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New York News 2008

July 15, 2021
… of Mexican Cocaine Cartel Extradited to The United States From Mexico on Narcotics Trafficking Charges September 4, … Heroin Importation Ring Extradited to United States from Colombia August 27, 2008 Nine Arrested for Violation of …
July 15, 2021
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New York News 2007

July 15, 2021
… Thousands Of Kilograms Of Cocaine Into The United States From Colombia November 30, 2007 Curaçao-Based Cocaine … 5, 2007 Heroin Kingpin – First Defendant Ever Extradited From Afghanistan – Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To …
July 15, 2021
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Two Colombian Drug Traffickers Charged With Smuggling Narcotics To New York Aboard Famed Spanish Navy Ship

January 22, 2016
… was apprehended outside the city. The arrests resulted from close collaboration between the Office of the Special … Service assisted in the investigation. Narcotics smuggled from Colombia to New York City - A long-term wiretap … Siado-Alvarez oversaw a major international drug operation from their base in Cartagena, Colombia. As part of the …
January 22, 2016
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October 26, 2019
October 26, 2019

DEA Take Back Day (October 26, 2019)

2:00 AM - 6:00 AM (EDT)
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Find a collection site near you! The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 9.9 million Americans misused controlled prescription drugs. The study shows that a majority of abused prescription drugs...
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day with Extended Museum Hours

August 20, 2025
… Museum will extend its operating hours this coming Thursday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. to commemorate National Fentanyl … died of a drug overdose or poisoning in 2024. Per the CDC, from March 2024 to March 2025, drug related overdose deaths decreased approximately 25 percent from the same previous 12-month period. While this news is …
August 20, 2025
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Administrative Law Judges

August 04, 2025
… their duties with complete judicial/decisional independence from the Agency. DEA Administrative Law Judges may not perform non-adjudicative duties, are precluded from investigative responsibilities, may not receive  ex … by a legal advisor who is organizationally independent from CC and LJ. Final Agency decisions are published in the …
August 04, 2025
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DEA Announces 5,456 Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania in 2017

August 21, 2018
… per 100,000 people and a 64% increase in overdose deaths from 2015 to 2017. The DEA Philadelphia Division will be … opioid misuse data sources. A summary of key findings from the upcoming report indicates that heroin sourced from Mexican transnational criminal organizations presents a …
August 21, 2018
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Two Passaic County Men Plead Guilty to Illegal Money Transmitting Scheme

October 26, 2021
… aiding and abetting an illegal money transmitting business. From April 2017 through March 2019, Erickson Checo-Almonte … checks at local bank branches in New Jersey and elsewhere. From November 2016 through August 2017, Abreu-Diaz accepted …
October 26, 2021
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Two Hunterdon County women sentenced for distributing opioids

November 20, 2018
… imposed the sentences today in Trenton federal court. From April 2016 through December 2017, Rios, Call and Call’s … the pills to Marie DeJulia, 42, of Lodi, New Jersey, from Call’s and Rios’ Flemington residences for resale. The …
November 20, 2018
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Distributor of More than 100 Pounds of Fentanyl Sentenced to Almost Six Years in Prison

December 01, 2021
… total, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents seized from Renteria 49.1 kilograms (108.2 pounds) of fentanyl; … this year. “The quantity of fentanyl DEA agents seized from Ernesto Renteria is disturbing,” said DEA Acting … drugs prior to distribution, many Americans could have died from a fentanyl overdose.  The DEA will continue to …
December 01, 2021
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Local trafficker distributing methamphetamine in North San Diego County sentenced to 10 years

December 23, 2019
… for a one-year period, he obtained bulk methamphetamine from a broker in Mexico and subsequently sold smaller … obtained pound quantities of methamphetamine each month from his methamphetamine supplier in Mexico. “San Diego … U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer praised federal agents from the DEA, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal …
December 23, 2019
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Utica men sentenced for drug trafficking conspiracy

July 29, 2020
… possess with intent to distribute cocaine in the Utica area from October 2016 to October 2017. The jury also found … fingerprints on some of the drug packaging material seized from the stash location. The cocaine base Peralta possessed … Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with assistance from the New York State Police, Oneida County Sheriff’s …
July 29, 2020
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Niagara Falls man sentenced for involvement in multi-million dollar heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl conspiracy

July 03, 2019
… Williams to assist Williams with receiving drug shipments from California, distributing the drugs, and collecting … Sonia Hernandez, to receive kilograms of cocaine.   From July 15, 2014, through March 18, 2015, Lucas received …
July 03, 2019
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, 2019

April 23, 2019
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Take Back Day is a unique …
April 23, 2019
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Four Arrested for Alleged Drug Trafficking in Las Vegas

March 25, 2022
… of illegal synthetic drugs and firearms. Special Agents from the DEA and investigators assigned to the Tulare County … in California and Las Vegas, NV. On March 22, 2022, agents from the DEA in Las Vegas, along with assistance from investigators assigned to the Tulare County HIDTA …
March 25, 2022
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Bridgeport Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Illegally Possessing Firearms

April 07, 2022
… in Bridgeport.  At the time of his arrest, officers seized from Vasquez several fictious driver’s licenses from several states, each with Vasquez’s picture and a … Georgia in June 2019.  In late 2019, the gun was recovered from an SUV outside of a Waterbury nightclub, and the …
April 07, 2022
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Missouri Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Healthcare Fraud

August 25, 2022
… Judge E. Richard Webber sentenced on Thursday a doctor from Town and Country, Missouri, to a year in prison for a … only by prescription. The Naushads concealed their actions from patients, employees and publicly-funded health … programs by, among other things, stonewalling questions from their chief of purchasing. After a shipment of foreign, …
August 25, 2022
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St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty in Case Involving Overdose Death

February 28, 2022
… District Court Judge John A. Ross accepted a plea of guilty from Markquis Bryant Feb. 28 for the crime of distribution … were able to determine that the victim had purchased from Bryant the fentanyl that caused the overdose on March … an undercover operation in which fentanyl was purchased from Bryant at his residence in the 5300 block of Queens …
February 28, 2022
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Springfield, Missouri woman pleads guilty to meth conspiracy

May 26, 2020
… conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Laclede County from November 28, 2018, to May 21, 2019. She remains in … 2019. She received one pound of methamphetamine each week from a co-conspirator, for which she paid $4,500. The … had warrants for their arrest. Mathews attempted to run from the deputy, but was apprehended after a short foot …
May 26, 2020
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Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Conspiracy

March 09, 2020
… for distributing methamphetamine he received in the mail from California, It was investigated by the Drug Enforcement … multiple pounds of methamphetamine through the mail from a source in California from December 8, 2018, to February 5, 2019. He then …
March 09, 2020
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Rochester Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking and Fatal Overdose

November 21, 2022
… house at 192 Weaver Street in Rochester, selling fentanyl from the house in 2019 and 2020. On February 25, 2020, … and $10,445 in cash, all of which consisted of proceeds from the distribution of fentanyl. Rodriguez admitted … The victim and a group of her friends obtained fentanyl from Rodriguez at the Weaver Street drug house. The victim …
November 21, 2022
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Bronx Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison and West New York Man Admits Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine

May 11, 2021
… four kilograms of a substance they believed was cocaine from an individual. DEA Special Agents arrested Johnson and Beggs and seized $153,577 from Johnson’s vehicle, a loaded firearm from a hidden compartment in Johnson’s vehicle, and $23,607 …
May 11, 2021
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Five members of heroin trafficking ring arrested in Syracuse

February 15, 2019
… of heroin taken off the streets SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Four men from Syracuse and one from New York City (the Bronx) have been charged with operating a heroin distribution ring from which investigators seized over 62,000 individual bags …
February 15, 2019
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Pilot convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, money laundering, and structuring

October 04, 2018
… 720-431-8836 Flew hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Guyana to NY and NJ TRENTON, NJ - A Passaic County, New … to documents filed in the case and the evidence at trial: From April 2011 through November 2014, Lall, a private …
October 04, 2018
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Sacramento Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Trafficking

March 10, 2025
… seized cell phone, law enforcement found messages from at least March 2020 through December 2022, between … and sale of counterfeit M-30 pills (in quantities ranging from hundreds of pills to thousands of pills) and cocaine in … by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the Sacramento …
March 10, 2025
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Suburban Chicago Man Charged with Trafficking Firearms and Drugs

February 20, 2025
… seized approximately 150 kilograms of methamphetamines from a truck that had traveled from Texas to Bolingbrook, Illinois. Law enforcement also seized fentanyl and cocaine from a storage facility used by Jacobo in Wheeling, …
February 20, 2025
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Hartford Man Admits Trafficking Crystal Meth

December 08, 2024
… of approximately 53 grams of crystal methamphetamine from an individual in Middletown.  During the transaction, … of approximately 240 grams of crystal methamphetamine from Smith in Hartford. Smith was arrested on a federal … 4, 2024.  At the time of his arrest, law enforcement seized from Smith approximately 27 grams of crystal …
December 08, 2024
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Southern Indiana Meth Ring Dismantled

October 21, 2024
… five years of supervised release following their release from prison. According to court documents, between June and … into the Evansville area. Bravo trafficked methamphetamine from Texas to his Evansville-based co-conspirators . After obtaining the methamphetamine from Bravo, Hartley and another individual, who is now …
October 21, 2024
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Dominican National Sentenced to More Than 4 Years in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl Pills and Crystal Meth

July 25, 2024
… purchases of fentanyl pills and crystal methamphetamine from Lara-Diaz.  On January 26, 2023, investigators arranged … fentanyl pills and 10 pounds of crystal methamphetamine from Lara-Diaz for a total price of $65,000.  Lara-Diaz was … fentanyl and methamphetamine, Lara-Diaz, who was removed from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic in 2019, again faces …
July 25, 2024
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Federal Court Shuts Down San Joaquin County Pharmacy and Orders $1 Million in Civil Penalties

November 14, 2023
… injunction against them that permanently bars them from dispensing controlled substances, owning a company that … failed in their responsibility to prevent the opioids from being diverted into illicit channels. This case … laws involving prescription drugs.” “The defendants went from pharmaceutical provider to drug dealer when they …
November 14, 2023