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BGF Commander And Gang Member Sentenced To Prison For Participating In A Racketeering Conspiracy

… facilities. According to their plea agreements, from 2006 through June 2010, Duncan and McFadden were … was overheard directing a BGF “commander” to collect $25 from each BGF member under the “commander’s” control, which …
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Large-Scale Distributor Of Unapproved Foreign Prescription Drugs Indicted

… as a trans-shipper, Quinn received non-FDA-approved drugs from countries such as India and the United Arab Emirates, … and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Arlington County Police Department.  Assistant U.S. …
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More Than 1,000 Stakeholders From Throughout Minnesota Convene To Define The Problem With Prescription Painkillers And Develop Solutions

… More Than 1,000 Stakeholders From Throughout Minnesota Convene To Define The Problem With … community leaders, recovering addicts and their families from across Minnesota are meeting to address the pain pill …
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Hanover Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Other Drugs

… Law Enforcement Also Seized 15 Firearms from Conspirators, including Six from Pitts, and more than $1.5 Million Cash in Drug Proceeds … cocaine, and other drugs, shipped through the U.S. Mail from California to Maryland.  Pitts admitted that during his …
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Baltimore Drug Dealer Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl, Cocaine, Heroin & Gun Possession

… phone activity and noted that the victim purchased heroin from a contact labeled “T” on at least seven occasions.  The last date the victim purchased heroin from “T” was on October 14, 2017, three days before the … On November 9, 2017, investigators watched Shaheed depart from his Baltimore, Maryland residence and travel to a gas …
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Baltimore Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Federal Prison for Selling Fentanyl and Other Narcotics to Customers Across Four States

… heroin, and other controlled substances in Baltimore.  From January 2017 to December 2020, scores of customers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia …
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Member of Gregory Butler Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for His Role in the Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… and Fentanyl sales to Drug Users and Redistributors from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania … Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from October 2018 to April 2019, FBI investigators … and fentanyl sales to drug users and redistributors from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. …
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Ringleader of Extensive Sinaloa Cartel Network Sentenced

… According to court documents, Ramiro Ramirez-Barreto, 44, from the Mexican State of Morelos, operated a continuing … Ramirez-Barreto supplied him with 60 kilograms of heroin from early 2018 to mid-2019. Another one of … Cookout In August 2019, over 120 law enforcement officers from 30 law enforcement agencies in Virginia, North …
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Parcel Interdiction Leads to Guilty Plea

… to his guilty plea, on February 19, 2020 an officer from the Maryland State Police Parcel Interdiction … with “sham” cocaine, leaving one ounce of real cocaine from one of the original bricks.  An undercover officer … name.  Avalos answered the door and accepted the parcel from the undercover officer. Avalos took possession of the …
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Baltimore Felon Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for His Participation in a Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least May 2020 through August 2020, Crosby … several of these meetings and obtained video surveillance from the gas station. On August 9, 2020, law enforcement … vehicle, investigators recovered over 100 grams of fentanyl from a bag inside the center console of the vehicle.  After …
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Fourteen people indicted, $1 million worth of drugs and 65 firearms seized in massive takedown

… one, to safely remove violent criminals, guns and drugs from our neighborhoods.” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, … High Tide is the latest highly-coordinated effort from federal, state, and local law enforcement to tackle … known and felt in Hampton Roads, as we apprehend and remove from the streets those individuals who have allegedly …
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Baltimore Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm in a School Zone and for Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl and Other Drugs

… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from October 2020 through March 1, 2021, Watkins was engaged … taking possession of approximately one kilogram of fentanyl from an associate who had brought the drugs from the Pikesville stash house.  Watkins took the fentanyl …
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

… announced the results of a public safety surge that lasted from September 29, 2021 through December 14, 2021. The surge … fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced largely from China. These fake prescription pills are designed to … in your community, please submit your anonymous tip online through the DEA Tip Line at Submit a Tip | DEA.gov . …
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Pharmacy Owners Convicted of Illegally Selling 10 Million Hydrocodone Pills Over The Internet, Laundering $20 Million in Proceeds and Failing to Pay Taxes

… D.C., and that there was no doctor patient relationship. From January 1, 2005 through October 10, 2006, NewCare … in monetary transactions with criminally derived proceeds from the illegal sale of hydrocodone, depositing their …
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Groundbreaking Extradition Lands ELN Members in Texas for Narco-Terrorism and International Cocaine Distribution

… and distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia.   This is the first time believed members of … in an ongoing 20-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine from Colombia to the United States knowing or intending to … asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov. The U.S. Department of State, …
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DEA Operation Adam Bomb Leads To Major Tax Fraud Investigation By The IRS And Issuance Of Federal “John Doe” Summonses

… that will assist the IRS in identifying U.S. taxpayers who, from the years 2005 through 2013, used Sovereign’s services … entity. As a result of a DEA-Los Angeles investigation of online narcotics trafficking known as OPERATION ADAM BOMB, … how outstanding investigative results can be derived from a culture of interagency cooperation.” According to the …
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Guatemalan Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Using U.S. Registered Aircraft To Transport Thousands Of Kilograms Of Cocaine

… in Central and South America. “The plea agreement received from Chang-Monroy, a cocaine transporter in the … for the purpose of transporting large amounts of cocaine from clandestine airstrips in Venezuela to clandestine … drug trafficking organization in exchange for a percentage from the sale of the cocaine that was successfully …
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Leader Of A Baltimore Drug Organization Sentenced To Over 15 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Over 1,000 Kilograms Of Marijuana And To Launder Drug Proceeds

… in Canada in early August 2013, and D’Amico was extradited from Colombia, South America. The sentence was announced by … with other conspirators at a stash house in Baltimore. From 2007 through June 2009, Nicka, D’Amico, and Peterson …
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Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl in Petersburg

… A series of nine controlled purchases of fentanyl were made from Mitchell between April 2021 and October 2021. Mitchell …
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Abingdon Man to Serve More Than 17 Years for Trafficking Methamphetamine

… executed several controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Phillips in early 2021. While executing a search …
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Roanoke Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Dealing Heroin

… controlled purchases of approximately four ounces of heroin from Davenport.  Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of …
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Member of International Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced

… to assist him in a cocaine drug trafficking conspiracy. From that residence, Rodriguez-Preciado distributed …
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Bristol Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Role in Trafficking Methamphetamine

… Fabian DeJesus, 49, and others trafficked methamphetamine from sources in Atlanta to various locations in Eastern …
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Man Sentenced for Sale of Fentanyl and Illegal Possession of Firearms

… felony offenses in Virginia and was thus prohibited from possessing firearms at the time of this offense.   …
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Luray Woman Sentenced for Distributing Methamphetamine

… search of duffle bags that Stidham and Strate had removed from the residence prior to the search led to the discovery …
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South Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Methamphetamine, International Money Laundering, Gun Charges

… and 2021 to pick up large quantities of methamphetamine from sources of supply in those cities. Desorcy coordinated …
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Alexandria Man Convicted of Armed Fentanyl Trafficking

… According to court records and evidence presented at trial, from in or around June 2020, through at least December 2020, …
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International Drug Trafficking Organization Member Sentenced for Trafficking Over a Thousand Kilograms of Cocaine

… the maritime transportation of 1,500 kilograms of cocaine from the Pacific Ocean to mainland Guatemala, where the …
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Calvert County Felon Convicted After Four Day Trial for Illegal Possession of a Firearm

… convictions and knew that as a result, he was prohibited from possessing a firearm and ammunition.  This conviction …
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Charles County Pharmacist and Assistant Arrested

… of pharmaceutical controlled substances that she obtained from the pharmacy. The charges are the result of a yearlong …