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Tulsa “Pill Mill” Doctor Pleas Guilty to Opioid Drug Conspiracy

August 12, 2020
… opioids. We won’t turn a blind eye while you seek to profit from turning Oklahomans into opioid addicts.” U.S. District … Joel-lyn McCormick prosecuted the case with assistance from AUSA Vani Singhal, AUSA Melody Nelson, and AUSA Reagan …
August 12, 2020
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360 Strategy: DEA Philadelphia Hosts Youth Drug Summit at Temple University

December 07, 2018
… of the Division’s 360 Strategy program.  Over 350 students from the Alexander K. McClure Elementary School, the Isaac … “They were teaching us to avoid drugs and how to stay away from them.” “Our efforts to educate children about the …
December 07, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Two Sacramento Men Sentenced for Fentanyl Pill Trafficking

July 09, 2025
… of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone “M-30” pills from Mexico and distributing them in northern California and … eight have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 19 months to over 10 years. Rosario Zamora Rojo and … by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of …
July 09, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Hopkinsville, Kentucky Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Trafficking

May 05, 2025
… conspiracy. The events related to his convictions spanned from January 25, 2021, through September 20, 2023, in … Investigations Service Bowling Green, with assistance from the Kentucky State Police, the Calloway County … criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back …
May 05, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Illegal Immigrant Sentenced for Reentering the United States

April 25, 2025
… documents, Saul Cruz-Argueta, 39, was encountered by agents from the United States Homeland Security Investigations and … The agents discovered that he had previously been removed from the United States in 2016 and 2018. Cruz-Argueta has … custody since his arrest on March 7, 2025. Upon his release from prison, Cruz-Argueta is to be referred to immigration …
April 25, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s National Take Back Day Returns April 26 to Help Prevent Prescription Drug Misuse

April 23, 2025
… Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., offering communities across the … safely remove expired, unwanted, or unused medications from their homes—medications that might otherwise be … - frequently starts when family members take drugs from their parent’s or grandparent’s medicine cabinet.  …
April 23, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

San Diego Drug and Money Laundering Cell Leader Sentenced to 17 Years

October 26, 2020
… Felix pleaded guilty in August of 2018, admitting that from 2014 until 2017, Felix coordinated the receipt of … that were used to receive cash deposits of drug proceeds from throughout the United States and then withdrawn from the San Diego area for bulk transport to drug suppliers …
October 26, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

March 11, 2020
… will continue to attack these callous and immoral criminals from top to bottom until they no longer exist.” The Justice … “Menchito,” and second in command of CJNG, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on charges of alleged drug … impact on the fabric of our local communities. The proceeds from the local distribution of these narcotics are …
March 11, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Second hash oil extraction laboratory explosion in San Diego County within two week period

May 17, 2019
… with Agent for Size Comparison.JPG Marijuana Taken from Inside Building.jpg EL CAJON, Calif. – Yesterday, DEA’s … of removing THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, from marijuana plant material using a solvent. The final …
May 17, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

DEA New Orleans Division Announces the Seizure of Over 20 Million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

January 11, 2023
… worked to seize over 20.2 million deadly doses of fentanyl from communities across this four-state region,” said Brad … secret factories in Mexico with chemicals sourced largely from China. In 2021, the DEA issued a  Public Safety Alert … a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from DEA’s announcement in 2021 that four out of ten …
January 11, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

April 19, 2022
… 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 …
April 19, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Montgomery “pill mill” doctor receives over 12 year sentence for drug distribution, health care fraud, and money laundering offenses

August 23, 2018
… these unnecessary examinations so that he could get money from the patients’ insurance companies.  This scheme led to … care fraud conviction.  The money laundering charges stem from Dr. Sanchez’s spending the proceeds of his operation of … also stressed the amount of money Dr. Sanchez obtained from his scheme, which was at least $3.5 million dollars.   …
August 23, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

San Fernando Valley Man Who Sold Counterfeit Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl Admits Causing Overdose Death of U.S. Marine

April 15, 2022
… two federal drug trafficking offenses, one of which stemmed from a 2020 transaction in which he sold bogus oxycodone … 1,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl from a co-defendant, Solis admitted using his Snapchat … and several firearms – including a 9mm “ghost gun” – from his residence. Solis has remained in federal custody …
April 15, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

DEA announces 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

October 21, 2020
… that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. Collection sites will adhere … DEA will also accept vape pens or other e-cigarette devices from individual consumers, only after the batteries are …
October 21, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

DEA launches Secure Your Meds campaign, calls on Americans to keep medications safe

April 21, 2020
… of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. While we are all facing … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
April 21, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Three Fugitives Arrested on Federal Drug Charges in Westmore, Vermont

January 27, 2023
… Jones and Douchette distributed controlled substances from the Barton residence of codefendant Erika Desormeaux. … Investigators arranged the purchase of cocaine and fentanyl from the defendants on multiple occasions between August and … however, would be determined by the Court with guidance from the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines and …
January 27, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Rhode Island Man Pleads Guilty To Role In Drug Trafficking And Violent Kidnapping Conspiracy

August 17, 2022
… health and safety of our communities. They will be removed from the neighborhoods they terrorize and harm.” “As we all … to justice those that commit these crimes.” This case arose from a 2018 investigation into a wide-ranging heroin … and Osterville as well as Pawtucket, R.I. Interceptions from Otero’s phone identified Basilici as a key member of …
August 17, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Holyoke, Massachusetts Man Sentenced for Armed Drug Trafficking

July 15, 2022
… to court records and proceedings, Jones repeatedly traveled from Holyoke to Bennington County, Vermont in mid-2020 to … in Manchester, Vermont and stored and distributed narcotics from there.  Throughout this period, Jones also obtained and … in May 2020, another man purchased two Glock handguns from a federally licensed firearms dealer in Belmont, …
July 15, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Brockton Man Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison For Role In Violent Drug Trafficking Organization

June 22, 2022
… role in a wide-ranging drug trafficking conspiracy reaching from Boston to Brockton to Cape Cod. Cody Goncalves, 28, was … base and marijuana throughout southeastern Massachusetts from a base of operations on Addison Avenue in Brockton, … of heroin, fentanyl, cash and a loaded firearm were seized from Cody Goncalves, who had previously been convicted of …
June 22, 2022
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Four Men Indicted for Meth Trafficking

February 07, 2024
… of methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle being transported from California, as well as several firearms found at a … residence and found, in addition to the controlled delivery from the Dodge Magnum, an AM-15 pistol, .223 ammunition, … to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine from Jan. 15 to Jan. 18, 2024. In addition to the …
February 07, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Man Found Guilty of St. Louis Murder, Drug Conspiracy Charges

October 24, 2023
… Cocaine, 3 Kilos of Fentanyl, 10 Kilos Heroin Ex123A items from May 2021 search.jpg Photo of drug transaction March 10 … drug sales, Mantovani said. The organization brought drugs from Houston and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to the St. Louis …
October 24, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 08, 2023
… 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 … here in the heartland of America, cartels are taking lives from our communities," said Special Agent in Charge Michael …
May 08, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Everton Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Conspiracy

July 22, 2021
… that he participated in a drug-trafficking conspiracy from Nov. 22, 2016, to Sept. 26, 2018, and in a money-laundering conspiracy from June 20, 2017, to Dec. 6, 2017. Conn transported … 10 pounds of methamphetamine per week by vehicle from California to the Springfield area. He then distributed …
July 22, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Operation Legend results in over 500 arrests, including 37 murder suspects

September 28, 2020
… City, and those efforts will continue.” During the 10 weeks from the announcement of Operation LeGend on July 8 through … and local community leaders. None of those dire predictions from our critics came to pass.” “I’ve also said, from the start of Operation LeGend, that law enforcement …
September 28, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Springfield man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy

January 10, 2020
… to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Missouri, from March 30 to Oct. 18, 2017. By pleading guilty today, … enforcement officers seized 6.8 pounds of methamphetamine from Stone, who admitted he had just delivered $30,000 to a … Missouri. Two days after Stone’s arrest, Wacker drove from Kansas City to Oklahoma City, where he purchased five …
January 10, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Laurence Doud, Former CEO of Pharmaceutical Distributor, Sentenced to 27 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Unlawfully Distribute Controlled Substances and Defrauding the DEA

March 08, 2023
… responsibility as CEO of RDC to prevent dangerous opioids from making their way to pharmacies, drug dealers, and … evidence at trial: Violations of the Federal Narcotics Laws From 2012 through March 2017, Doud knowingly and …
March 08, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Leader of “Mike’s Candyshop” Drug Delivery Service Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison In Connection with the Overdose Death of Colin Kroll

August 12, 2022
… Mike’s Candyshop generally operated seven days per week, from approximately 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., with the … DTO stored heroin, cocaine, a fentanyl analogue, and cash from drug sales in various stash locations maintained by the … of the DTO to maintain order and eliminate competition from within the organization.   On or about December 16, …
August 12, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Former Mexican Federal Police Commander Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

February 09, 2022
… El Seguimiento 39, a Mexico-based cartel, ship cocaine from Mexico to the United States. The El Seguimiento 39 … for their crimes. Their badges will not shield them from accountability.” Mr. Peace expressed his appreciation …
February 09, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and U.S. Attorney’s Offices throughout New York Promote National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

April 20, 2021
… indicating a majority of abused prescription drugs come from family and friends, including from home medicine cabinets, clearing out unused medicine is … resulted in many people spending more time alone, distanced from loved ones and friends making this year’s National …
April 20, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Staten Island-based International Narcotics Trafficker and Money Launderer Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison

March 29, 2021
… LaCola conspired with others to import kilograms of cocaine from Mexico into the United States. Unbeknownst to LaCola, … informed the individual that the sample he provided came from a 10-kilogram shipment he had received and that he … provide the individual with 10 to 15 kilograms of cocaine from his sources of supply in Mexico. LaCola also offered …
March 29, 2021