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Federal jury convicts two for multiple violent crimes

… their convictions of drug crimes, carjacking, robbery and firearms offenses, announced Drug Enforcement … Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.  The McAllen jury … they also attempted to rob multiple kilograms of cocaine from a vehicle traveling through Mission and McAllen Feb. …
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DEA And Colorado Attorney General Topple International Cocaine Trafficking Organization

… ring that imported multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexico into Colorado. According to the indictment the … with the other members of the ring, imported the cocaine from Mexico, through New Mexico, and distributed it to users … in Charge Kevin R. Merrill said. “The drugs they transport from Mexico into the United States are dangerous substances, …
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Operation Reload: Jury Convicts Kingpin And Members Of His Family Of Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… Operation Reload: Jury Convicts Kingpin And Members Of His Family Of Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering July 22, 2011 Houston Contact Info … of shipping multi-ton quantities of marijuana and cocaine from the Laredo area to destinations in Dallas, Fort Worth, …
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Superseding Indictment Charges Attorney And Alleged Criminal Associate With Additional Racketeering Offenses

… charge and the Count Two racketeering conspiracy charge from January 2003 back to November 2001; adds new … the time frame of the Count Five drug conspiracy charge from January 2005 back to January 2003; adds one count of … Three charges that Bergrin, in consideration of payment from and to maintain his position in a racketeering …
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Federal Investigation Takes Down New Breed Of Pill Mills In Florida

… Pain Management and eight other clinics, which spanned from Pensacola to Miami, Florida, to an organization headed … his drug enterprise had just one purpose: to make money from illegal drug trafficking and the financing of illegal … Stouffer and his partners have made millions of dollars from the operation of their illegal drug network. The …
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Opioid Trafficking Organization Dismantled In The Bronx, NY

… vicious. They drove the narcotics up the eastern seaboard from Florida, bringing the attendant misery to the Bronx, … addictive drugs. It is our resolve to rid our streets from these individuals who care more about making money than … 13, 2017. Three defendants are awaiting extradition from Florida and New Jersey. According to the six-month …
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Major Investigation In West Memphis Results In Dozens Of Defendants Charged With Multiple Drug And Gun Crimes

… attachment for complete list of defendants and charges). From September 2015 through May 2017, agents with the DEA … we took a big step toward taking back our community from the criminals who choose to sell drugs and guns, rather …
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Over 26 Pounds of Cocaine and $3 Million Cash Recovered in Bronx Apartment

… (more than 26 pounds) of cocaine and over $3 million cash from an apartment in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx. … and prevented millions of dollars' worth of cocaine from hitting the streets of New York City and surrounding … and Special Narcotics Prosecutor by removing this cocaine from the distribution pipeline throughout the Northeast.” …
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Former Leader of "Clan Del Golfo" Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Related Charges

… responsible for exporting multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and Central America for ultimate … of weekly and bi-weekly multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia into Central America and Mexico for ultimate … among its members and associates; and protect CDG members from arrest and prosecution by attempting to silence …
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Three MS-13 Members Convicted of Racketeering, Murder, Extortion, and Federal Drug Charges after Three Week Trial

… tirelessly to protect the law-abiding citizens of Maryland from notorious transnational gangs like MS-13.” MS-13 is a … gang composed primarily of immigrants or descendants from El Salvador and other central American countries.  … of the gang and to use any means necessary to force respect from those who showed disrespect, including acts of …
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Over 30 pounds of suspected heroin and hundreds of fentanyl pills seized at Bronx packaging mill: five arrested

… Over 30 pounds of suspected heroin and hundreds of fentanyl pills seized at Bronx packaging … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … seized by NYDETF and SNC.jpg Drugs and money seized from a multi-million dollar heroin mill in the Bronx, NY.jpg …
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Thirty-Four Individuals Indicted in Eastern Washington

… in approximately 2018 and spanned multiple jurisdictions from various locations in Washington State, to include … have also been charged with laundering the proceeds made from these illicit ventures. Upon release of the conspiracy … as this one, which has removed illegal drugs and firearms from our community and illegal narcotics from the Bureau of …
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DEA Washington Division Hosts 1st Family Summit to Engage with Families Affected by Fentanyl Poisoning

… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … of loved ones lost to drug overdose and fentanyl poisoning from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Families … incredible work these families are doing to prevent others from experiencing the profound pain of losing a loved one to …
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MS-13 Gang Members Indicted For Six Murders On Long Island

… MS-13 Gang Members Indicted For Six Murders On Long Island July 15, 2020 New York Contact Info Contact Us (212) … partners, will not rest until violent gangs are eradicated from the communities they have terrorized.” Mr. DuCharme … another step forward in eradicating the vicious MS-13 gangs from our communities which ultimately ensures the safety of …
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Europol/DEA Announce Joint Report on Mexican Cartels

December 31, 2024
… and their methods. Drug trafficking operations benefit from a number of different actors, such as brokers, cooks, … working together to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to the EU. DEA is committed to the …
December 31, 2024
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DEA and DHS Issue Joint Update on Sources of Illicit Xylazine

September 22, 2023
… DEA and DHS Issue Joint Update on Sources of Illicit Xylazine … human use entering the U.S. in several ways—in solid form from China and other countries, in liquid form either diverted from veterinary supply chains or packaged to resemble a …
September 22, 2023
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Cartels and Gangs in Chicago

June 01, 2017
… Cartels and Gangs in Chicago Publication Intelligence June 01, 2017 … Chicago’s crime problem is a steady supply of drugs from Mexican drug cartels, most notably the Sinaloa Cartel. Illicit drugs flow from Mexico to Chicago via a loosely associated network of …
June 01, 2017
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2017 National Drug Threat Assessment

October 01, 2017
… of the threat posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit … public health data; open source reporting; and intelligence from other government agencies to determine which substances … homicide. In 2015, approximately 140 people died every day from drug poisoning (see Figure 1). DIR-040-17_2017-NDTA.pdf …
October 01, 2017
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Communities Across the Country Remove Nearly 664,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications to Prevent Drug Misuse

… came together once again to protect our communities from prescription misuse by safely disposing of 663,725 … more than 17 million pounds of unnecessary medications from communities across the country. For more than a decade, … their homes of unneeded medications to protect loved ones from deadly drugs and drug poisonings,” said DEA …
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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DEA-New Jersey instrumental in establishment of statewide “Handle With Care” program

… of a search warrant in the home; being forcibly displaced from a home by a fire, eviction, or other event; or having a … a child the critical support he or she needs to recover from a traumatic event,” said Attorney General Grewal. “By … in motion a compassionate response that may save that child from the harmful, potentially lifelong effects of an adverse …
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Nearly 40 Pounds of Heroin and Fentanyl Seized in the Bronx: Three Indicted

… seizure of nearly 40 pounds of alleged heroin and fentanyl from a large-scale narcotics packaging operation in the … recovered approximately 19 kilograms of heroin and fentanyl from the apartments and a vehicle. The DEA estimates the … that remove bulk shipments of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin from the drug market before they hit the streets have never …
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DEA Announces Results of Enforcement Surge to Reduce the Fentanyl Supply Across the United States

… (662) 234-8542 36 Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Removed from Communities between May and September NEW ORLEANS – The … the results of an enforcement operation that spanned from May to September and resulted in significant fentanyl … is equivalent to more than 36 million lethal doses removed from the illegal drug supply. Additionally, 338 weapons were …
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Two Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

… offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … are unacceptable.  I commend the work of the investigators from the DEA and NYPD and our partners at the Southern …
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Operation Oxy-Concourse: NY Attorney General’s Office and DEA take down narcotics distribution ring in New York City

… Operation Oxy-Concourse: NY Attorney General’s Office and DEA take down narcotics distribution ring in New York … offices located in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County … is destroying our communities, we must tackle the issue from every angle and this investigation is our latest effort …
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Former Union General Hospital CEO and two Blairsville doctors sentenced to federal prison for illegally prescribing and obtaining pain pills

… Former Union General Hospital CEO and two Blairsville doctors sentenced to federal prison for … among law enforcement agencies keeps drug users and dealers from hiding across state lines to conduct their illegal …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… Engage Ft. Lauderdale Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … 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.    “Fentanyl continues to be the greatest …
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Doctor Convicted at Trial for Unlawfully Dispensing Controlled Substances

… prescriptions for oxycodone, morphine, and alprazolam from the office staff without seeing Morales. One patient’s … but he continued prescribing them. Medical records from Morales’s office described a number of medical … he prescribed opioids to them. However, official records from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed …
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Matriarch of Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

… Operation Engage DMV Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … into the United States. According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Herlinda … received maritime and clandestine air shipments of cocaine from sources in South America.  Individual shipments of …
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Former Head of Gulf Cartel Receives Life Sentence for Importing Kilos of Drugs

… Mexican national who was head of Cartel del Golfo (CDG) from 2003 to 2012 has been ordered to serve life in prison and to pay millions for his role in conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States, announced Drug …