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DEA And Community Partners In Kentucky Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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DEA And Community Partners In Ohio Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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Former Ohio Police Officer Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Extortion

… illegal activities included providing illegal drugs taken from police department property room to be sold on the … to sell and split the profits. A portion of the drugs came from the police department’s property room, which Dailey … bath salts and hundreds of oxycodone pills were missing from the property room. Further investigation revealed that …
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Guilty Plea For Southern Ohio Physician Who Ran Prescription Pill Mil

… John Temponeras, 82, was also a physician at the clinic. From June 2005 until May 2011, Temponeras and her father saw … area had declined to accept or fill her prescriptions from Unique Pain Management so she opened the dispensary …
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Ohio Man Sentenced To 16+ Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Fentanyl That Resulted In Overdose Death

… cover the funeral costs for an overdose death that resulted from Chandler’s drug distributing. Benjamin C. Glassman, … law enforcement conducted a controlled purchase of fentanyl from Chandler. While executing a search warrant at a … The Hamilton County Heroin Task Force has agents assigned from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Cincinnati …
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West Michigan Man Receives 30 Years: Trafficked In Cocaine And Methamphetamine

… prison for drug trafficking. Following his discharge from federal supervision in the earlier case, Johnson led a … large quantities of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine from Mexico and to distribute them in West Michigan. This … even in the parts of the United States furthest removed from our southern border. Countering that reach here in …
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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Two Dallas Women Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… superseding indictments. The 2015 indictment alleged that from at least May 2013 through July 2014 the defendants … to purchase 30mg oxycodone pills and 10mg hydrocodone pills from her. Cane asks Robinson what price to charge for the … by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service, Texas Department of …
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Lubbock Man Involved In Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy Pleads Guilty In Federal Court

… male died of an overdose after purchasing furanyl fentanyl from the defendant LUBBOCK, Texas - A Lubbock, Texas, man, … Bryant Jr. and pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy.  The … and determined that the cause of death was drug toxicity from furanyl fentanyl.  A postmortem forensic toxicology …
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Members Of Crack Cocaine Distribution Ring Sent To Federal Prison

… 2011, agents of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) with assistance from the Rio Grande City Police Department launched an … Esteban Trevino. The group sold large quantities of crack from two adjacent residences in Rio Grande City. In handing … community and strongly admonished them for dealing drugs from their residences in the midst of their families …
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Drug Traffickers Plead Guilty On Eve Of Trial

… and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.  Marichalar, from Mission, pleaded guilty shortly before the jury was empanelled this morning, while Cross, from Indianapolis, Ind., and Gonzalez, from Miami, Fla., entered their guilty pleas late yesterday. …
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25 Waco Area Aryan Brotherhood Members And Associates Charged In Connection With Methamphetamine Distribution Operation

… connection with this investigation. “These charges resulted from unprecedented collaboration of federal, state, and … commitment to prevent gang violence and criminal activity from poisoning our communities, but it also sends a clear … less than 50 grams. These charges and arrests resulted from a joint investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau …
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Federal Judge Sends Three To Prison For More Than 30 Years In “Operation El Patron”

… to federal prison following their convictions resulting from a long-term Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task … in a conspiracy to distribute bulk quantities of cocaine from Texas to Georgia and returned drug proceeds to Laredo … counts of laundering U.S. currency in amounts ranging from $200,468 to $999,465. Flores Sr. and Jr. were both …
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Dr. Gerald Ratinov And 18 Others Arrested In Illegal Pain Management Clinic Operation

… and has stopped a dirty doctor and his cohorts from continuing to profit from the wretchedness of addiction. We will do our part to … Harris County District Attorney’s Office with participation from the Texas Medical Board, the Texas Pharmacy Board, …
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Austin Portion Of Project Delirium Nets 35 Arrests

… defendants conspired to launder and transport the proceeds from the drug distribution activity ultimately to the source … Operations Division, comprised of agents and analysts from the DEA, FBI, ICE, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. … Protection, U.S. Marshals Service, as well as attorneys from the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug …
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San Juan Resident Sentenced To Prison For Guns And Drugs

… one-day trial earlier this year, the jury heard testimony from a Drug Enforcement (DEA) agent that on March 3, 2011, … received information that marijuana was about to be moved from a stash house along the Rio Grande River near San Juan … the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge approximately a quarter-mile from the river. Avila lived at the residence owned by his …
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Laredo Los Zetas Arms Traffickers Plead Guilty

… learned of a shipment of weapons to be delivered in Laredo from the Dallas area for transportation to Mexico. Otilo … were tasked with receiving the shipment of weapons from Dallas in Laredo and arranging for the transportation … large duffel bags believed to contain weapons were removed from the Explorer and placed inside the tractor. Agents then …
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DEA Takes Down Cortez Area Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization

… have been charged and arrested, effectively removing them from our streets,” said U.S. Attorney John Walsh. “The drug … today sends a message to those that are profiting from the distribution of this dangerous drug - that the DEA … investigated by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) with assistance from the Southwest Drug Task Force, Immigration and Customs …
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St. Jude's Pharmacy Owner In Cape Coral Sentenced To 3 Years For Structuring Bank Deposits

… on June 26, 2013.        According to court documents, from at least April 2011 to at least November 15, 2012, in … admitted that she and her husband made structured deposits from the proceeds of the distribution of Oxycodone outside … for cash.  Martha Otano and her husband used the proceeds from the pharmacy to purchase two homes in Cape Coral and …
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Husband And Wife “Pill Mill” Operators Sentenced To Prison

… large number of those patients residing out of state, many from Kentucky.             At each of the Clinic’s …            The Golds also laundered the unlawful proceeds from the Clinic in a variety of ways, including making cash … to the operation of the Clinic. They also used proceeds from the Clinic to promote their pain business. Among other …
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Four Tampa Residents Charged In Conspiracy To Import XLR-11, A Synthetic Cannabinoid, A/k/a "Spice"

… synthetic cannabinoid, a/k/a “Spice,” to the United States from China.  A.D. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug … 28, Ahmed Maher Elhelw, 25, and Tanjina Islam Piya, 24, all from Tampa, were charged with conspiracy to import a … District of Florida.  Each of the parcels was shipped from China and allegedly contained three kilogram packages …
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Jury Convicts Synthetic Cannabinoid Distributor

… that Nahmani purchased vast quantities of illegal chemicals from China and distributed those chemicals in Florida and across the country.  The powdery chemicals shipped from China were turned into both leafy and liquid synthetic … North Miami Beach PD, and Miami-Dade PD; with the support from DEA Office of Diversion Control Drug & Chemical …
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OPBAT Assists In $2.5 Million Drug Bust In The Bahamas

… Miami.Training@dea.gov NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A joint task force from Operation Bahamas, Turks and (OPBAT) seized 2,842 … weekend. The OPBAT task force was comprised of elements from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. … of Bahamas partnership to combat drug smuggling to and from the Bahamas. The OPBAT Operations Center in Nassau is …
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Orlando Man Sentenced To Over 15 Years For Drug And Firearm Offenses

… mia032017_fig1.jpg WESTON, Fla. - Eric C. Falkowski, 35, from Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years and 8 … fentanyl, butyryl fentanyl, and other controlled substances from China in order to manufacture counterfeit prescription … As a previously convicted felon, Falkowski was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition under federal law. …
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New Jersey Pharmacist Pleads Guilty In Illegal Pharmaceutical Drug Distribution Scheme

… tax years 2008 and 2009 which failed to report his proceeds from the scheme. In connection with his guilty plea, Hsia, … in the names of fictitious patients. Data obtained from the Automation of Reports and Consolidated System, … by law enforcement at the time of his arrest was derived from the scheme. Hsia also admitted that he willfully …
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New Orleans Man With Ties To Texas Drug Associates Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy

… the Honorable Stanwood Duval, Jr. Tyler’s charges stem from a 2009 Drug Enforcement Administration investigation of … the deal could take place and confiscated almost $400,000 from the house.  Of the money confiscated, $100,000 was … guilty in this multi-defendant case having been a fugitive from his initial indictment on November 5, 2010 until August …
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Pontchatoula Man Sentenced For Drug Trafficking

… the trafficking of more than five kilograms of cocaine from the Houston, Texas area, to Bogalusa, Louisiana.In … Derek Moss for the purposes of obtaining cocaine from drug source Luis Colon.  During the investigation, … of the occasions, agents followed Smith, Moss and Mark back from Texas to the Laplace, LA area.  Smithwas stopped as he …
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Former Immigration Officer Admits Leading Interstate Methamphetamine Distribution Ring

… admitted coordinating shipments of crystal methamphetamine from interstate suppliers and providing them to retailers in … Jersey. Freehauf admitted that he arranged the shipments from California, Arizona and elsewhere and repackaged the … in Charge Maria L. Kelokates; law enforcement officers from the N.J. National Guard Counter Drug Task Force, under …
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Essex County, New Jersey, Man Pleads Guilty To His Role In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… prescriptions for oxycodone and other controlled substances from various doctors in New Jersey, filled them at … the drug trafficking organization. Policarpio admitted that from Feb. 5, 2014, to Aug. 13, 2014, he personally purchased pills containing oxycodone from conspirators and then sold the pills to others. …
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New Jersey Doctor Indicted On Charges He Sold Oxycodone Prescriptions To Patients With No Legitimate Need For The Drug

… Christopher S. Porrino announced the indictment of a doctor from Passaic County for selling prescriptions of Oxycodone … Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Enforcement Bureau.  From June 2010 through April 2016, Kang allegedly sold …