021
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More Than Three Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Seized in Minnesota Last Year

March 18, 2021
… Counterfeit pill seizures in Minnesota jumped 366 percent from 2018, when agents seized less than 1,500 counterfeit … fentanyl. Counterfeit pills can be difficult to distinguish from legitimate medications and are often marketed as M30s, …   prescribed by a licensed physician and coming directly from a pharmacy.” While fentanyl and counterfeit pills were …
March 18, 2021
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Wisconsin heroin distributor sentenced to federal prison

December 19, 2018
… was distributing was brought to the Fargo-Moorhead area from Milwaukee, Wis.  Harris was convicted by a Fargo jury … to aggressively pursue those individuals who seek to profit from the death and destruction of drug trafficking.  The … Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, with assistance from Cass County State’s Attorney, North Dakota Crime Lab, …
December 19, 2018
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Jury Finds Hartford Man Guilty Of Murder

August 05, 2016
… plagues our most vulnerable citizens.” This matter stems from a long-term investigation being conducted by the FBI’s … 15 Thomaston Street.  Parker was unconscious and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.  Parker was transported by … or missing person case and lists telephone, mail and e-mail contacts that inmates can use to supply information. …
August 05, 2016
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Career Trafficker Tied To 170 Pounds Of Cocaine And $1.5 Million In Illicit Proceeds Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison

August 17, 2015
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … for his role in acquiring more than 170 pounds of cocaine from Los Angeles-area traffickers with the intent to … authorities in Arizona seized nearly 70 pounds of cocaine from Wakil during two traffic stops.  Additionally, …
August 17, 2015
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Two Colombian Nationals Extradited To Los Angeles On Charges Of Leading Multi-Ton Cocaine Conspiracy Via Clandestine Air Shipments

October 05, 2016
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … of overseeing shipments of thousands of pounds of cocaine from Colombian laboratories to Central American distribution … and Rios would “transport the cocaine via overland routes from production laboratories outside Meta, Colombia, to …
October 05, 2016
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Rancho Cucamonga Man Convicted For Operating Large-Scale Marijuana Grow Operation

October 12, 2012
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … came after he had received written warnings in October 2011 from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that G3’s marijuana stores … investigation of this case was conducted by special agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance …
October 12, 2012
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DEA Arrests El Monte Flores And Mexican Mafia Gang Members Charged In Federal Racketeering Indictment

July 30, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … El Monte Flores gang, an organization that takes direction from the Mexican Mafia prison gang and controls criminal … by members of El Monte Flores, including acts of (ranging from battery to murder), drug trafficking offenses, robbery, …
July 30, 2014