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DEA Holds Its 10TH Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th EL PASO, Texas - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be over 50 collection … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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DEA’S 10th Prescription Drug Take-Back Continues To Be Popular In Our Local Communities

… Engage Albuquerque Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 EL PASO - Hundreds from West Texas and New Mexico discarded 9,857 pounds of … pounds.  The State of New Mexico collected 6,285 pounds from cities such as Las Cruces, Albuquerque and Rio Rancho.  …
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Two Hobbs, NM Men Sentenced To Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking

… of supervised release for conspiring to transport marijuana from the Big Bend area to Hobbs, NM, for further … marijuana distribution scheme. According to court records, from December 2012 to May 2013, the defendants recruited … have been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from 41 to 60 months. This joint investigation was conducted …
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St. Louis Hosts A Private Screening For The Video "Chasing The Dragon"

… of over 70 school superintendents, principals and educators from both public and private schools in the greater St. Louis area, as well as, members from several local coalitions who are in active partnership … mother who lost a daughter to heroin and an epidemiologist from the Department of Health. The panel took lots of …
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Perez-Heredia Sentenced For Methamphetamine Trafficking In Iowa, Minnesota

… Daniel Perez-Heredia. Perez-Heredia, 29, a resident alien from Worthington, MN, was sentenced to more than five years … contained at least 150 grams of (pure) methamphetamine from 2015 through September 2016 in Minnesota and Iowa.  In … (1) Purchased up to one-ounce quantities of methamphetamine from Rogelio Garcia-Jimenez for redistribution; (2) Traded …
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OCDETF Cases Net Two Large Prison Sentences For Drug Traffickers

… to Special Agent Shroba, Geovany Calderon-Osorio, 24, from Fairmont City, Illinois, received a sentenced of 144 … have committed multiple firearm violations. Investigators from the DEA, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and … transported via private aircraft or commercial vehicles, from California to cities like St. Louis and Boston, among …
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Southern Illinois Woman Pleads Guilty To Possession Of A Listed Chemical Knowing It Would Be Used To Manufacture A Controlled Substance

… States Code, Section 841(c)(2). The violation took place from or about June 19, 2008, through May 21, 2010, in Saline … at Benton. At her plea, WENZEL admitted to the court that from Jun 19, 2008, through May 21, 2010, she would purchase or obtain from others pseudoephedrine pills for use in manufacturing …
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Drug Kingpin Convicted Of Trafficking More Than $1 Million In Cocaine From Puerto Rico To New York: Narcotics Seized At Midtown Manhattan Hotel

… Convicted Of Trafficking More Than $1 Million In Cocaine From Puerto Rico To New York: Narcotics Seized At Midtown … bags in the vehicle, while another six kilos were recovered from a hotel room inside the Hampton Inn. The cocaine …
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Marijuana Kingpin Sentenced In DEA Investigation

… distribute marijuana in Greene County, Mo., and elsewhere from April 1, 2010, to June 19, 2013. Co-defendants Brian D. … Bond arranged for Hanson and others to pick up marijuana from individuals outside of Springfield, then transported … marijuana that had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico. Hanson, who was sentenced today to one year and …
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Two Men Indicted In $7 Million Dollar California To Missouri Marijuana Conspiracy

… Engage St. Louis Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … in a $7 million dollar marijuana conspiracy spanning from California to Missouri.  Zachary Scott (a.k.a. “Tuna”), … alleges that Nutt and Glaholt distributed this marijuana from 2001 through 2017, and primarily in the counties of …
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Sinaloa Cartel Leader Charged with Narcoterrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking

… Charged with Narcoterrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking February 26, 2026 San Diego Contact … their operations and prevent further drugs and violence from coming into our communities. The Sinaloa Cartel, … Signal) at +1-858-298-5670, at Threema ID: PTJ4HS3J, or by email at MFSinaloaTipLine@dea.gov. If you are located …
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Iowa Pharmacist Who Stole Controlled Substances Sentenced

… a three‑year term of probation. Ryan Paul Etscheid, age 40, from La Salle, Illinois, received the sentence after an … fraud, deception, and subterfuge. Information from sentencing and public court records showed that on July …
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Ex-Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna Convicted of Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Taking Millions in Cash Bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel

… Convicted of Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Taking Millions in Cash Bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel February 21, 2023 New York Contact … Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was convicted today by a federal jury in …
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Attorney General William P. Barr joins President Donald J. Trump to announce significant cases stemming from Joint Task Force Vulcan

… Donald J. Trump to announce significant cases stemming from Joint Task Force Vulcan July 15, 2020 Headquarters … Virginia, and the District of Nevada. Federal prosecutors from the Department of Justice’s National Security Division … for the assistance of his office, as well as investigators from El Salvador’s Policia Nacional Civil, Centro …
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Meth Trafficker Sentenced to Nearly 16 Years in Federal Prison

… to be delivered through a network of couriers from Mexico to California and then to Salem, Oregon, where Delfin-Cervantes and his father resided. From there, Delfin-Cervantes organized delivery of the drugs …
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Yakima Woman Sentenced to 151 months in Jail for Trafficking Methamphetamine with Firearm

… our partners work tirelessly to keep our communities safe from repeat offenders like Ms. Clark, who continue to …
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Yakima Woman Sentenced to 151 months in Jail for Trafficking Methamphetamine with Firearm

… our partners work tirelessly to keep our communities safe from repeat offenders like Ms. Clark, who continue to …
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Mexican National Unlawfully Residing in Oregon Faces Federal Charges For Trafficking Large Quantities of Fentanyl and Heroin

… and fatal fentanyl overdose investigation, investigators from the Westside Interagency Narcotics (WIN) team, FBI, …
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DEA Omaha Division Safely Disposes of 20,628 Pounds of Unused Medications on 28th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 620,000 pounds of prescription medications were removed from communities in an effort to prevent drug misuse and …
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Overdose Deaths Decline, Fentanyl Threat Looms

… contain a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is down from 7 out of 10 pills in 2023 and 6 out of 10 pills in …
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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Anthony Chrysanthis … All drug-caused deaths in 2020: 3,702 (a 59% increase from 2019) Those involving fentanyl in 2020: 1,887 (51% of …
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Judge sentences St. Louis man to 10 years for drug trafficking and firearm charges

… informants to do controlled purchases of fentanyl from whoever was in possession of the common cell phone. On … of incarceration. On December 3, 2016, Fields placed a call from the St. Louis City Justice Center to a phone number and received updates from co-conspirators regarding drug trafficking and the …
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Three Columbia men charged with heroin trafficking

… in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in Boone County from December 17, 2019, to June 11, 2020. According to … source to make two controlled purchases of heroin/fentanyl from Keveon Johnson. The confidential source identified … used another confidential source to purchase heroin from Seawood, the affidavits say. When the confidential …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Collect Record Number Of Unused Pills As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… covers West Texas and all of New Mexico, bettered its total from Take Back 13 held in April 2017.  Totals from Take Back 14 were 10,975 pounds - 5.5 tons - up from 8,629 - 4.31 tons - collected just six months ago.  …
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Collinsville Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Methamphetamine

… 2021. At sentencing, Thomas faces a period of incarceration from 10 years to life imprisonment. In addition, Thomas … faces 5 years of supervised release following release from prison and could be fined up to $10,000,000. The Drug …
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13+ years in prison for drug dealer who sold fatal dose of heroin/fentanyl

… in Overland Park, Kan., responded to an emergency call from a parent of an overdose victim. A toxicologist determined that the victim died from respiratory distress caused by the effects of heroin …
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Guilty plea: 11+ pounds of pure meth were hidden in vehicle

… 635-1331 Springfield - (417) 888-9800 WICHITA, Kan. – A man from Arizona pleaded guilty today to driving 11.5 pounds of pure methamphetamine from Phoenix to Kansas. Sergio Martinez-Carlos, 22, Monahan, …
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Kansas City man faces 12 years in prison for distributing heroin

… Engage St. Louis Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … were called to a Walmart where they found a man suffering from a drug overdose. He was found with a syringe containing … on the victim’s cellphone that he had purchased heroin from Sanders. Sentencing is set for Jan. 13. Both parties …
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Texas man who ran Kansas City drug ring sentenced to 21 years

… City metro area. Portillo-Uranga managed the operation from his home in Teague. Investigators intercepted … that some of the traffickers were skimming cocaine from the shipments.   Drug Trafficking Cocaine On …
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Springfield man sentenced for meth trafficking

… that he participated in the drug-trafficking conspiracy from Sept. 20, 2017, to Feb. 7, 2018. Hocutt admitted that … one year. Hocutt also admitted to having purchased from co-conspirators, and distributed to others, at least …