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DEA achieves significant milestone during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and abused by family members and …
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DEA Announces Step To Increase Opioid Addiction Treatment

… DEA Announces Step To Increase Opioid Addiction Treatment January 23, 2018 … Deregulation enables mid-level practitioners to prescribe and dispense buprenorphine to addicts WASHINGTON - The … physician and 30 million people living in counties where treatment is unavailable. As a result, rural patients …
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code. Four days after DEA’s first …
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DEA Hopes To Remove A Third Of A Million Pounds Of Expired Prescription Drugs From Circulation On Its Sixth Take-Back Day April 27

… “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code.  Only solid medicines may …
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DEA Announces Arrest Of Alleged International Narcotics Trafficker

… Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (“DEA”) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and, announced today that on August 29, 2013, Panamanian … country are apprehended and brought to justice, no matter where they live.” DEA Special-Agent-in-Charge Derek Maltz …
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

… unwanted prescription medications over the past three-and-a-half years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and more than 4,200 national, tribal, and community law … “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 Hero Joseph Piersante Honored By U.S. Secretary Of Defense

… and from his alma mater, Adrian College in Michigan, where he played football. The Secretary of Defense Medal for …
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Southern California Man Brings Methamphetamine And Heroin To Fresno For Sale

… to a parking lot located at Jensen and Highway 99 in Fresno where, after agents viewed the drugs, Ramon was arrested.  …
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Madera Marijuana Grower Indicted

… was arrested at a Madera county marijuana grow site where more than 17,000 marijuana plants were under …
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Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

… a co-defendant maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where law enforcement officers seized seven pounds of …
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San Jose Woman Pleads Guilty To Heroin Conspiracy

… behind the arm rest panel of the rear passenger seat near where Angulo’s infant child was sitting in a car seat. This …
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Repeat Marijuana Grower Pleads Guilty To 2013 Grow

… found on a rural parcel of land on E. Kings Canyon Road where approximately 31,500 marijuana plants were being …
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Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To Over 11 Years In Prison

… and his cousin maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where law enforcement officers seized seven pounds of …
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Bay Area Brothers Sentenced For Ecstasy Trafficking

… and cocaine were then transported to Canada, where it could be sold at a premium. This case was the …
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Fresno County Marijuana Cultivator Pleads Guilty

… documents, Sonephady was arrested at the marijuana farm where he lived. Law enforcement officers found and seized …
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Madera Man Sentenced For Marijuana Cultivation

… marijuana plants in the Fresno County mountains. One site where he tended plants was Soaproot Saddle in Fresno County. …
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Madera Vineyard Pot Grow Yields Five-Year Prison Sentence

… were also found within a mobile home on the property where Pérez admitted he resided. This case was the product …
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Fresno Conspirator Indicted For Marijuana Cultivation

… documents, Sonephady was arrested at the marijuana farm where he lived and the farm is within a mile of Central High …
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Passaic County man admits participating in heroin conspiracy

… P. McMahon NewJerseySpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 80 Mulberry Street 2nd Floor … Local Fugitives Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Campus Drug Prevention Get Smart About Drugs … to distribute heroin and to distributing a quantity of fentanyl. Cequan Wharton, 26, of Paterson, New Jersey, …
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Man Indicted for Taking Controlled Substances from Kansas Hospital

… with a consumer product, one count of possession of fentanyl by deception and subterfuge, and one count of … 30, a registered nurse, is accused of removing vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone from an automated dispensing …
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Armed Felon Pleads Guilty for Cocaine Distribution

… Illinois, pled guilty to two counts of distribution of fentanyl, one count of possession with intent to distribute … plea, Wisham admitted to distributing ounce quantities of fentanyl on September 15, 2020, in East St. Louis, Illinois. …
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Third Ward Narcotics Dealer Heads to Prison

… court considered the fact that Jerry admitted to dealing fentanyl and meth out of a drug house in Houston’s Third … the court noted the seriousness of the quantity of fentanyl. A joint law enforcement operation revealed Jerry … Ward. Jerry sold counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl and ecstasy pills containing meth.  During the …
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Nineteen Indicted in Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… Enforcement Administration, working in teams with the FBI and the Seattle Police Department, arrested 21 people … two pounds of methamphetamine, more than $160,000 in cash, fentanyl pills and a fentanyl pill manufacturing lab.  Today …
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Federal jury convicts Bryson City woman of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death

… that White believed to be heroin, but that turned out to be fentanyl. According to trial testimony, J.F.’s use of the fentanyl resulted in J.F.’s overdose death. According to …
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Charleston area man given lengthy sentence on federal drug charges

… approximately four months prior to his arrest, Lee sold fentanyl to Lisa Cohen, who was previously sentenced in a … separate federal case. Cohen’s 17-year-old son died from a fentanyl overdose after using the drugs provided by Lee. The …
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North Carolina Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Meth Trafficking

… Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Fentanyl Free America Campus Drug Prevention Just Think … kilograms of methamphetamine, 9.5 kilograms of marijuana, fentanyl, cocaine, morphine, nine other types of controlled …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Meth Trafficking

… Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Fentanyl Free America Campus Drug Prevention Just Think … law enforcement recovered methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, marijuana, synthetic marijuana, a .22 …
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Arizona Man Sentenced To 15 Years For Drug and Firearm Offenses

… Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Fentanyl Free America Campus Drug Prevention Just Think … of guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl and heroin, maintaining a drug-involved premises …
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Member of Narcotics Conspiracy Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Federal Prison

… to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl.  Salvi had pleaded guilty on January 21, 2021. In … April 14 and May 27, 2020, Salvi purchased two ounces of fentanyl from one of his co-defendants across a series of …
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Lakeside Pharmacy Pays $75,000 for Failing to Keep Accurate Records of Opioids

… highly addictive and frequently abused opioids, including fentanyl.  The settlement is with Archana Corporation and … to keep accurate records associated with pharmaceutical fentanyl, oxycodone, and hydrocodone. In addition to paying …