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Final Defendant In Sacramento County Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Scheme Sentenced To Federal Prison

… homes in Sacramento County, including the four houses where Chen cultivated marijuana: 9761 McKenna Drive, …
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Thirty-Pound Methamphetamine Drug Bust In Tulare County Results In Federal Conspiracy Charges Against Five Individuals

… 30 pounds of crystal methamphetamine at a ranch in Pixley where Rios-Ayon lived. In the course of the operation agents …
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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 Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… Take Back Day icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code, call 800-882-9539, or visit …
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Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced To 20 Years Prison For Trafficking Drugs To Hawaii

… in Northern California and distributed it in Hawaii where it sold at a large profit.  Between August 2014 and …
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Sacramento Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced

… methamphetamine in California and ship it into Hawaii where it sold at a large profit on Oahu, an area hit …
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Bakersfield Marijuana Dispensary Owner Arrested, Charged With Conspiring With Others To Distribute Methamphetamine And Marijuana

… other controlled substances between Kern County and Oakland where defendant Chavez maintained a marijuana grow …
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Final Defendant Pleads Guilty In Scheme To Use Fresno Trucking Front To Smuggle Cocaine Into Canada

… warrant on September 21, 2012, at the Los Angeles residence where authorities believed the eight kilograms of cocaine …
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Tulare County Man Sentenced To 17.5 Years In Prison For Marijuana Cultivation Crimes

… the execution of a search warrant at one of the parcels where Morales resided, members of the Sheriff's Tactical …
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Prescription Drug Take-Back Day On Saturday April 26

… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas Additional Division Info Community … “Got Drugs?” icon, and following the links to a database where they enter their zip code.  Or they can call …
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Third Co-Conspirator Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Cocaine Seized In Bakersfield

… Port of Entry. The cocaine was off-loaded in Bakersfield, where Gil and Montoya took possession of the drug. …
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Former Deputy U.S. Marshal Pleads Guilty To Yuba City Armed Robbery Of Marijuana Dealers

… Domestic Northern California in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton areas Additional Division Info Community … for a plot that brought three Florida men to Yuba City where they robbed marijuana traffickers at gunpoint, United …
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Tenth And Final Defendant From Butte County Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization Sentenced To Federal Prison

… Aguilar was arrested at his residence in August 2013, where law enforcement officers found 15 cellphones, five …
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Bakersfield Marijuana Business Owner Pleads Guilty

… marijuana dispensary. He was also the owner of the property where the business operated. According to the indictment, …
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Bakersfield Marijuana Store Owner Sentenced To Four Years In Prison

… of Nature’s Medicinal and the owner of the property where the business operated. According to the indictment, …
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Bakersfield Warehouse Marijuana Grow Results In Prison Sentences For Two

… being executed in of Ventura and Los Angeles Counties where a fifth defendant, Joseph Nolan, 58, a Malibu business …
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Two Plead Guilty To Charges In Connection With Marijuana Cultivation In Bakersfield Warehouse

… search warrants in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties where a fifth defendant, Joseph Nolan, 56, of Oak Park, was …
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Ten Indicted For Marijuana Growing On Public And Private Lands In Fresno And Tulare Counties

… officer and forcibly detained an occupant of a residence where marijuana was being grown. Other defendants were …
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Bakersfield Marijuana Storefront Owner And Employee Indicted

… detained on state charges in San Bernardino County where he fled following a high speed chase by the California …
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Mexican National Pleads Guilty To Marijuana Conspiracy In Bakersfield

… marijuana found at his residence came from the Lompoc area, where the 600 pounds was seized. All of the marijuana …
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Oroville Men Charged In Interstate Marijuana Cultivation And Distribution Scheme

… and various marijuana cultivation equipment. At one address where agents seized more than 400 marijuana plants, they …
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Fresno Man Receives Five Years In Prison For Interstate Marijuana Trafficking

… to Merisier, Meca, and Pimentel in the Boston area, where the drug was sold for about $3,000 per pound, about …
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Former Anesthesiology Resident Who Worked at Seattle Children's, UW Medicine, and Harborview Medical Center, Sentenced for Stealing and Using Narcotic Pain Medicine While on Duty

… pleaded guilty in October 2025, admitting he secretly took fentanyl, hydromorphone, and other medications over the …
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Wisconsin Man Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Drug, Gun Offenses

… Events Featured Resource Links Talk to a Recruiter Fentanyl Free America Campus Drug Prevention Just Think … transported a full menu of harmful drugs—methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine—into the Northern District of …
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Three Defendants in Significant Gun and Drug Involved Cases in Western Washington Sentenced to Prison

… Three Defendants in Significant Gun and Drug Involved Cases in Western Washington Sentenced to … Dodd, 36, of Seattle. Dodd was  convicted of possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and possession of a …
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Identical Twins Sentenced to 15 Years for Role in Drug Trafficking Operation

… operation to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl. On April 12, 2024, agents executed a search … the Jackson brothers shared and seized methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana, and a firearm. United States District …
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Law Enforcement Operation Results in 25 Arrests for Drug-trafficking Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

… since Jan. 28, 2019, to distribute crack cocaine, fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana in Jackson County. That …
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176 pounds of cocaine seized in New York City – one of the largest cocaine seizures in NYC in recent years

… have always been the headline drugs of choice. Ever since fentanyl hit the streets, traffickers have been creating their own trends. The mixture of heroin and fentanyl has become public health’s most potent enemy; and … evident in recent statistics, the mixture of cocaine and fentanyl is following in its footsteps. Because of DEA …
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2 Mobile Doctors Get Long Sentences For Running “Pill Mills”

… 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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Overprescribing opioids costs La Jolla doctor $125,000

… and frequently abused opioids he prescribed included fentanyl, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and oxycodone.   In … Dr. Kasendorf wrote prescriptions for opioids, including fentanyl that were not issued for a legitimate medical …