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DEA Hosts the 27th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday to Remove Unneeded Medications from Homes

October 25, 2024
… Take Back Day on Saturday to Remove Unneeded Medications from Homes October 25, 2024 Louisville Contact Info Contact … Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  National Prescription Drug Take Back …
October 25, 2024
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New Jersey U.S. Attorney Files Civil Suit Seeking Forfeiture Of $1.7 Million Seized From New York-Based Exporter

June 23, 2014
… Files Civil Suit Seeking Forfeiture Of $1.7 Million Seized From New York-Based Exporter June 23, 2014 New Jersey … today seeking to forfeit $1,742,289, previously seized from cellular phone wholesale company Cellular Next LLC, …
June 23, 2014
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Upper Marlboro Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for Heroin and Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

April 20, 2022
… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least June 2016 through July 2017, Stewart conspired … and Prince George’s County.  Stewart obtained heroin from Broxton and then sold smaller quantities of heroin to …
April 20, 2022
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5 Sinaloa Cartel Members plead guily to trafficking charges in Operation Cookout

January 29, 2021
… a global pandemic—to protect the communities we serve from these deadly drugs,” said Jarod Forget, Special Agent … successfully removed a number of violent drug organizations from the streets, and will enable these communities to focus … According to court documents, Ramiro Ramirez-Barreto, 44, from the Mexican State of Morelos, operated a continuing …
January 29, 2021
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Chinese drug traffickers charged in fatal opioid conspiracy

August 21, 2018
… one killer drug in America today, and most of them come from China,” said Attorney General Sessions.  “That’s why … shipping the drugs. The Zheng DTO explained in emails and online that it had “special ways” to “go through customs …
August 21, 2018
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Jury Convicts Two Doctors Of Conspiracy To Commit Money Laundering Resulting From Pill Mill Operation In Broward And Palm Beach Counties

August 01, 2013
… Doctors Of Conspiracy To Commit Money Laundering Resulting From Pill Mill Operation In Broward And Palm Beach Counties … Kenneth A. Marra.   The charges against the defendants stem from Operation Oxy Alley, a coordinated investigation into …
August 01, 2013
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Alleged Sinaloa Cartel Member Extradited to the United States from Mexico for Funneling Massive Amounts of Marijuana and Cocaine into the United States

June 11, 2018
… Sinaloa Cartel Member Extradited to the United States from Mexico for Funneling Massive Amounts of Marijuana and … member is in federal custody, following his extradition from Mexico to the United States yesterday afternoon. He is …
June 11, 2018
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Maryland Man Convicted of Fentanyl Distribution

February 25, 2025
… communities.” According to the evidence presented at trial, from on or about January 21, 2022, through September 28, …
February 25, 2025
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Baltimore Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Conspiracy Charge

December 21, 2021
… saw the DTO leader arrive and intercepted a message from the DTO leader to Gardner stating, “Here cuz”.  The DTO …
December 21, 2021
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Montgomery County Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl that Led to an Overdose Death

May 06, 2022
… 1’s car to complete the transaction.  Surveillance video from Hotel A, as well as cell-site location records, …
May 06, 2022
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Two Baltimore, Maryland Men Facing Federal Indictment for the Attempted Murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent

June 09, 2022
… his official duties.  Further, the indictment alleges that from 2020 until December 29, 2021, Hester and Rogers …
June 09, 2022
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DEA Washington Joins D.C. Partners to Announce New Partnership Focused on Violent Crime

February 18, 2022
… on this effort to keep area families and communities safer from drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths. ## …
February 18, 2022
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DEA Washington Launches New Conference Series to Work with Healthcare Professionals & Help End the Overdose Crisis

April 22, 2021
… scale throughout the DMV, in making our communities safer from the problems associated with prescription drug …
April 22, 2021
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Essex Man Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison for Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

October 28, 2021
… DTO member obtained two to three ounces of crack cocaine from Hammond, which were then sold to the DTO’s customers. …
October 28, 2021
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Final Member of Large Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization in Virginia, Sentenced

February 24, 2021
… a member of a conspiracy that trafficked methamphetamine from the West coast into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced …
February 24, 2021
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Brother and Sister Plead Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl Sales

February 08, 2023
…  A review of the female victim’s phone found text messages from the previous evening with Larry Eastman where the …
February 08, 2023
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Montgomery County Drug Dealer Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl That Led to an Overdose Death

October 07, 2022
… release, for distribution of fentanyl.  A victim died from using drugs that Agbi distributed.  Judge Grimm also …
October 07, 2022
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Silver Spring, Maryland Man Faces Federal Charges for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in the Death of a Minor Victim

September 21, 2022
… advised law enforcement the victim purchased “percs” from an individual known as “Mick”.  The witness also …
September 21, 2022
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Union Bank of California Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement And Forfeits $21.6 Million To Resolve Bank Secrecy Act Violations

September 18, 2007
… San Diego and Miami Field Divisions, with assistance from the DEA Bogota Country Office, the DEA Madrid Country …
September 18, 2007
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Jose Morales Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering A Witness In A Baltimore City Case

December 10, 2013
… to prevent Long, who was also an employee of Morales, from testifying against him. The jury learned that three …
December 10, 2013
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Member of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Pleads Guilty to a Federal Racketeering, Distributing Large Quantities of Drugs, Two Murders and an Attempted Murder

December 03, 2021
… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least 2016 through March 26, 2020, Bobby Cannon was … East Baltimore.  On January 4, 2019, Cannon borrowed a car from a female associate in southwest Baltimore and later … officers saw that Cannon had a gun, which they recovered from his jacket pocket.  Officers then searched Cannon’s van …
December 03, 2021
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Six Men Facing Federal Drug Charges

January 21, 2022
… were seized by law enforcement.  The packages were shipped from Brownsville, Texas to an address associated with the … to Velasquez’s residence.  Tracking information obtained from the shipping company revealed that IP addresses … on January 20, 2022, based on arrest warrants issued from the criminal complaint.  As part of these arrests, law …
January 21, 2022
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Money Launderer and Wholesale Supplier of Narcotics to East Baltimore Monument Street Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison and Ordered to Forfeit $472,000

September 14, 2021
… Investigators conducted controlled purchases of narcotics from drug distributors in the shops, including Roundheart, … mixture. The total proceeds obtained by Williams from supplying controlled substances to co-conspirators was … or leased. Investigators recovered a total of $363,233 from various bank accounts associated with Williams' drug …
September 14, 2021
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Manager of Pain Clinic, Her Boyfriend, and Customers Facing Federal Charges for a Drug Distribution Conspiracy

May 19, 2021
… forged prescriptions for opioids using prescription pads from the clinics’ doctors, then illegally sold the forged … prescriptions.  For example, the complaint alleges that from July 2019 to April 2021, more than 40 prescriptions … that pharmacies had begun to refuse opioid prescriptions from Memorial Care.  The criminal complaint further alleges …
May 19, 2021
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Six indicted in drug conspiracy that included production and distribution of power synthetic opioid

June 12, 2019
… in the six-count indictment in U.S. District Court and from testimony in court proceedings, six defendants are … in the federal system.   According to the indictment, and from testimony delivered in court proceedings, Forrester …   “Illegal opioid production and distribution, whether online or through conventional drug distribution methods, is …
June 12, 2019
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 05, 2023
… Last Mile comprised 1,436 investigations conducted from May 1, 2022 through May 1, 2023, in collaboration with … to nearly 193 million deadly doses of fentanyl removed from communities across the United States, which have … with whom we were able to make these arrests and seizures from these violent drug trafficking organizations”. …
May 05, 2023
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DEA Washington Chief Issues Public Safety Alert: Dangerous Increase in Fake Rx Pills Containing Fentanyl

September 27, 2021
… are being so well made they aren’t able to be told apart from legitimate pills, outside testing. DEA lab analyses … fatal overdose deaths in unwitting victims across our area, from every background and every lifestyle,” said Special … lost to this horrible danger is too many. Only ONE pill from illegitimate sources can kill, and has. And we’re …
September 27, 2021
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Thirty-Five Indicted For Trafficking Heroin Throughout Virginia Peninsula

August 18, 2011
… DEA’s mission to take down drug trafficking organizations from the street to the source,” said DEA SAC Cooper-Davis. … organization that smuggles large quantities of heroin from New York City into the Tidewater area, which has been … The indictment alleges that after obtaining the heroin from Taylor’s lieutenants, the mid-level distributors would …
August 18, 2011
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Matriarch Sentenced for Role in Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization

March 28, 2023
… United States WASHINGTON, DC- According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Chinda, … received clandestine maritime and air shipments of cocaine from sources in South America. Individual shipments of … America, managed the proceeds that the organization made from the sale of cocaine and, at times, paid sources of …
March 28, 2023
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Colombian Drug Kingpin Charged With Smuggling 35 Pounds Of Heroin Destined For New York In Freight Containers

March 07, 2013
… centers on a shipment of 16 kilos of (over 35 lbs.) seized from a freighter ship in Miami on January 10, 2012. The load … traffickers ran their business on principals similar to an online commerce company; one - place an order, two- fill the …
March 07, 2013