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St. Louis County Man Admits Possessing Methamphetamine

… 635-1331 Springfield - (417) 888-9800 ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis County on Tuesday admitted selling roughly a  … investigators bought 166 grams of methamphetamine from him while he was armed with a handgun. The Bureau of …
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Nurse at St. Louis County Hospital Admits Fraudulently Obtaining Fentanyl

… by fraud. Maupin, a registered nurse, admitted that from Jan. 18, 2020 to Feb. 2, 2020, while working at Mercy … in St. Louis County, she fraudulently obtained fentanyl from a Pyxis machine for her own use on multiple occasions. …
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Meth Distributer Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

… for distribution of methamphetamine. Following his release from federal prison, Brown must complete five years of … 2022. Brown was selling the drug in bulk in February 2021 from his residence in south St. Louis while on supervised …
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Hazelwood Man Admits Selling Fatal Dose of Fentanyl

… 635-1331 Springfield - (417) 888-9800 ST. LOUIS – A man from Hazelwood, Missouri, admitted on Tuesday to selling … Lake St. Louis man just hours after the man bought the drug from Jefferson at the Red Roof Inn in Maryland Heights on …
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Selling Counterfeit Pills with Fentanyl Results in 11 Years in Prison

… sentenced in federal court today for distributing fentanyl from his apartment near Liberty High School and for … that he participated in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl from March 4 to April 30, 2021. According to court …
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Springfield Man Sentenced for Heroin Conspiracy

… a kilogram of heroin in Cole, Callaway, and Greene counties from July 1, 2015, to March 27, 2018. Robinson admitted that he transported heroin from St. Louis, Mo., to Springfield. Robinson then …
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Meth Dealing and Money Laundering Results in 17 Years of Prison

… noticing numerous suspicious packages being sent to and from addresses in East St. Louis and Phoenix. During the … to court documents, Cooper admitted to receiving narcotics from Jose and Steven Angulo in 2019 and acknowledged a …
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Crack Cocaine Dealer with Guns Sentenced to 10 Years

… five-year term of supervised release following his release from federal prison as part of his sentence. The crimes … search of his home. Curren had been dealing crack cocaine from his home for at least one and a half years prior to his …
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Poplar Bluff Man Sentenced for Carrying More Than a Kilo of Fentanyl Aboard Train

… luggage aboard a train that stopped in Kansas City, Mo., from Los Angeles, Calif., bound for St. Louis, Mo. Joseph D. … marijuana when Christie walked past him after disembarking from a train originating in Los Angeles. Christie told the …
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15 Indicted for Trafficking Cocaine in Kansas

… stopped more than a million dollars’ worth of cocaine from reaching our communities, and more than $730,000 of proceeds from returning to the organization. This is particularly …
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St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Cocaine, Fentanyl and Weapon Charges

… and subsequently seized over a half-kilogram of cocaine from Davis’s customer. Investigators resumed their … by the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the Florissant Police Department, the Bridgeton, Mo., …
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Joplin Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Meth Conspiracy

… to distribute methamphetamine that was shipped via UPS from Arizona. Johnny T. Taylor, 33, was sentenced by U.S. … law enforcement officers tracked the suspicious package from its origin in Arizona and upon its arrival at the …
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KC man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy, faces 10 years in prison

… bags to the officer before he was able to wrest the bags from her. The officer was then contacted by the room … officer seized a bag of marijuana and a Taurus 9mm pistol from the truck. After obtaining a search warrant for …
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St. Louis man sentenced to 13 years for meth distribution

… was conducting surveillance of suspicious packages mailed from Arizona to St. Louis. On October 17, 2019, postal inspectors intercepted a suspicious package mailed from Scottsdale, Arizona, to a vacant home in Jennings, …
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17 pounds of fentanyl, heroin result in 8 years in prison

… 635-1331 Springfield - (417) 888-9800 Drugs were headed from California to New York WICHITA, Kan . – A California … Investigators learned Canas was transporting the drugs from California to New York for distribution when he passed …
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Judge sentences St. Louis County doctor for fraudulently obtaining opioid narcotic prescription drugs

… Engage St. Louis Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … A. Davis Bio Michael A. Davis Domestic Illinois, Kansas and Missouri Additional Division Info Community Outreach: … are used for illegal purposes, we seek to prevent them from causing injury or even death by the people who made …
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Former Everton city clerk sentenced to 10 years for money-laundering conspiracy

… that she participated in the money-laundering conspiracy from June 20 to Dec. 6, 2017. During that time, Conn was the … Halfway, Missouri, to send wire transfers of the proceeds from the distribution of methamphetamine to members of the …
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Sparta man sentenced to 14 years for meth conspiracy

… Engage St. Louis Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … his/her source of methamphetamine had acquired anywhere from one-fourth of an ounce to one-fourth of a pound of methamphetamine from Robinson each week and had been doing so for several …
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Indictment: Kansas man planted poppies in effort to manufacture heroin

… Engage St. Louis Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … A. Davis Bio Michael A. Davis Domestic Illinois, Kansas and Missouri Additional Division Info Community Outreach: … The poppies were identified as Papaver somniferum, a plant from which opium is derived. “Opium poppies are an …
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Hayti, Missouri man sentenced to 17 years in meth conspiracy

… of individuals who were conspiring to bring methamphetamine from the Southwest Border region into eastern Missouri for … no longer be making the Bootheel a stop for drugs coming from the Southwest Border, making Southeast Missouri a …
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Arizona man pleads guilty to transporting fentanyl through Kansas City to New York

… person 3.6 kilograms of fentanyl to carry aboard a bus from Denver, Colorado to New York City. However, the bag became separated from the courier at some point on the bus trip. The bag …
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Springfield, Missouri man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy

… methamphetamine in Cass, Greene, and Miller counties from May 14, 2017, to June 20, 2018. Thomas received methamphetamine to distribute from co-conspirator Christina E. Gauger, 39, of Springfield. …
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Mexican National pleads guilty to $10 million marijuana grow operation in Missouri

… clearing inside a large area of timber. A distinct path led from a building in the wooded area to the area containing … 2018; he was covered in mud, his arms had numerous bites from either mosquitos or other insects and it appeared he …
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Springfield, Missouri man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy

… methamphetamine in Cass, Greene, and Miller counties from May 14, 2017, to June 20, 2018. Williamson received methamphetamine to distribute from co-conspirator Christina E. Gauger, 39, of Springfield. …
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Woman facing federal drug trafficking charge arising

… with a fentanyl trafficking offense. The charge arises from a DEA seizure of approximately 18.144 pounds of … 8.10 gross kilograms (18.144 pounds) of fentanyl from Cota-Guitimea’s luggage during an interdiction …
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Carlsbad Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking

… and that he intended to distribute them. Upon his release from prison, Alvarez will be subject to four years of … Drug Task Force investigated this case with assistance from the Carlsbad Police Department and the Eddy County …
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El Paso Area Doctor Indicted On Federal Drug Charges

… Authorities allege that Dr. Easter, with assistance from Ms. Lightfoot, was responsible for doling out numerous … continue to pursue those who seek to perpetuate and profit from the diversion of prescription drugs.” The Drug …
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Arizona Woman Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Trafficking Charges In New Mexico

… 19, 2017, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from July 14, 2016 through July 15, 2016, and distribution … Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with assistance from the DEA and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. …
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former Police Officer On Drug Charges

… up to life in federal prison. The indictment alleges that from January 2012 until January 2013, the six defendants … defendants are in federal custody. This indictment resulted from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement …
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El Paso Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Federal Prison

… Engage Albuquerque Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … a network of dozens of individual who imported cocaine from Mexico into El Paso then distributed the cocaine in … of tens of millions of dollars of drug proceeds from the United States back to Mexico. Last week, Aguirre …