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Drug Induced Homicide

March 14, 2018
… at the scene.   Toxicology reports indicate that he died from an overdose from heroin that contained a fentanyl compound. The … the opioid crisis.  The Task Force has further support from the various prosecutor levels to include the U.S. …
March 14, 2018
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DEA Announces 15th National Drug Take Back

April 25, 2018
… and Yuma areas Event will take place throughout Arizona from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, April 28th phx042518img.jpg … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place April 28th from 10 am-2 pm local time.  Sites will be set up throughout … in Arizona can prevent the potential onset of addiction from within their own homes and significantly reduce the …
April 25, 2018
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Former National Director Of Anti-corruption In Colombia Extradited To The United States To Face Wire Fraud And Money Laundering Charges Related To Foreign Bribery

May 18, 2018
… Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and an attorney from Colombia were extradited yesterday to the United States … by Moreno and Pinilla who attempted to entice a bribe from the CS.  Specifically, in exchange for 100 million … offered to give the CS copies of sworn statements taken from cooperators who had testified against the CS.  In June …
May 18, 2018
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Albuquerque Man Arrested On Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Charges

December 03, 2012
… agents seized approximately 21.1 pounds of methamphetamine from two residences and a vehicle allegedly associated with … agents recovered approximately 18 pounds of methamphetamine from a residence on the west side of Albuquerque and later seized another pound of methamphetamine from Padilla’s residence, also located on the west side.  …
December 03, 2012
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

July 29, 2015
… 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th EL PASO - DEA … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
July 29, 2015
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Columbus Man Gets 5 Year Sentence In Marijuana And Cocaine Distribution Case

July 03, 2013
… multi-thousand pounds of marijuana were being transported from Arizona to the Columbus area. Between the mid 2000’s … vehicles to transport marijuana and bulk currency to and from Arizona and Ohio. The organization utilized stash … Johnston received more than five kilograms of cocaine from Arizona for distribution in the Columbus, Ohio area. …
July 03, 2013
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Cincinnati Man Receives 12 Year Prison Sentence For Oxycodone Distribution Scheme

May 29, 2014
… - (571) 362-0443 Nicholas Sandlin directed others to travel from Ohio to Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kansas pain … prison term.    Sandlin admitted to conspiring with others from December of 2011, through February of 2013, to … to pain clinics in Florida, in which numerous individuals from the Greater Cincinnati area would obtain similar …
May 29, 2014
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Leader Of Large Prescription Drug Trafficking Ring Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison

July 09, 2015
… that smuggled large quantities of Alprolazam (Xanax) from Mexico to Kentucky and Tennessee dating back to 1996 … trafficking organization, which brought prescription drugs from Mexico to eastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee for … firearms, vehicles, and other property. King admitted that, from around 1996 until September of 2013, he developed a …
July 09, 2015
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DEA To Hold 10TH National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

September 22, 2015
… and Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th DETROIT - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
September 22, 2015
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Seventh Member Of Ohio Oxycodone Money Laundering Conspiracy Pleads

September 13, 2016
… to participating in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from the illegal sale of dangerous painkillers, including … According to court documents, Castro deposited the proceeds from the illegal sale of oxycodone to a bank account in … by someone Castro knew was illegally trafficking pills from Las Vegas to Columbus. Castro pleaded guilty to one …
September 13, 2016
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Two Defendants Sentenced In Opioid Pill Mill Case

March 24, 2017
… by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater stemming from their involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced … drug distribution conspiracy.  That indictment alleged that from at least May 2013 through July 2014, the defendants … in Brady, Texas, he and Barron transferred the oxycodone from the prescription bottle labelled for the other …
March 24, 2017
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

April 22, 2014
… on Drug Use and Health.  And more Americans died in 2010 from overdoses of prescription (22,134, including 16,651 from narcotic painkillers) than from motor vehicle accidents, says the Centers for Disease …
April 22, 2014
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“Shrek” Receives Significant Sentence In Operation El Patron

December 22, 2014
… drug and international money laundering charges resulting from a long-term Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task … organization. He assisted with a drug conspiracy, existing from 2006 to 2010, that shipped cocaine, marijuana and U.S. currency from Mexico through Laredo to Atlanta, Ga., and throughout …
December 22, 2014
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More Los Zetas Money Launderers Convicted, Others Head To Prison

October 30, 2012
… who transported bulk cash drug proceeds in tractor trailers from the Chicago, Ill., area to Laredo. Casarez then … as a commercial truck driver who transported drug proceeds from the Chicago area to Laredo. Santos was implicated in … for the organization and coordinated the cash deliveries from the Chicago area to Laredo totaling approximately $6 …
October 30, 2012
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19 Arrested In Connection With Austin-Based Cocaine Distribution And Bulk Cash Smuggling Operation

February 21, 2013
… count of bulk cash smuggling. The indictment alleges that from January 2009 to the present the defendants conspired to … multiple sources of cocaine smuggled into the United States from Mexico. Authorities allege that in addition to … Florida and Alabama for further distribution. Proceeds from the sale of the cocaine were transported back to Austin …
February 21, 2013
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Denver Woman Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Illegally Distributing Prescription And Illicit Drugs

October 17, 2012
… of confidants who would obtain controlled substances, all from the same medical doctor.  The confidants would then … officers observed Hee and a co-defendant sell the narcotics from an SUV in various parking lots.  As part of the … (commonly known as ecstasy), cocaine, and marijuana from Hee and her co-defendant.  Some of the sales took place …
October 17, 2012
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Public Response To DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Keeps Growing

May 02, 2013
… to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers. … (371 tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 5,829 locations … with DEA on the event.  When added to the collections from DEA’s previous five Take-Back events, more than 2.8 …
May 02, 2013
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Longmont Police Department And DEA Arrest Doctor For Oxycodone Distribution

August 19, 2015
… Indictment alleges doctor illegally distributed from his practice LONGMONT, Colo. - The Longmont Police … of Oxycodone, a schedule II controlled substance, from his medical practice.  The arrest was based on a Grand Jury Indictment from the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office.  The …
August 19, 2015
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DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Sets New Record

May 06, 2016
… or approximately 17.7 tons of medicines that were prevented from being diverted for abuse, misuse, or accidental … drug abusers report in surveys that they get their drugs from friends and family.  Americans understand that cleaning out old prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and bedside tables …
May 06, 2016
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Naples Man Pleads Guilty In Connection With Sunshine Pharmacy Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

February 19, 2015
… been scheduled.           According to the plea agreement, from February 2009 through July 2012, Adam Parrish conspired … and caused claims to be submitted for reimbursement from the Medicaid, Medicare, and TRICARE programs for … and caused claims to be submitted for reimbursement from these programs for prescriptions for beneficiaries and …
February 19, 2015
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Three Sentenced In Methamphetamine Conspiracy

June 03, 2015
… approximately two to four kilograms of methamphetamine from Atlanta to Panama City Beach on approximately 10 … up at Love’s apartment carrying cash in amounts ranging from approximately $4,000 to $13,900, for the purchase of methamphetamine from Love.  Kreis and Bettinger admitted that they had …
June 03, 2015
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Head Pharmacist Of West Orange Pharmacy Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison For Selling Oxycodone Without Prescriptions

July 10, 2014
… $1.5 million, consisting of illegal profits obtained from his illegal sales of oxycodone and his submission of … substance when presented with a written prescription from a doctor.   On at least six separate occasions from Feb. 1, 2012, to August 6, 2012, Stefanelli sold …
July 10, 2014
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Former NY Law Firm Partner Admits To Conspiring To Defraud Two Law Firms Out Of More Than $7 Million

November 20, 2017
… litigation support companies to obtain millions of dollars from two law firms where she was a partner. Keila Ravelo, … for a company identified in the indictment as “Law Firm 1” from July 1, 2005, through October 2010. She then became …
November 20, 2017
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DEA New Jersey Welcomes New Special Agent In Charge

December 18, 2017
… first female SAC for DEA in New Jersey.  “I am originally from the Boston area and I am glad to be back in the … In 2016, approximately 1,900 residents of New Jersey died from an opioid overdose.  SAC Nickerson said, “We will … in as a Special Agent in the Boston Division, and graduated from the DEA Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  Upon graduating …
December 18, 2017
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Guatemalan Drug Smuggler Convicted

September 23, 2013
… According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, from a date unknown to September 2011, Hernandez-Preciado … organized a series of maritime cocaine smuggling shipments from Ecuador to Guatemala. Specifically on May 19, 2011, a …            Evidence presented at trial included testimony from members of the USCG, wiretap intercepts conducted by …
September 23, 2013
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Bahamian And Jamaican Nationals Charged With Marijuana Importation

December 16, 2013
… announce the indictment of Quinton Jamal Mitchell, 31, from Sweeting's Cay Settlement, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas, and LeRoy Anthony Edwards, 56, from Kingston, Jamaica. Mitchell and Edwards were arraigned … Mitchell. Upon arriving to shore, Mitchell ran away from the scene. A second male later identified as LeRoy …
December 16, 2013
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

April 23, 2014
… on Drug Use and Health. And more Americans died in 2010 from overdoses of prescription (22,134, including 16,651 from narcotic painkillers) than from motor vehicle accidents, says the Centers for Disease …
April 23, 2014
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Chattanooga Drug Dealer Whose Heroin Led To Death Pleads Guilty

July 03, 2017
… Rachels.  Rachels gave a portion of the heroin she received from Corbett to Logan Whiteaker, who drove her to the drug … was found on the bathroom counter. Whiteaker graduated from Hamilton County Drug Court less than 24 hours prior to … Enforcement Administration, and its task force partners from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the Tennessee …
July 03, 2017
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Central Falls Man Charged With Conspiring To Traffic Five To Seven Kilos Of Cocaine

January 28, 2011
… R.I., man in a conspiracy to arrange for a drug runner from Rhode Island to travel to England and then Aruba to … traffic between five and seven kilograms of cocaine from Aruba to England. As part of the alleged conspiracy, … in England last summer to arrange for a person to travel from Boston to England and then on to Aruba to pick up a …
January 28, 2011
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Doctor, Physician Assistant Charged With Fraudulently Obtaining And Distributing Prescription Medicines

August 03, 2011
… Rhode Island Hospital. According to the affidavit, an agent from the DEA learned in June that Dr. Villarreal was … that the prescriptions were written on prescription pads from Rhode Island Hospital and were allegedly forged with … show at least 89 prescriptions filled at various pharmacies from July 2009 through June 2011. This matter is being …
August 03, 2011