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Nassau Doctor Charged with Five Counts of Murder for Depraved Prescription Abuse

… sends a strong message to any doctor seeking to profit from vulnerable patients’ addiction: we will hold you … directly held accountable for their actions as they profit from individuals that are suffering from addiction.  I congratulate the investigators of the …
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2 Mobile Doctors Get Long Sentences For Running “Pill Mills”

… illegal workers comp kickbacks, receiving illegal kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics, more no052617_fig1.jpg … they caused. These sentences will protect the community from these convicted felons and hopefully deter other …
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Four Defendants Arrested on Charges They Conspired to Illegally Obtain and Distribute Oxycodone Out of a Pharmacy in Warren County

… pills – known as “blues” – were illegally diverted from the pharmacy through the criminal scheme.  The … 9 and yesterday, February 23.   The charges resulted from an investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice … in analyzing prescription records, including data from the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program …
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Hanover Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Other Drugs Shipped Across the US to Maryland

… cocaine, and other drugs, shipped through the U.S. Mail from California to Maryland.  Pitts admitted that during his … 2020, U.S. postal inspectors interdicted several parcels from the mail, including two parcels bound for an address in … enforcement recovered more than two kilograms of cocaine from one parcel and more than two kilograms of fentanyl from …
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Colombian Paramilitary Leader Sentenced To 33 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking And Narco-Terrorism

… of State-designated foreign terrorist organization. From the mid-1990s through 2007, Jimenez-Naranjo led the … responsible for exporting thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to Central America, Mexico and the United …
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DEA announces arrest of former Honduran congressman and brother of current President of Honduras for drug trafficking and weapons charges

… DEA announces arrest of former Honduran congressman and brother of current President of Honduras for drug … to protect drug shipments, and solicited large bribes from major drug traffickers. Thanks to the ongoing work of …
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Seven Men Sentenced To Prison For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 McALLEN, TX - Six men from Texas and one from Ohio have all been sentenced to prison on drug … Avila, 52, Seferino Avila, 44, Alejandro Avila, 38, all from Mission, Texas; Carlos Javier Gomez, 38, Cristelo …
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Nine Alleged Members Of The Jenifer Drug Trafficking Organization Charged By Indictment And Implicated In A 2012 Murder

… Jenifer Drug Trafficking Organization Charged By Indictment And Implicated In A 2012 Murder October 16, 2014 Washington, … million; several hundred thousand dollars in cash recovered from the residences of some of the defendants; over $2 …
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U.S. and Bulgaria Join Forces to Stop Deadly Fentanyl Flow

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… DEA Senior Forensic Chemist Jonathan Duffy trained chemists from the Ministry of the Interior and the National Customs … Bulgarian partners’ ability to prevent dangerous narcotics from entering the country – or being shipped to other …
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Angleton Man Hammered With 35-Year Sentence For Trafficking Meth

… methamphetamine in and through the Houston, Texas area from 2010 to 2012, announced Drug Enforcement Administration … five-year-term of supervised release following his release from prison. At the time of his guilty plea, Gallegos admitted to conspiring with several other persons from 2010-2012 to possess with intent to distribute certain …
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Five More Sentenced To Federal Prison In Operation Sooner Or Later

… operation targeted international cocaine trafficking from Mexico to the Middle District of Florida and Oxycodone trafficking from the Middle District of Florida to Kentucky.  Out of the …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… Yakima - (509) 454-4407 Nationwide events will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - DEA … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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The Pacific Northwest Collects 16 Tons At The Latest DEA National Drug Take-Back Day

… removing significant amounts of unused pharmaceutical drugs from unintended circulation,” said DEA Special Agent in … have removed over 300,328 (150.2 tons) of medication from circulation.  The following are the results broken down by state: Washington - 13,800 (6.9 tons) removed from circulation. Idaho - 3,068 (1.5 tons) removed from …
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Dominican citizen extradited to U.S. for drug trafficking through sham internet pharmacy

… citizen of the Dominican Republic, was extradited yesterday from the Dominican Republic. Guzman-Cabrera is charged with … safe allegedly operating his drug trafficking organization from a foreign country, but great investigative work led to … will stop the United States Postal Inspection Service from bringing alleged criminals like Guzman-Cabrera to …
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Laurel Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Kilograms of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Marijuana Through the U.S. Mail

… Prison for Distributing Kilograms of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Marijuana Through the U.S. Mail October 20, 2022 … involving fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana shipped from California to Maryland through the U.S. mail.  At … bag containing approximately 501 grams of fentanyl, from Fisher.  Co-Conspirator 2 placed the object into the …
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24 In Arkansas Charged In Nationwide Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action

… Engage New Orleans Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … Special Agent in Charge Azzam said. “Today, more people die from opioid-related causes than from gun homicides. This unprecedented collaboration between …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of A Leader Of A Colombian Drug Trafficking Organization And Three Other International Narcotics Traffickers

… Of A Leader Of A Colombian Drug Trafficking Organization And Three Other International Narcotics Traffickers October … with cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking extradited from Mexico; two defendants charged with cocaine trafficking …
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Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 current and former Venezuelan officials charged with narco-terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking and other criminal charges

… Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 current and former Venezuelan officials charged with … use the U.S. banking system to move their illicit proceeds from South America nor further their criminal schemes.”  “ …
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Over 100 Pounds of Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, Fentanyl, Oxycodone and Heroin Seized in Bronx Pizzeria

… 100 Pounds of Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, Fentanyl, Oxycodone and Heroin Seized in Bronx Pizzeria October 23, 2023 New … 682-6256 Sophisticated Drug Trafficking Operation Across from Public School Over 100 pounds of cocaine and other drugs seized from Pizzeria.jpg Over 100 pounds of cocaine and other drugs …
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Weymouth Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

… 951-2900 Defendant distributed over 44 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico BOSTON – A Weymouth man has been sentenced … conspiracy that distributed prodigious amounts of cocaine from Puerto Rico, which he and a co-conspirator obtained via … that funneled more than $1 million worth of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts,” said United States …
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Washington Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Shooting in Tri-Cities and Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl-Laced Pills

… serve 5 years of federal supervision after he is released from custody. During the sentencing hearing, Judge Shea … enforcement partnerships, we were able to remove Mr. Ard from the community where he has repeatedly distributed … person in the leg. Ard then retrieved drug-related items from the car and went into his house; he neither alerted …
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Pharmaceutical distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully distributing painkillers

… prescription pills to be illegally sold and dispensed from their facilities,” said DEA Assistant Administrator … pharmacies in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee. From 2008 until 2015, the company generated more than $173 …
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Major Mexican Heroin Trafficking Organization Targeted

… are frozen, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them. “The joint efforts … organizations, or those acting on behalf of them, from doing business via the United States,” said Barbara … Ruelas Torres Drug Trafficking Organization smuggles heroin from Mexico into the United States for distribution in …
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DEA Releases 2015 National Heroin Threat Assessment

… other drug of abuse, almost doubling between 2007 and 2013-from 161,000 to 289,000-according to the Substance Abuse and … continue to combat heroin trafficking to protect Americans from this severe and growing threat.”  The NHTA is based, in part, on survey responses from more than 1,100 law enforcement agencies, which were …
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Sheriff’s Deputies Plead Guilty In Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… informant for August, and others, to steal marijuana from a KCSO storage unit and sell it for unlawful personal … lands. Once August and Penney obtained the marijuana from the storage unit, they had it (trimmed) into … who sold it and provided August with part of the proceeds from those sales. August then shared the proceeds with …
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Two Dutchess County Men Charged In White Plains Federal Court With Distribution Of ‘Breaking Bad’ Heroin Causing The Deaths Of Three Individuals

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated: “Three young people from our community are dead, the tragic victims of heroin …
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United States Seizes Luxury Condo Allegedly Owned By Former Mexican Governor

… transaction, that the property constitutes or was derived from proceeds traceable to drug trafficking, and that the … the property. Rodriguez is currently in custody in Mexico. From 1998 to at least 2005, the complaint states that …
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Mexican Man Sentenced For Roles In Drug Trafficking/Money Laundering Conspiracies Dating Back To 2002

… and money laundering organization operating out of Mexico from 2002-2008 has been ordered to federal prison, announced … to face deportation proceedings following his release from prison. At the time of guilty plea, Garcia-Sanchez … that smuggled multi-hundred kilogram loads of cocaine from Venezuela through Mexico for eventual distribution in …
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The Pacific Northwest Responds To Prescription Drug “Take-Back” With Record Collection

… Operation Engage Seattle Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … Accounts X Robert A. Saccone Domestic Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington Additional Division Info Community Outreach: … deep concerns in keeping the unused pharmaceutical drugs from being abused by unintended users and disposed of in the …
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Residents In The Pacific Northwest Turned In Over 16 Tons In DEA’s National Drug Take-Back Day

… Operation Engage Seattle Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen … (371 tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 5,829 locations …