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DEA Charlotte District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
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DEA Nashville District Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
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DEA Atlanta Divisional Office Heads Up Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Saturday, September 27, 2014

… Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This one-day event will make it … abuse prescription drugs dropped in 2013 to 6.5 million from 6.8 million in 2012, that is still more than double the … Use and Health.  In addition, 22,134 Americans died in 2011 from overdoses of prescription medications, including 16,651 …
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DEA Along With Manhattan, Brooklyn, And Miami U.S. Attorneys Announce Extradition Of Colombian Narcotics Kingpin

… U.S., and laundered tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from that narcotics trafficking activity. Barrera arrived in … on September 18, 2012. Thereafter, he was sent to Colombia, from where the U.S. sought Barrera’s extradition. The … - the AUC and the FARC. By purchasing raw cocaine paste from the FARC, which he processed in laboratories in areas …
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Leader Of Major Drug Trafficking Ring And Seven Co-Conspirators Sentenced To Prison

… Over the course of the conspiracy, which lasted from about 2010 to about November 2014, David Maldonado, at … to July 2011 - David Maldonado and Fortino Maldonado - From about February 2011, David Maldonado and Fortino …
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Six Indicted In Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin And "Crystal Meth" In New York City And Pennsylvania

… addictive and potentially lethal heroin and methamphetamine from wholesalers to street level dealers. Working closely … March 2014, DEA agents with Group D-41, and investigators from the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, initiated an … to supply a quantity of drugs to a subject traveling from Pennsylvania on May 19, 2014. The wiretap investigation …
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Nine Sentenced For Illegally Distributing Controlled Substances Over The Internet

… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas … controlled substances to customers who bought the drugs from illicit Internet pharmacies, United States Attorney …
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Former Honduran Congressman Tony Hernández Sentenced for Distributing Tons of Cocaine, Other Crimes

… reminder there is no position powerful enough to shield you from facing justice when you violate U.S. drug laws by … security for cocaine shipments, and brokered large bribes from major drug traffickers to powerful political figures, … ammunition to drug traffickers, some of which he obtained from the Honduran military; he controlled cocaine …
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Fentanyl Awareness

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… said Administrator Anne Milgram.  “Fentanyl is everywhere.  From large metropolitan areas to rural America, no community is safe from this poison.  We must take every opportunity to spread …
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10 Charged in Narcotics Distribution across the Northeast

… ANTONIO BARDERA. These three allegedly obtained narcotics from international sources and oversaw large shipments of … quantities of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine to and from one another. Over time, the investigation expanded to … discussed receiving a shipment of narcotics to be sent from Peru. In August of 2020, DEA special agents in the …
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Long Island gun trafficking ring dismantled

… Long Island gun trafficking ring dismantled February 05, 2020 New … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … Additional photos of firearms and ammunition recovered from Takedown.jpg SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y . – New York Attorney …
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José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar Faces International Drug and Weapon Charges Following His Extradition to the United States

… José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar Faces International Drug and Weapon Charges Following His Extradition to the United … trafficking into the United States, firearms trafficking from the United States, and acts of extreme violence.   … in furtherance of drug trafficking; smuggling firearms from the United States; and straw purchasing of firearms …
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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

… Kelly McKay Recruiter Name Kieran Garcia (858) 616-4040 sandiegospecialagentrecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter … 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 …
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Supervisor Of Colombian Maritime Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

… (802) 951-2900 Defendant trafficked literal tons of cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela to Puerto Rico, Spain, and other … locations BOSTON – A Colombian man, who was extradited from Colombia after indictment, was sentenced today in … Carrillo-Ramirez was indicted in April 2017 and extradited from Colombia in April 2019. Since 2013, Carrillo-Ramirez …
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Four People Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme to Defraud Amtrak

… documents filed in this case and statements made in court: From 2019 to the present, Mirza, Figueroa, Gelzer, Burt, and others recruited Amtrak employees – primarily from New Jersey and New York – to participate in the scheme …
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Leaders Of Methamphetamine Ring Each Receive 200-Month Prison Sentence

… prison sentences — which equals 16 years, 8 months — from United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr. Judge … by Mendoza, out of Dallas. Wilson acquired methamphetamine from Mendoza in Texas and either personally transported it … to purchase a kilogram of methamphetamine directly from Wilson. Also, in February 2022, the DEA seized …
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Mom Pleads Guilty to Providing Fentanyl That Killed Her Sons’ Father

… Silva Banuelos put her sons, ages 8 and 10, onto a flight from Albuquerque to Dallas to visit her ex-husband, their father.  Surveillance video from Dallas / Love Field Airport shows that her ex-husband …
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Carrollton Couple Tied to Possibly 10 Juvenile Overdoses Charged with Fentanyl Conspiracy

… the DEA Dallas Field Division. “DEA Dallas and our partners from the Carrollton Police Department will work to identify … Schools.  Nine students at those schools – ranging in age from 13 to 17 – suffered ten overdoses, three of which were … paralysis, told law enforcement the pills she ingested came from juvenile dealers who obtained the drugs from Mr. …
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Former Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to More Than 12 Years on Bribery, Firearms, and Narcotics Charges

… conspiracies wherein he both unlawfully purchased firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers on behalf of other … and provided firearms to felonswho are prohibited from possessing firearms. While the investigations into the … also conspired to import narcotics into the United States from Mexico, from January 8, 2018, until his arrest on …
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Tallahassee Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking Offenses

… demonstrated that Gordon was obtaining methamphetamine from Georgia and selling it in Tallahassee, Florida. On … source to purchase two ounces of methamphetamine from Gordon. Three days later, Gordon fled from officers of the Tallahassee Police Department, who were …
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Large-scale counterfeit fentanyl pill dealer found guilty

… Engage Ft. Lauderdale Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … pills that were made with fentanyl, that Fisher had ordered from China. Fisher ordered pill presses from China, some of which were seized by Homeland Security. …
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The Drug Enforcement Administration, Colorado Attorney General’s Office and the West Metro Drug Task Force dismantle international cocaine trafficking ring

… drug trafficking network that transported cocaine from Mexico into the United States to a distribution network … discovered that the head of this group, working from his residence in Greeley, Colorado, arranged to import large quantities of cocaine from various sources from the Republic of Mexico into the …
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East Bay man charged with fentanyl-laced pills that killed buyer

… fentanyl.  The young adult customer purchased the pills from Pascoe and shortly after taking the apparent Oxycodone pills at a Walnut Creek home died from an overdose of fentanyl.    “This sad, tragic death shows how easy it is to die from drugs bought from drug dealers,” said U.S. Attorney …
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Cochise County man pleads guilty to transport of a narcotic drug for sale and misconduct involving weapons

… in Cochise County are determined to protect the community from drug traffickers like Timothy Henry, whose guilty plea … a major victory for those who seek to rid our neighborhoods from the plague of drugs,” said Cheri A. Oz, Special Agent … In March 2018, they purchased one pound of methamphetamine from Henry in an undercover operation at a Tucson-area truck …
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Manager Of Mystic Enchantments Arrested, Charged In Ongoing Investigation Of Spice, K2 Distribution In Central Illinois

… II to manage the distribution of synthetic cannabinoids from Mystic Enchantments. As alleged in the complaint … and recovered approximately 1,445 additional packets from the back room. As a result of the undercover purchase … controlled substances and controlled substance analogues, from retail stores in Decatur, including JB’s, United …
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DEA Louisville Announces 360 Degree Strategy

… of (UofL) School of Medicine, and representatives from the law enforcement, medical, and substance abuse … in our society. DEA is collaborating with professionals from law enforcement, drug prevention, drug treatment, and the medical community, to attack this problem from a holistic approach.” “The heroin epidemic, ravaging …
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Large Northern Ohio Drug Trafficking Group Faces Multiple Charges In Federal Court

… of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine into Greater Cleveland from Chicago and Yonkers, New York, law enforcement … S. Rendon said. “Sadly, the death toll continues to mount from this epidemic. Daily we mourn as parents bury their … of Warrensville Heights. The defendants conspired together from 2010 through 2016 to obtain fentanyl, heroin, cocaine …
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Carencro Officer Indicted On Extortion, Illegal Use Of Government Database, And Lying To Federal Agents In Desperado’s Case

… former Carencro Police Officer for receiving cash payments from Desperado’s Gentlemen’s Cabaret. Timothy “Timmy” … right, one count of obtaining information by computer from government or protected computer, and two counts of … enforced related ordinances. According to the indictment, from January 1, 2007, until December 5, 2012, Prejean …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Owners Of Three Pharmacies, Pharmacists, And Others For Illegal Distribution Of Millions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Oxycodone And Other Painkillers Nine Individuals Allegedly Used New York And New Jersey

… distribution of oxycodone and other controlled substances from three pharmacies in New York and New Jersey to … the Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:   From at least November 2011 up to and including October …
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DEA News: 5 Extradited, Charged With North Korean Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… Domestic WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the … Thailand in September. The five defendants were extradited from Thailand, arrived in the Southern District of New York … is the only one currently able to obtain methamphetamine from North Korea: “Because before, there were eight [other …