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Trafficker Sentenced to 19.5 Years in Prison for Supplying Weapons and Ammunition to Sinaloa Cartel

January 13, 2025
… fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana) from South America and Mexico, transported the drugs to … United States. The TCO then smuggled the bulk cash proceeds from its drug trafficking activities back to the TCO’s … vests. A considerable number of these items were sourced from within the United States and clandestinely smuggled …
January 13, 2025
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Upper Marlboro Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin and Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

November 30, 2021
… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea from at least June 2016 through July 2017, Stewart conspired … and Prince George’s County.  Stewart obtained heroin from Broxton and then sold smaller quantities of heroin to …
November 30, 2021
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Record-breaking amount of cocaine seized at Port of New York/Newark

March 11, 2019
… USCG, NYSP and NYPD interdicted 3,200 pounds of cocaine from shipping container 60 bundles removed from container.JPG Bundles seized from rear of container.JPG Port New YorkNewark Container …
March 11, 2019
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Drug Kingpin Extradited: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group

April 24, 2018
… Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group April 24, 2018 New York … arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York and subsequently extradited from Colombia to the United States on April 23, 2018. James …
April 24, 2018
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Doctor Gets 10 Years For Operating “Pill Mill” In Alabama

May 10, 2017
… Engage New Orleans Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … hydromorphone and hydrocodone-directly from a drug manufacturer. Ritchea then distributed the pills … just days after receiving a prescription for that drug from him.  The sentencing court also heard testimony from …
May 10, 2017
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Long Island Man Convicted of Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses Defendant Distributed Fentanyl that Caused the Overdose Death of Selden Man

December 14, 2022
… on the community, including by taking this young man away from his family too soon. This Office, together with our … caused harm or death to others.” The evidence proved that, from January 2017 through May 2019, the defendant conspired … enforcement recovered fentanyl and drug packaging materials from his basement bedroom, and also seized three illegal …
December 14, 2022
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Cocaine seizures bring recent port of Savannah totals to more than $53 million

June 11, 2019
… Southern District of Georgia Bobby L. Christine.   Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in … and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Augusta Fire Department, seized packages containing … holding a shipping container that had been transported from the Port of Savannah. Pujols and Ramos were taken into …
June 11, 2019
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DEA Joins with Families Across Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to Increase Awareness about the Dangers of Fentanyl

November 22, 2022
… fatal overdose and poisoning victims with regional leaders from law enforcement, public health, drug prevention and … incredible work these families are doing to prevent others from experiencing the profound pain of losing a loved one to … In addition to an overview of current global drug trends from DEA Chicago Division Special Agent in Charge Robert J. …
November 22, 2022
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info … removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with …
November 01, 2021
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in Nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… @DEALouisville Jim Scott Domestic Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia Additional Division Info Community … removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with …
November 01, 2021
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Pill distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully distributing painkillers

July 19, 2019
… Pill distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully … prescription pills to be illegally sold and dispensed from their facilities,” said DEA Assistant Administrator …
July 19, 2019
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Beaumont residents guilty in federal drug trafficking case

August 15, 2018
… Texas, area.  Eric Coleman received powder cocaine from Christopher Dudley, who brought it to Beaumont from Houston. Clayton Howard assisted Dudley in transporting cocaine from Houston to Beaumont.  Coleman distributed both powder …
August 15, 2018
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16 People Sentenced To Lengthy Terms For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

August 15, 2013
… 16 People Sentenced To Lengthy Terms For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering August 15, 2013 Houston Contact Info … laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received … drugs which had been brought into the United States from Mexico from Zapata to other parts of the United States. …
August 15, 2013
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18 Operation Trena Sin Trono Defendants Plead Guilty

September 24, 2015
… marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, announced Drug … organization were part of the conspiracy that occurred from on or about June 2011 through June 2013. The pleas are … to transport multi-thousand pound quantities of marijuana from Laredo to the Dallas area. The investigation revealed …
September 24, 2015
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Ricardo Castang Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Narcotics Trafficking And Fake Sweepstakes Scheme Targeting Elderly Victims

October 05, 2017
… A long-term investigation into the trafficking of cocaine from Costa Rica ultimately led agents from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force to … Brooklyn, to retrieve packages containing two souvenir bags from Costa Rica with a total of one kilogram of (over 2 …
October 05, 2017
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Anchorage Trafficker Sentenced To Life In Prison

April 22, 2011
… intended recipient of 23 pounds of methamphetamine smuggled from Mexico to Alaska. This methamphetamine was delivered to … 2009, investigators with DEA in Anchorage seized $12,000 from a vehicle being sent from Anchorage to Seattle. The investigation revealed that …
April 22, 2011
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13 Indicted In Multimillion Dollar Interstate Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

April 18, 2013
… Chau have yet to be arrested. The indictment alleges that from October 2008 to April 2013, the defendants obtained … for oxycodone, hydrocodone, and medical marijuana cards from a doctor in Modesto. They recruited other individuals to obtain prescriptions and marijuana cards from the doctor by offering them payments in return for the …
April 18, 2013
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Members of Alabama drug trafficking organization plead guilty to drug and gun charges

August 10, 2018
… nineteenth federal defendant, Phillip Maddox, 41, from Auburn, Alabama, is set for trial in October. The four … Dieago Holstick, 36, and Timothy Lamar Spinks, 43, both from Auburn, Alabama; James Earl McIntyre, 28, from Montgomery, Alabama; and James Lee Hamilton, 41, from …
August 10, 2018
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Canadian who arranged drug smuggling helicopter flights across northern border sentenced to 7 years in prison

June 29, 2018
… distribute controlled substances.  Colin Hugh Martin, 46, from British Columbia, Canada, was indicted in 2010 and … Martin directed the smuggling of large quantities of drugs from what seemed like a safe perch in Canada – never … California in February 2009; and 79 kilograms of marijuana from Canada that was seized by agents from a helicopter that …
June 29, 2018
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DEA Report: Counterfeit Pills Fueling U.S. Fentanyl And Opioid Crisis

July 22, 2016
… About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Problems resulting from abuse of opioid drugs continue to grow WASHINGTON - … inhaled or absorbed through the skin.  Other findings from the report: Fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds are … which data is available), which is a 65 percent increase from the 7,864 fentanyl exhibits in 2014. There were …
July 22, 2016
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

July 28, 2015
… Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, … clean out your medicine cabinet and make your home safe from drug theft and abuse.”  Rates of prescription drug … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
July 28, 2015
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Miami-Dade, Florida, Police Officer Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Role In Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

December 01, 2015
… of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity. Judge Wigenton imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court. From June 2012 through November 2012, Mata purchased at …
December 01, 2015
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Five Plead Guilty To Conspiring To Possess With The Intent To Distribute And To Unlawful Distrbution Of Marijuana

June 06, 2011
… aware of suspicious “Express Mail” packages being sent from a fictitious address in California to Jennifer Bohan at … in New Hampshire. A review of the shipping labels from the beginning of the investigation through the … of California, sent the packages containing marijuana from California to New Hampshire. The marijuana was stored …
June 06, 2011
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Jury Finds Florida Man Guilty Of Role In Oxycodone Trafficking Ring

May 14, 2013
… guilty of narcotics and money laundering charges stemming from his role in an oxycodone trafficking ring.  The trial … the jury returned the verdict yesterday. This matter stems from “Operation Blue Coast,” an investigation headed by the … Force into the large-scale trafficking of oxycodone pills from Florida to Connecticut.  The investigation revealed …
May 14, 2013
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Former Spartanburg County Magistrate Enters Guilty Plea In Drug Conspiracy Case

February 11, 2011
… it was quantities of both cocaine and methamphetamine, from a person in South Carolina. The confidential source … this person told him that the drugs were taken directly from an unidentified law enforcement agency’s evidence … Court, Marcus Woodrow Kitchens, who had removed the drugs from the evidence room of the Clerk’s Office. Kitchens pled …
February 11, 2011
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 24, 2015
… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Oregon from 2010-2014, resulted in  69,359 (34.6 tons) of drugs …
September 24, 2015
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 24, 2015
… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Idaho from 2010-2014, resulted in 36,364 (18.2 tons) of drugs …
September 24, 2015
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 24, 2015
… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Alaska from 2010-2014, resulted in 20,415 (10.2 tons) of drugs …
September 24, 2015
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Financier Of A Network Of High-Tech Marijuana Grow Facilities Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison

May 06, 2011
… of high-tech, indoor, marijuana grow facilities stretching from Florida to Connecticut. Each of these facilities cost … amounts of high-grade marijuana into the United States from Canada. On December 8, 2001, U.S. Customs and Border Protection caught Bui trying to smuggle from the U.S. to Canada over $30,000 hidden in his socks to …
May 06, 2011
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DEA’s Fifth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Results In Another Big Haul

October 04, 2012
… collected 488,395 (244 tons) of prescription medications from members of the public. In a four hour time period, … sites which resulted in 13,057 (6.5 tons) removed from circulation. • Idaho - 20 collection sites which resulted in 3,823 (1.9 tons) removed from circulation. • Oregon - 40 collection sites which …
October 04, 2012