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Seventeen People Indicted For Distribution Of Cocaine, Heroin And Marijuana

June 25, 2013
… Terrance A. Tarver obtained cocaine and marijuana from individuals in Columbus for distribution in Youngstown, Akron and Columbus. Tarver also obtained heroin from sources in Youngtown and Akron for distribution in … details a distribution network of people who obtained drugs from Tarver and then sold them throughout Northeast Ohio. …
June 25, 2013
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Columbus Man Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison For Role In Cocaine Distribution Ring And Money Laundering

December 11, 2014
… Cagle distributed multi- kilo quantities of cocaine from Texas to Ohio COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stephen A. Cagle, 46, of … kilograms of cocaine that was being transported into Ohio from Texas. The defendant was also involved in operating an … often transporting several hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ohio to Texas.   While executing a search warrant at …
December 11, 2014
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Ohio Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

February 13, 2015
… patterns occurred even after at least eight customers died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials … Oxycontin, Percocet, Roxicet, Opana, and others -- from Adolph Harper's medical officers in Akron between 2009 … after he learned that some of his customers had died from overdose-related deaths. He also continued to …
February 13, 2015
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California Man Indicted For Trafficking One Kilogram Of Methamphetamine Into Northern Ohio

May 04, 2016
… two to three pounds of methamphetamine to Cleveland from the Los Angeles, California, area.  On April 10th, … drugs worth tens of thousands of dollars into our community from California,” Rendon said. “The law enforcement agents … partners, we have successfully halted this individual from regularly importing large amounts of this addictive …
May 04, 2016
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Two Mexican Nationals Charged In Ohio After 200 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized In Cleveland

September 14, 2016
… in Northern Ohio in past 20 years CLEVELAND - Two men from Mexico were charged in U.S. District Court after … license plates was expected to come to the Cleveland area from the Baltimore area to deliver drugs or pick up money … then appeared to work on the trailer and then take items from the trunk of the Nissan and put them in the trailer. …
September 14, 2016
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DEA And Community Partners In Michigan Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

October 18, 2016
… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 18, 2016
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DEA And Community Partners In Kentucky Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

October 18, 2016
… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 18, 2016
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DEA And Community Partners In Ohio Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

October 18, 2016
… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 18, 2016
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Former Ohio Police Officer Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Extortion

November 04, 2016
… illegal activities included providing illegal drugs taken from police department property room to be sold on the … to sell and split the profits. A portion of the drugs came from the police department’s property room, which Dailey … bath salts and hundreds of oxycodone pills were missing from the property room. Further investigation revealed that …
November 04, 2016
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Guilty Plea For Southern Ohio Physician Who Ran Prescription Pill Mil

April 07, 2017
… John Temponeras, 82, was also a physician at the clinic. From June 2005 until May 2011, Temponeras and her father saw … area had declined to accept or fill her prescriptions from Unique Pain Management so she opened the dispensary …
April 07, 2017
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Ohio Man Sentenced To 16+ Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Fentanyl That Resulted In Overdose Death

November 21, 2017
… cover the funeral costs for an overdose death that resulted from Chandler’s drug distributing. Benjamin C. Glassman, … law enforcement conducted a controlled purchase of fentanyl from Chandler. While executing a search warrant at a … The Hamilton County Heroin Task Force has agents assigned from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Cincinnati …
November 21, 2017
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West Michigan Man Receives 30 Years: Trafficked In Cocaine And Methamphetamine

January 09, 2018
… prison for drug trafficking. Following his discharge from federal supervision in the earlier case, Johnson led a … large quantities of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine from Mexico and to distribute them in West Michigan. This … even in the parts of the United States furthest removed from our southern border. Countering that reach here in …
January 09, 2018
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

October 19, 2016
… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 19, 2016
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Two Dallas Women Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

April 24, 2017
… superseding indictments. The 2015 indictment alleged that from at least May 2013 through July 2014 the defendants … to purchase 30mg oxycodone pills and 10mg hydrocodone pills from her. Cane asks Robinson what price to charge for the … by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service, Texas Department of …
April 24, 2017
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Lubbock Man Involved In Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy Pleads Guilty In Federal Court

June 14, 2017
… male died of an overdose after purchasing furanyl fentanyl from the defendant LUBBOCK, Texas - A Lubbock, Texas, man, … Bryant Jr. and pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy.  The … and determined that the cause of death was drug toxicity from furanyl fentanyl.  A postmortem forensic toxicology …
June 14, 2017
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Members Of Crack Cocaine Distribution Ring Sent To Federal Prison

July 18, 2013
… 2011, agents of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) with assistance from the Rio Grande City Police Department launched an … Esteban Trevino. The group sold large quantities of crack from two adjacent residences in Rio Grande City. In handing … community and strongly admonished them for dealing drugs from their residences in the midst of their families …
July 18, 2013
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Drug Traffickers Plead Guilty On Eve Of Trial

June 05, 2014
… and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.  Marichalar, from Mission, pleaded guilty shortly before the jury was empanelled this morning, while Cross, from Indianapolis, Ind., and Gonzalez, from Miami, Fla., entered their guilty pleas late yesterday. …
June 05, 2014
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25 Waco Area Aryan Brotherhood Members And Associates Charged In Connection With Methamphetamine Distribution Operation

September 11, 2014
… connection with this investigation. “These charges resulted from unprecedented collaboration of federal, state, and … commitment to prevent gang violence and criminal activity from poisoning our communities, but it also sends a clear … less than 50 grams. These charges and arrests resulted from a joint investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau …
September 11, 2014
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Federal Judge Sends Three To Prison For More Than 30 Years In “Operation El Patron”

November 12, 2014
… to federal prison following their convictions resulting from a long-term Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task … in a conspiracy to distribute bulk quantities of cocaine from Texas to Georgia and returned drug proceeds to Laredo … counts of laundering U.S. currency in amounts ranging from $200,468 to $999,465. Flores Sr. and Jr. were both …
November 12, 2014
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Dr. Gerald Ratinov And 18 Others Arrested In Illegal Pain Management Clinic Operation

March 29, 2011
… and has stopped a dirty doctor and his cohorts from continuing to profit from the wretchedness of addiction. We will do our part to … Harris County District Attorney’s Office with participation from the Texas Medical Board, the Texas Pharmacy Board, …
March 29, 2011
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Austin Portion Of Project Delirium Nets 35 Arrests

July 21, 2011
… defendants conspired to launder and transport the proceeds from the drug distribution activity ultimately to the source … Operations Division, comprised of agents and analysts from the DEA, FBI, ICE, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. … Protection, U.S. Marshals Service, as well as attorneys from the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug …
July 21, 2011
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San Juan Resident Sentenced To Prison For Guns And Drugs

October 20, 2011
… one-day trial earlier this year, the jury heard testimony from a Drug Enforcement (DEA) agent that on March 3, 2011, … received information that marijuana was about to be moved from a stash house along the Rio Grande River near San Juan … the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge approximately a quarter-mile from the river. Avila lived at the residence owned by his …
October 20, 2011
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Laredo Los Zetas Arms Traffickers Plead Guilty

January 10, 2013
… learned of a shipment of weapons to be delivered in Laredo from the Dallas area for transportation to Mexico. Otilo … were tasked with receiving the shipment of weapons from Dallas in Laredo and arranging for the transportation … large duffel bags believed to contain weapons were removed from the Explorer and placed inside the tractor. Agents then …
January 10, 2013
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DEA Takes Down Cortez Area Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization

December 01, 2011
… have been charged and arrested, effectively removing them from our streets,” said U.S. Attorney John Walsh. “The drug … today sends a message to those that are profiting from the distribution of this dangerous drug - that the DEA … investigated by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) with assistance from the Southwest Drug Task Force, Immigration and Customs …
December 01, 2011
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St. Jude's Pharmacy Owner In Cape Coral Sentenced To 3 Years For Structuring Bank Deposits

July 23, 2014
… on June 26, 2013.        According to court documents, from at least April 2011 to at least November 15, 2012, in … admitted that she and her husband made structured deposits from the proceeds of the distribution of Oxycodone outside … for cash.  Martha Otano and her husband used the proceeds from the pharmacy to purchase two homes in Cape Coral and …
July 23, 2014
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Husband And Wife “Pill Mill” Operators Sentenced To Prison

April 13, 2015
… large number of those patients residing out of state, many from Kentucky.             At each of the Clinic’s …            The Golds also laundered the unlawful proceeds from the Clinic in a variety of ways, including making cash … to the operation of the Clinic. They also used proceeds from the Clinic to promote their pain business. Among other …
April 13, 2015
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Four Tampa Residents Charged In Conspiracy To Import XLR-11, A Synthetic Cannabinoid, A/k/a "Spice"

May 28, 2015
… synthetic cannabinoid, a/k/a “Spice,” to the United States from China.  A.D. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug … 28, Ahmed Maher Elhelw, 25, and Tanjina Islam Piya, 24, all from Tampa, were charged with conspiracy to import a … District of Florida.  Each of the parcels was shipped from China and allegedly contained three kilogram packages …
May 28, 2015
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Jury Convicts Synthetic Cannabinoid Distributor

July 23, 2015
… that Nahmani purchased vast quantities of illegal chemicals from China and distributed those chemicals in Florida and across the country.  The powdery chemicals shipped from China were turned into both leafy and liquid synthetic … North Miami Beach PD, and Miami-Dade PD; with the support from DEA Office of Diversion Control Drug & Chemical …
July 23, 2015
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OPBAT Assists In $2.5 Million Drug Bust In The Bahamas

September 09, 2015
… Miami.Training@dea.gov NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A joint task force from Operation Bahamas, Turks and (OPBAT) seized 2,842 … weekend. The OPBAT task force was comprised of elements from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. … of Bahamas partnership to combat drug smuggling to and from the Bahamas. The OPBAT Operations Center in Nassau is …
September 09, 2015
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Orlando Man Sentenced To Over 15 Years For Drug And Firearm Offenses

March 20, 2017
… mia032017_fig1.jpg WESTON, Fla. - Eric C. Falkowski, 35, from Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years and 8 … fentanyl, butyryl fentanyl, and other controlled substances from China in order to manufacture counterfeit prescription … As a previously convicted felon, Falkowski was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition under federal law. …
March 20, 2017