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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight Against Opioid Epidemic

… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country this past … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. The DEA’s Washington …
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Fourth Circuit Upholds Former Tabor City Doctor’s Conviction for Operating a Pill Mill

… prescription pills NEW BERN, N.C. – A three-judge panel from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous, … dates to March 2017, when he was forced to resign from his medical practice due to concerns over his opioid … confidential informant (“CI”) obtained opioid prescriptions from Kim on twelve occasions.  On one occasion, he obtained …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 144 Months for Drug Trafficking in the Tri Cities

… or more of pure methamphetamine. Muniz-De La Mora, who is from Sinaloa, Mexico, also will serve 5 years of federal supervision after he is released from federal custody.  According to information disclosed … arrangements for a ten-pound delivery of methamphetamine from Muniz-De La Mora, who brought a four-year-old child to …
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Final Han Gil Defendant Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison

… that based upon her review of surveillance footage taken from the hotel – which showed the defendant carry the … victim. Her death was just one of several stemming from drug incidents at Han Gil. Two former Coppell High … summer of 2018, and the body of an unknown male was removed from the property that fall. Twenty-three additional …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease … Back Day has removed more than 7,000 tons of medication from circulation since its inception. These efforts are …
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Pittsfield man sentenced to 130 months for methamphetamine trafficking

… Inspection Service investigated numerous parcels mailed from Las Vegas to New Hampshire suspected of containing … Law enforcement officers also investigated parcels mailed from New Hampshire to Las Vegas, suspected of containing United States currency, and money transfers from New Hampshire to Las Vegas. Eventually, law enforcement …
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Eleven Individuals Involved in Osceola County Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Federal Prison

… about when shipments of heroin would be delivered from Mexico to Chicago and from Chicago to Osceola County by the DTO, which was led by … kilograms of heroin while it was en route to Osceola County from either Chicago or directly from Mexico, by Antonio E. …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease … Back Day has removed more than 7,000 tons of medication from circulation since its inception. These efforts are …
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16 Defendants Indicted On Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering And Gun Charges

… and the United States Attorney's Office, and arise from a 4 year conspiracy by the defendants to distribute … powder cocaine, crack cocaine, and phencyclidine (PCP), from at least September 1999 to July 2003. The following 16 … coordinated the movement of bulk quantities of cocaine from New York to the Maryland-Washington, DC area in …
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Ten defendants charged in federal investigation that dismantled Texas-to-Chicago drug pipeline

… Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA), with support from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force … year. Pulphus obtained the drugs at least twice a month from a Texas-based supplier, Curtis Pope, 40, of Houston, … complaint states. Pope allegedly transported the cocaine from Texas in a semi- trailer truck. Another Texas resident, …
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Treasury sanctions Argentina-based Goldpharma drug trafficking and money laundering organization

… opioid crisis, and to prevent narcotics traffickers from selling these deadly drugs in the United States,” said … other criminal activity, the unprecedented rise in deaths from the opioid crisis demands that we prioritize U.S. … organizations who hide behind computers in order to profit from the opioid crisis. These OFAC sanctions are an …
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Atlanta Drug Dealer Charged Under Operation Scope For Distributing Heroin That Resulted In Overdose Death

… Attorney’s Office work together to remove such criminals from its streets.” “Weddington’s alleged heroin distribution … related to a heroin overdose. The person was released from the hospital later that evening, and proceeded to … Concourse of the airport and died the following morning from a heroin overdose. Months later, Weddington allegedly …
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Oklahoma DOC Security Staff, Inspector General Agents Recognized By DEA

… security staff at Oklahoma State Penitentiary and agents from the DOC Inspector General’s office, we wouldn’t have … M. Allbaugh called the continued collaboration and teamwork from both the DEA and the DOC a success that has potential … like methamphetamine, behind bars.” Security personnel from Oklahoma State Penitentiary recognized were Security …
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Gulf Cartel Plaza Boss Heads To Prison For Life

… Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today … with Vincent Iglio, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security (HSI).  A jury convicted Rincon following seven … do not find refuge in the United States.” Rincon, 42, from Matamoros, Mexico, was convicted of conspiracy to …
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Colorado Attorney General Joins Forces With DEA, U.S. Attorney, To Execute Largest Heroin Bust In History Of Rocky Mountain Region

… David S. Olesky Domestic Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah Additional Division Info Salt Lake City District … Two for a total of 54 state-level indictments combined from Phase One and Phase Two.  The operation also resulted … network that brought heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine from Mexico to a vast network throughout the West.  The …
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Blytheville-Area Drug Traffickers Arrested Twenty Five Charged In 62-count Indictment

… agencies and provide whatever resources we can to remove from our communities those individuals who provide a source … drug paraphernalia, and several firearms were seized from multiple houses during the operation.  The DEA … 2014, charges 25 defendants in 62 separate counts stemming from a large-scale investigation into methamphetamine and …
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Pharmacist Admits Attempting To Use Deadly Toxins As Weapons, Possessing Narcotics Manufacturing Equipment

… “To make this happen we pull together various resources from the FBI and work closely with our law enforcement … partners worked together to prevent Mr. Gonzalez from doing harm to the citizens of our communities.”   …
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Dominican National Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year, today admitted his role in … including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, along …
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Dominican National Sentenced To 39 Months In Prison For Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year was sentenced today to 39 … including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, along …
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One Of The Largest Marijuana Seizures In Indiana History Announced After Six-Month Investigation

… by the investigators thwarted over five tons of marijuana from hitting the streets, while the second punch denied the foreign suppliers the proceeds from previous drug sales.” “The DEA and Metro Drug made … I am also proud to announce that the millions in cash taken from the Mexican drug lords will help fund public safety …
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High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Member’s Guilty Plea Unsealed; Zambada-Niebla’s Cooperation With U.S. Revealed

… will be no trial for Zambada-Niebla, whose case was severed from that of his co-defendants.  Among his co-defendants are … since the 1970s and their principal livelihood was derived from their sale of narcotics in the United States. … the importation of multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Central and South American countries, including …
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DEA’s Traveling Exhibit “Drugs: Costs And Consequences” Opening In Cedar Park, Texas Gala And Ceremony To Be Held Thursday Evening Sept. 21, 2017 At 7:30 PM Ribbon Cutting Ceremony To Be Held September 22, 2017 At 10:00 AM

… Division. “The more we can educate parents and children from across the state on the dangers of drug abuse, the more … money laundering-in an historical and present-day context-from trading opium on the Silk Road in the 1800s to the …
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Owners Of Miami Export Business Found Guilty Of Operating Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business And International Money Laundering

… in connection with their transmission of over $100 million from foreign businesses into and through the United States … to effect the transmission of at least $100 million from entities outside the United States, mostly located in … of construction companies.  After they received this money from the Venezuelan Company, the defendants received …
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Dutchess County Man Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People

… Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People April … 19, 2014, and statements made during court proceedings: From at least late 2013 to February 2014, Sica and others …
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Arizona Residents Dispose Of Over 6 Tons Of Prescription Drugs

… Operation Engage Glendale 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 drawers. … 13,069 (6½ tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 95 locations manned …
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Cocaine Concealed In Hundreds Of Pounds Of Yucca

… - (914) 682-6256 Drug stash house found across the street from P.S. 196 in the Bronx nyc070716_fig1.jpg … found concealed in fake Latin American root vegetables from a basement apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The apartment is located across the street from P.S. 196, an elementary school, and close to two other …
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International Drug Trafficking Ring Used "Front" Companies To Transport Drugs Across America

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … the organization utilized contacts and sources of supply from Mexico, California, and elsewhere for drug trafficking … in Charge James J. Hunt stated, “The Sinaloa Cartel’s reach from Mexico into U.S. cities is most evident in this …
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Guilty Verdict In Major Drug Trafficking Case

… - (914) 682-6256 Heroin and fentanyl transported from Mexico to Albany, NY for street distribution ALBANY, … District Attorney Soares stated, “Not one person is immune from the harsh realities of the heroin epidemic that plagues … This organization’s circuitous drug smuggling route from Mexico to Florida to New York was used to evade …
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Twelve Alleged Members Of Mexican-Based Cocaine Trafficking Ring Indicted

… that has utilized a distribution network to smuggle cocaine from Mexico to northern Virginia. This indictment was the … was unsealed. “Our local communities are not immune from the poison the Mexican drug cartels bring to the … result of the concentrated efforts by agents and detectives from the FBI, DEA, ICE, Alexandria Police Department and the …
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Feds Seize Another Tunnel; Multiple Arrests And A Ton Of Marijuana Seized

… The tunnel, approximately 415 yards in length, stretches from El Sarape Restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico to a … rented a “walk behind saw and concrete blade” from a local business in El Centro, California, presumably … the drug traffickers used another residence four miles from the tunnel exit as a stash house at 1056 Horizon …