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DEA Holds Inaugural Family Summit on the Overdose Epidemic

… DEA Family Summit on the Overdose Epidemic for families from across the country who have experienced the profound … with the opportunity to inform those efforts directly from those who are using their own tragedies to save the … communities to reverse the overdose epidemic and save lives from tragic drug overdose deaths.  The families and …
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… the Ports of Entry in San Diego and Imperial Counties. [1] From 2019 to 2020, both the number of fentanyl seizures and … CDC provisional data, more than 87,200 people died from an overdose last year, marking the largest number of …
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Operators of Three Texas Pharmacies and Two Pain Clinics Arrested for Illegally Dispensing Nearly Four Million Opioid Pills

… and oxycodone. The complaint further alleges that from about September 2018 to about September 2020, Obute … hydrocodone and oxycodone. According to court documents, from about Jan. 1, 2019, to about Dec. 31, 2019, Emeakoroha … undercover officers obtained illegitimate prescriptions from Ravi, once in 2020 at his clinic operating out of 12555 …
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

… Engage Ft. Lauderdale Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … announced the results of a public safety surge that lasted from September 29, 2021 through December 14, 2021. The surge … fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced largely from China. These fake prescription pills are designed to …
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Groundbreaking Extradition Lands ELN Members in Texas for Narco-Terrorism and International Cocaine Distribution

… Groundbreaking Extradition Lands ELN Members in Texas for Narco-Terrorism and … and distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia.   This is the first time believed members of … in an ongoing 20-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine from Colombia to the United States knowing or intending to …
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35 defendants charged in joint federal and state investigation into heroin and fentanyl delivery service in Chicago area

… 35 defendants charged in joint federal and state investigation into heroin and fentanyl delivery service in Chicago area March 12, 2019 … and Conn purchased distribution quantities of narcotics from Robinson, and alleges that they regularly purchased …
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Detroit News 2003

July 15, 2021
…  JUN 2, 2003 DEA is Vindicated in Civil Lawsuit Resulting from 1997 Shooting  MAY 29, 2003 DEA Detroit Task Force …  APR 29, 2003 Michigan Drug Czar Receives Briefing From DEA Detroit On Drug Situation  APR 15, 2003 DEA Detroit …
July 15, 2021
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Former U.S. Soldier And Two North Carolina Men Found Guilty For Conspiring To Kidnap And Murder As Part Of A Murder-For-Hire Scheme Overseas

… court, and the evidence admitted at trial: Hunter served from 1983 to 2004 in the U.S. Army, where he attained the … each victim. In early 2012, Samia and Stillwell traveled from North Carolina to the Philippines, where HUNTER … murder, and Samia and Stillwell sent thousands of dollars from the payments they received to the United States using, …
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Six Charged In Marijuana Trafficking, Money Laundering And Mortgage Fraud Investigation

… June 28, 2011, charges that Linda Abdullah aka Linda Holt, from August 18, 2006, through February 27, 2009, devised and … on March 14, 2007. The indictment also charges that from June of 2008, through August of 2009, five defendants … were part of a drug organization that shipped marijuana from Arizona to the Detroit area, typically using United …
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Six Charged In Marijuana Trafficking, Money Laundering And Mortgage Fraud Investigation

… June 28, 2011, charges that Linda Abdullah aka Linda Holt, from August 18, 2006, through February 27, 2009, devised and … on March 14, 2007. The indictment also charges that from June of 2008, through August of 2009, five defendants … were part of a drug organization that shipped marijuana from Arizona to the Detroit area, typically using United …
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Brownsville Drug Dealer Gets Four Life Sentences

… the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern … counts in two indictments and given other sentences ranging from five to 40 years to run concurrent with the life … in 1995 and is, therefore, prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm. The jury also heard that Cardenas …
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Six Sentenced To Combined Twenty-Six Years In Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking Offenses

… must do all we can to keep children in our community safe from drugs and other illegal activity.  Our office remains … trafficking operation beginning in October 2012, agents from the Drug Enforcement (DEA) determined Hathorn, … that Hoepfner was obtaining large quantities of meth from Ruiz with the intention of distributing it.  Hoepfner …
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Eight Defendants Arrested For Drug Trafficking In Operation Three Amigos

… four vehicles and over $10,000 in United States currency from members of the organization. Agents with the Drug … “The arrests today are a result of concentrated efforts from the Camden Police Department, Ouachita County Sheriff’s … the joint drug investigation, thanks to the many officers from across the state who assisted local law enforcement …
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North Little Rock Drug Ring Dismantled

… Agent in Charge David Downing. “By removing these criminals from the streets of Arkansas and Arizona, they can no longer … we are making major progress in preventing meth trafficking from taking hold in our communities. This investigation is a … against the drug dealers to remove them and their weapons from our streets.” An investigation into large-scale …
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Investigation Into Drug Trafficking Organization In Carrol County Results In Six Defendants Being Sentenced To A Total Of Over 50 Years

… 50 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation into a drug-trafficking organization … across our district deserve to grow up in communities free from trafficking in drugs and the violence and other crime … large quantities of methamphetamine to Bryan McClelland from a source in Kansas.  After corroborating this …
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Bergen County, N.J., Man Sentenced To 17 Months In Prison In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… 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 Drug Enforcement Administration, IRS, and the U.S. … Secret Service. The New Jersey Task Force, with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland …
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Federal Authorities Seize $5.7 Million In Cocaine, Detain Two Smugglers

… dollars, while the men detained claimed to be U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico. "The US Attorney's Office and our law … of the citizens of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands from the threats delivered by the sea." While on a routine … U.S. Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry Maritime Patrol (MPA) from Air Station Miami detected a 25-foot go-fast vessel, …
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Federal Search Warrant Executed At Golden Grove Correctional Facility In St. Croix

… used to commit further crimes, run criminal organizations from inside prisons, intimidate witnesses, plot escapes, and … Trafficking (HIDTA) Task Force, which includes officers from the Virgin Islands Police (VIPD), with assistance from the FBI. Assisting HIDTA in today’s search were agents …
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Federal Authorities Dismantle Drug Trafficking Organization Responsible For Transporting Cocaine And Money Between Puerto Rico-Florida-Connecticut

… enforcement to lead them in the wrong direction and away from the organization. The organization also utilized … intimidation and threats of violence to prevent the mules from cooperating with law enforcement.  “These arrests are a … If found guilty, the defendants face terms of imprisonment from 10 years to life. Criminal indictments are only charges …
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Manchester Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Participating In Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

… and Raul Hernandez) traveled to New York, obtained pills from a source of (Manuel Tirado), and then brought them back … as over $30,000 in cash and three firearms, were recovered from that location.  Garcia, Jennifer Nunez, and Johanna … in October of 2014, after returning to the United States from the Dominican Republic. Jose Nunez pleaded guilty on …
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CVS To Pay $3.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That Pharmacists Filled Fake Prescriptions

… Pharmacists Filled Fake Prescriptions June 30, 2016 New England Contact Info Contact Us 617-557-2100 (617) 557-2100 … miss a critical opportunity to prevent prescription drugs from entering the stream of illegal opiates on the black … oxycodone prescriptions were excessive, especially coming from a dentist.  Moreover, the government alleged, even if …
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Fifteen Defendants Facing Federal Or State Charges For Selling Heroin, Cocaine And Crack Cocaine On Chicago’s South And West Sides

… charges against three others. Police and federal agents from the Chicago Strike Force began arresting the defendants … transactions with a confidential source working with agents from the Chicago Strike Force in 2013 and 2014. The deals … the U.S. Marshals Service, and task force officers from various state and local law enforcement agencies, …
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More Than 30 Charged With Federal And State Drug, Gun And Immigration Offenses

… aka “Guega,” 26, a resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts and from the Dominican Republic Oscar Francisco Marcano … Fanas,” 21, a resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts and from the Dominican Republic Lacey Picariello, 33, of … Alcantara, 49, a resident of Methuen, Massachusetts and from the Dominican Republic   Ramon Gonzalez Nival, aka …
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Justice Department Announces First Ever Indictments Against Designated Chinese Manufacturers Of Deadly Fentanyl And Other Opiate Substances

… law enforcement agents intercepted packages mailed from Yan’s Internet pharmaceutical companies, seizing … in the United States, conspiracy to import the drugs from Canada and China, a money laundering conspiracy, an … numerous ways, including highly pure shipments of fentanyl from factories in China directly to U.S. customers who …
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Colombian Bacrim Narco-Traffickers Indicted On Cocaine Conspiracy Charges

… Bandas (BACRIMS), for their involvement in drug trafficking from South America to the United States using airplanes and … and semi-submersible submarines to transport cocaine from Colombia to Central America, with the ultimate … airplanes to transport thousands of kilograms of cocaine from clandestine airstrips located in South America, to …
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Twenty-Four Indicted For Trafficking Methamphetamine Through East Texas

… to have obtained over 150 kilograms of methamphetamine from numerous Mexican sources of supply for redistribution … Count One of the March 2015 indictment alleges that from 2011 to March 2015, John Nealy Holt, Leslie Dianne … The defendants all face a maximum sentence ranging from 20 years to life in federal prison if convicted of the …
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Two California Men Sentenced To Combined Total Of Over 13 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking Charges

… involving the transportation of methamphetamine from the Compton, California area to Springdale, Arkansas. … 2014 to arrange for four pounds of meth to be transported from California to Northwest Arkansas on October 30, 2014. … he would be bringing an associate, Elijah Buckhalter, from California with him and that the meth would be arriving …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Conviction Of Doctor And Owner Of Bronx Clinic Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than Five Million Oxycodone Pills

… clinic with multiple locations in the Bronx, New York, and from which more than five million tablets of the … and the Government’s evidence during Lowe’s trial: From approximately January 2011 until February 2014, a drug …
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DEA And Tempe Police Announce Results Of Operation Crank Call

… residing in Maricopa County. Based on the information from the Patrol Officer’s investigation, Detectives from the Tempe Police Special Investigations (SIB), Special Agents from the Phoenix Division DEA Strike Force Group 2, …
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Treasury Designates Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Bosses

… direct, and support the smuggling of illegal drugs from Mexico into the U.S. and the smuggling of illicit contraband from the U.S. into Mexico.  Plaza bosses rely on violence to … Cisneros.  Today’s action generally prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with …