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DEA Issues Warning Over Counterfeit Pills

May 21, 2021
… morphine.  DEA lab analysis has identified pills ranging from .02 milligrams to 5.1 milligrams of fentanyl per … be as little as 2 milligrams.  Counterfeit pills purchased online or through social media websites pose a serious … DEA urges the public to obtain prescription drugs only from state-licensed pharmacies that are located in the …
May 21, 2021
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Local Pain Doctor Named In A 114 Count Indictment; Accused Of Illegally Issuing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Prescriptions For Controlled Substances

April 26, 2016
… the controlled substances in return for payments from patients and insurance companies. The indictment … Control training, by directing office staff to complete online courses for him; signing blank prescriptions and … persons to obtain controlled substances prescriptions from individuals not medically trained or certified to do …
April 26, 2016
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11 Alleged Members Of A Drug Trafficking Organization Charged In Federal Court

May 26, 2016
… Brought cocaine and heroin into Montgomery County area from New Jersey (GREENBELT - , Md. - A federal grand jury … to the indictment and evidence presented to the court, from at least March 2014 to May 2016, the defendants …
May 26, 2016
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BGF Commander And Gang Member Sentenced To Prison For Participating In A Racketeering Conspiracy

January 20, 2011
… facilities. According to their plea agreements, from 2006 through June 2010, Duncan and McFadden were … was overheard directing a BGF “commander” to collect $25 from each BGF member under the “commander’s” control, which …
January 20, 2011
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Large-Scale Distributor Of Unapproved Foreign Prescription Drugs Indicted

August 08, 2014
… as a trans-shipper, Quinn received non-FDA-approved drugs from countries such as India and the United Arab Emirates, … and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Arlington County Police Department.  Assistant U.S. …
August 08, 2014
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Detection of Phenethylamine, Amphetamine, and Tryptamine Imine By-Products from an Acetone Extraction (Microgram Journal 2011;8(1):29-35)

January 01, 2011
Microgram
… Amphetamine, and Tryptamine Imine By-Products from an Acetone Extraction (Microgram Journal … Amphetamine, and Tryptamine Imine By-Products from an Acetone Extraction (Microgram Journal …
January 01, 2011
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Hanover Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Other Drugs

March 01, 2022
… Law Enforcement Also Seized 15 Firearms from Conspirators, including Six from Pitts, and more than $1.5 Million Cash in Drug Proceeds … cocaine, and other drugs, shipped through the U.S. Mail from California to Maryland.  Pitts admitted that during his …
March 01, 2022
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Baltimore Drug Dealer Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl, Cocaine, Heroin & Gun Possession

March 18, 2022
… phone activity and noted that the victim purchased heroin from a contact labeled “T” on at least seven occasions.  The last date the victim purchased heroin from “T” was on October 14, 2017, three days before the … On November 9, 2017, investigators watched Shaheed depart from his Baltimore, Maryland residence and travel to a gas …
March 18, 2022
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Baltimore Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Federal Prison for Selling Fentanyl and Other Narcotics to Customers Across Four States

July 20, 2022
… heroin, and other controlled substances in Baltimore.  From January 2017 to December 2020, scores of customers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia …
July 20, 2022
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Member of Gregory Butler Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for His Role in the Drug Distribution Conspiracy

November 15, 2021
… and Fentanyl sales to Drug Users and Redistributors from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania … Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from October 2018 to April 2019, FBI investigators … and fentanyl sales to drug users and redistributors from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. …
November 15, 2021
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Ringleader of Extensive Sinaloa Cartel Network Sentenced

July 12, 2021
… According to court documents, Ramiro Ramirez-Barreto, 44, from the Mexican State of Morelos, operated a continuing … Ramirez-Barreto supplied him with 60 kilograms of heroin from early 2018 to mid-2019. Another one of … Cookout In August 2019, over 120 law enforcement officers from 30 law enforcement agencies in Virginia, North …
July 12, 2021
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Parcel Interdiction Leads to Guilty Plea

June 15, 2021
… to his guilty plea, on February 19, 2020 an officer from the Maryland State Police Parcel Interdiction … with “sham” cocaine, leaving one ounce of real cocaine from one of the original bricks.  An undercover officer … name.  Avalos answered the door and accepted the parcel from the undercover officer. Avalos took possession of the …
June 15, 2021
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Baltimore Felon Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for His Participation in a Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

March 16, 2021
… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least May 2020 through August 2020, Crosby … several of these meetings and obtained video surveillance from the gas station. On August 9, 2020, law enforcement … vehicle, investigators recovered over 100 grams of fentanyl from a bag inside the center console of the vehicle.  After …
March 16, 2021
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Fourteen people indicted, $1 million worth of drugs and 65 firearms seized in massive takedown

September 13, 2019
… one, to safely remove violent criminals, guns and drugs from our neighborhoods.” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, … High Tide is the latest highly-coordinated effort from federal, state, and local law enforcement to tackle … known and felt in Hampton Roads, as we apprehend and remove from the streets those individuals who have allegedly …
September 13, 2019
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Baltimore Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm in a School Zone and for Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl and Other Drugs

November 15, 2022
… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from October 2020 through March 1, 2021, Watkins was engaged … taking possession of approximately one kilogram of fentanyl from an associate who had brought the drugs from the Pikesville stash house.  Watkins took the fentanyl …
November 15, 2022
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

December 17, 2021
… announced the results of a public safety surge that lasted from September 29, 2021 through December 14, 2021. The surge … fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced largely from China. These fake prescription pills are designed to … in your community, please submit your anonymous tip online through the DEA Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov . …
December 17, 2021
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Pharmacy Owners Convicted of Illegally Selling 10 Million Hydrocodone Pills Over The Internet, Laundering $20 Million in Proceeds and Failing to Pay Taxes

August 01, 2008
… D.C., and that there was no doctor patient relationship. From January 1, 2005 through October 10, 2006, NewCare … in monetary transactions with criminally derived proceeds from the illegal sale of hydrocodone, depositing their …
August 01, 2008
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Groundbreaking Extradition Lands ELN Members in Texas for Narco-Terrorism and International Cocaine Distribution

August 19, 2021
… and distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia.   This is the first time believed members of … in an ongoing 20-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine from Colombia to the United States knowing or intending to … asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov. The U.S. Department of State, …
August 19, 2021
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DEA Operation Adam Bomb Leads To Major Tax Fraud Investigation By The IRS And Issuance Of Federal “John Doe” Summonses

December 19, 2014
… that will assist the IRS in identifying U.S. taxpayers who, from the years 2005 through 2013, used Sovereign’s services … entity. As a result of a DEA-Los Angeles investigation of online narcotics trafficking known as OPERATION ADAM BOMB, … how outstanding investigative results can be derived from a culture of interagency cooperation.” According to the …
December 19, 2014
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Guatemalan Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Using U.S. Registered Aircraft To Transport Thousands Of Kilograms Of Cocaine

March 03, 2016
… in Central and South America. “The plea agreement received from Chang-Monroy, a cocaine transporter in the … for the purpose of transporting large amounts of cocaine from clandestine airstrips in Venezuela to clandestine … drug trafficking organization in exchange for a percentage from the sale of the cocaine that was successfully …
March 03, 2016
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Leader Of A Baltimore Drug Organization Sentenced To Over 15 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Over 1,000 Kilograms Of Marijuana And To Launder Drug Proceeds

May 09, 2016
… in Canada in early August 2013, and D’Amico was extradited from Colombia, South America. The sentence was announced by … with other conspirators at a stash house in Baltimore. From 2007 through June 2009, Nicka, D’Amico, and Peterson …
May 09, 2016
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Hanover Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Other Drugs Shipped Across the US to Maryland

March 01, 2022
… cocaine, and other drugs, shipped through the U.S. Mail from California to Maryland.  Pitts admitted that during his … 2020, U.S. postal inspectors interdicted several parcels from the mail, including two parcels bound for an address in … enforcement recovered more than two kilograms of cocaine from one parcel and more than two kilograms of fentanyl from …
March 01, 2022
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Top Lieutenant and Head of Security for Rafael Caro Quintero Extradited from Mexico to Face Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Charges

March 02, 2023
… and Head of Security for Rafael Caro Quintero Extradited from Mexico to Face Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms … arrested in Mexico on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York and subsequently extradited from Mexico to the United States on March 1, 2023. Quintero …
March 02, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl in Petersburg

March 30, 2022
… A series of nine controlled purchases of fentanyl were made from Mitchell between April 2021 and October 2021. Mitchell …
March 30, 2022
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Abingdon Man to Serve More Than 17 Years for Trafficking Methamphetamine

April 21, 2022
… executed several controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Phillips in early 2021. While executing a search …
April 21, 2022
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Roanoke Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Dealing Heroin

April 25, 2022
… controlled purchases of approximately four ounces of heroin from Davenport.  Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of …
April 25, 2022
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Member of International Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced

March 03, 2022
… to assist him in a cocaine drug trafficking conspiracy. From that residence, Rodriguez-Preciado distributed …
March 03, 2022
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Bristol Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Role in Trafficking Methamphetamine

January 31, 2022
… Fabian DeJesus, 49, and others trafficked methamphetamine from sources in Atlanta to various locations in Eastern …
January 31, 2022
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Man Sentenced for Sale of Fentanyl and Illegal Possession of Firearms

February 23, 2022
… felony offenses in Virginia and was thus prohibited from possessing firearms at the time of this offense.   …
February 23, 2022
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Luray Woman Sentenced for Distributing Methamphetamine

February 04, 2022
… search of duffle bags that Stidham and Strate had removed from the residence prior to the search led to the discovery …
February 04, 2022