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DEA Washington Launches New Conference Series to Work with Healthcare Professionals & Help End the Overdose Crisis

… scale throughout the DMV, in making our communities safer from the problems associated with prescription drug …
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Essex Man Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison for Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… DTO member obtained two to three ounces of crack cocaine from Hammond, which were then sold to the DTO’s customers. …
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Final Member of Large Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization in Virginia, Sentenced

… a member of a conspiracy that trafficked methamphetamine from the West coast into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced …
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Brother and Sister Plead Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl Sales

…  A review of the female victim’s phone found text messages from the previous evening with Larry Eastman where the …
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Montgomery County Drug Dealer Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl That Led to an Overdose Death

… release, for distribution of fentanyl.  A victim died from using drugs that Agbi distributed.  Judge Grimm also …
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Silver Spring, Maryland Man Faces Federal Charges for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in the Death of a Minor Victim

… advised law enforcement the victim purchased “percs” from an individual known as “Mick”.  The witness also …
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Union Bank of California Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement And Forfeits $21.6 Million To Resolve Bank Secrecy Act Violations

… San Diego and Miami Field Divisions, with assistance from the DEA Bogota Country Office, the DEA Madrid Country …
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Jose Morales Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering A Witness In A Baltimore City Case

… to prevent Long, who was also an employee of Morales, from testifying against him. The jury learned that three …
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Aryan brotherhood associate pleads guilty to a racketeering conspiracy that directed murders and other violent crimes from inside California prisons

… conspiracy that directed murders and other violent crimes from inside California prisons November 30, 2020 San … acts involving murder and drug trafficking offenses. From their shared cell in California State Prison (CSP) …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities April 26, 2024 Louisville Contact Info … Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event aims to remove unneeded prescriptions from homes to help prevent medication misuse by offering …
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Member of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Pleads Guilty to a Federal Racketeering, Distributing Large Quantities of Drugs, Two Murders and an Attempted Murder

… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least 2016 through March 26, 2020, Bobby Cannon was … East Baltimore.  On January 4, 2019, Cannon borrowed a car from a female associate in southwest Baltimore and later … officers saw that Cannon had a gun, which they recovered from his jacket pocket.  Officers then searched Cannon’s van …
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Six Men Facing Federal Drug Charges

… were seized by law enforcement.  The packages were shipped from Brownsville, Texas to an address associated with the … to Velasquez’s residence.  Tracking information obtained from the shipping company revealed that IP addresses … on January 20, 2022, based on arrest warrants issued from the criminal complaint.  As part of these arrests, law …
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Money Launderer and Wholesale Supplier of Narcotics to East Baltimore Monument Street Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison and Ordered to Forfeit $472,000

… Investigators conducted controlled purchases of narcotics from drug distributors in the shops, including Roundheart, … mixture. The total proceeds obtained by Williams from supplying controlled substances to co-conspirators was … or leased. Investigators recovered a total of $363,233 from various bank accounts associated with Williams' drug …
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Manager of Pain Clinic, Her Boyfriend, and Customers Facing Federal Charges for a Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… forged prescriptions for opioids using prescription pads from the clinics’ doctors, then illegally sold the forged … prescriptions.  For example, the complaint alleges that from July 2019 to April 2021, more than 40 prescriptions … that pharmacies had begun to refuse opioid prescriptions from Memorial Care.  The criminal complaint further alleges …
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Six indicted in drug conspiracy that included production and distribution of power synthetic opioid

… in the six-count indictment in U.S. District Court and from testimony in court proceedings, six defendants are … in the federal system.   According to the indictment, and from testimony delivered in court proceedings, Forrester …   “Illegal opioid production and distribution, whether online or through conventional drug distribution methods, is …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… 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 … with whom we were able to make these arrests and seizures from these violent drug trafficking organizations”. …
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DEA Washington Chief Issues Public Safety Alert: Dangerous Increase in Fake Rx Pills Containing Fentanyl

… are being so well made they aren’t able to be told apart from legitimate pills, outside testing. DEA lab analyses … fatal overdose deaths in unwitting victims across our area, from every background and every lifestyle,” said Special … lost to this horrible danger is too many. Only ONE pill from illegitimate sources can kill, and has. And we’re …
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Thirty-Five Indicted For Trafficking Heroin Throughout Virginia Peninsula

… DEA’s mission to take down drug trafficking organizations from the street to the source,” said DEA SAC Cooper-Davis. … organization that smuggles large quantities of heroin from New York City into the Tidewater area, which has been … The indictment alleges that after obtaining the heroin from Taylor’s lieutenants, the mid-level distributors would …
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Eight Charged in Oregon with Trafficking Narcotics Across the United States from Mexico by Hiding Fentanyl in Cereal Boxes and Children's Toys

… Oregon with Trafficking Narcotics Across the United States from Mexico by Hiding Fentanyl in Cereal Boxes and … organization (TCO) transporting narcotics into California from Mexico and distributing it across the United States … including methamphetamine and fentanyl into California from Mexico before distributing it across the United States, …
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Matriarch Sentenced for Role in Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization

… United States WASHINGTON, DC- According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Chinda, … received clandestine maritime and air shipments of cocaine from sources in South America. Individual shipments of … America, managed the proceeds that the organization made from the sale of cocaine and, at times, paid sources of …
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Colombian Drug Kingpin Charged With Smuggling 35 Pounds Of Heroin Destined For New York In Freight Containers

… centers on a shipment of 16 kilos of (over 35 lbs.) seized from a freighter ship in Miami on January 10, 2012. The load … traffickers ran their business on principals similar to an online commerce company; one - place an order, two- fill the …
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Three Defendants Arrested for Operating Narcotics Delivery Service Responsible for Three Overdose Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine

… Delivery Service Responsible for Three Overdose Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine February 01, 2022 New York … According to the allegations in the complaint [1] : From at least in or about 2020 to at least in or about 2021, …
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Pharmacist arrested in diversion of 5,000 oxycodone pills worth up to $150,000 from a pharmacy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

… in diversion of 5,000 oxycodone pills worth up to $150,000 from a pharmacy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn November 01, 2018 … for allegedly diverting thousands of oxycodone pills from the Brooklyn pharmacy where she was employed to the …
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Webster Man Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison For Role In Drug Organization That Trafficked Cocaine from Puerto Rico Via Mail

… For Role In Drug Organization That Trafficked Cocaine from Puerto Rico Via Mail June 16, 2025 New England Contact … of multiple kilogram-weight packages of suspected narcotics from Puerto Rico to Worcester County in Massachusetts. On at … packages believed to contain cocaine or other narcotics from addresses not associated with him and then delivering …
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DEA Hosts the 27th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday to Remove Unneeded Medications from Homes

… Take Back Day on Saturday to Remove Unneeded Medications from Homes October 25, 2024 Seattle Contact Info Contact Us … Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  National Prescription Drug Take Back … misuse starts when young people take drugs they do not need from their parent’s or grandparent’s medicine cabinet.  …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities April 26, 2024 El Paso Contact Info Contact … Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event aims to remove unneeded prescriptions from homes to help prevent medication misuse by offering …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities April 26, 2024 Headquarters Contact Info … Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event aims to remove unneeded prescriptions from homes to help prevent medication misuse by offering …
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North Carolina Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Trafficking 10 Kilos of Cocaine

… to ship a package containing 10 kilograms of cocaine from San Diego, California, to Portsmouth, Virginia. … criminal organizations and to protect our communities from their crimes. My office will persist in prosecuting … Inspectors work aggressively to eliminate illegal narcotics from the U.S. Mail,” said Damon E. Wood, Inspector in …
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DEA-New Jersey instrumental in establishment of statewide “Handle With Care” program

… of a search warrant in the home; being forcibly displaced from a home by a fire, eviction, or other event; or having a … a child the critical support he or she needs to recover from a traumatic event,” said Attorney General Grewal. “By … enforcement officers in New Jersey will view the symposium online on that date or by Dec. 31, 2020, the effective date …
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Matriarch of Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

… into the United States. According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Herlinda … received maritime and clandestine air shipments of cocaine from sources in South America.  Individual shipments of … devastating wave of fear and destruction that reverberated from Honduras to the U.S.,” said Jessica D. Aber, U.S. …