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Former President Of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo, Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Laundering Millions Of Dollars Through United States Banks

… States.  Portillo, who served as the President of Guatemala from January 14, 2000 to January 14, 2004, arrived in the … may have thought his position of power prevented him from having to answer for accepting multi-million dollar …
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Former President Of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo, Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court For Laundering Millions Of Dollars Through United States Banks

… States.  Portillo, who served as the President of Guatemala from January 14, 2000 to January 14, 2004, arrived in the … office as a siphon to extract millions of dollars in bribes from Taiwan.  Today he has been sentenced to a lengthy …
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Multiple cases lead to arrests of five doctors, one pharmacist, one nurse practitioner and three others

… of 10 defendants with illegally distributing oxycodone. “From drug cartels to street distributors, law enforcement is … James J. Hunt. "As a result of separate investigations from three DEA offices, five doctors, a pharmacist, a nurse …
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Founder of New York Narcotics Delivery Service Sentenced to 150 Months in Prison for Causing Three Overdose Deaths

… to combating organized crime and protecting our communities from the dangers of drug trafficking.” According to the … to deliver cocaine to the customer.  During its operation from March 2018 to September 2021, the Cab Louie Delivery … Abisada with a car to deliver cocaine.  Tejada profited from the business throughout its three-plus years of …
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Defendants Sentenced for Drug Trafficking that Resulted in Two Deaths

… Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 2920 Brandywine Road Atlanta , GA 30341 United States … between ALLEN and FRASIER, photographs and a note retrieved from ALLEN’s cellphone, and Cash App and Venmo records, … of Joshua Skip Zinner on or about March 9, 2023, resulted from the use of cocaine laced with fentanyl that he had …
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2.5 Tons of Methamphetamine and 100,000 Fentanyl Pills Interdicted

… fentanyl pills into the United States.  The charge arises from a January 29, 2021 seizure by Mexico’s Secretaría de … a tidal wave of fentanyl and methamphetamine being pushed from Mexico into the United States,” said DEA Special Agent … timely and significant arrests, and stopping deadly drugs from flooding our streets.” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea …
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UT Southwestern to Pay $4.5 Million to Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations That Permitted Drug Diversion by Staff

… hospital staff to divert fentanyl and other dangerous drugs from the hospital, announced DEA Dallas Special Agent in … of internal safeguards to keep controlled substances from being diverted,” said DEA Dallas Special Agent in … able to divert controlled substances – including fentanyl — from UTSW’s Clements University Hospital and Zale Lipshy …
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National healthcare fraud takedown results in charges against over 600 individuals, including several Chicago-area medical professionals

… @DEAChicagoDiv Todd C. Smith Domestic Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Additional Division Info Community Outreach: … is a betrayal of vulnerable patients, and often it is theft from the taxpayer,” said Attorney General Sessions. “In many … nurses, and pharmacists take advantage of people suffering from drug addiction in order to line their pockets. These …
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National healthcare fraud takedown results in charges against over 600 individuals, including several Chicago-area medical professionals

… @DEAChicagoDiv Todd C. Smith Domestic Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Additional Division Info Community Outreach: … is a betrayal of vulnerable patients, and often it is theft from the taxpayer,” said Attorney General Sessions. “In many … nurses, and pharmacists take advantage of people suffering from drug addiction in order to line their pockets. These …
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Life In Prison For Racketeering Kingpin

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … nightclub in upper Manhattan. Rodriguez watched this murder from the safety of a nearby pool hall and later informed a … in the theft of a relatively small amount of marijuana from one of Rodriguez-Perez’s stash houses. In the shooting …
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Orlando Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring and Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Heroin

… at the same designated location and purchased narcotics from him. This occurred on six different dates and resulted … Santos-Garcia, at an address on Brosche Road in Orlando from which the co-defendants were distributing narcotics in … Administration Orlando District Office, with assistance from the Orlando Police Department. It is being prosecuted …
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Key defendant in Operation Snowplow drug trafficking investigation sentenced to two decades in federal prison

… the highest priority of not only removing dangerous drugs from the street, but also on seizing the ill-gotten gains of … distributing kilogram-quantities of cocaine and other drugs from Texas and California in February and March 2018. The … shipment to Savannah, and distributed to mid-level dealers from several Savannah-area residences. On March 5, 2018, law …
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DEA’S Prescription Drug Take-Back Effort-- A Big Success

… About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic WASHINGTON - Thousands of Americans in communities across the country … are shocking-approximately 46,000 Americans die each year from drug-related deaths.  More than half of those are from heroin and prescription opioids,” said Acting DEA …
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DEA Collects Record-Setting Amount Of Meds At Latest National Rx Take-Back Day

… drug abusers report in surveys that they get their drugs from friends and family.  Americans understand that cleaning out old prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and bedside tables … drug overdoses-78 a day-in (the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).  Eight …
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Paterson Man Admits Distributing Heroin That Caused Death of New York Resident

… and Individual-2 sold the same heroin they had obtained from Byrd to Victim-1. On April 3, 2016, officers from the Warwick, NY Police Department responded to a … of Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson; detectives from the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, Gangs and …
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Meth on the rise in New Jersey

… of the more rural areas of the state. Some recent analysis from the DEA’s Northeast Regional Lab has found some purity … crystal methamphetamine in the southern part of the state. From 2015 to 2017, the DEA Northeast Regional Lab has seen a …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … Karen Flowers. “You will help prevent your medications from being misused and abused by others and DEA will safely … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine …
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Crystal Meth Trafficker Sentenced 5 Years in Federal Prison

… 5 Years in Federal Prison February 25, 2022 New England Contact Info Contact Us 617-557-2100 (617) 557-2100 … learned that the individual had received the meth from a tractor trailer driver who regularly transported kilogram quantities of meth and other drugs from California to locations in the eastern U.S.  In October …
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Utica men found guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy after jury trial

… and the distribution of cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. Additionally, Peralta was … fingerprints on some of the packaging material seized from the stash location. The cocaine base Peralta possessed … of between four years and life following their release from imprisonment. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a …
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Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Trafficking Approximately 50 Pounds of Meth into New Hampshire

… to traffic approximately 50 pounds of methamphetamine from Massachusetts to New Hampshire on five occasions.  From March through October 2023, Ramos received five …
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Lebanese businessman tied by Treasury Department to Hezbollah is sentenced to prison for money laundering scheme involving the evasion of U.S. sanctions

… support of Hezbollah. The designation prohibited Tajideen from being involved in, or benefiting from, transactions involving U.S. persons or companies without a license from the Department of the Treasury.   “This defendant …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… the only federal agency dedicated to fighting deadly drugs and drug-related violence.  This milestone celebrated a half … a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from 4 out of 10 pills in 2021 and 6 out of 10 pills in … lives lost.  Nearly 70% of these drug poisonings are from fentanyl.     DEA has responded to this unprecedented …
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Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 20 Pounds of Fentanyl

… officers safeguarded countless members of our communities from the poison the defendant was intending to pollute into … with this poison. Today’s sentence removes Rodriguez from our community and sends a strong message that the FBI … and bring to justice drug dealers who seek to profit from the misery of others.” On September 26, 2022, Rodriguez …
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Rocky Mountain Diversion Investigator Named “Outstanding Citizen of the Year”

… in Bozeman.  DI St. Peter was nominated by a colleague from the Montana Department of Justice, Criminal … St. Peter is described as a humble leader in this excerpt from his nomination form. “ Applying his experience from time served working drug enforcement in Boston, and …
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Local Banker Sent to Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy

… Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and  U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Stephen Roland Reyna, 36, pleaded guilty Sept. 1, 2021.   Today, U.S. … to violate his position of trust for easy money, money from organizations that are destroying our communities.” …
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Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Shipping Firearm and Ammunition to the U.K. , Possessing Meth

… Security Investigations (HSI) about a FedEx parcel shipped from Portland to the U.K. containing a 9mm handgun and … part of a separate drug trafficking investigation, agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) executed … returned an indictment charging Schirm with smuggling goods from the U.S. One month later, on April 6, 2021, he was …
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Largest seizure of methamphetamine and heroin in Dallas, Texas history

… to adjustments in methods to transport illicit drugs from one point to another and organizations have been forced … but also to strip away their ill-gotten assets generated from the distribution of illicit drugs in the United … accounts for approximately $45 million of revenue denied from these organizations based on retail sales. DEA Dallas …
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Man Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl-Laced Fake Percocet

… by working together to remove dangerous illegal drugs from our streets and hold accountable those who make these … in exchange for $1,600. (Agents then confiscated the pills from the source.) Two weeks later, the source ordered 400 pills for $7 apiece. Agents followed Mr. Wright from his home in Fort Worth to a discount clothing store in …
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Brockton man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking

… to prison for drug trafficking September 26, 2019 New England Contact Info Contact Us 617-557-2100 (617) 557-2100 … for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction.   … of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana from a base of operations at 12 Addison Avenue in Brockton. …
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New York man sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking

… New York that operated in central Maine. Individuals from Rochester were sent to central Maine to sell the drugs. … various local residents who allowed the drugs to be sold from their homes and assisted the Rochester dealers in … sell the drugs. Periodically, drug proceeds were collected from the various distribution points in central Maine and …