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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Owner Of Bronx Clinic And 23 Other Individuals Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than Five Million Oxycodone Pills

… Avenue in the Bronx to reclaim their neighborhood from drug dealers are the end results of unified police work … obtained can be deadly, and more people have been dying from prescription drug abuse than heroin and cocaine …
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Thirty-Six People Indicted For Their Roles In Nassau And Suffolk Heroin Ring That Operated Along Rte. 110

… arrested and arraigned on various felony charges ranging from Operating as a Major Trafficker, Criminal Sale of a … profiting off heroin’s potency by selling heroin bundles from locations, including hotels, along Route 110 that paved … Task Force to eradicate drugs and those who sell them from our neighborhoods,” said Nassau County Police …
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Community Event
April 07, 2026
April 07, 2026

The Risks Are Real: The Truth About Fentanyl & Fake Pills

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (EDT)
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A National Virtual School Assembly Date: April 7, 2026 Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm ET Where: Virtual Event Broadcast live from Nashville, TN — site of the Rx Summit! Attention Middle & High School Educators! Join classrooms nationwide for a powerful, FREE, one-hour virtual program designed to educate students about the...
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Family Summit
October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023

Rocky Mountain Field Division Family Summit in Salt Lake City, UT

4:30 AM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
Salt Lake City, UT
The Rocky Mountain Field Division will host its next Regional Family Summit on Thursday, October 19, 2023 in collaboration with the Utah Attorney General's Office. The event is free and open to families who have lost a loved one to a drug poisoning or overdose. The Family Summit will take...
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DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

… 107,735 Americans died between August 2021 and August 2022 from drug poisonings, with 66 percent of those deaths … Jalisco Cartel in Mexico, using chemicals largely sourced from China, are primarily responsible for the vast majority …
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Jury Convicts Cocoa Man of Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Fentanyl

… scales covered with fentanyl and cocaine, and firearms from Swanson’s bedroom.          This case was investigated … Administration Orlando District Office, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Florida …
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Museum
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

DEA Museum Lecture Series: The Kingpin Strategy

3:00 AM - 4:00 AM (EST)
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Former Administrator Robert C. Bonner joins us in the first installment of the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum & Visitor Center’s fiscal year 2021 lecture series Disrupt, Dismantle, and Destroy. Mr. Bonner will speak about leading DEA as it put the “Kingpin Strategy” into place in the early 1990s to combat...
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Fentanyl Awareness

August 20, 2025
… Prevention and Awareness Day with extended DEA Museum hours from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 21. View Press … The Faces of Fentanyl, to commemorate the lives lost from fentanyl poisonings or overdoses. You are invited to … the public on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs. National Fentanyl …
August 20, 2025
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

… seized cellphone, law enforcement found messages from at least March 2020 through December 2022 between … and sale of counterfeit M-30 pills (in quantities ranging from hundreds of pills to thousands of pills) and cocaine in … of seized jewelry, valued at over $50,000, that was seized from his residence. This case was the product of an …
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Illegal Alien and Mexican National Convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Kilograms of Meth

… in Hazlehurst, Georgia at trial for receiving a package from Jalisco, Mexico containing over two kilograms of 100% … 2024, the Defendant attempted to receive a package directly from Mexico containing what was described as a horse saddle. … States Postal delivery. The Defendant accepted the package from law enforcement and brought it inside his residence. …
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DEA Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This bi-annual event offers free, … . “Disposing of unneeded medications can help prevent drugs from being misused,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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Pacific Beach Resident Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl that Caused Two Overdoses

… of Kol’s fentanyl—also fatally overdosed that weekend from the same batch of fentanyl powder, which was … different and then became woozy and nearly lost his balance from the effects of it. Despite his own troubling experience … his remaining fentanyl powder down the toilet.  J.E. died from the fentanyl powder Kol sold to him. J.H. survived the …
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Seven Defendants Charged for Laundering Over $28 Million for DTO

… law enforcement agents seized over $6.5 million from the defendants’ money laundering organization, and, in … those who launder the proceeds of drug trafficking profit from the sale of dangerous narcotics that wreak havoc in …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

… the public on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs.  DEA supports the … ever encountered,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.  “From large cities to rural America, no community is safe …
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Duplin Man Receives 15 Years in Federal Prison for Heroin and Methamphetamine Trafficking

… Office purchased approximately 2 ounces of methamphetamine from Hall at his residence.  Hall had the person come to his … because he was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor from a prior state felony conviction.  On July 30, 2019, … ATF received information that Hall was selling narcotics from a hotel room in Onslow County.  Law enforcement stopped …
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Suffield Man Sentenced to Nearly 8 Years in Prison for Trafficking Cocaine While on Supervised Release

… and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior narcotics trafficking conviction. According to … Horta-Molina arranged the shipment of a package from California to Juan Sanchez-Razon’s residence in … offense.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was released from prison early in May 2020, and he was on federal …
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Dominican National Sentenced to 45 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

… documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from a joint investigation headed by the DEA New Haven Task … received large quantities of fentanyl and heroin from suppliers in Connecticut and New York and distributed … narcotics transactions, and drug ledgers seized from the Sosa-Ortiz organization in October 2019 indicated …
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Ansonia Man Sentenced to 44 Months in Federal Prison for Drug Offense, Violating Supervised Release

… followed a previous federal conviction. This matter stems from an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement … and package illegal drugs.  Investigators also seized from Wiley jewelry valued at more than $100,000, and a 2021 … died of an overdose in August 2016.  He was released from prison in February 2020 and was on supervised release …
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Dominican National Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

… documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from a joint investigation headed by the DEA New Haven Task … received large quantities of fentanyl and heroin from suppliers in Connecticut and New York and distributed … narcotics transactions, and drug ledgers seized from the Sosa-Ortiz organization in October 2019 indicated …
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New Haven Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Federal Prison for Role in Cocaine Trafficking Ring

… suspicious package that had been sent through the U.S. Mail from New Haven to an address in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.  The … kilogram quantities of cocaine that had been shipped from Puerto Rico to addresses in and around New Haven, the … Investigators seized the cocaine and a loaded 9mm handgun from their vehicle.  Correa-Ortiz, who had traveled to the …
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Money Courier For Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking Ring Sentenced To More Than 9 Years In Federal Prison

… kilogram-quantities of narcotics, primarily fentanyl, from a source of supply, and then distributing the drug to … 2019, investigators seized more than $200,000 in cash from members of the drug trafficking organization. Members … imprisonment for his prior federal conviction, was released from prison in August 2019, and was on supervised release at …
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Dominican National Sentenced to Prison for Heroin Trafficking and Immigration Offenses

… were receiving bulk quantities of heroin and fentanyl from out-of-state suppliers.  They then stored, processed … made multiple controlled purchases of heroin and fentanyl from De La Cruz, DeJesus-Concepcion and other members of the … Supermarket. DeJesus had previously been deported from the U.S. after a conviction for a federal narcotics …
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Remove Unneeded Prescriptions, Prevent Addiction

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers anonymous disposal … for a nonmedical purpose obtained that medication from a family member or friend. “Every day, the men and women of the DEA work to protect Americans from deadly drugs and drug poisonings,” said DEA …
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Mother of Three Children Sentenced to 23 Years for Meth Trafficking

… that Gonzales obtained large quantities of methamphetamine from a supplier in Arizona by traveling to and from Arizona while concealing contraband in a spare tire, or … he/she received one or two pounds of methamphetamine from Gonzales every one to three weeks. The informant …
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for One Fatal, Two Nonfatal Drug Overdoses

… friend were spotted in a car in a neighborhood a few blocks from R.P.’s house. Authorities were called when the car … overdose victims, and an undercover officer bought fentanyl from Craig later that day in a transaction that was recorded … for the money. The only safe solution to avoid dying from fentanyl is to avoid drugs, especially if there’s a …
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Missouri Man Sentenced to 21 Years for Meth Trafficking, Illegal Firearm

… and driving erratically, and the deputy followed him from a distance. Nichols turned the corner from Eldon Street onto Nichols Street at a high rate of … prosecution. According to court documents, Evans fled from law enforcement officers on Aug. 24, 2017, and left a …
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California Man Sentenced to 21 Years for Meth Conspiracy in Southwest Missouri

… packages that contained multiple pounds of methamphetamine from California to co-defendant James Mangold, 44, of Mt. … to others involved in the conspiracy, which lasted from Jan. 24 to April 14, 2020. According to court … shipped at least 31.98 kilograms of methamphetamine from California to southwest Missouri. On April 14, 2020, …
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Springfield Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Meth Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

… to distribute methamphetamine in Greene and Polk Counties from April 10, 2019, to March 30, 2020. According to court … officers seized more than 500 grams of methamphetamine from members of the conspiracy. During a traffic stop on … to kill the officers. An officer removed two pistols from Robinson’s waistband – an FNH .40-caliber …
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Fentanyl Kingpin Sentenced to Life Sentence

… containing the fentanyl, and his fingerprint was recovered from packaging material. However, Hunter ran from investigators, and made good his escape. The jury found … Hunter’s frequent pattern of travel to St. Louis from Los Angeles.  “The sentence remanded to Gerald Hunter …
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Bates City Man Sentenced for Meth Trafficking, Illegal Firearm

… officers seized nearly two dozen firearms and illegal drugs from his residence. Daniel Dewayne Gregg, 58, was sentenced … who purchased at least a half-kilogram of methamphetamine from him at a time. One customer, said Gregg, purchased one … a large amount of cash; in total, officers seized $22,240 from Gregg’s residence, which has been forfeited to the …