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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 …
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Hagerstown Pharmacist Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud For Improperly Billing Medicare And Medicaid

… 25 North Cannon Avenue in Hagerstown.  Russo admitted that from January 2009 through December 2010, he filled … “in stock” and how much it would cost; customers traveled from out of state or in van loads to his pharmacy; and many …
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Hagerstown Pharmacist Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud For Improperly Billing Medicare And Medicaid

… 25 North Cannon Avenue in Hagerstown.  Russo admitted that from January 2009 through December 2010, he filled … “in stock” and how much it would cost; customers traveled from out of state or in van loads to his pharmacy; and many …
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Investigations Into Heroin And Oxycodone Powder Trafficking Ends In Arrests

… used a confidential informant to purchase oxycodone powder from Torres in the Southside Mall parking lot in the Town of … In June 2014, an arrest warrant was issued for Torres from the Town of Oneonta Court for criminal sale of a …
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels, And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced To 27 Years For Leading A Billion Dollar Narcotics Trafficking Enterprise

… in narcotics proceeds that federal agents seized from multiple locations in New York, California, … transported tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana from outdoor growers in British Colombia to Montreal, … run by the Hells Angels and Native American co-conspirators from the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation along the …
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Breaking Bad Drug Dealer Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People

… Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People October … 19, 2014, and statements made during court proceedings: From at least late 2013 to February 2014, Sica and others …
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Four Men Charged with Trafficking Nearly Five Tons of Cocaine Hidden in Furniture

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … that shipped approximately 4,500 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to the continental United States, including … for our communities. I applaud our law enforcement partners from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … 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 …
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U.S. Attorney Announces Charges in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen in New York City

… - (914) 682-6256 Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot From India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist … Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a …
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U.S. Attorney Announces Charges in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen in New York City

… - (914) 682-6256 Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot From India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist … Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a …
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Montenegrin National Charged with Maritime Narcotrafficking of Over 20 Tons of Cocaine

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … Ships to Transport Over $1 Billion Worth of Cocaine from Colombia to Europe via the United States BROOKLYN, N.Y. … last night as he attempted to board an international flight from Miami International Airport. Gogic is expected to …
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Upper Marlboro Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for Heroin and Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… 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 …
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Seven Defendants Sentenced for Drug and Firearm Offenses Related to 2019 Burlington Murder

… court records, in late 2018, Lesine Woodson came to Vermont from Orlando, Florida, to sell cocaine base in partnership with Benzel Hampton, who was also from Orlando. Shortly after arriving in Vermont, Woodson … of Hampton. Woodson brought several individuals to Vermont from Orlando, Florida, including her 18-year-old cousin, …
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Seven Indicted in Seattle in Connection with Coast-to-Coast Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… 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: … sold their illicit narcotics throughout the U.S., from the Southwest border to the Pacific Northwest and all …
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42 Defendants Facing State Or Federal Drug Charges For Allegedly Selling Heroin On City’s West Side

… heroin were seized during the course of the investigation from last August through this month.  Early today, DEA … Court.  The 26 state defendants face charges ranging from Class 1 to Class X Delivery of a Controlled Substance … throughout the day. Triplett obtained his heroin largely from supplier, Levaughn Collins, also known as “Sweet …
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Drug Kingpin Indicted Following Record-Breaking Meth And Heroin Seizure

… Romedi Lara-Serrano, as the drugs were being transferred from a tractor trailer to a car at the I-95 service area in … drugs in mid-June. The load had already crossed the border from Mexico into Texas at the time the investigation began. … was set in motion. Agents tracked the shipment as it moved from Texas to New Jersey. On July 3, Mota and Lara-Serrano …
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Tricked-out Upper Manhattan Stash Apartments Conceal $12 Million In Heroin And $500,000 In “Crystal Meth”

… of a long-term investigation, investigators and agents from Special Narcotics and DEA’s Long Island Division Office … lbs. of methamphetamine and shoe soles that had been ripped from several pairs of women’s footwear. International … use hollowed out shoes to conceal narcotics. Also seized from Apt. 21E were 100 grams of heroin from the pocket of a …
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Governor of Sinaloa and Nine Current and Former Mexican Officials Face Drug Trafficking and Weapons Charges

… Governor of Sinaloa and Nine Current and Former Mexican Officials Face Drug … the geographic epicenter of the global narcotics trade.  From its home base in Sinaloa, the Cartel has worked with …
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Ten Charged with Crack Cocaine Distribution in Mount Vernon

… to solving violent crime and removing guns and drugs from our city streets.  This operation is an example of what … unsealed today in White Plains federal court: [1 ] From at least January 2022 until November 2022, Esteban …
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Two Defendants Charged with Firearms and Narcotics Trafficking

… Conspired to Traffic Narcotics and More Than 50 Firearms From Ohio to New York 1. Firearms Sold on June 4, 2022.jpg … than 50 firearms, along with methamphetamine and fentanyl, from Ohio to New York. Vasquez and Colon will be presented …
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Over 20 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, heroin and cocaine seized in Ozone Park, Queens: Three arrested

… Over 20 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, heroin and cocaine seized in Ozone Park, Queens: Three arrested … presses seized in mill_0.jpg guns and narcotics 2 seized from vehcile.jpg Equipment, packaging, and cutting agents … Perry Funchess and recovered over 20 kilograms of narcotics from an Infinity Q70 sedan and 94-04 80th Street, Apt. 1. On …