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DEA Joins with Families Across Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to Increase Awareness about the Dangers of Fentanyl

… fatal overdose and poisoning victims with regional leaders from law enforcement, public health, drug prevention and … incredible work these families are doing to prevent others from experiencing the profound pain of losing a loved one to … In addition to an overview of current global drug trends from DEA Chicago Division Special Agent in Charge Robert J. …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in Nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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Pill distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully distributing painkillers

… prescription pills to be illegally sold and dispensed from their facilities,” said DEA Assistant Administrator … pharmacies in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee.   From 2008 until 2015, the company generated more than $173 …
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Birmingham Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl That Caused 20-Year-Old’s Death

… of the two drugs. The fentanyl deaths more than doubled from 49 in 2015. We are committed to our work with DEA and … Bailey, the woman who died after purchasing fentanyl from Pearson was a former University of Alabama student. … in the case stated that Bailey had been purchasing heroin from Pearson and that he likely substituted the fentanyl, …
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Beaumont residents guilty in federal drug trafficking case

… Texas, area.  Eric Coleman received powder cocaine from Christopher Dudley, who brought it to Beaumont from Houston. Clayton Howard assisted Dudley in transporting cocaine from Houston to Beaumont.  Coleman distributed both powder …
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16 People Sentenced To Lengthy Terms For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received … drugs which had been brought into the United States from Mexico from Zapata to other parts of the United States. The drugs …
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18 Operation Trena Sin Trono Defendants Plead Guilty

… organization were part of the conspiracy that occurred from on or about June 2011 through June 2013. The pleas are … to transport multi-thousand pound quantities of marijuana from Laredo to the Dallas area. The investigation revealed that beginning from on or about June 10, 2011, and continuing through June …
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Ricardo Castang Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Narcotics Trafficking And Fake Sweepstakes Scheme Targeting Elderly Victims

… A long-term investigation into the trafficking of cocaine from Costa Rica ultimately led agents from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force to … Brooklyn, to retrieve packages containing two souvenir bags from Costa Rica with a total of one kilogram of (over 2 …
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Anchorage Trafficker Sentenced To Life In Prison

… intended recipient of 23 pounds of methamphetamine smuggled from Mexico to Alaska. This methamphetamine was delivered to … 2009, investigators with DEA in Anchorage seized $12,000 from a vehicle being sent from Anchorage to Seattle. The investigation revealed that …
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Six Arrested In Massive Queens Marijuana Bust

… them transferring cardboard cartons containing the drug from a tractor trailer parked in Elmhurst, Queens, to two … of removing cartons of marijuana stacked six feet high from a tractor trailer across the street from the Good Fortune Supermarket in Elmhurst when …
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13 Indicted In Multimillion Dollar Interstate Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… Chau have yet to be arrested. The indictment alleges that from October 2008 to April 2013, the defendants obtained … for oxycodone, hydrocodone, and medical marijuana cards from a doctor in Modesto. They recruited other individuals to obtain prescriptions and marijuana cards from the doctor by offering them payments in return for the …
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Members of Alabama drug trafficking organization plead guilty to drug and gun charges

… nineteenth federal defendant, Phillip Maddox, 41, from Auburn, Alabama, is set for trial in October. The four … Dieago Holstick, 36, and Timothy Lamar Spinks, 43, both from Auburn, Alabama; James Earl McIntyre, 28, from Montgomery, Alabama; and James Lee Hamilton, 41, from …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications

… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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Canadian who arranged drug smuggling helicopter flights across northern border sentenced to 7 years in prison

… distribute controlled substances.  Colin Hugh Martin, 46, from British Columbia, Canada, was indicted in 2010 and … Martin directed the smuggling of large quantities of drugs from what seemed like a safe perch in Canada – never … California in February 2009; and 79 kilograms of marijuana from Canada that was seized by agents from a helicopter that …
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DEA Report: Counterfeit Pills Fueling U.S. Fentanyl And Opioid Crisis

… About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Problems resulting from abuse of opioid drugs continue to grow WASHINGTON - … inhaled or absorbed through the skin.  Other findings from the report: Fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds are … which data is available), which is a 65 percent increase from the 7,864 fentanyl exhibits in 2014. There were …
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Justice Department, DEA propose significant opioid manufacturing reduction in 2019

… limits. The final rule also promotes greater involvement from state attorneys general, and today’s proposed reduction … setting the aggregate production quota, DEA considers data from many sources, including estimates of the legitimate medical need from the Food and Drug Administration; estimates of retail …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, … clean out your medicine cabinet and make your home safe from drug theft and abuse.”  Rates of prescription drug … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Miami-Dade, Florida, Police Officer Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Role In Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity. Judge Wigenton imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court. From June 2012 through November 2012, Mata purchased at …
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Five Plead Guilty To Conspiring To Possess With The Intent To Distribute And To Unlawful Distrbution Of Marijuana

… aware of suspicious “Express Mail” packages being sent from a fictitious address in California to Jennifer Bohan at … in New Hampshire. A review of the shipping labels from the beginning of the investigation through the … of California, sent the packages containing marijuana from California to New Hampshire. The marijuana was stored …
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Jury Finds Florida Man Guilty Of Role In Oxycodone Trafficking Ring

… guilty of narcotics and money laundering charges stemming from his role in an oxycodone trafficking ring.  The trial … the jury returned the verdict yesterday. This matter stems from “Operation Blue Coast,” an investigation headed by the … Force into the large-scale trafficking of oxycodone pills from Florida to Connecticut.  The investigation revealed …
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Former Spartanburg County Magistrate Enters Guilty Plea In Drug Conspiracy Case

… it was quantities of both cocaine and methamphetamine, from a person in South Carolina. The confidential source … this person told him that the drugs were taken directly from an unidentified law enforcement agency’s evidence … Court, Marcus Woodrow Kitchens, who had removed the drugs from the evidence room of the Clerk’s Office. Kitchens pled …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… 374-3444 Yakima - (509) 454-4407 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Oregon from 2010-2014, resulted in  69,359 (34.6 tons) of drugs …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… 374-3444 Yakima - (509) 454-4407 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Idaho from 2010-2014, resulted in 36,364 (18.2 tons) of drugs …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… 374-3444 Yakima - (509) 454-4407 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Alaska from 2010-2014, resulted in 20,415 (10.2 tons) of drugs …
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Financier Of A Network Of High-Tech Marijuana Grow Facilities Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison

… of high-tech, indoor, marijuana grow facilities stretching from Florida to Connecticut. Each of these facilities cost … amounts of high-grade marijuana into the United States from Canada. On December 8, 2001, U.S. Customs and Border Protection caught Bui trying to smuggle from the U.S. to Canada over $30,000 hidden in his socks to …
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DEA’s Fifth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Results In Another Big Haul

… collected 488,395 (244 tons) of prescription medications from members of the public. In a four hour time period, … sites which resulted in 13,057 (6.5 tons) removed from circulation. • Idaho - 20 collection sites which resulted in 3,823 (1.9 tons) removed from circulation. • Oregon - 40 collection sites which …
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CVS Pharmacy Inc. Pays $5m To Settle Alleged Violations Of The Controlled Substance Act

… the United States’ allegations that during the period from April 30, 2011, through April 30, 2013, CVS pharmacies … Forms; maintain DEA-222 Forms and keep them separate from other records; record the date of acquisition of … in Schedules III through V and keep the records separate from non-controlled substance records; and conduct a …
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Community Event
November 04, 2019 - November 05, 2019
November 04, 2019 - November 05, 2019

Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conferences (PDAC)

3:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
Columbia , MO
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will be hosting two regional one-day Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conferences (PDAC) on Monday, November 4, and Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The same conference will be held both days. Participants can attend either day. The conferences will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, Columbia, Missouri...
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Former Leader of the Violent “Clan Del Golfo” Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Other Related Charges

… other things, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise from June 2003 through October 2021. The SDFL Indictment … other things, maritime narcotics distribution conspiracy from 2002 through October 23, 2021. The SDNY Indictment … with, among other things, narcotics importation conspiracy from 2001 through April 2009. Úsuga David was extradited …