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10 People Arrested In Two Separate Cases For Heroin And Cocaine Trafficking Affecting Multiple Western New York Communities

… York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA Romona Sy 571-776-1634 … since approximately 2014, the organization acquired heroin from the New York City area for distribution in Buffalo. The …
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Federal Indictment Of Five Defendants In One Of The Nation’s Largest Fentanyl Seizures

… Federal Indictment Of Five Defendants In One Of The Nation’s Largest Fentanyl Seizures … law enforcement tracked $13,000,000 in cash flowing from an area bank to California. According to information …
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DEA encourages communities across New England to Go Red for Red Ribbon

… DEA encourages communities across New England to Go Red for Red Ribbon October 23, 2019 New … http://g.co/redribbonweek   to see key places and images from where Special Agent Camarena lived and worked.   For …
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Former dentist sentenced to more than 10 years’ imprisonment for drug trafficking and possession of child pornography

… Former dentist sentenced to more than 10 years’ imprisonment for drug … be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.   United States Attorney for the Eastern …
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Bronx gang members convicted of racketeering and related offenses, including 2014 shooting of three individuals

… Bronx gang members convicted of racketeering and related offenses, including 2014 shooting of three individuals March … York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA …
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Six Arrested at Fentanyl/Heroin Packaging Mill in the Bronx, New York

… Six Arrested at Fentanyl/Heroin Packaging Mill in the Bronx, New York March … York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA … Enforcement Task Force (DETF) Group T-22, with assistance from SNP’s Investigators Unit. DETF Group T-22 is comprised …
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Kodiak, Alaska Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Role in 2022 Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

… Kodiak, Alaska Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Role in 2022 Fatal Fentanyl Overdose … Postal Inspectors identified a suspicious parcel shipped from California to Kodiak. Inspectors obtained a search …
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High-Ranking Members of Sinaloa Cartel Charged with Material Support of a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Narcoterrorism

… Recruiter Name SA Chris Most (314) 538-4600 StLouisSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 317 South 16th Street St. Louis , MO 63103 … dismantling its operations, and protecting our community from its narcoterrorism.” The indictment alleges that the …
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Auburn, Washington Man Who Converted Garage to a Fentanyl Pill Manufacturing Lab Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison

… Auburn, Washington Man Who Converted Garage to a Fentanyl Pill Manufacturing Lab Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison July 30, 2025 Seattle Contact … learned that Elias was purchasing drugs including fentanyl from another target of investigation and later determined he …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to Over 8 Years for Meth Trafficking

… Indiana Man Sentenced to Over 8 Years for Meth Trafficking February 25, 2025 … including the DEA North Central Laboratory with assistance from the Indiana State Police and the Mishawaka Police …
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Kentucky Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison for Drug Trafficking

… Kentucky Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison for Drug Trafficking … by the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the Indiana State Police and the Allen County Sheriff’s …
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Ohio Man sentenced for attempting to murder witness with deadly heroin cocktail

… Ohio Man sentenced for attempting to murder witness with deadly heroin … tranquilizer 10,000 times more powerful than morphine, from a residence in the Elmwood Place neighborhood of …
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Europol/DEA Announce Joint Report on Mexican Cartels

December 31, 2024
… and their methods. Drug trafficking operations benefit from a number of different actors, such as brokers, cooks, … working together to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to the EU. DEA is committed to the …
December 31, 2024
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Cartels and Gangs in Chicago

June 01, 2017
… Chicago’s crime problem is a steady supply of drugs from Mexican drug cartels, most notably the Sinaloa Cartel. Illicit drugs flow from Mexico to Chicago via a loosely associated network of …
June 01, 2017
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2017 National Drug Threat Assessment

October 01, 2017
… public health data; open source reporting; and intelligence from other government agencies to determine which substances … homicide. In 2015, approximately 140 people died every day from drug poisoning (see Figure 1). DIR-040-17_2017-NDTA.pdf …
October 01, 2017
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Buffalo man sentenced for possession of butyryl fentanyl

… Buffalo man sentenced for possession of butyryl fentanyl August 15, 2019 … one the officers took the defendant’s hand and pulled it from the pocket. Scales was clutching a large plastic bag. …
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Richmond man running multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy sentenced

… man running multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy sentenced October 29, 2019 Washington, DC Contact Info … to a federal grand jury. According to court documents, from approximately 2015 through October 2017, Gregory …
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Hartford man sentenced to 54 months for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and other drugs

… Hartford man sentenced to 54 months for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and … Administration’s Hartford Task Force includes personnel from the DEA Hartford Resident Office and the Bristol, …
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Atlanta drug trafficker sentenced for heroin distribution

… Atlanta drug trafficker sentenced for heroin distribution November 15, 2019 Atlanta … we will continue prosecuting and removing repeat offenders from our streets.” “This is a perfect example of cooperative …
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Bridgeport resident charged with distributing fentanyl that caused overdose death of Trumbull man

… Bridgeport resident charged with distributing fentanyl that caused overdose … of those overdoses. Drug dealers who continue to profit from the deadly opioid trade are warned: When a toxicology …
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Special Agent Eligibility Quiz

January 22, 2025
… Special Agent Eligibility Quiz Eligibility Quiz You must have JavaScript enabled to view the results of this quiz. Find out if you … conferences; researching, collecting and analyzing data from a variety of sources relating to investigations; …
January 22, 2025
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DEA Statement Regarding The Release Of Rafael Caro-Quintero

… DEA Statement Regarding The Release Of Rafael Caro-Quintero August 09, … DEA Public Affairs HRA-SAA@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us Headquarters Quick Links Press Releases Local … to release infamous drug trafficker Rafael Caro-Quintero from a Mexican prison.  Caro-Quintero had been serving a 40 …
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DEA Statement On Arrest Of Omar Trevino Morales

… DEA Statement On Arrest Of Omar Trevino Morales March 04, 2015 … DEA Public Affairs HRA-SAA@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us Headquarters Quick Links Press Releases Local … serve as yet another warning that no criminal is immune from arrest and prosecution. Omar Trevino Morales …
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Pennsylvania man and California woman charged with federal drug and firearms crimes

… Pennsylvania man and California woman charged with federal … York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA … Richard Southwick and Thomas Sutcliffe, with assistance from the Cortland County District Attorney’s Office.   ### …
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Last member of Schuele Boys Gang convicted of RICO Conspiracy sentenced to 30 years in prison

… member of Schuele Boys Gang convicted of RICO Conspiracy sentenced to 30 years in prison February 27, 2019 New York … ordered the defendant to forfeit $10,400,000 in proceeds from illegal drug trafficking activity.   Assistant U.S. …
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Pembroke woman sentenced to 72 months for participating in methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy

… Pembroke woman sentenced to 72 months for participating in methamphetamine … 38 grams of methamphetamine and a Sig Sauer 9 mm pistol from the car she was driving. Waters was arrested on federal …
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South Bay doctor pleads guilty to unlawfully distributing hydrocodone and health care fraud

… 436-7900 (415) 436-7994 Akilah Johnson SanFranSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us San … him to prescribe controlled substances. Aachi admitted that from Sept. 18, 2017, through July 2, 2018, he wrote …
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Armed meth dealer sentenced to more than 20 years

… Armed meth dealer sentenced to more than 20 years September 25, 2019 Miami Contact … Office (SO), and the Sumter County SO, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and …
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DEA Chief of Operations D. Christopher Evans appointed by United States Attorney General William P. Barr to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice

… D. Christopher Evans appointed by United States Attorney General William P. Barr to the Presidential Commission on Law … public meetings. At these events, the Commission will hear from subject matter experts, public officials, private …
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Jury convicts man of cocaine conspiracy

… York Contact Info Contact Us (212) 337-3900 862-373-3557 Kenneth.M.Heino@dea.gov Kenneth M. Heino Recruiter Name SA … trial established that the defendant was obtaining cocaine from Houston and distributing it to customers in the Buffalo …