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Drug Enforcement Administration Collects Record Number Of Unused Pills As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … W. Patterson. “This is a crisis that must be addressed from multiple angles.  Educating the public and removing these medications from households across the Unites States prevents misuse …
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Kentucky Pain Clinic Owners Plead Guilty To Unlawfully Dispensing Controlled Substances

… -Cantrell and Lackey agree to forfeit $500,000 in proceeds from the distribution conspiracy Date: April 26, 2013 … a total of approximately $500,000 which represents proceeds from the conspiracy.  Judge Atkins remanded Cantrell into …
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Meth Cookers Who Burned Down Trailer Sentenced

… intent to distribute methamphetamine in Marquette County from July 2013 to May 8, 2014. U.S. District Judge R. Allan … trailer was a complete loss and eventually had to be towed from the trailer park. Upon arrival, firefighters … in early December, fewer than four weeks after his release from the hospital. While they were engaged in this …
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Two Michigan Doctors Plead Guilty To Unlawful Distribution Of Controlled Substance Painkillers And Health Care Fraud

… Hussein “Sam” Awada, 45, of Royal Oak, admitted that from late 2010, through early 2012, he conspired with James … paid Awada for those prescriptions, then bought the pills from the “patients” and re-sold them to street dealers. … need for the medications. McQuade said, "More people die from overdoses of prescription drugs in America than from …
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Suburban Detroit Doctor Receives 7 Year Sentence For Writing Unlawful Prescription For Controlled Substances Including Oxycodone

… was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds. From 2010 through early 2012, he conspired with James Lyons, … medical purpose. The marketers then bought the pills from the “patients” and re-sold them to street dealers. …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Collects Record Number Of Potentially Dangerous Prescription Drugs As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … W. Patterson. “This is a crisis that must be addressed from multiple angles. Educating the public and removing these medications from households across the Unites States prevents misuse …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Collects Record Number Of Potentially Dangerous Prescription Drugs As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … W. Patterson. “This is a crisis that must be addressed from multiple angles. Educating the public and removing these medications from households across the Unites States prevents misuse …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Collects Record Number Of Potentially Dangerous Prescription Drugs As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … W. Patterson. “This is a crisis that must be addressed from multiple angles. Educating the public and removing these medications from households across the Unites States prevents misuse …
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“El Gallo” And Others Sentenced

… to pay a $300,000 fine.  The investigation revealed that from 2007 to 2013, Reyes Gonzalez headed a drug trafficking … of kilograms of cocaine. The narcotics were transported from the Rio Grande Valley to Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama … time of his guilty plea, Padilla admitted he received cash from Reyes Gonzalez in exchange for providing information to …
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Federal Jury Convicts El Paso Drug Trafficker

… revealed that David Lopez had been transporting marijuana from El Paso, Texas to cities in the United States from August 2001 until August 2015. Lopez utilized … transportation business. Those assets, and others obtained from the money acquired from his illegal transportation of …
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Head Of The Quintero Drug Trafficking Enterprise Sentenced To Federal Prison

… enterprise whose operations spanned the Western Hemisphere from the United States to the Caribbean, Central America and … numerous multi-ton loads of marijuana to the United States from Mexico, using specially altered natural gas tanker … Paso, Texas. Multi-ton quantities of cocaine were acquired from Columbia and Peru for smuggling into Mexico by …
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Los Zetas Kidnappers Plead Guilty

… indicating that a person had been kidnapped at gunpoint from a residence on Eistetter Street in Laredo and that … Garza as one of the kidnapers who took her by force from her residence. The next day, Cerda received a call from Zaragoza who reported “his friends already have the …
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Aspen And Los Angeles Residents Indicted For Cocaine Distribution

… DENVER, CO. - DENVER - Ten defendants, six from Aspen and four from Los Angeles, were charged in a sealed indicted returned … title and interest in property constituting and derived from any proceeds obtained directly and indirectly as a …
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Owner Of Colorado Car Dealership Sentenced For Structuring And Money Laundering

… requirements as required by law.  Daily cash receipts from the business Chopeque Auto Sales, which is owned by … various banks to avoid the $10,000 reporting requirements.  From February 26, 2008 through May 29, 2012, they structured …
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New Jersey Doctor, 11 Others Charged In Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

… Diversion Squad. Domando will be arrested upon his release from a medical facility. The defendants arrested today are … prescriptions for oxycodone in exchange for cash, including from an undercover DEA agent he believed to be a patient. … he told a co-conspirator that the pills would resell for from $1,000 to $1,200 per bottle, and that based on the …
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Texas Businessman Found Guilty Of Laundering Millions Of Dollars For A Mexican Narcotics Trafficking Organization

… and the evidence presented during the two-week trial: From June 2009 until January 2011, Datta operated a business … millions of dollars in cash that had been generated from drug sales in the United States. After the drugs were …
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Twelve Indicted In Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy; Two Charged With Distribution Resulting In Death

… one kilogram or more of heroin in the New Orleans area from January 2011 to the present.  The indictment was … deadly drug and to bringing to justice those who profit from the misery created by heroin."  "The St. Tammany Parish … we do together is helping remove life- threatening drugs from our communities and making sure that those who would …
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U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Mailing And Receiving Packages Of Cocaine Husband Who Was Charged With Her Sentenced Last Month

… role in a scheme to intercept cocaine-laden packages mailed from Puerto Rico to New Jersey.   Christina Nunez, 30, of … had been receiving packages of cocaine, which were mailed from Puerto Rico to delivery addresses along her mail route. … lawfully seized approximately 1,300 grams of cocaine from an express mail package that was supposed to be …
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12 Members Of Heroin Drug Trafficking Organization Operating In Manhattan, Bronx, And New Jersey Charged In Manhattan Federal Court

… this organization transported large quantities of heroin from Washington Heights and the Bronx across the Hudson to … conspired to distribute significant amounts of heroin from May 2017 to August 2017, as members of a drug … trafficking (the “DTO”) that obtained narcotics for resale from Washington Heights, New York, and the Bronx, New York, …
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Southern Indiana Indictments Charge Alleged Marijuana Traffickers

… responsible for obtaining large quantities of the drug from sources in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, for subsequent … the proceeds of marijuana sales by the group, was seized from defendant Zefferino Trejo’s residence in Seymour, … excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana over several years, from Mexico to Southern Indiana and Kentucky. If convicted, …
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Two Men Charged With Sex Trafficking

… accused of inducing and enticing “Victim 1” to travel from Vermont to New York in February 2013 to engage in prostitution, and transporting “Victim 1” from Vermont to New York in February 2013 to engage in … available in the South Burlington area. Additional records from Backpage.com revealed that Sharif Cargo’s email address …
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Hartford Man Sentenced To 66 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Heroin

… dealers in New Haven who regularly obtained heroin from Crucetts and Martin Rodriguez, 50, in Hartford.  The … that Crucetts was receiving kilogram quantities of heroin from Carlos Gabriel Estevez, 23, of Ozone Park, N.Y.; Jimmy … calls and texts, investigators surveilled Ortiz as he drove from Connecticut to a parking lot in New Rochelle, N.Y., …
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Fairfield Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

… obtained forged prescriptions for opioid medications from Bellofiore’s former medical assistant and, as a result, … for a friend or relative of the couple to pick up from Bellofiore’s office.  It was Bellofiore’s understanding … The Controlled Substances Act prohibits physicians from dispensing any Schedule II controlled substance, …
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McAllen Medical Clinic Operator Pleads Guilty In Pill Mill Case

… and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from his involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced … drug distribution conspiracy.  That indictment alleged that from at least May 2013 through July 2014, the defendants … their DEA registration numbers, preventing Dr. Andrews from issuing prescriptions for controlled substances and …
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Suspended Physician Sentenced To 1 A½ Years For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe

… while imposing sentence, “The defendant was stealing money from those in need….putting many in need at risk.” Babu … admitted that he engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare from approximately November 2011 through February 2014. In … oxycodone. The agent claimed to have shoulder pain from a previous injury and to be on disability. On …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Collects Record Number Of Unused Pills As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … W. Patterson. “This is a crisis that must be addressed from multiple angles.  Educating the public and removing these medications from households across the Unites States prevents misuse …
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Two Individuals Convicted On Large-Scale Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… James Morgan, 34, also known as “Weazel” or “Wezzie,” both from Panama City, were involved in a conspiracy that … obtaining approximately four kilograms of cocaine per week from his Texas source of supply, Kelvin Rucker. Knowles paid … and $39,000 per kilogram of cocaine that he obtained from Rucker. Knowles and his girlfriend, Candis Marshae …
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Treasury Designates Honduran Drug Traffickers

… store.  Today’s action generally prohibit U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with … and distribution of multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombian sources of supply into Honduras.  These … coordinates the receipt of drug-laden aircraft departing from Apure, Venezuela into Honduras via clandestine …
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Texas “Mexikan” Mafia Members Get Long Prison Sentences TMM Describes Itself As A Criminal Organization Dealing In Drugs, Firearms, Assassination Contracts, Prostitution, Robbery

… as narcotics distribution, extortion and money laundering from Nov. 1, 2013, through May 30, 2014.   Bazan was found … and firearms. It also states that 10 percent of the profits from any business or interest shall be contributed to the … TMM’s primary source of income. The TMM collects “the dime” from members, prospective members or sympathizer. TMM …
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Top Players In South L.A. Gang Controlled By Incarcerated Mexican Mafia Member Plead Guilty To Federal Racketeering Charges

… the Harpys gang. Valencia - the man who imposed the orders from Danny Roman - pleaded guilty today to violating the … in gang activities, which included collecting “taxes” from drug dealers who were allowed to operate in gang … the activities of the South Los Angeles street gangs from the Special Housing Unit of Pelican Bay State Prison. …