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Former Member of Baltimore’s Safe Streets Program Pleads Guilty

… enforcement, including to avoid arrest when police seized from him a large quantity of fentanyl. The guilty plea was … judicial authorization to intercept communications to and from cellular telephones used by Alexander from May through July 23, 2020.  Alexander’s conversations …
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Boston Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Receive 24 Kilos of Cocaine from a Mexican Drug Cartel Source

… Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Receive 24 Kilos of Cocaine from a Mexican Drug Cartel Source January 30, 2024 New … a confidential source received 23.9 kilograms of cocaine from a drug-trafficking organization (DTO) based in Mexico. …
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Aryan Brotherhood members and associates charged with racketeering for directing murders and other violent crimes from inside California prisons

… racketeering for directing murders and other violent crimes from inside California prisons June 06, 2019 San Francisco … other charges for extensive, organized criminal activity from within California’s most secure prisons. The … blow to the leadership of a violent criminal enterprise run from inside California prisons. Despite the incarceration of …
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57 People Linked To Drug Trafficking Organizations That Smuggled Narcotics From Mexico In PVC Pipes Charged In Federal Court

… To Drug Trafficking Organizations That Smuggled Narcotics From Mexico In PVC Pipes Charged In Federal Court August 15, … drug trafficking organizations that smuggled narcotics from Mexico in PVC pipes typically hidden in the axles of …
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Detection of Phenethylamine, Amphetamine, and Tryptamine Imine By-Products from an Acetone Extraction (Microgram Journal 2011;8(1):29-35)

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… Amphetamine, and Tryptamine Imine By-Products from an Acetone Extraction (Microgram Journal … Amphetamine, and Tryptamine Imine By-Products from an Acetone Extraction (Microgram Journal …
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Eastern Shore Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty & Sentenced on Drug Charges

… established that Holbrook received quantities of cocaine from other persons and distributed or participated in the … 4, 2020, Holbrook arranged to receive a quantity of cocaine from supplier, Shakoor Stevenson.  On that day, Holbrook and …
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Two Penn North Baltimore Neighborhood Drug Dealers Plead Guilty to Fentanyl Related Charges

… undercover officer purchased 10 gelatin fentanyl capsules from the same two DTO associates.  Chemical analysis of … purchases in the known territory of the Bullseye DTO from co-conspirators who advised their narcotics as being …
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Oxon Hill Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for a Drug Distribution Conspiracy and for Illegal Possession of Stolen Firearms

… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least December 2020 until February 11, 2021, Rushdan … and picking up bags at the apartment while traveling to and from drug trafficking locations. On February 11, 2021, law …
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Hagerstown, Maryland Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty to Federal Fentanyl and Heroin Drug Charges

… March 18, 2019, law enforcement received an anonymous tip from a Hagerstown, Maryland storage facility customer … bore Smith’s photograph and the alias “Michael Silver”. From March 20 to April 24, 2019, law enforcement surveilled …
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Final Defendant in a Harford County Drug Conspiracy Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine

… regarding the purchase of three ounces of crack cocaine from co-defendant Hammond were intercepted.  Bolden had … transported money to Hammond and received a small backpack from Hammond, which investigators believed contained the …
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Oxon Hill Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for a Drug Distribution Conspiracy and for Illegal Possession of Stolen Firearms

… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least December 2020 until February 11, 2021, Rushdan … and picking up bags at the apartment while traveling to and from drug trafficking locations. On February 11, 2021, law …
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Final Defendant in a Harford County Drug Conspiracy

… regarding the purchase of three ounces of crack cocaine from co-defendant Hammond were intercepted.  Bolden had … transported money to Hammond and received a small backpack from Hammond, which investigators believed contained the …
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Two Indicted on Drug Conspiracy and Other Charges in Landmark Case Following Fentanyl Overdose Death

… – A brother and sister were arrested on charges stemming from an investigation by federal and local law enforcement … 2021, death of a 20-year-old woman in Southeast Washington from acute Fentanyl intoxication. According to the …
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Leader of Wholesale Drug Distribution Network Pleads Guilty to Distributing Synthetic Cannabinoids and Laundering Millions in Proceeds

… of the sale of that spice. According to court documents, from 2017 through November 2019, Joseph Ruis, 56, was the … The spice connected to this conspiracy caused an individual from New Hampshire to fatally overdose. Ruis controlled the …
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Penn North Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison

… to his plea agreement, in July 2019, investigators from Drug Enforcement Administration’s Strike Force Group 1 … October 2019, investigators conducted controlled purchases from co-conspirators who had discussed drug trafficking with …
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Physician Assistant Sentenced for Conspiring to Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Methadone, and Alprazolam

… as a physician assistant with Drs. Rosen and Hoffberg from 2011 to 2018, where he treated patients during … pleaded guilty on June 9, 2021, to accepting kick-backs from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a …
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Essex Man Pleads Guilty To Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… Harford County Narcotics Task Force received authorization from a Circuit Court County Judge to intercept wire and … individual obtaining two to three ounces of crack cocaine from Hammond, the source of supply for the DTO. Hammond met …
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Baltimore man sentenced to prison after agents recovered fentanyl he hid in an illegal taxi

… were going.  Young answered that the driver was a friend from school and that she was giving him a ride home.  … she retrieved the bag.  The officer saw that, aside from the driver’s wallet and some personal items, the bag …
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Possible meth lab found in Hagerstown Maryland

… Clandestine Laboratory Team (consisting of Special Agents from the DEA Hagerstown Resident Office and Task Force Officers from the Washington County Narcotics Task Force) responded …
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Greene County Man Indicted for Possessing Over 10,000 Fentanyl Pills and a Kilogram of Fentanyl Powder

… alarming rate and our Virginia communities are not immune from its devastation. By arresting Mr. Woodson and removing this poison from our streets, we are effectively saving many lives. We …
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DEA Announces “360 Strategy” In Charleston To Huntington, West Virginia Tri-County Area

… enforcement; and both education and medical professionals from the Charleston to Huntington Tri-county areas. “The … better than anyone else the toll this epidemic extracts from their communities,” said Special Agent-in-Charge …
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American Express Bank International Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement And Forfeits $55 Million To Resolve Bank Secrecy Act Violations

… uphold their responsibility to safeguard financial markets from the illegal activities of international drug cartels … will continue to work to stop financial institutions from knowingly disregarding their obligations to have these …
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Maryland Science Center To Host DEA Exhibit

… the world. Visitors will experience a drug investigation from start to finish, helping them understand the … in a simulated MRI machine and view real wreckage from a drug-related car accident. A portion of Target …
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Illegal Drug Company Gallant Pharma And Co-Founder Sentenced

… such drugs took more than two weeks to arrive in Virginia from overseas during a July 2012 heat wave.  Many drugs sold … and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from INTERPOL and the Arlington County Police Department.  …
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DEA Washington Division Gears up to Celebrate the 24th National Drug Take Back Day

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22nd, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers anonymous disposal … Take Back Day has removed more than 8,300 tons of medicine from circulation since its inception. “Thanks to our local … more relevant now than ever because m any people who die from  drug poisoning  unknowingly consume fake pills laced …
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FL Man Who Allegedly Commandeered E-Prescribing Privileges of Doctors Charged with Criminal Sale

… of narcotic prescriptions.  Devin Anthony Magarian, 21, from Kissimmee, Florida, was arraigned on January 17, 2024, … this elaborate criminal conspiracy operating through online illicit drug sales and interstate trafficking to shut … on their diligent work and commend the DEA Diversion team from the DEA Long Island District Office.” DA Donnelly said …
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Virginia Drug Dealer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Multi-State Drug Conspiracy and Distribution

… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from December 2018 to January 2020, Knighton, and others … to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. From the spring of 2018 to December 2018, Knighton sold more …
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Ringleader and Members of Multi-State Anabolic Steroid Trafficking Network Sentenced

… located in Wilson County. They used raw materials received from China to manufacture liquid and pill-form steroids for … detection, Peele shipped packages using false names and from various postal branches in Surry County and Richmond. … each received wholesale quantities of anabolic steroids from Lambert’s trafficking network and sold the steroids to …
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Major Maryland-Washington, D.C. Area Narcotics Distributor Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for Drug Conspiracy and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking

… Sheriff Troy Berry.   According to Cleckley’s guilty plea, from at least in or about January 2017 through June 2018, … purchased more than 200 grams of heroin and fentanyl from a supplier. After the purchase, members of law …
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Baltimore man found with enough fentanyl to kill 37,500 people in illegal taxi pleads guilty

… We must do everything we can to reduce overdose deaths from this drug and from all opioids.” According to his guilty plea, on Feb. 22, … were going. Young answered that the driver was a friend from school and that she was giving him a ride home. Neither …