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Temple Hills Man Sentenced To Three And A Half Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Of Ghost Guns

… Man Sentenced To Three And A Half Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Of Ghost Guns June 04, 2021 Washington, DC … During the conversation, Gray described himself as a source of firearms and offered Individual 1 a firearm that …
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DEA Announces Significant Fentanyl Seizure in New York

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … Think Twice Domestic In collaboration with New York law enforcement partners, DEA makes significant seizure of deadly … its appearance, or whether it is purchased on the street or online, it is deadly.  I commend the Drug Enforcement …
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

… leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit Operation Engage Fort Lauderdale Miles D. Aley Special Agent In Charge View … fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced largely from China. These fake prescription pills … in your community, please submit your anonymous tip online through the DEA Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov . …
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Leader Of A Baltimore Drug Organization Sentenced To Over 15 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Over 1,000 Kilograms Of Marijuana And To Launder Drug Proceeds

… Drug Organization Sentenced To Over 15 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Over 1,000 Kilograms Of … Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … title vehicles, convert assets, and to conceal the source, ownership and control of the proceeds from the …
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Baltimore Area Cocaine Dealer Sentenced To Over 28 Years In Prison

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … of kilograms of cocaine in hollow computer shells from California to Maryland BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. … Hayes, conspired to obtain large quantities of cocaine from sources of supply in California and ship the cocaine to …
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Bowie Drug Trafficker Convicted For $108 Million Drug Distribution And Money Laundering Conspiracies

… Bowie Drug Trafficker Convicted For $108 Million Drug Distribution And Money Laundering … Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … received multiple kilogram shipments of cocaine from a source in California. According to witness testimony and …
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Jose Morales Sentenced To Over 21 Years In Prison For Heroin And Marijuana Distribution Conspiracies

… Jose Morales Sentenced To Over 21 Years In Prison For Heroin And Marijuana Distribution Conspiracies August … Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … woman to have telephone conversations with his marijuana source, who was located in Texas.  Morales intended for the …
GENERAL INFORMATION

Responding to America's Overdose Crisis

January 23, 2025
… pharmaceuticals and listed chemicals from legitimate sources, while ensuring an adequate and uninterrupted supply … and scientific needs. Americans today are experiencing the most devastating drug crisis in our nation’s history. This …
January 23, 2025
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … @DEASanDiegoDiv James M. Nunnallee Domestic Southern California in the Carlsbad, Imperial County, and San Ysidro … safety, and national security threat, identifying the most egregious street-level networks in our communities and …
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International Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Convicted In New York Of Terrorism Crimes Bout Convicted On All Four Counts, Including Conspiring To Kill Americans And Conspiring To Provide Material Support To Terrorists

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de (FARC) - a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia - to be … in the Southern District of New York, one of the world’s most notorious merchants in illicit arms has finally been …
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Leader And A Member Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Sentenced To 120 Months And 110 Months Respectively For Drug Trafficking

… Sentenced To 120 Months And 110 Months Respectively For Drug Trafficking February 14, 2014 New York Contact Info … "The sentences announced today hold to account two of the most prolific drug traffickers and violent members of an … Kilogram quantities of cocaine were obtained from sources in the United States and exported to Albania and …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit Operation Engage Fort Lauderdale Miles D. Aley Special Agent In Charge View … as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine, are the most misused prescription pain medications.  DEA and its … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Independence, LA Man Sentenced to 235 Months in Federal Prison for Drug Conviction

… LA Man Sentenced to 235 Months in Federal Prison for Drug Conviction February 04, 2026 New Orleans Contact … in a venture to obtain kilograms of cocaine from various sources in Houston, Texas, and transport said cocaine to … utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF …
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Leader of Major Alabama Drug-Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Life in Prison

… Info Contact Us (504) 840-1100 571-362-2805 Public Information Officer (571) 362-4892 NOFD.Recruiter@dea.gov Talk … Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF …
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DEA Washington Division Announces Summer Teen Academies Across the DMV

DEA Washington Division Announces Summer Teen Academies Across the DMV July 31, 2025 Washington, DC Contact Info Contact Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 Washington.Special.Agent@dea.gov Talk to a …
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Major Rewards Offered for Capture and Conviction of Leaders of Honduran Drug Trafficking Operation

… Major Rewards Offered for Capture and Conviction of Leaders of Honduran Drug … social messaging applications WhatsApp and Signal, or by email at  Montes.tips@usdoj.gov . If you are located outside …
STORY

Violent drug organizations use human trafficking to expand profits

January 28, 2021
… use human trafficking to expand profits By Jarod Forget Special Agent in Charge, Washington D.C. Division … trafficking, is so much more prevalent in this area than most people think. In 2018, Virginia was ranked 6th in the … women and children) for sex is just another egregious source of profits for these violent criminals. For …
January 28, 2021
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Dominican National Sentenced to More Than Ten Years for Unlawful Reentry into the US and for Trafficking Fentanyl and Meth

… Dominican National Sentenced to More Than Ten Years for Unlawful Reentry into the US and for Trafficking … Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get … and sold fentanyl and methamphetamine to a DEA cooperating source. Between August and September 2024, a DEA cooperating …
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Investigation Of Alleged Chicago-Based Drug Trafficking Ring Results In 38 Defendants Federally Charged

… Links Press Releases Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Fentanyl Free America … Fidel.ArroyoJr@dea.gov Division Contacts Illinois Rockford - (815) 987-4494 Springfield - (217) 585-2750 Indiana … obtained heroin and cocaine from several different sources of supply, including a significant alleged …
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DEA Washington Division Launches Operation Overdrive

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … its law enforcement resources to where they will have the most impact: the communities where criminal drug networks …
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Felon Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for a Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… Felon Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for a Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy October 14, 2021 … spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and …
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Baltimore drug dealer assaults, robs and shoots man, then rams his car, sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of … at the Glen Burnie residence the next day and recovered almost five kilos of cocaine, several pounds of marijuana and …
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Henrico Man Sentenced on Drug Trafficking and Firearm Charges

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and …
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EDVA Forfeits Over 164 Illegal Firearms and Prosecutes 250 Illegal Firearms Offenders in 2022

… EDVA Forfeits Over 164 Illegal Firearms and Prosecutes 250 … Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which seeks to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and …
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Over 164 Illegal Firearms Seized and 250 Firearms Offenders Prosecuted in Eastern Virginia in 2022

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which seeks to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … Americans abuse prescription drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more …
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Sweeping DEA Operation Targets Pharmacy Burglaries and the Illegal Sale of Addictive Prescription Medications

… Sale of Controlled Substances Remains a Top Priority for DEA WASHINGTON  – The U.S. Drug Enforcement … and promethazine with codeine cough syrup were among the most common controlled substances stolen and transported to …   were arrested on charges of allegedly operating an online telehealth website that distributed Adderall and …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit Operation Engage Fort Lauderdale Miles D. Aley Special Agent In Charge View … and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. This is the most fentanyl seized by DEA in a single year. It amounts to … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Two Harford County Narcotics Dealers Plead Guilty to Participating in a Conspiracy to Sell Crack Cocaine

… Two Harford County Narcotics Dealers Plead Guilty to Participating … Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … about the quality of the cocaine.  After meeting with the source, detectives followed Murphy back to Harford County …
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Leader of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Sentenced

… Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 … Butler admitted that he obtained narcotics from multiple sources of supply and stored the narcotics in stash houses …