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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Day Removes Almost 600,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications Across the Country

… covers the state of Florida, collected over 22,651 pounds from 213 collection sites.   For more than a decade, DEA’s … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Former Hinsdale Man Pleads Guilty To Crack Cocaine Conspiracy Charges

… directly or through intermediaries purchased crack cocaine from Racine.  On a third occasion, Racine fled after being provided with buy money but before providing the crack cocaine.  Racine …
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Judge Sentences Caruthersville Man to 6 Years for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth

… to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. From Jan. 22 to March 11, 2020, Black conspired with others and sold methamphetamine through several controlled buys with an undercover agent. Black would agree to meet …
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Fresno Man Sentenced to Over 6 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl That Caused Overdose Death

… an undercover law enforcement officer, posing as a drug-buying customer, ordered fentanyl pills from Gonzalez and met him in a parking lot for the purchase. …
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Houstonian Sent to Prison for Trafficking Meth and Heroin

… area. Law enforcement set up numerous controlled drug buys. Delgado-Santacruz would negotiate the sale price of … of 892 grams of meth and 3,059.357 grams of heroin from Dec. 9, 2020, to Jan. 18, 2022. The total street value …
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Two Face Life for Drug Trafficking in Local Parking Lot

… Jr., 28. Authorities were conducting surveillance at a Best Buy parking lot in McAllen They saw vehicles approach, after which Perez removed bags containing bricks of cocaine from the trunk of his vehicle. Mendez was parked in another …
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Tulare County Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute 6 Pounds of Methamphetamine

… methamphetamine. A law enforcement source negotiated to buy a pound of methamphetamine from Meza and Chavez delivered the methamphetamine. A …
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 16 Years for Attempted Cocaine Trafficking

… the intent to distribute. Tinch in May 2018 attempted to buy a kilogram of cocaine from an individual in a grocery store parking lot in the …
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Minnesota Man Sentenced to 5 Years on Methamphetamine Charge

… this charge on Aug. 26, 2021. On Dec. 10, 2020, an officer from the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department pulled over a … During post-arrest interviews, Stelzer and Moua admitted buying the methamphetamine together in the Twin Cities. …
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Phoenix mother indicted, accused of using 13-year-old daughter to hide cocaine

… using her 13-year-old daughter to try and hide cocaine from officers during a traffic stop. Covarruvia is charged … with a Phoenix drug trafficking organization, allegedly buying cocaine for resale.   Covarruvia faces multiple state …
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Mishawaka, Indiana man sentenced to 120 months in prison

… found over four pounds of methamphetamine, money used to buy drugs that same day from Mr. Sanders, along with Mr. Sanders and another …
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Fort Wayne, Indiana man sentenced to over 21 years in prison for methamphetamine charges

… case, in the summer of 2019, there were multiple controlled buys of methamphetamine made from Hernandez that ultimately led to his arrest and federal …
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Illinois man sentenced for bringing cocaine to Madison to sell

… working with law enforcement officers called Gomez to buy cocaine.  During the phone call, Gomez agreed to drive a half kilogram of cocaine from Rockford to the informant in Madison, Wisconsin.  When …
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San Antonio businessman pleads guilty to money laundering conspiracy

… dealership, MGM Auto, to agents, proposing that he would buy it back from the agents at a reduced price, i.e., less his …
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Federal jury finds Stockton man guilty of heroin and crack cocaine trafficking offenses

… operation was investigated using a confidential source to buy heroin and crack cocaine from Sherman’s front man and co-defendant, Lindsey Mills, …
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Corpus Man Receives 11 Years For Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering

… Christi area. Agents were able to determine the proceeds from drug sales enabled Yanez to buy and renovate these houses and that Yanez believed these …
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Attempted Purchase Of Cocaine Leads To 10-Year Federal Prison Sentence

… and had asked to purchase multiple kilograms of cocaine from him.  Simmons promised to buy a total of eight kilograms of cocaine for $33,000 …
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New York/New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program Receives National Recognition

… Jersey Drug Trafficking Organization Task Force/HIDTA (H2) from the New York/New Jersey HIDTA. H2 conducted a global … of the Miami Homestead office. The investigation began as a buy-bust, and developed into an international, …
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Former Stockton College Police Officer Admits Distributing Oxycodone

… forfeit $8,775, consisting of the illegal profits obtained from his sale of oxycodone.   According to documents filed … a doctor, and “if you gonna be a good customer for me and buy these every 28 days for 15 bucks, I won’t give these to …
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Lawrence Man Sentenced For Selling Crack

… working with the DEA arranged with a third person to buy an ounce of crack cocaine. The third person said he … by the DEA HIDTA Task Force, which includes agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Massachusetts …
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Man Pleads Guilty To Cocaine Charge

… Roosevelt Avenue, after previously making three controlled buys of cocaine from the defendant. During the execution of the search …
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DEA/San Diego Sheriff’s Department Arrest 65 People In Operation Mountain Shadow

… and Drug Enforcement Administration agents conducted "buy-walk" operations.  They bought methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and firearms from the suspects.  Approximately 150 federal agents and …
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Stockton Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Marijuana Warehouse Grow

… for-profit grower of marijuana to shield his activity from law enforcement scrutiny. These growers sell their product in pound quantities to whoever will buy it, frequently selling to numerous marijuana …
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Fentanyl Distributor Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Causing Death

… Office (District 9) later concluded that C.J. had died from fentanyl toxicity. When Parsons and J.A called 911, … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Bradenton Man Sentenced to more than 17 Years for Distributing Cocaine Obtained through the Mail

… who used those addresses to secure shipments of cocaine from Puerto Rico. As a result, kilogram quantities of … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Three Men Charged in Conspiracy to Distribute Millions of Fentanyl Pills

… to proceeds of the offense. According to court documents, from at least May 2020 through April 2022, Silfrain, … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Former Pain Clinic Doctor Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Money Structuring

… Wellness and Pain Specialists, a pain management clinic, from May 2014 until it shuttered in June 2018. Bird used the … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Career Offender Sentenced

… and an undercover DEA agent on four separate occasions, from December 2018 through August 2019, for a total of … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Colombian National Extradited to the United States Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy

… transnational criminal conspiracy that transported cocaine from Colombia to the United States. Specifically, Marsiglia … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …
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Fentanyl Dealers Sentenced to 12 and 8 Years in Federal Prison

… fentanyl-laced heroin to, and collect drug proceeds from, a DEA cooperating source and undercover officers on 15 … community, please submit your anonymous tip through the DEA online Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov .  Concerns about …