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Arizona Gear 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 …
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Illinois Man Sentenced to More Than 23 Years in Prison for Selling Fatal Fentanyl

… The victim bought three pills that appeared to be Percocet from Overall at Overall’s St. Louis home. The victim died later that evening from fentanyl intoxication caused by ingesting the fake …
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Repeat Drug Offender Sentenced to 15 Years for Meth Conspiracy

… distribute methamphetamine in Christian and Greene counties from Dec. 16, 2020, to June 2, 2022. Law enforcement … contained $4,220. Dame also admitted the cash was proceeds from her distribution of methamphetamine. According to court …
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Man on Parole for Drug Trafficking Sentenced for Trafficking Meth

… to distribute methamphetamine in Greene and Polk Counties from March 5 to Oct. 10, 2019. Durbray also admitted he … conducted two controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Durbray in April 2019. On April 24, 2019, a deputy with …
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Meth Distributor Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison

… he purchased approximately 1.2 kilograms of methamphetamine from a co-conspirator. Clevenger attempted to flee on foot from police officers during a traffic stop near the …
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Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking, Illegal Firearms

… Edmundson at a gas station after receiving information from the Brown County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Department that he … community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and …
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Semi Driver Caught With 88 Pounds of Illegal Drugs Sentenced to 12 Years

… duffel w drugs.jpg This duffel is one of two bags seized from a truck driver. The duffels contained more than 80 … Illinois. “DEA, working in lockstep with our partners from the Illinois State Police, will continue to be …
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Four Co-defendants Sentenced for Meth Conspiracy

… methamphetamine in Benton and Pettis counties in Missouri from Jan. 14 to Feb. 10, 2022. Naylor also pleaded guilty to … legally own a firearm. A deputy stopped Johnson, who ran from the bedroom into the restroom toward the toilet in an …
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Slovakian Man Accused of Running Darknet Market Selling Drugs and Personal Information

… documents including passports and drivers' licenses from Missouri and other states, the charging documents say. … Internet Crime (ZIT) as well as law enforcement agencies from Switzerland, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. Dark …
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Guns and Heroin Result in 10+ Years in Prison

… one kilogram or more of heroin in the St. Joseph area from Sept. 1, 2019, to March 26, 2021, and to two counts of … when he was arrested on March 16, 2021, after fleeing from law enforcement officers in a high-speed car chase. …
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Heroin Charge Results in Sentence of 12 Years

… in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the St. Joseph area from Sept. 1, 2019, to March 26, 2021. Johnson was in … when he was arrested on March 16, 2021, after fleeing from law enforcement officers in a high-speed car chase. …
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Four Gangster Disciples Leaders Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy and Murder

… D-Mac, aka Monster, 30, also of Cape Girardeau, on orders from Frank Smith, aka Little Frank, aka Red Beard, 49, of … Griffin sought to remove another Gangster Disciple member from his position as Governor of Missouri. Smith texted …
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Joplin Physician Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud

… plea agreement, Stelling continued to practice medicine from Sept. 12 to Sept. 24, 2018, despite believing that her … she needed to obtain a certificate of tax compliance from the Department of Revenue by Sept. 12, 2018, which she …
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Former Aryan Brotherhood Member Sentenced to 18 Years for Meth Trafficking

… told investigators the methamphetamine was what he had left from the 1.5 pounds of methamphetamine he had obtained from his supplier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the previous …
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Three Defendants Sentenced for $2.1 Million Meth Conspiracy

… money-laundering conspiracy over a nearly four-year period from Jan. 1, 2015, to Nov. 14, 2018. In addition to the … paraphernalia – including drug ledgers and drug packaging – from Guzman’s residence. Gnat pleaded guilty on June 17, …
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Kansas City Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Meth Trafficking, Illegal Firearms

… tasers, police identification and other police items stolen from Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. officers. …
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KC Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking, Illegal Firearms

… - (417) 888-9800 Agents Seized 19 Firearms, Illegal Drugs from Residence snow_firearms.jpg Nineteen firearms were … tasers, police identification and other police items stolen from Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. officers. Both …
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Aryan Brotherhood Member Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking

… told investigators the methamphetamine was what he had left from the 1.5 pounds of methamphetamine he had obtained from his supplier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the previous …
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$2.1 Million in Meth Proceeds Results in Guilty Verdicts

… money-laundering conspiracy over a nearly four-year period from Jan. 1, 2015, to Nov. 14, 2018. In addition to the … paraphernalia – including drug ledgers and drug packaging – from Guzman’s residence. The federal indictment also …
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… CDC provisional data, more than 87,200 people died from an overdose last year, marking the largest number of … along the Southwest border increased more than 89 percent from January 2019 to December 2020.   Project Wave Breaker …
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Springfield woman sentenced to 17 years for meth conspiracy, illegal firearms

… a total of more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine from Gauger in a series of traffic stops and searches of her … that she participated in the drug-trafficking conspiracy from May 14, 2017, to June 20, 2018. Gauger also admitted …
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Federal agencies arrest 10 in drug trafficking ring in St. Louis and Phoenix

… goal is to destroy the network and stop these organizations from peddling their poison in the streets of St. Louis.” … Legend, Attorney General Barr has directed federal agents from DEA, the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and ATF to surge …
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St. Louis County dentist sentenced to 18 months after issuing illegal prescriptions for opioid narcotic drugs

… Safety for the City of Des Peres, Missouri, with assistance from the Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs of the … every day to ensure that Missouri citizens are protected from Medicaid fraud and fraudulent actors are held …
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Nurse Practitioner Sentenced to 70 Months for Unlawful Drug Distribution

… In previously pleading guilty, Simonson admitted that from at least January 2020 through October 2022, she … and HHS-OIG investigated the criminal case, with assistance from the New York State Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement.  …
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Couple Charged with Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… and 50 times more potent than heroin as an analgesic.  From 2011 through 2021, fatal overdoses associated with … 2,600 drug overdose deaths each year in 2011 and 2012, but from 2013 through 2021, the number of drug overdose deaths …
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10 Members of Crack/Fentanyl Distribution Organization Arrested in Niagara Falls

… Operation Overdrive to address crime and violence stemming from drug trafficking networks nationwide.  DEA and our law … safer and healthier.  I commend the men and women from all the agencies involved in this investigation for …
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Three Men Indicted for Operation Bronx Fentanyl Mill; $300K in Drugs, Loaded Gun Recovered

… (914) 682-6256 Fentanyl Mill.JPG Drugs, Gun and Cash Seized from Fentanyl Mill BRONX, N.Y. - Bronx District Attorney …
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U.S. Attorney Discusses Anti-Gun Violence Efforts, Announces Indictment of Defendant Allegedly Involved in Murder of Rochester Police Officer

… intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana from various drug houses they operated in the City of … resulted in more than 100 illegal firearms being removed from the community. Most importantly, these efforts have …
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Long Island Doctor Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone

… as well as patients who had just been discharged from a hospital following an overdose. In addition, Parasmo … in some instances, possibly reselling them on the streets. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Parasmo prescribed over 1.5 million …
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Massachusetts Man Convicted of Trafficking Four Tons of Cocaine Hidden Inside Furniture

… June 2019, the DTO sent approximately 27 shipments of cargo from Puerto Rico to the continental United States.  The … At times, Montilla drove straight through the night from Massachusetts to Florida to be present for a cocaine …