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North Dakota State College of Science Wins Top Prize in Red Ribbon Week Video Contest

January 31, 2019
… Week Campus Video PSA Contest! You can view the winning PSA online at https://youtu.be/7DFbh_0Npog . DEA and the … nation’s schools, workplaces, and communities. Each year from October 23–31, people in cities and towns across the …
January 31, 2019
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OCDETF Investigation Results in Convictions of Six Defendants for Nearly 100 Combined Years in Prison for Meth and Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

… and record phone calls and text messages made to and from Laneython Ignont’s cell phone. These wiretapped … and Donterrian Lavender as they were attempting to fly from the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (“DFW”) to Los Angeles International Airport to buy drugs. Agents seized from inside one of their suitcases …
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Lubbock Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Combined 106 Years in Federal Prison

… more than a dozen firearms, and roughly $80,000 cash from drug dealers in Lubbock. “Cocaine is not manufactured in Lubbock nor does the coca plant, from where it is derived, grow in West Texas’ fertile land.  … documents, DEA agents used a confidential informant to buy cocaine from several defendants. They also executed …
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Mariah Ferry and Jose Torrez plead guilty to federal kidnapping charges for abducting and brutally beating two victims suspected of stealing drugs and money

… of two victims suspected of stealing drugs and money from the home of co-defendant, Chase Smothermon, 32, of … contacted M.T. under a ruse that Smothermon wanted to buy marijuana from M.T. When M.T. arrived at Smothermon’s home, Smothermon …
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Mexican Toy Dealer Pleads Guilty In Drug Money Laundering Case

… in Los Angeles on money laundering charges arising from this type of scheme, which is commonly referred to as a … in Colombia and Mexico would contact currency brokers to buy discounted U.S. dollars, which they would use to purchase merchandise from Woody Toys. The dollars being sold were allegedly …
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Two Extradited, Charged With Weapons Support To Hizballah One Defendant Allegedly Agreed To Acquire $9.5 Million Worth Of Surface-to-Air Missiles And Other Weapons For Hizballah

… the extraditions of Siavosh Henareh and Cetin Aksu from Romania, on charges of conspiring to provide narcotics … organization. Aksu is also charged with agreeing to buy a deadly laundry list of weapons on behalf of an … the CS’s. The CSs represented to Henareh that the profits from the sale of the heroin in the United States would be …
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Sarasota Meth Trafficker Pleads Guilty

… to the plea agreement, on September 22, 2022, a deputy from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office retrieved a package … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking

… a pound of methamphetamine during a series of controlled buys. In August 2020, investigators arrested Fowler and …
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South Bend, Indiana man sentenced for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine

… a pound of methamphetamine. Kinds admitted that he had been buying and selling methamphetamine by the pound, and that he …
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Convicted Drug Trafficker Found Guilty

… a confidential informant in Bradenton, for the purpose of buying a half-kilogram of cocaine. During the transaction, …
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Former Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Opioids from Kansas Hospital

… Former Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Opioids from Kansas Hospital March 13, 2023 St. Louis Contact Info … license forfeited after stealing controlled substances from his employer. According to court documents, in March … Park, Kan., removed vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone from an automated dispensing cabinet at Menorah Medical …
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Alleged Sinaloa Cartel Methamphetamine Trafficker Extradited from Mexico

… Alleged Sinaloa Cartel Methamphetamine Trafficker Extradited from Mexico November 18, 2025 San Diego Contact Info Contact … trafficker linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, was extradited from Mexico on October 24th to face drug and firearms … and Smuggling Goods (i.e., firearms and ammunition) from the United States to Mexico. According to court …
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53 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl seized from truckload of Tupperware

… 53 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl seized from truckload of Tupperware April 10, 2019 New York Contact … officers learned that a narcotics shipment was en route from California to the Northeast via tractor trailer. Group … trailer. The organization had replaced the Tupperware from Tupperware boxes with kilograms of fentanyl and …
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Chester County Shuts Down Drug Pipeline From Mexico

… Chester County Shuts Down Drug Pipeline From Mexico July 10, 2013 Philadelphia Contact Info Contact … local operation was designed to attack the drug pipeline from Mexico that runs through Southern Chester County, …
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Michigan Man Sentenced to 96 Months for Drug and Gun Crimes in Burlington

… that on March 7, 2024, Quenton Dodson, 36, originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, was sentenced by Chief United … conducted a series of controlled purchases of drugs from Dodson and, in January 2022, obtained warrants to … (including some of the bills used in one of the controlled buys), about 20 grams of fentanyl, about 65 grams of …
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Operation Shaw-Crank Redemption Results In 11 Defendants Being Sentenced To A Combined Total Of Over 93 Years For Drug-Trafficking

… 93 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation known as “Operation Shaw-Crank … must do all we can to keep children in our community safe from drugs and other illegal activity. I thank the dedicated … and Arkansas River Valley area. Numerous controlled buys, surveillance, search warrants, and monitoring have …
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Australian Man Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Helping Run The “Silk Road” Website

… Road,” a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and … made at today’s plea and other court proceedings: From January 2011, up to and including October 2, 2013, the …
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Last Of The Arellano-Felix Brothers Sentenced

… (AFO) moved hundreds of tons of cocaine and marijuana from Mexico and Colombia into the U.S. and made hundreds of … the dedicated team of prosecutors and federal agents from the DEA, FBI and IRS for overcoming the extreme … some of the income to pay AFO members to commit crimes; to buy firearms, ammunition and vehicles; to travel on …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges 13 Members And Associates Of Lower East Side Narcotics Organization With Narcotics And Firearms Offenses

… two undercover NYPD officers made approximately 25 buys of cocaine and crack cocaine from various members of the Organization. In September 2012, the undercover officers bought a gun from a member of the Organization that, based on ballistics …
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New York Man Sentenced to 54 Months in Prison for Selling Counterfeit Xanax on Dark Web

… an anti-anxiety drug, on the darknet and then reselling it from at least October 2019 through May 2021. He also … of counterfeit/misbranded pills.  “Any medication purchased online should be considered suspicious,” DEA St. Louis … should only be filled by a licensed pharmacist, not bought online from unknown and unreliable sources.” Assistant U.S. …
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Alleged Member of Cartel Enforcement Group Extradited from Mexico

… Alleged Member of Cartel Enforcement Group Extradited from Mexico February 21, 2025 San Diego Contact Info Contact … Nueva Generación, commonly known as CJNG, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday and made his … producer and chemical importer, using precursors procured from China and India. CJNG is one of the most powerful …
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Sweeping DEA Operation Targets Pharmacy Burglaries and the Illegal Sale of Addictive Prescription Medications

… today in the Eastern District of Arkansas, representatives from DEA joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office to announce the …   were arrested on charges of allegedly operating an online telehealth website that distributed Adderall and …
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California Man Sentenced to Prison for Transporting Narcotics Through the Orlando Airport

… investigation revealed that Scarlett had brought narcotics from California to Florida on multiple occasions. He was … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Orlando Man Sentenced to 9 Years in Federal Prison on Cocaine and Ecstasy Charges

… and 2021. Brenes-Colon coordinated shipments of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Florida and delivered cocaine to Georgi … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Bakersfield trucker sentenced for shipping drugs sourced from Mexico

… Bakersfield trucker sentenced for shipping drugs sourced from Mexico January 28, 2019 San Francisco Contact Info … After Alvarez-Muniz arranged for the shipment of the drugs from Mexico to Mira Loma, Jennings picked up the drugs and …
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Man Indicted for Taking Controlled Substances from Kansas Hospital

… Man Indicted for Taking Controlled Substances from Kansas Hospital November 01, 2021 St. Louis Contact … is accused of removing vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone from an automated dispensing cabinet in March 2021 at …
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South Texas Dealer Sentenced for Selling Fentanyl to Teenager Resulting in Death

… revealed text messages which showed the victim wanting to buy “pase” from Carlos. “Pase” was code for cocaine. Carlos indicated … how young the victim was, it still didn't stop Jose Carlos from selling deadly fentanyl to the victim" said DEA Special …
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Green Bay Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Dealing Fentanyl Resulting in Death and Possessing a Firearm

… on extended supervision at the time, having been released from state prison for felony cocaine delivery. As part of an … the Brown County Drug Task Force (BCDTF) made controlled buys during which Denruyter sold fentanyl pills to an … case.” “Far too many lives have been lost across Wisconsin from fentanyl poisonings, and the DEA will continue working …
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Five Defendants Charged in San Jose Drug Distribution Schemes

… federal investigations into the movement of drugs from Mexico to the streets of the San Jose area.   “We … source purchased an additional kilogram of methamphetamine from the defendants for $2,700.  Rangel, Lozano, and Alvarez … price of the methamphetamine if the source were willing to buy larger quantities.  Like De La Cruz, Torres Cruz is …