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Williston Man Sentenced to 58 Months in Prison for Unlawfully Possessing Firearms and Trafficking Over 3 Kilograms of Cocaine

… conducted multiple controlled purchases of cocaine base from Lewis.  On March 29, 2021, multiple law enforcement … search, agents seized a stolen Glock Model 45 9mm pistol from Lewis’s bedroom and a privately manufactured AR-style … to his sentence imposed in Sarpy County, Nebraska, stemming from Lewis’s September 2019 arrest on Interstate 80 while in …
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 8 Years In Federal Prison

… documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from an investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement … into individuals who were receiving shipments of cocaine from Puerto Rico and California and distributing the drug in … arrest. The DEA’s Hartford Task Force includes personnel from the DEA Hartford Resident Office, the Connecticut State …
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Former Colombian Navy Lieutenant Sentenced to 15 Years for Helping Sell Locations of Navy Drug Interdiction Vessels to International Drug Traffickers

… Criminal Organizations used the location data derived from these tracking devices to direct vessels filled with … in the same location. This co-located model enables agents from different agencies to collaborate on … Express Strike Force is comprised of agents and officers from the Coast Guard Investigative Service, Drug Enforcement …
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Felon Sentenced to 15 Years for Illegal Firearm

… Taurus 9mm pistol and approximately 12 rounds of ammunition from Oct. 14 to 20, 2022. Brandkamp was arrested on Oct. 14, … he contacted a relative and asked her to remove items from his residence that a “felon was not supposed to have.” … community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and …
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Meth Dealer Sentenced to 16 Years

… 9mm semi-automatic pistol (that had been reported stolen) from the living room coffee table, a Smith & Wesson .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol from underneath a couch cushion, eight hollow point rounds, … four to six pounds of methamphetamine each week from his source over the past five or six months. At the …
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Illinois Man Accused of Dealing Fatal Fentanyl Pills

… 635-1331 Springfield - (417) 888-9800 ST. LOUIS – A man from Belleville, Illinois, was indicted Wednesday on charges … pill Percocet, and bought four pills resembling Percocet from Overall at his home, which was then in St. Louis. The victim died later that day from fentanyl intoxication, charging documents say. During …
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DEA launches Operation Engage in Wichita

… way possible.” According to recently released statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, more than 83,000 people died of a drug overdose in the United States from June 2019 to July 2020, a 24 percent increase from the previous year and the most recorded in a 12-month …
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California Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Trafficking

… aboard a bus traveling through Kansas City, Missouri, from Los Angeles, Calif. Matthew J. Gomez, 28, pleaded … 16, 2023, as he got off a bus traveling through Kansas City from Los Angeles. Gomez was wearing a backpack and carrying … of removing his backpack when he quickly stepped away from the detective in an attempt to flee. A struggle ensued, …
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Fentanyl and Meth Dealer Sentenced to 15+ Years

… substance with intention to distribute. Upon release from federal prison, he will serve five years of supervised … controlled substances in December 2021 based on information from a confidential source. Undercover sources working with … 5.4 grams of fentanyl and 6.883 grams of methamphetamine from Shannon on two separate occasions in St. Clair County. …
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St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking in Springfield

… Rush to participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin from Sept. 1, 2012, to April 3, 2017. Battle admitted that he traveled from St. Louis to Springfield on April 6, 2016, to deliver … then returned to his vehicle and retrieved an item from the trunk. As federal agents approached to arrest him, …
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Two Men Admit Trying to Bring 100 Pounds of Methamphetamine to the St. Louis Area

… that was being brought to the St. Louis area from Colorado. Demond Benard McDaniels Jr., 26, of St. … with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The case stemmed from an Oct. 8, 2020 traffic stop in Kansas. A Geary County … roughly 100 pounds of methamphetamine that was being driven from Colorado to the St. Louis area. The Drug Enforcement …
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Drug Trafficker who Hid in Dog House Sentenced to 30 Years

… District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a man from California to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking … records showing Bull had sold over 500 pounds of marijuana from April 2019 to sometime in 2020 were seized three days later from the home where Bull stayed in St. Louis. Four other …
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Texas Man Receives 25 Years for Meth Trafficking and Firearms Possession

… crime. Co-defendant Brittany Brannan, 35, also from Texas, has pleaded guilty to her role in the … were arrested on Dec. 27, 2020, after attempting to flee from law enforcement officers. A Stone County, Mo., … According to court documents, Houghton had absconded from parole in Texas with Brannan. They were part of a large …
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California Man Charged with Fentanyl Trafficking

… aboard a bus traveling through Kansas City, Missouri, from Los Angeles, Calif. Matthew John Gomez, 27, was charged … March 16, as he got off a bus traveling through Kansas City from Los Angeles. Gomez was wearing a backpack and carrying … of removing his backpack when he quickly stepped away from the detective in an attempt to flee. A struggle ensued, …
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DEA to hold 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… unwanted prescription drugs at designated collection sites from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 24, National … indicating a majority of abused prescription drugs come from family and friends, including from home medicine cabinets, clearing out unused medicine is …
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Jury Convicts Leader of Large-Scale Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… 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.  “At the time DEA seized Hunter’s 27 …
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Kansas City, Kansas, Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking

… intercepted by law enforcement officers when it was shipped from California to Kansas City, Missouri. Solomon B. … local FedEx facility. The package, which was being shipped from California to a Kansas City, Mo., address, contained a … repositioned the parcel on the porch in order to conceal it from the street. A couple of hours later, Hawthorne arrived, …
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St. Louis man sentenced to 20 years for drug-related murder

… learned a prospective customer had purchased fentanyl from a rival drug dealer, instead of from Calvin’s drug trafficking organization. Calvin and … St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office. The case was …
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Man sentenced to 30 years for meth distribution

… methamphetamine. Norles transported the methamphetamine from California to Missouri and distributed that … trooper seized nearly 2.4 kilograms of methamphetamine from a Dodge Charger in which Norles was a passenger during … trim. The traffic stop was made while Norles was returning from a trip to Los Angeles, California. Norles possessed …
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Kirbyville man sentenced to 24 years for meth conspiracy

… in southwest Missouri and in the Lebanon, Missouri, area from March 1, 2018, to Jan. 22, 2019. According to court … troopers seized nearly 2.4 kilograms of methamphetamine from a Dodge Charger in which Norles was a passenger during … Missouri, on Jan. 22, 2019, while Norles was returning from a trip to Los Angeles, California. Tribble is the first …
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St. Joseph man sentenced to 15 years for leading $2.1 million meth conspiracy

… to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from Jan. 1, 2015, to Nov. 16, 2017, and one count of … coordinating large shipments of methamphetamine from the Kansas City area to Buchanan County, Clinton … violation on a black Audi A4 driven by Pardee. Pardee fled from officers at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour for …
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California man pleads guilty to drug trafficking

… Villanueva at a local bus station when he disembarked from a bus originating from Los Angeles, California, en route to New York City. … them. No one claimed the backpack, so detectives removed it from the bus and searched it. They found four bundles, …
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St. Joseph Man sentenced for $6 million in synthetic cannabinoid conspiracy

… to distribute misbranded drugs across state lines from March 1, 2011, to April 30, 2014. They also each … wire transfers, totaling $1,725,250, to purchase chemicals from individuals in China from November 2011 to March 2012. Some of the chemicals that …
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Two Jamestown Residents Plead Guilty for Their Roles in Drug Conspiracy

… investigators conducted a controlled purchase of fentanyl from Gross. Defendant Lewis distributed amounts of heroin and fentanyl, sourced in part from Richard Philbrick. He utilized electronic media to … purchases of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine from Lewis during the investigation. Richard Philbrick was …
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DEA Gears Up for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This event offers anonymous disposal … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. “I encourage everyone across … the United States.” “When you remove leftover medications from your medicine cabinets, you remove threats of drug …
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Nedrow Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug and Gun Charges

… warrant and seized the cocaine base and the loaded handgun from the defendant’s bedroom, along with scales and plastic … Resident Office, which includes Task Force Officers from the City of Auburn Police Department, the City of … Police, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, Investigators from the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office, and the …
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California Man Pleads Guilty to Bringing Over 65,000 Fentanyl Pills to Syracuse for Distribution

… plea, Acosta admitted that, on April 4, 2022, he travelled from Bakersfield, CA to a storage unit in Syracuse, NY.  … that Acosta was transporting fentanyl and other narcotics from his home in Bakersfield to drug dealers in the Central … Bakersfield, CA are investigating the case with assistance from the Finger Lakes Drug Task Force, Auburn Police …
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Federal Trial Jury Convicts Syracuse Man of Drug and Firearm Offenses

… located a hidden compartment (or “trap”) in the dashboard. From the trap, Detectives recovered over 400 grams of … of at least 8 years following the defendant’s release from incarceration. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a …
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New York City Man Pleads Guilty to Delivery of 1,000 Bricks (50,000 bags) of Fentanyl to Syracuse

… agreed to deliver 1000 bricks (50,000 bags) of fentanyl from New York City to Syracuse for $75,000.00.  On November … admitted that he was delivering the fentanyl to Syracuse from New York City as part of a drug deal. At the time of … Department-Special Investigations Division, with assistance from Investigators of the Onondaga County District …
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One Man Pleads Guilty, Another Sentenced for Their Roles in Drug Ring

… Gilbert purchased approximately 75 ounces of cocaine from Thompson. On Aug. 5, 2020, investigators executed a … 2020, he purchased approximately 49 grams of cocaine from co-defendant Thompson. On August 5, 2020, investigators … a Loaded Firearm – Third Degree and is legally prohibited from possessing ammunition. Saan Thompson and Louis Gilbert …