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Atlantic City Woman Found Guilty of Drug Distribution Offenses

November 04, 2021
… Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson in Newark; officers from the Atlantic City Police Department, under the …
November 04, 2021
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Cumberland County Man Admits Role in Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl

October 06, 2021
… arrival, he was arrested, and the fentanyl was recovered from his car. The offenses to which Figueroa-Martinez …
October 06, 2021
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Man Admits Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl Analogue

July 20, 2021
… to distribute 100 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue. From Sept. 11, 2018, to Oct. 18, 2018, Hinkson conspired …
July 20, 2021
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Two Newark Men Charged with Narcotics Distribution and Firearms Charges

July 22, 2021
… eight controlled purchases of fentanyl and crack-cocaine from Ronnie and Shadee Holley over the past few months. …
July 22, 2021
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Passaic County Man Sentenced to 45 Months for Distributing Fentanyl

July 15, 2021
… detail records, law enforcement officers determined that from September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, Grier and other …
July 15, 2021
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44 Month Sentence for Passaic County Man Sentenced in Heroin Conspiracy

June 22, 2021
… detail records, law enforcement officers determined that from September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, Brown and his …
June 22, 2021
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Essex County Man Gets Eight Years for Role in $23 Million Money Laundering Scheme

June 22, 2021
… Hayden imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court. From March 2018 through October 2019, Deleon-Batista …
June 22, 2021
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Passaic Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Role in Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

June 08, 2021
… kilograms of cocaine and over $1.3 million in drug proceeds from Ramirez and his conspirators. In addition to the prison …
June 08, 2021
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Union County Man Charged with Illegal Possession of Ammunition

May 05, 2021
… Law enforcement recovered eight .45 caliber shell casings from the shooting scene. After the shooting, Cordeiro fled …
May 05, 2021
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Passaic County Man Admits Participating in Drug Conspiracy

May 10, 2021
… call detail records, law enforcement determined that from at least September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, the …
May 10, 2021
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Essex County Man Admits Drug Conspiracy and Distribution of Crack

April 27, 2021
… in Newark, on the border with Belleville, New Jersey. From at least February 2019 through February 2020, law …
April 27, 2021
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Two Newark Men Charged with Attempted Carjacking and Discharging a Firearm

March 09, 2021
… made their initial appearances today on charges stemming from a Feb. 22, 2021, attempted carjacking in Newark during …
March 09, 2021
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Passaic County Man Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Role in Fentanyl Conspiracy

February 04, 2021
… detail records, law enforcement officers determined that from at least September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, Wharton …
February 04, 2021
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Essex County Man Admits Role in $23 Million Identity Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme

February 18, 2021
… to commit money laundering and one count of identity fraud. From March 2018 through October 2019, Deleon-Batista …
February 18, 2021
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DEA Task Force Instrumental in Capturing NYPD Homicide Fugitive In Atlantic City

February 18, 2021
… this teamwork, we were able to remove a violent individual from our streets and hopefully brought some closure to the …
February 18, 2021
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Passaic County man admits participating in heroin conspiracy

January 25, 2021
… detail records, law enforcement officers determined that from September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, Brown and his …
January 25, 2021
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Two Passaic County men sentenced for roles in narcotics conspiracy

December 21, 2020
… detail records, law enforcement officers determined that from September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, the defendants and …
December 21, 2020
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Essex County man admits to possessing firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime

December 09, 2020
… housing complex in Newark, on the border with Belleville. From February 2019 through February 2020, law enforcement …
December 09, 2020
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Passaic County man sentenced to 70 months in prison for participation in heroin conspiracy

November 23, 2020
… call detail records, law enforcement determined that from at least September 2018 through Oct. 1, 2019, the …
November 23, 2020
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Irvington fire academy trainee arrested for manufacturing illegal pills

January 31, 2020
… officers recovered two “presses” capable of producing pills from raw ingredients, multiple kilograms of bulk suspected …
January 31, 2020
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Grape Street Crips member sentenced to life in prison for murder of bystander and related drug-trafficking charges

December 05, 2019
… and cocaine at the James Baxter Terrace housing complex from 2003 until it was demolished in 2009. After Baxter …
December 05, 2019
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Three New Jersey men arrested for possession of kilograms of heroin and cocaine

January 09, 2020
… by a New Jersey DEA HIDTA Task Force composed of officers from the DEA, New Jersey State Police, Mercer County …
January 09, 2020
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DEA and NJ law enforcement partners collect more than 16,000 pounds of unwanted medications and vaping products

November 04, 2019
… in not only removing potentially dangerous unused drugs from our nation’s medicine cabinets, but also in raising …
November 04, 2019
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Atlantic City woman sentenced to 78 months for money laundering

November 15, 2019
… the sentence Nov. 14, 2019, in Camden federal court. From 2010 through December 2014, Vega’s long-time paramour, …
November 15, 2019
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Mexican national sentenced to 64 months in prison for trafficking fentanyl

July 30, 2019
… of “cars,” meaning kilograms of narcotics to be shipped from Mexico into the United States through California. The …
July 30, 2019
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DEA destroys more than 16,000 pounds of surrendered prescriptions

May 05, 2019
… many lives, and many people get their first pills to abuse from the home medicine cabinet,” said Special Agent in …
May 05, 2019
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Asbury Park man sentenced to 13 years in prison for distribution of cocaine base and violating federal supervised release

April 01, 2019
… for distributing cocaine base, commonly known as “crack,” from a residential building in Asbury Park. He was also …
April 01, 2019
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Bergen County, New Jersey, man charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin

December 19, 2018
… in a minivan for distribution. On Dec. 18, 2018, Pena drove from Cliffside Park to the garage, parked next to the …
December 19, 2018
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New Jersey residents surrender more than 12,000 pounds of prescription pills during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

November 02, 2018
… to reduce the available supply of unused prescriptions from their homes,” said Special Agent in Charge Nickerson. …
November 02, 2018
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Defendant Sentenced to 130 Months in Prison for Providing Deadly Dose of Fentanyl to Imperial County High School Student

August 25, 2022
… death of Josue M. Garcia Moreno, a young football player from Central Union High School in Imperial County. When …
August 25, 2022