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Takedown Dismantles DTO Based In Parkersburg

… organization responsible for distributing methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana in Parkersburg and …
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

… Many challenges remain, however, including the spread of fentanyl and methamphetamine across the country. DEA and its … levels, affecting large portions of the United States. Fentanyl-involved overdose deaths continue to be highest in …
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Lorain County Ohio Combines Efforts With Federal Law Enforcement To Combat Drug Trafficking And Violent Crime

… Vasquez is believed to be a major source of heroin and fentanyl in the Lorain County area. Anetaeus Spencer, 33, of … sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing heroin and fentanyl, including fentanyl that caused the death of an …
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Former Employee Of Exeter Hospital Pleads Guilty To Charges Related To Multi-State Hepatitis C Outbreak

… a scheme to divert and steal the controlled substance Fentanyl for personal use and abuse. Fentanyl is a powerful anesthetic intended for patients … admitted that he would surreptitiously take syringes of Fentanyl prepared for patients, inject himself with the drug …
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Former Employee Of Exeter Hospital Sentenced In Connection With Widespread Hepatitis C Outbreak

… Widespread Hepatitis C Outbreak December 02, 2013 New England Contact Info Contact Us 617-557-2100 (617) 557-2100 … While employed as a "traveler," he stole syringes of Fentanyl - a powerful anesthetic to which he did not have … with saline, after having injected himself with the Fentanyl intended for his patients. The defendant engaged in …
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DEA Releases 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment Report

… Engage Philadelphia Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … opioid threat - including controlled prescription (CPDs), fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, and heroin - reaching …
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DEA Announces Review of International Operations

… an exponential increase of foreign-sourced drugs such as fentanyl, and their resultant danger to American citizens.  … in the OIG’s report.  ### International/Foreign Operations Fentanyl On On …
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DEA Rolls Out Operation Engage

… (571) 776-2508 DEA Public Affairs HRA-SAA@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us Headquarters Quick Links … The vast majority of deaths involve illicitly manufactured fentanyl, including fentanyl analogs. There has also been an …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by …
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code .  Or they can call …
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DEA Holds Prescription Drug Take-Back Event October 26

… “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they can enter their zip code.  Or they can call …
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Marijuana Cultivator Sentenced

… resident of a 29 acre parcel on Wheeler Ridge Road in Arvin where Kern County Sheriff deputies found and seized 1,387 …
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Fresno Man Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Methamphetamine Trafficking

… to a parking lot on East Kings Canyon Road, in Fresno, where they were arrested and the methamphetamine was …
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Two Members of Mexico Connected Drug Trafficking Group Sentenced to Prison

… Drugs and Firearms Seized During Investigation Seized fentanyl and methamphetamine. Download Original Image Seized … a drug trafficking ring bringing significant quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to Western Washington …
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2015 National Drug Threat Assessment

October 01, 2015
… as the most significant drug threats to the United States. Fentanyl and its analogs are responsible for more than 700 … the United States between late 2013 and late 2014. While fentanyl is often abused in the same manner as heroin, it is …
October 01, 2015
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DEA Phoenix, Phoenix Police Department, and the Arizona Attorney General's Office Disrupt Major Transnational Criminal Organization Operating in the United States and Mexico

… successful in combating the drug trafficking epidemic of fentanyl and other illegal substances which have resulted in … during Operation Double Down:   1,700,000 suspected fentanyl pills (approximate) Over 26 kilograms of fentanyl …
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Arizona Drug Trafficker Who Fled State Charges Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison

… for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl. The charge arose from an investigation by the Drug … pills containing a combined net weight of 562 grams of fentanyl.  Law enforcement arrested Lopez and charged him in …
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Homeland Security Task Force Investigation Takes Down Drug and Gun Trafficking Ring; Six Arrested

… from redistributors totaling more than one kilogram of fentanyl, more than 200 grams of methamphetamine, and 17 …
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York County Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Conspiracy

… to possess with the intent to distribute 400 grams of fentanyl. The investigation revealed that Brown was … The pills were produced by members of the conspiracy with fentanyl at various locations in the Rock Hill and Charlotte …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 6 Years for Drug Trafficking, Gun Crimes

… Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Fentanyl Free America Campus Drug Prevention Just Think … of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana. Ellis was …
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Career Offender Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking

… Career Offender Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking … powder cocaine and various quantities of crack cocaine and fentanyl within three months of completing a term of …
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Fourteen Members of a Jefferson County Drug Trafficking Organization Charged with Federal Drug and Gun Crimes

… 14 defendants in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and heroin … Birmingham, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine base or “crack” cocaine, cocaine, heroin, …
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Third Defendant Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

… that our determination to eradicate the threat of illicit fentanyl and save lives cannot – and will not – stop.  The … Mendez and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, conspired to distribute fentanyl, including at a children’s daycare center in the …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office and DEA announce charges against Rochester Drug Co-operative and two executives for unlawfully distributing controlled substances

… officer, for unlawfully distributing oxycodone and fentanyl, and conspiring to defraud the DEA. Mr. Berman’s … Pietruszewski, RDC supplied large quantities of oxycodone, fentanyl and other dangerous opioids to pharmacy customers …
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“Operation Bread, White and Blues” shuts down drug distribution ring in Orange and Rockland Counties

… “Operation Bread, White and Blues” shuts down drug distribution ring in Orange and … were represented to contain oxycodone, but which contained fentanyl, a highly addictive and frequently lethal narcotic. …
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Two Mobile Pain Doctors Convicted After Seven-Week Trial

… Schedule II and III Controlled Substances, including fentanyl, outside the usual course of professional practice … importance in the trial were two brand name instant-release fentanyl drugs - Subsys and Abstral. Both Subsys and Abstral …
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Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Charges

… the District of New Hampshire to one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute it, announced Michael … deliver over two kilograms of the narcotic controlled drug fentanyl to a purchaser in Manchester, New Hampshire. … for at least four kilograms but less than 12 kilograms of fentanyl. Nieves is scheduled for sentencing on March 7, …
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Mexican National Arrested with Firearms and Over 91 Pounds of Methamphetamine

… Mexican National Arrested with Firearms and Over 91 Pounds of Methamphetamine September 30, 2025 … with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Fentanyl.  According to the complaint, investigators with …
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Former New Haven Resident Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Narcotics

… Street in New Haven revealed approximately 75 grams of fentanyl, 278 grams of cocaine, 47 grams of crack cocaine, …
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Kenner Woman Guilty of Federal Controlled Substances Act Violations

… Engage New Orleans Eliminating the local drug threat and engaging community leaders to reduce drug misuse. Visit … indictment charging her with  distribution of a quantity of fentanyl  (Count 1), distribution of forty grams or more of fentanyl (Count 2), and possession with intent to distribute …