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New Orleans Field Division Collects Over 29,000 Pounds On Ninth Prescription Drug Take-Back DayNew Disposal Rules Now In Effect Provide For Convenient, Ongoing Disposal Opportunities For Patients’ Unwanted Pharmaceuticals; Law Enforcement Agencies May

… Drug Take-Back DayNew Disposal Rules Now In Effect Provide For Convenient, Ongoing Disposal Opportunities For Patients’ Unwanted Pharmaceuticals; Law Enforcement … it banned pharmacies and hospitals from accepting them.  Most people flushed their unused prescription drugs down the …
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Fourteen Aryan Brotherhood Members And Associates Indicted On Federal Racketeering Charges In Mississippi

… Info Contact Us (504) 840-1100 571-362-2805 Public Information Officer (571) 362-4892 NOFD.Recruiter@dea.gov Talk … - (318) 676-4080 Arkansas Fayetteville - (479) 442-2618 Fort Smith - (479) 783-6300 Little Rock - (501) 217-6500 … the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi, including four of its most senior leaders, have been indicted by a federal grand …
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Eight Defendants Arrested For Drug Trafficking In Operation Three Amigos

… Eight Defendants Arrested For Drug Trafficking In Operation Three Amigos February 03, … Info Contact Us (504) 840-1100 571-362-2805 Public Information Officer (571) 362-4892 NOFD.Recruiter@dea.gov Talk … today, Calvin Williams, age 42 of Camden, Arkansas.  The most serious charges for distribution of more than 50 grams …
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Alleged Leader Of Grape Street Crips Street Gang Charged In Connection With Four Murders, Three Attempted Murders As Part Of Decades-Long Racketeering Conspiracy

… - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced the alleged … us closer to our ultimate goal of dismantling one of the most violent street gangs in the city. This investigation is …
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Caribbean Corridor Strike Force Seizes Two Tons Of Cocaine

… Caribbean Corridor Strike Force Seizes Two Tons Of Cocaine April 02, 2014 Caribbean … bales and one more crew member. The contraband, in the form of brick shaped objects, was field tested and yielded … partners, we will continue our efforts to bring the most powerful and prolific drug organizations to justice." …
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48 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking In The Municipality Of Mayaguez

… 48 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking In The Municipality Of Mayaguez May 05, … car050514-03.jpg SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia … committed to work tirelessly to target and eliminate the most significant threats to our communities.” Assistant U.S. …
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24 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking

… 24 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking May 20, 2014 Caribbean Contact Info … Trinidad & Tobago Port-of-Spain - (868) 628-8136 Forfeiture Allegation of $42 million SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - … OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money …
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25 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking At Santa Catalina Public Housing Project In Yauco, Puerto Rico

… 25 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking At Santa Catalina Public Housing … Vito S. Guarino, Special Agent in (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Caribbean Division.  The DEA is in charge of … OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money …
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CVS To Pay $3.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That Pharmacists Filled Fake Prescriptions

… to a Recruiter /events Find Us 40 Middlesex Turnpike Bedford , MA 01730 United States New England Contacts New … to reduce drug misuse. Visit Operation Engage Lowell Jarod Forget Special Agent In Charge View Jarod Forget Bio Jarod … by filling forged prescriptions for controlled substances - mostly addictive painkillers - more than 500 times between …
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Twenty-Four Defendants Facing Federal Drug Charges For Transporting Heroin And Cocaine To Chicago Aboard Amtrak Trains

… Twenty-Four Defendants Facing Federal Drug Charges For Transporting Heroin And Cocaine To Chicago Aboard Amtrak … Fidel.ArroyoJr@dea.gov Division Contacts Illinois Rockford - (815) 987-4494 Springfield - (217) 585-2750 Indiana … mission of OCDETF is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money …
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Twenty-Three Defendants Charged With Various Roles In Supplying Heroin And Cocaine In Illinois, Indiana And Wisconsin

… Fidel.ArroyoJr@dea.gov Division Contacts Illinois Rockford - (815) 987-4494 Springfield - (217) 585-2750 Indiana … defendants are facing federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing … Glock handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and more than $20,000. Most of the narcotics and the gun were found behind the …
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High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Member’s Guilty Plea Unsealed; Zambada-Niebla’s Cooperation With U.S. Revealed

… Fidel.ArroyoJr@dea.gov Division Contacts Illinois Rockford - (815) 987-4494 Springfield - (217) 585-2750 Indiana … and is cooperating with the United States, federal law enforcement officials announced.  A written plea agreement … including Chicago,” according to the plea agreement. On most occasions, the Sinaloa Cartel supplied this cocaine and …
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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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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 …