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DEA Kicks Off Red Ribbon Campaign

… Think Twice Domestic WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) this week kicks off its annual Red Ribbon Campaign, the nation’s largest drug prevention effort. The National Red Ribbon Campaign began after drug … with BILLS Whereas the Red Ribbon Campaign is the most longstanding drug prevention program, bringing drug …
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Oxycodone Drug Trafficking Ring Faces Federal And State Operating From Massachusetts, Florida And Puerto Rico

… leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit Operation Engage Fort Lauderdale Miles D. Aley Special Agent In Charge View … Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Robert E. O’Neill, … obtained prescriptions for various controlled substances, mostly oxycodone.  Members of the DTO traveled to Florida …
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Mexican Cartel Leaders Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, A.k.a. “La Barbie,” And Carlos Montemayor Gonzalez, Extradited To The U.S.

… Daniel R. Salter, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Atlanta commented, “Today’s extraditions are a great outcome for cooperative law enforcement.  DEA, the United States … kidnapping or murder.  Costilla-Sanchez was among the FBI’s most wanted until his arrest by Mexican authorities on Sept. …
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Owners Of Miami Export Business Found Guilty Of Operating Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business And International Money Laundering

… NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge of the New York … least $100 million from entities outside the United States, mostly located in Venezuela, to bank accounts in the United …
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Former Top Leaders Of Venezuela’s Anti-Narcotics Agency Indicted For Trafficking Drugs To The United States

… Former Top Leaders Of Venezuela’s Anti-Narcotics Agency Indicted For Trafficking Drugs To The United States August 01, 2016 … today reflects our ongoing efforts to combat one of the most insidious and dangerous aspects of the international …
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Doctor Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Illegal Distribution Of Millions Of Oxycodone Pills

… Doctor Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Illegal Distribution Of Millions Of Oxycodone Pills … - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Preet Bharara, … receive a prescription for a large quantity of oxycodone, most often 120 30-milligram tablets or more. Between January …
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Medical Doctor Surrenders License, Pays $700,000 Restitution For Prescription Drug/Money Laundering Scam

… Medical Doctor Surrenders License, Pays $700,000 Restitution For Prescription Drug/Money Laundering Scam March 11, 2011 … patients each day phx031111_fig1.jpg PHOENIX, AZ. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman … Yeh’s practice to see twice as many patients. During most of those patient visits, prescriptions for narcotic …
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Alleged Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited To The United States To Face Criminal Enterprise, Drug, And Money-Laundering Charges

… United States yesterday and will be arraigned later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann at the federal … Gueros,” an international drug organization responsible for shipping more than 100 tons of cocaine to the United … drug kingpins, adding them to the list of the world’s most significant narcotics traffickers and money launderers. …
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Pleads Guilty To Narcotics Trafficking Crimes Carrying Sentence Of 20 Years To Life And $1 Billion In Forfeiture

… Carrying Sentence Of 20 Years To Life And $1 Billion In Forfeiture May 31, 2013 New York Contact Info Contact Us … Empire spanning all of North America and responsible for smuggling over 100,000 kilograms of marijuana, 83 … to justice a prolific drug kingpin with ties to some of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world,” stated …
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Death Charge Added To Indictment Against Pill Mill Doc

… adding nine new defendants and dozens more charges, most notably distribution of a controlled substance … medical office, at 301 Davisville Road in Willow Grove, PA, for cursory examinations.  The “patients” paid an office … or money order, and Werther would write prescriptions for them to obtain oxycodone-based drugs without there being …
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Feds Seize Another Tunnel; Multiple Arrests And A Ton Of Marijuana Seized

… @DEASanDiegoDiv James M. Nunnallee Domestic Southern California in the Carlsbad, Imperial County, and San Ysidro … Sandoval Divsersion.SAN@dea.gov Division Contacts California Carlsbad - (760) 268-5700 Imperial County - (760) … have detected more than 75 cross-border smuggling tunnels, most of them in California and Arizona. Agencies involved …
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Former New York City Police Officer Convicted Of Armed Robbery And Drug Trafficking Charges

… Former New York City Police Officer Convicted Of Armed … precinct committed armed robberies while on duty and in uniform in Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan BROOKLYN, N.Y. -   … assist them in evading arrest. Tejada’s conviction is the most recent of dozens of convictions in a set of …
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels, And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced To 27 Years For Leading A Billion Dollar Narcotics Trafficking Enterprise

… And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced To 27 Years For Leading A Billion Dollar Narcotics Trafficking … trafficking empire spanning North America and responsible for smuggling over 100,000 kilograms of marijuana, 83 … to justice a prolific drug kingpin with ties to some of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world,” stated …
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Defendants Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone From Pharmacy In Yonkers

… Defendants Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone From Pharmacy In … MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that … in cash proceeds from the illegal sale of oxycodone.  Most of the proceeds were deposited into a bank account …
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Major Illegal Narcotics Ring Dismantled In Elmira, Four Defendants Arrested

… James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Acting U.S. Attorney … false bottoms, which were used to conceal drugs.   “The most dangerous drug facing the nation today is fentanyl,” … kill, especially when it is clandestinely pressed into pill form and sold on the street for profit. This investigation …
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Atlanta Heroin Kingpin Sentenced to Federal Prison After Record-Setting Seizures

… of 2025, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for trafficking heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine, and for possessing 40 firearms in his Atlanta stash house.  … and sentencing are the direct result of the tireless efforts of skilled prosecutors, the Drug Enforcement …
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Head of Albuquerque Fentanyl Trafficking Organization Sentenced

… was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking organization responsible for moving tens of thousands of fentanyl pills from Mexico … and onto Albuquerque streets. Beginning in 2020, law enforcement initiated an undercover investigation that …
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DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

… Arroyo Jr. (872) 222-0430 Division Contacts Illinois Rockford - (815) 987-4494 Springfield - (217) 585-2750 Indiana … Milwaukee - (414) 336-7300 CHICAGO  – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is intensifying its fight against … the launch of Fentanyl Free America,  a comprehensive  enforcement initiative and public awareness campaign aimed at …
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DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

… Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 ATLANTA  – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is intensifying its fight against … the launch of Fentanyl Free America,  a comprehensive  enforcement initiative and public awareness campaign aimed at reducing both the supply and demand for fentanyl. This effort underscores DEA's unwavering …
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Federal Court Sentenced Clayton Woman for Laundering Millions for Cartels and Moving Kilo Quantities of Narcotics

… Federal Court Sentenced Clayton Woman for Laundering Millions for Cartels and Moving Kilo Quantities of Narcotics August … sentenced a Clayton woman to 11 years in federal prison for money laundering and trafficking large quantities of …
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Two Rock Hill Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Their Role in Drug Conspiracy

… Two Rock Hill Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Their Role in Drug Conspiracy February 21, 2025 Atlanta … Antoinios Hall, 41, both of Rock Hill, have been sentenced for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute … with the leader of the conspiracy. Based upon law enforcement efforts, they learned both Foster and Hall …
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Convicted Felon Indicted for Operating Enormous Fentanyl Pill Pressing Lab with Weapons Stash

… Convicted Felon Indicted for Operating Enormous Fentanyl Pill Pressing Lab with … and FBI seized over 214 pounds of fentanyl (powder and pill form) which has the potential lethal dose to kill … on a massive scale — he will now face severe consequences for his alleged crimes as we continue to shut down fentanyl …
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Twenty-seven defendants charged in takedown of Newark open air drug market

… Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced 27 people have been charged for their roles as members, associates and suppliers of a … the narrative that Newark is crime-ridden when, in fact, most areas are safe, and the overwhelming majority of people …
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Sixty Defendants Charged in Nationwide Takedown of Sinaloa Cartel Methamphetamine Network

… @DEASanDiegoDiv James M. Nunnallee Domestic Southern California in the Carlsbad, Imperial County, and San Ysidro … enhancing its efforts to disrupt, dismantle and destroy the most violent drug trafficking organizations across the …
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Leader of MS-13’s Hollywood Clique pleads guilty to murder and conspiracy charges

… Hollywood Clique on Long Island MINEOLA, N.Y. – The Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent … as Risky, 28, of Wyandanch, pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge Patricia Harrington to charges of Murder in the … Salvador. With this plea, we have ensured that one of the most dangerous defendants we have seen in Nassau County will …
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13 arrested in Colombia for distributing thousands of kilograms of cocaine to the U.S.

… 13 arrested in Colombia for distributing thousands of kilograms of cocaine to the … Division X Account @DEADallasDiv Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma … OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking organizations, weapons …
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Queens Pharmacist Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Illegally Distributing Oxycodone and Filing False Tax Returns

… Queens Pharmacist Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Illegally Distributing Oxycodone and Filing False Tax … to at least one non-fatal overdose. Russo accepted payment mostly in cash for the prescriptions. Russo then hid the …
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Queens Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Illegally Distributing Oxycodone and Filing False Tax Returns

… and corporate tax returns. The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry. When … they could be dispensed elsewhere. Russo accepted payment mostly in cash for the prescriptions. Russo then hid the …
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Leader of Drug Delivery Service Responsible for Three Fentanyl Poisoning Deaths Convicted

… Leader of Drug Delivery Service Responsible for Three Fentanyl Poisoning Deaths Convicted January 30, … a different customer warning Ortega that his drugs had almost killed someone else.  Specifically, at approximately …
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Queens Man Indicted in Connection with Seizure of Approximately $300,000 in Cocaine during Citywide Drug Trafficking Investigation

… Nissan sports car. Almonte was arrested after law enforcement tracked his vehicle from Queens to the Bronx on … with federal and local partners are one of the most effective tools we can use to take illegal narcotics …