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California Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Transporting Methamphetamine in Lawn Mower Tires

April 13, 2023
… EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A man from California was sentenced to five years and 10 months in … set up a controlled purchase of methamphetamine from a Mexico-based supplier in May 2021. The individual met …
April 13, 2023
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California Man Indicted for Meth Trafficking

March 14, 2023
… 2023, when he arrived in Kansas City traveling aboard a bus from Denver, Colorado, on his way to Atlanta. Although one … had seen Ruiz-Bibian pick up a hard-sided suitcase from the luggage area of the bus, the affidavit says, he …
March 14, 2023
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Nurse at St. Louis County Hospital Sentenced to Four Years of Probation for Fraudulently Obtaining Fentanyl

March 09, 2023
… for fraudulently obtaining fentanyl for her own use. From Jan. 18, 2020 to Feb. 2, 2020, Lindsay J. Maupin, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., fraudulently obtained fentanyl from a Pyxis machine for her own use on multiple occasions. …
March 09, 2023
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Meth Dealer with Firearm Sent Back to Prison for 16 Years

February 22, 2023
… undercover DEA agent purchased 55 grams of methamphetamine from O’Leary in December 2020. In January 2021, the DEA … several other firearms. The defendant is a convicted felon from a methamphetamine distribution charge in March 2015 and …
February 22, 2023
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Arizona Meth Distributor Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

January 30, 2023
… for distribution of methamphetamine. Following his release from federal prison, Prince must complete five years of … and February 2021, just months after Prince was released from state prison for convictions of identity theft and …
January 30, 2023
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Meth, Firearm Result in 10 Years of Prison

January 03, 2023
… phones, and drug paraphernalia. Text messages retrieved from the cell phones showed that Doll coordinated the … by law enforcement officers, which he admitted was proceeds from the distribution of methamphetamine. This case was …
January 03, 2023
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St. Louis County Man Admits Possessing Methamphetamine

November 22, 2022
… 387-5067 StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov 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 …
November 22, 2022
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Nurse at St. Louis County Hospital Admits Fraudulently Obtaining Fentanyl

October 27, 2022
… 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. …
October 27, 2022
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Meth Distributer Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

September 21, 2022
… 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 …
September 21, 2022
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Hazelwood Man Admits Selling Fatal Dose of Fentanyl

August 02, 2022
… 387-5067 StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov 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 …
August 02, 2022
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Selling Counterfeit Pills with Fentanyl Results in 11 Years in Prison

June 02, 2022
… 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 …
June 02, 2022
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Springfield Man Sentenced for Heroin Conspiracy

May 18, 2022
… 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 …
May 18, 2022
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Meth Dealing and Money Laundering Results in 17 Years of Prison

April 11, 2022
… 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 …
April 11, 2022
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Crack Cocaine Dealer with Guns Sentenced to 10 Years

January 11, 2022
… 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 …
January 11, 2022
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Poplar Bluff Man Sentenced for Carrying More Than a Kilo of Fentanyl Aboard Train

October 01, 2021
… 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 …
October 01, 2021
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15 Indicted for Trafficking Cocaine in Kansas

September 24, 2021
… 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 …
September 24, 2021
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Drug Bust in Pontoon Beach Leads to 7-Year Prison Term for St. Louis Man

August 18, 2021
… $33,000 in cash. Kennedy has a prior felony drug conviction from Mississippi that prohibits him from lawfully possessing a gun. Brown had another $5,000 in …
August 18, 2021
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St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Cocaine, Fentanyl and Weapon Charges

June 25, 2021
… 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., …
June 25, 2021
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Joplin Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Meth Conspiracy

May 07, 2021
… 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 …
May 07, 2021
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KC man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy, faces 10 years in prison

February 17, 2021
… 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 …
February 17, 2021
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St. Louis man sentenced to 13 years for meth distribution

January 25, 2021
… 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, …
January 25, 2021
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17 pounds of fentanyl, heroin result in 8 years in prison

December 02, 2020
… 387-5067 StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov 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 …
December 02, 2020
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Judge sentences St. Louis County doctor for fraudulently obtaining opioid narcotic prescription drugs

October 28, 2020
… are used for illegal purposes, we seek to prevent them from causing injury or even death by the people who made … our investigative partners in preventing this doctor from contributing further to the opioid crisis." The …
October 28, 2020
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Former Everton city clerk sentenced to 10 years for money-laundering conspiracy

September 25, 2020
… 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 …
September 25, 2020
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Sparta man sentenced to 14 years for meth conspiracy

September 22, 2020
… 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 …
September 22, 2020
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Indictment: Kansas man planted poppies in effort to manufacture heroin

August 24, 2020
… The poppies were identified as Papaver somniferum, a plant from which opium is derived. “Opium poppies are an … Police Department led the investigation with assistance from the Clay County Sheriff’s Department, the Kansas Bureau …
August 24, 2020
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Hayti, Missouri man sentenced to 17 years in meth conspiracy

August 14, 2020
… 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 …
August 14, 2020
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Arizona man pleads guilty to transporting fentanyl through Kansas City to New York

May 22, 2020
… 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 …
May 22, 2020
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Springfield, Missouri man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy

May 20, 2020
… 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. …
May 20, 2020
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Mexican National pleads guilty to $10 million marijuana grow operation in Missouri

May 26, 2020
… 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 …
May 26, 2020