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Woman Who Managed On-Demand Drug Delivery Service that Catered to Students and Young Professionals Sentenced to Over Four Years in Federal Prison

April 18, 2025
… 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C). According to the plea agreement, from April 2023 through September 2023, Gonzalez managed an … Daniel Pastor is prosecuting the case with assistance from Andy Ding. The prosecution is the result of an …
April 18, 2025
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Tangipahoa Parish Resident Indicted for Fentanyl Distribution Resulting in Death

April 16, 2025
… criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task …
April 16, 2025
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Sixteen Charged in Takedown of Drug Trafficking Network

April 17, 2025
… exposed a criminal network that peddled poison from coast to coast. Law enforcement put their collective … and launder the proceeds of the drug trafficking enterprise from other states, including Colorado, Minnesota and …
April 17, 2025
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Darknet Vendor Sentenced for Conspiracy to Sell Counterfeit Drugs

April 14, 2025
… serve 85 percent of his prison sentence. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. … judgment, representing the amount of proceeds he received from the scheme. Jim Scott, Special Agent in Charge, DEA, …
April 14, 2025
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 08, 2023
… Last Mile comprised 1,436 investigations conducted from May 1, 2022 through May 1, 2023, in collaboration with … to nearly 193 million deadly doses of fentanyl removed from communities across the United States, which have …
May 08, 2023
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DEA New Jersey to take part in Newark/Philadelphia Regional Medicare Fraud Strike Force

August 13, 2018
… try to defraud the health care system or try to profit from the misery of people battling addiction to opioids. … these cases, further protecting the citizens of New Jersey from this kind of fraud and abuse.” “The Newark/Philadelphia …
August 13, 2018
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

January 30, 2020
… even greater decreases – over 13 percent – in overdoses from controlled prescription opioids. Many challenges … by DEA field division. The assessment factors in data from many sources, including drug seizures, drug purity, …
January 30, 2020
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Sixth hash oil lab dismantled by DEA within three week period

May 24, 2019
… operation. Large quantities of ethanol were removed from the property by San Diego County HAZMAT.  his is the … oil, also known as THC or honey oil, is commonly extracted from marijuana plant material using volatile solvents.  A s …
May 24, 2019
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Doctor who operated oxycodone and fentanyl diversion scheme sentenced to 5 years in prison

July 02, 2019
… that can lead to respiratory depression and death.   From approximately 2015 until his arrest in November 2017, … agents recovered hundreds of fentanyl sprays and patches from the closet of his residence, along with approximately …
July 02, 2019
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DEA to accept vaping devices and cartridges as part of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

October 18, 2019
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … more being added each day Collection sites will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. The public can find a …
October 18, 2019
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Montgomery Nurse Practitioner receives 10-year sentence

May 30, 2019
… health care fraud.    The trial evidence showed that, from 2013 through 2016, Akwuba worked at Family Practice, a … sentence imposed in this case will deter other prescribers from following in her footsteps and causing harm to their …
May 30, 2019
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Top Dealer in Han Gil Case Pleads Guilty

June 20, 2019
… out of trap rooms.     Mun collected thousands of dollars from Freeman alone, and often tipped off dealers before law … Administration conducted the investigation with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Coppell Police …
June 20, 2019
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Approximately 100,000 Fake Oxycodone Pills Containing Fentanyl

July 19, 2022
… Prevention, more than 107,000 people have died as a result from a drug overdose or poisoning in the U.S. Criminal drug … (Adderall®). The only safe medications are ones that come from licensed and accredited medical professionals. DEA …
July 19, 2022
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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

September 27, 2021
… “The states in the Denver Division are not immune from this epidemic, in Colorado last year we saw a 38% … Reuter. “The most important message you can take away from this is to only take pills prescribed by your doctor, …
September 27, 2021
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Rock Hill Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Involvement in Fentanyl Distribution Ring

February 02, 2023
… amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana from a distributor in Southern California.  Based upon the … group shipped more than 255 packages containing the drugs from California during a one-year period and distributed …
February 02, 2023
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Four Defendants Await Sentencing After Pleading Guilty to Roles in Operation of Industrial-Level Pill Production

April 21, 2022
… of our communities.”  “As part of safeguarding our borders from serious health and security threats, Customs and Border … voluntarily forfeited the materials. In 2020, investigators from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration flagged a …
April 21, 2022
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Ten Arrested In Southeastern Massachusetts Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

July 25, 2022
… fentanyl and substantial amounts of cash and were seized from target locations. According to the charging documents, … to regularly distribute multi-kilograms of fentanyl from a base of operations at a stash house in Fall River. …
July 25, 2022
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Bridgeport Gang Member Pleads Guilty To Federal Racketeering Charge

June 15, 2022
… A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a racketeering charge stemming from his participation in a violent Bridgeport street gang. … narcotics, laundered narcotics proceeds, and stole cars from inside and outside Connecticut and used the cars to …
June 15, 2022
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Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy After Officers Seize $1 Million Worth of Cocaine in I-70 Traffic Stop

May 01, 2024
… officers seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a rental truck that was stopped on Interstate 70 in … and Acosta-Bermejo, attempted to prevent the officer from getting behind the Penske truck to initiate a stop. …
May 01, 2024
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Kansas City Man Sentenced for Meth Conspiracy, Illegal Firearm

April 17, 2024
… that he participated in the drug-trafficking conspiracy from Feb. 28, 2020, to Sept. 20, 2022. Co-defendant Jose … methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl sourced from Mexico. Sanchez-Mendez managed the importation, …
April 17, 2024
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Fentanyl, Guns Result in 35 Years in Prison

December 06, 2023
… to distribute fentanyl in Christian and Greene counties from Sept. 23, 2018, to Nov. 14, 2019. Wheeler was a … paraphernalia. According to court documents, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that Missouri …
December 06, 2023
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Kansas City Woman Sentenced For Illegal Firearm

January 21, 2022
… Officers Seized 19 Firearms, Illegal Drugs from Residence KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Missouri, … tasers, police identification and other police items stolen from Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. officers. …
January 21, 2022
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Rockstar Burgers owner indicted with 18 others in drug-trafficking conspiracy

October 07, 2020
… alleges that all 18 defendants participated in a conspiracy from Jan. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2020, to distribute more … to forfeit to the government all property derived from the proceeds of the drug-trafficking conspiracy, …
October 07, 2020
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Missouri, California Men Plead Guilty to Marijuana Trafficking

May 05, 2020
… marijuana in Boone County, Missouri., and elsewhere from January 1, 2017, to February 8, 2019. Davis admitted … he organized and led a conspiracy to distribute marijuana from California and Oregon to locations throughout the …
May 05, 2020
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Leader of Drug Ring Pleads Guilty as Federal Trial is Set to Begin

March 25, 2024
… overdose, including by directing others to destroy evidence from the death scene. Beardsley bought and sold fentanyl, … law enforcement conducted five controlled purchases from Beardsley. In addition, Beardsley and his …
March 25, 2024
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Senior FARC Commander Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute Massive Quantities of Cocaine for Importation into the United States

August 14, 2023
… violence, power and notoriety to import tons of cocaine from Colombia into New York City,” stated DEA Administrator … selling cocaine to drug traffickers or extorting payments from traffickers operating in the 30th Front’s territory. …
August 14, 2023
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Former Suffolk County Legislator Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Public Records and Patronizing a Prostitute

October 17, 2022
… Dr. Spencer served as a Suffolk County Legislator from January 2012 through December 2021 representing Suffolk … Island Heroin Task Force comprises law enforcement agents from the DEA, New York State Police, Suffolk County Police …
October 17, 2022
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Narcotics Dealer Arrested in Connection with Multiple Overdose Deaths

March 31, 2022
… in this activity accountable.” As alleged in the Complaint: From at least in or about January 2020 up to and including … several undercover purchases of fentanyl-laced heroin from PELOQUIN and certain of his co-conspirators in which …
March 31, 2022
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Defendant Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Attempting to Murder U.S. Government Informant

March 23, 2022
… arranged for the murder of an individual whom he knew from prior narcotics transactions and believed to be … and that he wanted to prevent that individual from providing information to U.S. law enforcement. This …
March 23, 2022
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Four MS-13 Gang Members Convicted of Racketeering, Violent Crimes, and Drug Distribution

March 18, 2022
… they shot him. Perez Sandoval then drove the associates from the scene of the shooting to Rosales Juarez’s … M.R.G., and, on July 3, 2017, GLCS gang members traveled from Prince William County to Charlottesville to murder …
March 18, 2022