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RICO indictment charges “110 Gang”

October 29, 2018
… the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act RICO from 2012 until now.  According to the indictment, the 110 … and a determined goal of making our city safer from gang violence and drug trafficking.”     “Today’s … their gang has committed in Syracuse.  Our work is far from done, and we will continue to collaborate with our …
October 29, 2018
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State and Local Task Forces

January 22, 2025
… seen. Nearly all of the fentanyl in the United States comes from Mexico, and most of it is trafficked by the Sinaloa and … BNDD. The first task force was comprised of investigators from major state and local regional agencies, primarily the … budgets of DEA field division offices without resources from DEA headquarters, and do not include State and Local …
January 22, 2025
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First Fentanyl Distribution Resulting in Death Conviction in Western District of Louisiana

January 17, 2025
… Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that three individuals from Shreveport have been sentenced for their involvement in … by DEA agents proved that the driver had obtained fentanyl from Courtney Cox, who had gotten it from her local supplier, Thompson. Cox later confessed to …
January 17, 2025
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Mexican National Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison on Drug Charges

December 13, 2024
… Operation Engage Seattle Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … sentence, this is the case.” Aviles-Pacheco is prohibited from possessing firearms due to his status of being an … and our partners work tirelessly to protect our community from people who sell drugs that harm and kill our citizens,” …
December 13, 2024
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Multiple Pharmaceutical Distributor Executives, Sales Representatives and Brokers Charged in Connection with Unlawful Sales of over 70M Opioid Pills

October 03, 2024
… Distributor Executives, Sales Representatives and Brokers Charged in Connection with Unlawful Sales of … syrup known for their reputation of enhancing the high from the opioids. The distributors allegedly charged their … distributors were all located outside Texas, far removed from their Houston-area pill-mill pharmacy customers and the …
October 03, 2024
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Atlanta Woman Sentenced to Prison for Supplying Fentanyl and Meth to Armed Drug Trafficking Organization

August 14, 2024
… Atlanta Woman Sentenced to Prison for Supplying Fentanyl and Meth to Armed Drug Trafficking Organization August 14, … court orders to intercept the phone calls and text messages from cell phones belonging to Breland and Reeves and conducted controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Reeves. Reeves would supply other co-defendants with …
August 14, 2024
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U.S. Attorney Joins with Special Agents in Charge of DEA and FBI to Announce Law Enforcement Surge Combatting Nighttime Fentanyl Trafficking in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco

June 13, 2024
… U.S. Attorney Joins with Special Agents in Charge of DEA and FBI to Announce Law Enforcement Surge Combatting … Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas … the flow of drugs and dealers coming into San Francisco from nearby counties; conducting regular joint federal and …
June 13, 2024
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New York Man Arrested for Fentanyl Trafficking in Burlington

June 11, 2024
… Then, in the early morning hours of May 12, 2024, officers from the South Burlington Police Department encountered … to detain them. Woods was momentarily compliant, then ran from police, leading them on a foot chase through multiple … however, would be determined by the Court with guidance from the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines and …
June 11, 2024
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Florida Pilot Involved in Cocaine Trafficking Scheme is Sentenced

June 02, 2024
… Trafficking Scheme is Sentenced June 02, 2024 New England Contact Info Contact Us 617-557-2100 (617) 557-2100 … others to transport approximately 1700 kilograms of cocaine from South America to the U.S.  On August 6, 2016, De Las …
June 02, 2024
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Florida Pilot Involved in Cocaine Trafficking Scheme is Sentenced

May 30, 2024
… Trafficking Scheme is Sentenced May 30, 2024 New England Contact Info Contact Us 617-557-2100 (617) 557-2100 … others to transport approximately 1700 kilograms of cocaine from South America to the U.S.  On August 6, 2016, De Las …
May 30, 2024
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Operation Cash Out Launched Across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana

May 16, 2024
… drug threat facing the nation, and illicit profits derived from sales enrich the cartels responsible for its … More than 96% of the money arriving in Mexico was sent from the United States. While there is no solid estimate on … potentially identify and seize illegal profits gained from fentanyl distribution. It can ultimately disrupt the …
May 16, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Fourth Honduran National Extradited to the U.S. in Prosecution of Tenderloin District Drug Trafficking Organization

May 09, 2024
… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas Additional Division Info Community … to assign the resources necessary to eradicate drug dealing from our neighborhoods and punish those who are found guilty …
May 09, 2024
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Virginia Drug Dealer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Multi-State Drug Conspiracy and Distribution

July 11, 2022
… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from December 2018 to January 2020, Knighton, and others … to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. From the spring of 2018 to December 2018, Knighton sold more …
July 11, 2022
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Major Maryland-Washington, D.C. Area Narcotics Distributor Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for Drug Conspiracy and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking

October 13, 2021
… Sheriff Troy Berry.   According to Cleckley’s guilty plea, from at least in or about January 2017 through June 2018, … purchased more than 200 grams of heroin and fentanyl from a supplier. After the purchase, members of law …
October 13, 2021
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Baltimore man found with enough fentanyl to kill 37,500 people in illegal taxi pleads guilty

October 21, 2019
… We must do everything we can to reduce overdose deaths from this drug and from all opioids.” According to his guilty plea, on Feb. 22, … were going. Young answered that the driver was a friend from school and that she was giving him a ride home. Neither …
October 21, 2019
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Key Defendant in Drug Trafficking Network Sentenced to Nearly 20 Years in Federal Prison

February 09, 2022
… to a drug trafficking organization that channeled drugs from Mexico through a California supplier. The network … and supervised lower-level dealers in selling the drugs from “trap houses” located in the Savannah area. Investigators from the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration …
February 09, 2022
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Lowell Gang Member Sentenced to 96 Months for Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Conspiracies

January 22, 2024
… Gang Member Sentenced to 96 Months for Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Conspiracies January 22, 2024 New … Defendant led operation to launder European drug proceeds from black tar heroin trafficking BOSTON – A leader of a … his co-conspirators provided “protection” for a shipment from Europe that purportedly contained 8 million Euros in …
January 22, 2024
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Georgia Man Sentenced for Key Role in Drug Trafficking Ring that Engaged in COVID Fraud

September 27, 2023
… for their crimes thanks to outstanding investigative work from our law enforcement partners.” As part of his guilty … by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and agents from the Savannah-Chatham Counter Narcotics Team. The … bank account of $3,520, both containing fraud money seized from her during the investigation. Two other defendants are …
September 27, 2023
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Federal and State Law Enforcement Warn of Increased Threats Related to Fentanyl

June 22, 2023
… Federal and State Law Enforcement Warn of Increased Threats Related … This image shows the evolution of the Fentanyl Pill from fake M-30s to colorful fentanyl described as "rainbow … removed nearly one million deadly doses of fentanyl pills from our communities this year and we show no signs of …
June 22, 2023
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The United States and Montgomery County Based Pharmacy and Pharmacist Reach a Consent Decree Over Allegations of Illegally Dispensed Controlled Substances

May 31, 2023
… The United States and Montgomery County Based Pharmacy and Pharmacist Reach a … attention to warning signs to prevent the opioid epidemic from getting worse.  DEA is dedicated to investigating those … to more than 300 people that traveled more than 180 miles from their homes to Upton Care.  Additionally, …
May 31, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 09, 2023
… DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United … Last Mile comprised 1,436 investigations conducted from May 1, 2022 through May 1, 2023, in collaboration with …
May 09, 2023
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Six Indicted as Part of Whatcom County Fentanyl Trafficking Organization

April 20, 2023
… Operation Engage Seattle Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Ring Leaders Traveled from Seattle to Bellingham with Drug Loads for Local Area … since late 2022 and was actively moving fentanyl from the Seattle area to redistributors in the Bellingham, …
April 20, 2023
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Baltimore Drug Dealer Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison as Part of a Drug Conspiracy Operating in Baltimore

April 05, 2023
… investigators executed search warrants at both locations.  From the Owings Mills residence law enforcement recovered: … in cash, believed to be drug proceeds; and nine phones.  From the Presstman Street residence law enforcement …
April 05, 2023
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Leader of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Sentenced

March 17, 2023
… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from 2016 to March 2020, Butler was a leader of the NFL … fentanyl and cocaine to drug customers and re-distributors from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  Butler admitted that he obtained narcotics from multiple sources of supply and stored the narcotics in …
March 17, 2023
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Final Defendant Sentenced in Prosecution of Middle Georgia Methamphetamine-Trafficking Conspiracy

March 13, 2023
… Conspiracy DUBLIN, GA:   The final defendant from a Laurens County methamphetamine trafficking ring has … Laurens and Telfair counties and beyond, operating from at least January 2020 through January 2021. As … I would work hard to eliminate the dangerous drug dealers from our community,” said Laurens County Sheriff Larry Dean. …
March 13, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Jessup Felon Is Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison for Possessing Fentanyl with Intent to Distribute and for Illegal Possession of a Firearm

October 13, 2022
… Prison for Possessing Fentanyl with Intent to Distribute and for Illegal Possession of a Firearm October 13, 2022 … at Burton’s home and at a storage unit that he rented.  From the residence, law enforcement recovered: a .380 …
October 13, 2022
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“M30 King of Fresno” and 17 Members of His Drug Trafficking Ring Charged

April 01, 2022
… “M30 King of Fresno” and 17 Members of His Drug Trafficking Ring Charged April … “Our agents work night and day to keep Fresno free from drugs like fentanyl that poison our children,” said … our investigators have in partnership with prosecutors from the United States Attorney’s Office and local, state, …
April 01, 2022
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Five indicted for running a pill mill in Hamilton

June 29, 2018
… patients, who died in 2016, due to complications resulting from drug use.   Sakkal, who was arrested by federal agents … Cincinnati Centers for Pain Relief in Hamilton, Ohio from March 2013 through December 2017. Although the practice … It is also alleged that Jobalia received more than $103,000 from a pharmaceutical company for purported speaking …
June 29, 2018
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Okaloosa DTO Members Sentenced

August 18, 2021
… Engage Ft. Lauderdale Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … kilogram of cocaine, and almost two kilograms of marijuana from locations in the Fort Walton Beach, Destin, and … Administration’s commitment to keeping our communities safe from these violent criminals.” “This multi-year …
August 18, 2021
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Three Defendants Sentenced To Over 32 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking

January 28, 2015
… to investigating illegal organizations that profit from the distribution of methamphetamine and other illegal … commitment to keeping our children and our communities safe from drugs and other illegal activities by assuring that … on August 9, 2013 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas from Padilla in exchange for $1,500.  DEA agents recovered …
January 28, 2015