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Fentanyl Dealers Sentenced to 12 and 8 Years in Federal Prison

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Ten-Time Convicted Felon Who Trafficked Fentanyl Causing Deaths Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Federal Prison

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American … the injection was complete. Bhatti allegedly was by far the most prolific pain management biller of this procedure in …
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Three Members of a Prolific Chinese Money Laundering Organization Plead Guilty to Laundering Tens of Millions of Dollars in Drug Proceeds

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … WASHINGTON — Two Chinese nationals and a California man, all members of a prolific Chinese money … United States, primarily through Mexico. Xia was one of the most active members of the Organization, traveling …
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Sinaloa Cartel Leader Charged with Narcoterrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking

February 26, 2026
… Trafficking February 26, 2026 $5 Million Reward Offered for Information Leading to the Arrest and/or Conviction of … of the Sinaloa Cartel in Tijuana, Mexico, and among DEA’s most wanted fugitives.  The $5 million reward offers, and a … (WhatsApp/Signal) or  MFSinaloaTipLine@dea.gov (email). All identities are kept strictly confidential.    On …
February 26, 2026
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Man Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl Linked to Two Fatal Overdoses

… OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Panama City Physician Pays $225,000 to Settle Allegations that He Overprescribed Controlled Substances

… Schedule II and IIN controlled substances.   “One of DEA’s most important missions is to ensure physicians comply with … and Human Services.  To access public court documents online, please visit the  U.S. District Court for the …
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Port Saint Joe Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking and Firearm Offenses

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Federal Court Orders Clinic to Close, Physician and Clinic Owners to Pay $600,000 for Alleged Unlawful Opioid Distribution

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Leader Of Mexican Drug Organization Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison

… cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the U.S. from sources of supply in Mexico. Rio-Corrales, one of the … distributed the drugs to customers in the U.S., including a source in Maryland. In May 2008, Rios-Corrales traveled from …
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Diversion Control Division

October 30, 2025
… pharmaceuticals and listed chemicals from legitimate sources while ensuring an adequate and uninterrupted supply …
October 30, 2025
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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces New Effort to Reduce Violent Crime

… strategy to deploy our federal resources in the most effective way, disrupting the most dangerous threats and supporting the ground-level … law enforcement, DEA will concentrate our efforts on the most serious offenders in areas with the highest crime …
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Baltimore Defense Attorney Sentenced to 57 Months in Federal Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy

… Defense Attorney Sentenced to 57 Months in Federal Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy June 22, 2022 Washington, DC … drug trafficker client, concealing and misrepresenting the source of the funds and promoting the client’s unlawful … in accepting and disbursing these funds was to conceal the source of the funds as drug proceeds and promote his …
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HSTF: Operation Mousetrap Leads to Midtown Takedown: Multiple Charged in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Connected to 540-Kilogram Cocaine Seizure in Miami

… leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit Operation Engage Fort Lauderdale Miles D. Aley Special Agent In Charge View … grand jury has charged five South Florida defendants for their roles in a cocaine trafficking organization tied … utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF …
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Pasco Man Indicted on Fentanyl Trafficking, International Money Laundering, and Assault Weapon's Charges

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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DEA Washington Division Hosts Community Pop Up Events

July 07, 2021
… 07, 2021 Fighting fentanyl-fueled crime spikes The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Division is … partners to identify the communities and neighborhoods most in need, partner with the participants and service … Charge, Jarod Forget. “With the summer starting, more time online, less parental monitoring, and the ease and ability …
July 07, 2021
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Pharmacist Sentenced to More Than 14 Years in Federal Prison for a Drug Distribution Conspiracy and for Murder for Hire

… for the drug distribution conspiracy, a confidential source (CS-1) advised law enforcement that the pharmacist at … between January and July 2016, the confidential source made a number of controlled purchases from Robinson … at the pharmacy, using blank prescriptions provided to the source by DEA.  Robinson knew that the prescriptions were …
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison

… base.  Specifically, on four occasions, a confidential source met Fields in Oxon Hill, Maryland, and the two … Jackson traveled back to Maryland with the confidential source and Fields to obtain the crack cocaine from a source in Hillcrest Heights. Jackson handed the drugs to …
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Three Members of Monument Street Drug Trafficking Organizations in East Baltimore Sentenced to Federal Prison and a Fourth Defendant Will Be Sentenced on Friday

… street-level drug trafficking “shops,” with the two most prominent located in the 400 block of North Montford … plea agreements, investigators identified Solomon as a source of supply in the conspiracy; identified Scruggs and …
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5 Sinaloa Cartel Members plead guily to trafficking charges in Operation Cookout

… and will enable these communities to focus on what matters most right now—the health and safety of their loved ones.” … linked to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, as were his drug sources, and his operation supplied cocaine, heroin, and …
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Guatemalan National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Smuggle Over 6,000 Kilograms of Cocaine into the United States

… OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Leader of Colombian Criminal Organization Pleads Guilty to Sending Over 19,000 Kilograms of Cocaine Via Semi-Submersible Vessels to Sinaloa Cartel

… OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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DEA Caribbean Division Strengthens Strategic Partnership with Dominican Republic in High-Level Counternarcotics Meeting

… Charge Michael C. Mayer, DEA Associate Chief of Operations for the Southeast Region Gregory M. Millard, DNCD President … José M. Cabrera Ulloa, DEA Associate Chief of Operations for the Northeast Region Frank A. Tarentino, and DEA Miami … partnership with the DNCD remains one of the strongest and most effective international law enforcement relationships …
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Ten Indicted in Drug Trafficking Conspiracies in Homeland Security Task Force Investigation

… in Drug Trafficking Conspiracies in Homeland Security Task Force Investigation May 07, 2026 Los Angeles Contact Info … and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Anthony Chrysanthis … utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States.  HSTF …
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DEA Investigation Results In 114 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking In Old San Juan’s La Perla Ward

DEA Investigation Results In 114 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking In Old San Juan’s La Perla Ward June 29, 2011 Caribbean Contact Info Contact Us (571) 362-4700 (787) 475-4504 Tony Velazquez Recruiter Name Special Agent Recruiter (571) 362-2069 …
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Tampa Man Arrested on Fifteen-Count Indictment For Firearm and Narcotics Offenses

… spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Convicted Felon Sentenced to More Than 8 Years in Federal Prison for Firearm and Cocaine Distribution Offenses

… spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Jury Convicts Pinellas Man of Trafficking Fentanyl

… OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Six Arrested at Fentanyl/Heroin Packaging Mill in the Bronx, New York

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … Roberts, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Task Force Division, …
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Spreading the Word:

June 07, 2022
… from chemicals. Currently, those chemicals are largely sourced from China and used by Mexican drug cartels to mass … drugs being marketed aggressively to young adults and kids online. At the end of last year, the DEA found that over 2 …
June 07, 2022