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Brownsville Drug Dealer Gets Four Life Sentences

December 11, 2013
… counts in two indictments and given other sentences ranging from five to 40 years to run concurrent with the life … in 1995 and is, therefore, prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm. The jury also heard that Cardenas … to a co-conspirator by an individual named “La Tia” from Matamoros. “La Tia” was identified by several …
December 11, 2013
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El Paso Man Sentenced To Life In Prison In Connection With Murder-For-Hire Plot

March 23, 2017
… associates located in El Paso extorted ransom payment from the victims’ families. In addition to the prison term, … and indecency with a child. Evidence further revealed that from September 2008 until November 2008, Samuel Gurrola … to kill Sagredo while in Mexico in order to prevent her from testifying in that case. Testimony revealed that with …
March 23, 2017
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Six Sentenced To Combined Twenty-Six Years In Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking Offenses

November 21, 2014
… must do all we can to keep children in our community safe from drugs and other illegal activity.  Our office remains … trafficking operation beginning in October 2012, agents from the Drug Enforcement (DEA) determined Hathorn, … that Hoepfner was obtaining large quantities of meth from Ruiz with the intention of distributing it.  Hoepfner …
November 21, 2014
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Eight Defendants Arrested For Drug Trafficking In Operation Three Amigos

February 03, 2015
… four vehicles and over $10,000 in United States currency from members of the organization. Agents with the Drug … “The arrests today are a result of concentrated efforts from the Camden Police Department, Ouachita County Sheriff’s … the joint drug investigation, thanks to the many officers from across the state who assisted local law enforcement …
February 03, 2015
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North Little Rock Drug Ring Dismantled

March 12, 2015
… Agent in Charge David Downing. “By removing these criminals from the streets of Arkansas and Arizona, they can no longer … we are making major progress in preventing meth trafficking from taking hold in our communities. This investigation is a … against the drug dealers to remove them and their weapons from our streets.” An investigation into large-scale …
March 12, 2015
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Investigation Into Drug Trafficking Organization In Carrol County Results In Six Defendants Being Sentenced To A Total Of Over 50 Years

March 18, 2015
… 50 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation into a drug-trafficking organization … across our district deserve to grow up in communities free from trafficking in drugs and the violence and other crime … large quantities of methamphetamine to Bryan McClelland from a source in Kansas.  After corroborating this …
March 18, 2015
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Bergen County, N.J., Man Sentenced To 17 Months In Prison In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

October 08, 2014
… including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration, IRS, and the U.S. … Secret Service. The New Jersey Task Force, with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland …
October 08, 2014
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Federal Authorities Seize $5.7 Million In Cocaine, Detain Two Smugglers

March 18, 2014
… dollars, while the men detained claimed to be U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico. "The US Attorney's Office and our law … of the citizens of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands from the threats delivered by the sea." While on a routine … U.S. Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry Maritime Patrol (MPA) from Air Station Miami detected a 25-foot go-fast vessel, …
March 18, 2014
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Federal Search Warrant Executed At Golden Grove Correctional Facility In St. Croix

April 08, 2014
… used to commit further crimes, run criminal organizations from inside prisons, intimidate witnesses, plot escapes, and … Trafficking (HIDTA) Task Force, which includes officers from the Virgin Islands Police (VIPD), with assistance from the FBI. Assisting HIDTA in today’s search were agents …
April 08, 2014
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Federal Authorities Dismantle Drug Trafficking Organization Responsible For Transporting Cocaine And Money Between Puerto Rico-Florida-Connecticut

October 07, 2015
… enforcement to lead them in the wrong direction and away from the organization. The organization also utilized … intimidation and threats of violence to prevent the mules from cooperating with law enforcement.  “These arrests are a … If found guilty, the defendants face terms of imprisonment from 10 years to life. Criminal indictments are only charges …
October 07, 2015
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Manchester Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Participating In Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

January 31, 2017
… and Raul Hernandez) traveled to New York, obtained pills from a source of (Manuel Tirado), and then brought them back … as over $30,000 in cash and three firearms, were recovered from that location.  Garcia, Jennifer Nunez, and Johanna … in October of 2014, after returning to the United States from the Dominican Republic. Jose Nunez pleaded guilty on …
January 31, 2017
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CVS To Pay $3.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That Pharmacists Filled Fake Prescriptions

June 30, 2016
… miss a critical opportunity to prevent prescription drugs from entering the stream of illegal opiates on the black … oxycodone prescriptions were excessive, especially coming from a dentist.  Moreover, the government alleged, even if … the fact that P.R. presented oxycodone prescriptions from two different providers during a single week at one CVS …
June 30, 2016
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Fourteen Indicted In Large-Scale Heroin Trafficking Ring

October 14, 2016
… Dominican Republic and New York. Thirteen men and one woman from Springfield, Mass. and Bronx, NY were indicted on … that we will hold accountable those who seek to profit from addiction by selling and trafficking drugs on our … to ensure this poison and those who peddle it are removed from our communities.”  “The Springfield Police Department …
October 14, 2016
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Fifteen Defendants Facing Federal Or State Charges For Selling Heroin, Cocaine And Crack Cocaine On Chicago’s South And West Sides

July 16, 2015
… charges against three others. Police and federal agents from the Chicago Strike Force began arresting the defendants … transactions with a confidential source working with agents from the Chicago Strike Force in 2013 and 2014. The deals … the U.S. Marshals Service, and task force officers from various state and local law enforcement agencies, …
July 16, 2015
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More Than 30 Charged With Federal And State Drug, Gun And Immigration Offenses

May 30, 2017
… aka “Guega,” 26, a resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts and from the Dominican Republic Oscar Francisco Marcano … Fanas,” 21, a resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts and from the Dominican Republic Lacey Picariello, 33, of … Alcantara, 49, a resident of Methuen, Massachusetts and from the Dominican Republic   Ramon Gonzalez Nival, aka …
May 30, 2017
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Former Baggage Handler At LAX Arrested For Drug Trafficking Conspiracy After Allegedly Using Credentials To Pass Cocaine Through Security

February 23, 2017
… Gate, was taken into custody without incident by officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles … airlines to smuggle kilogram “samples” of cocaine from Los Angeles to drug customers on the East Coast.  At … by using third-party couriers who had booked flights from LAX to the East Coast and who were willing to take the …
February 23, 2017
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Nevada Cardiologist Arrested For Unlawful Distribution Of Prescription Opioids And Health Care Fraud

December 12, 2017
… indictment that was unsealed today, it is alleged that from May 2014 to September 2017, Patel routinely prescribed … data analysts and Assistant United States Attorneys from throughout the country to prosecute doctors engaged in … cases help cut off the supply of drugs and stop addiction from spreading.  These prosecutors are already delivering …
December 12, 2017
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Las Vegas Doctor Arrested And Charged With 29 Counts Of Unlawful Distribution Of Fentanyl And Health Care Fraud

February 13, 2018
… contained in the indictment, which was unsealed today, from about July 19, 2015 through March 12, 2016, Holper … professional practice. The indictment further alleges that, from about November 21, 2013 through March 24, 2017, Holper … drugs. These prosecutors are already issuing indictments from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas. I want to thank the DEA, FBI, …
February 13, 2018
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Justice Department Announces First Ever Indictments Against Designated Chinese Manufacturers Of Deadly Fentanyl And Other Opiate Substances

October 17, 2017
… law enforcement agents intercepted packages mailed from Yan’s Internet pharmaceutical companies, seizing … in the United States, conspiracy to import the drugs from Canada and China, a money laundering conspiracy, an … numerous ways, including highly pure shipments of fentanyl from factories in China directly to U.S. customers who …
October 17, 2017
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Colombian Bacrim Narco-Traffickers Indicted On Cocaine Conspiracy Charges

September 02, 2011
… Bandas (BACRIMS), for their involvement in drug trafficking from South America to the United States using airplanes and … and semi-submersible submarines to transport cocaine from Colombia to Central America, with the ultimate … airplanes to transport thousands of kilograms of cocaine from clandestine airstrips located in South America, to …
September 02, 2011
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Twenty-Four Indicted For Trafficking Methamphetamine Through East Texas

April 02, 2015
… to have obtained over 150 kilograms of methamphetamine from numerous Mexican sources of supply for redistribution … Count One of the March 2015 indictment alleges that from 2011 to March 2015, John Nealy Holt, Leslie Dianne … The defendants all face a maximum sentence ranging from 20 years to life in federal prison if convicted of the …
April 02, 2015
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Two California Men Sentenced To Combined Total Of Over 13 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking Charges

July 30, 2015
… involving the transportation of methamphetamine from the Compton, California area to Springdale, Arkansas. … 2014 to arrange for four pounds of meth to be transported from California to Northwest Arkansas on October 30, 2014. … he would be bringing an associate, Elijah Buckhalter, from California with him and that the meth would be arriving …
July 30, 2015
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New Charges For Former NY State Assemblyman Brook-Krasny

June 14, 2017
… a primary care clinic in Midwood, Brooklyn. Payments came from a payroll account at Quality Laboratory Services in … individual whose bank account allegedly received payments from a Quality Laboratory Services payroll account. … allegedly directed laboratory testing of specimens sent from Parkville Medical and LF Medical for which Quality …
June 14, 2017
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Conviction Of Doctor And Owner Of Bronx Clinic Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than Five Million Oxycodone Pills

May 05, 2015
… clinic with multiple locations in the Bronx, New York, and from which more than five million tablets of the … and the Government’s evidence during Lowe’s trial: From approximately January 2011 until February 2014, a drug …
May 05, 2015
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DEA And Tempe Police Announce Results Of Operation Crank Call

December 20, 2011
… residing in Maricopa County. Based on the information from the Patrol Officer’s investigation, Detectives from the Tempe Police Special Investigations (SIB), Special Agents from the Phoenix Division DEA Strike Force Group 2, …
December 20, 2011
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Treasury Designates Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Bosses

May 07, 2013
… direct, and support the smuggling of illegal drugs from Mexico into the U.S. and the smuggling of illicit contraband from the U.S. into Mexico.  Plaza bosses rely on violence to … Cisneros.  Today’s action generally prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with …
May 07, 2013
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Southern District Of New York U.S. Attorney Announces Arrests Of Five Honduran National Police For Drug Trafficking And Related Firearms Offenses

July 12, 2016
… For allegedly conspiring to move tons of cocaine from the Honduran jungles to American cities, these Honduran … in Honduras and elsewhere worked together, and with support from the defendants and others, to receive multi hundred-kilogram loads of cocaine sent to Honduras from Venezuela and Colombia via air and maritime routes, and …
July 12, 2016
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Nine Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Trafficking Kilograms Of Cocaine Through The U.S. Mail System

July 26, 2016
… of cocaine, and in particular, shipping the cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York City through the United States … scheme by arranging for the shipment of cocaine from Puerto Rico to various locations in New York City through the USPS, retrieving cocaine from various delivery locations, transporting cocaine to …
July 26, 2016
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DEA Targets Tucson Synthetic Drug Traffickers

July 28, 2016
… Those arrested will be facing federal charges stemming from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of … steadfast in our efforts to protect America’s citizens from the misery of drug use and abuse.” Nearly 600 pounds of … of the DEA OCDETF Strike Force.  Over a hundred personnel from federal, state and local Tucson agencies supported the …
July 28, 2016
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Conviction Of Local Doctor For Unlawfully Dispensing More Than 1.2 Million Oxycodone Pills

March 17, 2016
… an average resale value in New York City of $2,700 or more. From October 2012 until December 2014, Mirilashvili, a … was writing.  For example, among documents recovered from Mirilashvili’s home at the time of his arrest, were lab …
March 17, 2016