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Second Major Cross-Border Drug Tunnel Discovered South Of San Diego This Month

… Kelly McKay Recruiter Name Kieran Garcia (858) 616-4040 sandiegospecialagentrecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter … of marijuana with an estimated street value of anywhere from $30 million to $35 million. Two other suspects linked … Task Force. The Task Force is made up of representatives from ICE HSI, U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) Border Patrol, …
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Members Of Queens-Based Drug Trafficking Crew Indicted For Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy, Kidnapping, And Firearms Offenses

… arrested while picking up a parcel containing heroin sent from Ecuador through John F. Kennedy International Airport into Queens, New York. The crew member was released from law enforcement custody later that day. The following … of a drug trafficking organization that imported heroin from Ecuador through John F. Kennedy Airport and distributed …
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Gang Alliance That Ravaged West Bronx With Gunfire And New England Towns With Drugs Is Dismantled

… cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.  I commend the men and women from the DEA Strike Force, NYPD and the Bronx District … that the crew had been transporting heroin and cocaine from the Bronx for sale in the area from 2012 until late 2014.  Thirteen members were identified …
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Alleged Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited To The United States To Face Criminal Enterprise, Drug, And Money-Laundering Charges

… Mexican drug kingpin Luis Rodriguez-Olivera was extradited from Mexico to the United States yesterday and will be … was arrested in Mexico on a provisional warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York. The extradition was … The organization received multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia along the coast of Mexico, and transported …
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Baltimore Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

Baltimore Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison February 03, 2014 Washington, DC Contact Info Contact Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 Washington.Special.Agent@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter …
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Seven Arrested In Major New York City Prescription Forgery Ring

… for addictive opioid painkillers and illegally obtain pills from pharmacies for resale on the black market. Following a … with running a prescription forgery and drug diversion ring from December 1, 2011 to January 7, 2017. Bivona, 45, And … runners’ names appeared on prescriptions that originated from the clinic. Bivona and Keller sometimes drove the …
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13 Years For Trucking Company Owner For Role In $6.5 Million Crystal Meth, Heroin Haul

… 5 kilograms of (11 lbs.) and 23 kilograms of (51 lbs.), from his tractor-trailer. At the time the seizure, the load … of crystal (30 lbs.) smuggled in vehicles travelling from the West Coast for distribution in the metropolitan … were expecting to receive a shipment of heroin and cocaine from Mexican suppliers, but were instead provided with …
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Alfredo Beltran Leyva Sentenced To Life In Prison For Drug Trafficking

… enforcement efforts like this one that we can remove drugs from America’s streets and make our communities that much … into the United States.  The defendant was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Nov. 15, 2014, and … conferences, the government proffered evidence that from the early 1990s until his indictment in August 2014, …
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Family Summit
August 26, 2025 - August 27, 2025
August 26, 2025 - August 27, 2025

DEA El Paso to host Family Summit in Church Rock

8:00 PM - 7:15 PM (EDT)
Church Rock, NM
WHEN: Tuesday Aug. 26 from 6-8 p.m. and Wednesday Aug. 27 from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. MST. WHERE: Red Rock Park, Church Rock, New Mexico WHAT: Summit for New Mexico and West Texas families who have suffered the terrible loss of a loved one to fentanyl or other illicit...
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Miami news 2007

July 15, 2021
… 11, 2007 DEA Suspends Lakeland Branch of Drug Company From Distributing Controlled Substances October 5, 2007 1st … April 24, 2007 DEA Suspends Orlando Branch of Drug Company from Distributing Controlled Substances April 18, 2007 …
July 15, 2021
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Eastside Rollin 20s Crips members and associates indicted

… District of Virginia. “Any of these elements alone – from violence to illegal drugs to identity theft – is enough … to eradicate criminal gangs and protect our citizens from the detriment they bring.”  “As alleged, RTC members … and distribution of drugs, removing illicit firearms from American streets, helping to put public threats in …
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Fourth Defendant Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

… even as the children he abandoned inside were suffering from his poisonous trade.  As I vowed in the wake of this … this proliferating threat.” As alleged in the Complaint: From at least in or about July 2023 through at least in or …
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Leader of Savannah-Area Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced to Decades in Federal Prison

… Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 2920 Brandywine Road Atlanta , GA 30341 United States … a threat of illegal drugs and its attendant violence from our community,” said U.S. Attorney Steinberg. “We will … to coordinate our efforts to protect our neighborhoods from dangerous drugs.” Operation Deadlier Catch, as …
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New York News 2008

July 15, 2021
… of Mexican Cocaine Cartel Extradited to The United States From Mexico on Narcotics Trafficking Charges September 4, … Heroin Importation Ring Extradited to United States from Colombia August 27, 2008 Nine Arrested for Violation of …
July 15, 2021
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New York News 2007

July 15, 2021
… Thousands Of Kilograms Of Cocaine Into The United States From Colombia November 30, 2007 Curaçao-Based Cocaine … 5, 2007 Heroin Kingpin – First Defendant Ever Extradited From Afghanistan – Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To …
July 15, 2021
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Two Colombian Drug Traffickers Charged With Smuggling Narcotics To New York Aboard Famed Spanish Navy Ship

… was apprehended outside the city. The arrests resulted from close collaboration between the Office of the Special … Service assisted in the investigation. Narcotics smuggled from Colombia to New York City - A long-term wiretap … Siado-Alvarez oversaw a major international drug operation from their base in Cartagena, Colombia. As part of the …
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DEA History-The Early Years

December 17, 1919
… enforcement is founded on a record of achievement as old and honorable, as colorful and proud, as any in the annals … ahead. BNDD, ODALE, ONNI and a large contingent from Customs would be unified to form an agent force 2,000 … the Drug Enforcement Administration arose phoenix-like from the ashes. In the voice of one of our great allies in …
December 17, 1919
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DEA Amplifies Life-Saving Campaign as the United States Prepares to Welcome the World for FIFA World Cup 2026 ™

… is committed to ensuring the safety of fans, teams, and communities during this historic, global sporting … pills may appear legitimate, but when purchased online or from an unlicensed source they are likely to contain … fentanyl. The only safe medications are those obtained from a pharmacy and used as directed under the supervision …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day with Extended Museum Hours

… Museum will extend its operating hours this coming Thursday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. to commemorate National Fentanyl … died of a drug overdose or poisoning in 2024. Per the CDC, from March 2024 to March 2025, drug related overdose deaths decreased approximately 25 percent from the same previous 12-month period. While this news is …
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DEA Announces 5,456 Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania in 2017

… per 100,000 people and a 64% increase in overdose deaths from 2015 to 2017. The DEA Philadelphia Division will be … opioid misuse data sources. A summary of key findings from the upcoming report indicates that heroin sourced from Mexican transnational criminal organizations presents a …
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Two Passaic County Men Plead Guilty to Illegal Money Transmitting Scheme

… aiding and abetting an illegal money transmitting business. From April 2017 through March 2019, Erickson Checo-Almonte … checks at local bank branches in New Jersey and elsewhere. From November 2016 through August 2017, Abreu-Diaz accepted …
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Two Hunterdon County women sentenced for distributing opioids

… imposed the sentences today in Trenton federal court. From April 2016 through December 2017, Rios, Call and Call’s … the pills to Marie DeJulia, 42, of Lodi, New Jersey, from Call’s and Rios’ Flemington residences for resale. The …
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Distributor of More than 100 Pounds of Fentanyl Sentenced to Almost Six Years in Prison

… total, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents seized from Renteria 49.1 kilograms (108.2 pounds) of fentanyl; … this year. “The quantity of fentanyl DEA agents seized from Ernesto Renteria is disturbing,” said DEA Acting … drugs prior to distribution, many Americans could have died from a fentanyl overdose.  The DEA will continue to …
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Local trafficker distributing methamphetamine in North San Diego County sentenced to 10 years

… for a one-year period, he obtained bulk methamphetamine from a broker in Mexico and subsequently sold smaller … obtained pound quantities of methamphetamine each month from his methamphetamine supplier in Mexico. “San Diego … U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer praised federal agents from the DEA, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal …
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Utica men sentenced for drug trafficking conspiracy

… possess with intent to distribute cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. The jury also found … fingerprints on some of the drug packaging material seized from the stash location. The cocaine base Peralta possessed … Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with assistance from the New York State Police, Oneida County Sheriff’s …
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Niagara Falls man sentenced for involvement in multi-million dollar heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl conspiracy

… Williams to assist Williams with receiving drug shipments from California, distributing the drugs, and collecting … Sonia Hernandez, to receive kilograms of cocaine.   From July 15, 2014, through March 18, 2015, Lucas received …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, 2019

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Take Back Day is a unique …
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Bridgeport Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Illegally Possessing Firearms

… in Bridgeport.  At the time of his arrest, officers seized from Vasquez several fictious driver’s licenses from several states, each with Vasquez’s picture and a … Georgia in June 2019.  In late 2019, the gun was recovered from an SUV outside of a Waterbury nightclub, and the …
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Rochester Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking and Fatal Overdose

… house at 192 Weaver Street in Rochester, selling fentanyl from the house in 2019 and 2020. On February 25, 2020, … and $10,445 in cash, all of which consisted of proceeds from the distribution of fentanyl. Rodriguez admitted … The victim and a group of her friends obtained fentanyl from Rodriguez at the Weaver Street drug house. The victim …
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Bronx Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison and West New York Man Admits Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine

… four kilograms of a substance they believed was cocaine from an individual. DEA Special Agents arrested Johnson and Beggs and seized $153,577 from Johnson’s vehicle, a loaded firearm from a hidden compartment in Johnson’s vehicle, and $23,607 …