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DEA Hosts the 27th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday to Remove Unneeded Medications from Homes

… Take Back Day on Saturday to Remove Unneeded Medications from Homes October 25, 2024 Seattle Contact Info Contact Us … Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  National Prescription Drug Take Back … misuse starts when young people take drugs they do not need from their parent’s or grandparent’s medicine cabinet.  …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities April 26, 2024 El Paso Contact Info Contact … Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event aims to remove unneeded prescriptions from homes to help prevent medication misuse by offering …
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Three Defendants Arrested for Operating Narcotics Delivery Service Responsible for Three Overdose Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine

… Delivery Service Responsible for Three Overdose Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine February 01, 2022 New York … According to the allegations in the complaint [1] : From at least in or about 2020 to at least in or about 2021, …
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Pharmacist arrested in diversion of 5,000 oxycodone pills worth up to $150,000 from a pharmacy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

… in diversion of 5,000 oxycodone pills worth up to $150,000 from a pharmacy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn November 01, 2018 … for allegedly diverting thousands of oxycodone pills from the Brooklyn pharmacy where she was employed to the …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities April 26, 2024 Headquarters Contact Info … Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event aims to remove unneeded prescriptions from homes to help prevent medication misuse by offering …
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Communities Nationwide Turn In Nearly 630,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications on DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… removed nearly 19.2 million pounds of unneeded medications from communities across our country.  According to a report … medication for a non-medical purpose got that medication from a family member or friend.  DEA continues to expand …
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U.S. Attorney’s Office and DEA Announce Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Task Force

… Maryland has continued, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths from July 2023 through June 2024 – more than 1,600 were … task force consisting of sworn law-enforcement members from agencies throughout Maryland.  Led and coordinated by …
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DEA Washington Division Calls on the Community to Have Important Conversations on Dangers of Drugs and Fake Pills in Back-To-School Routines

… 415,300 pills in 2023, which was a 260 percent increase from the previous year. The number of pills seized in the District of Columbia increased by nearly 60 percent, from 17,500 in 2022 to 27,600 in 2023. SAC Forget explained …
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DEA Phoenix & the AZ Attorney General “Huddles Up” with NFL Alumni and Rise Up Glendale to Spread Awareness about Fentanyl

… and upcoming events. This event has received support from many local community partners to include the National … predicts more than 110,000 American lives were lost in 2023 from drug poisonings and drug-related deaths.  Nearly 70% of … drug education and awareness, prevention curriculum, online resources, school programs, and many other special …
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East Baltimore Drug Trafficking Organization Member and Associate Sentenced

… of Solomon, Drummond delivered cocaine every two weeks from July 2018 to January 2019, to a co-conspirator to … in the same location.  This co-located model enables agents from different agencies to collaborate on …
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West Baltimore Career Criminal Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Crack Cocaine, Sentenced

… contained Powell’s DNA.  A review of the video footage from the covert camera revealed that, at approximately 6:45 … a previous felony conviction which he knew prohibited him from possessing a firearm or ammunition. This case is part …
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Baltimore Narcotics Supplier and Tester Admits to Transporting More Than Two Kilograms of Cocaine to Maryland for a Drug Trafficking Organization

… Baltimore District Office. According to his guilty plea, from April 2020 to November 2020, Grigsby was a member of a … in which he discussed obtaining three kilograms of cocaine from a supplier for one of the DTO’s mid-level cocaine …
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Consent Decree Approved Between the United States and Baltimore-Based Pharmacy and Pharmacist Alleged to Have Illegally Dispensed Controlled Substances

… were for the same drug, strength, and quantity, and were from the same prescriber and some were prescribed by an … the patient is biologically male and presents prescriptions from an obstetrician or gynecologist.  Before filling …
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Baltimore Heroin Dealer Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Drug Conspiracy Charge

… saw the DTO leader arrive and intercepted a message from the DTO leader to Gardner stating, “Here cuz”.  The DTO … in the same location.  This co-located model enables agents from different agencies to collaborate on …
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Leader of Wholesale Drug Distribution Network, Shipping Drugs Across Country & Laundering Millions, Sentenced

… of the sale of that spice. According to court documents, from 2017 through November 2019, Joseph Ruis, 56, was the … connected to this conspiracy was used by an individual from New Hampshire to fatally overdose. Ruis controlled the …
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Harford County Narcotics Dealer Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Participating in a Conspiracy to Sell Crack Cocaine

… a cocaine supplier. After purchasing nine ounces of cocaine from the supplier, Bolden and Murphy returned to Harford … discussing the purchase of three ounces of crack cocaine from co-defendant Hammond. Bolden arranged the transaction …
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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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Owner and Employees of Alleged Pill Mill Facing Federal Indictment

… Human Services. According to the eight-count indictment, from February 2017 to February 2020, Joyce Shawanda Edwards … Justina Aburime was a nurse practitioner who worked at PTMS from February 2017, until she left in August 2018, at which …
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Prince George’s County Couple Linked to Two Overdoses Facing Federal Indictment for Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… The superseding indictment also includes the two counts from the original indictment charging Trimmer with … According to the five-count superseding indictment, from May 2018 through September 25, 2020, Trimmer and Walls …
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District Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison For Distributing Fentanyl That Killed Two People

… to L.L., 69, and G.H., 72, both of whom subsequently died from consuming the fentanyl and cocaine that Marbley … on that morning, he had distributed fentanyl and cocaine from the driver’s seat of a Mazda sedan in Southwest. …
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Former Chief Operating Officer of Area Pain Clinics Indicted

… more than 100,000 of our fellow Americans die each year from drug overdoses,” United States Attorney Christopher R. … communities, especially because many of the people who died from fentanyl had no idea they have even taken it. …
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Medical Director of Baltimore County Pain Management Clinic Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone

… were positive for cocaine and whose children had been taken from her because of her drug problems.  Similarly, Rosen … statutes, in connection with a scheme to accept payments from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a …
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Two Maryland Men Convicted After a Two-Week Trial for Federal Charges Related to an Armed Heroin and Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy Operating in Washington County

… both had previous felony convictions and were prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition.  The trial evidence … community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and …
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Five Men Indicted in Drug Conspiracy Case, Accused of Selling Drugs Within 1,000 Feet of School

… on federal narcotics and firearms-related charges stemming from an ongoing investigation into a drug trafficking … ammunition, marijuana, and more than $79,000 in cash seized from the defendants over the course of the investigation.  …
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Medical Director of Baltimore County Pain Management Clinic Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone

… were positive for cocaine and whose children had been taken from her because of her drug problems. Similarly, Rosen … statutes, in connection with a scheme to accept payments from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a …
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DEA Washington Division Announces Major Results in Operation Angels Envy

… 2.png This graphic illustrates the drug trafficking routes from the West Coast to the East Coast and back to a Mexican …
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Six ELN members and associates charged with narco-terrorism and international cocaine distribution conspiracy

… asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit tips online at www.fbi.gov/tips A federal grand jury in Houston … in an ongoing 20-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine from Colombia to the United States knowing or intending to … Special Operations Division, including assigned attorneys from the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section and National …
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Two Men Indicted for International Conspiracy to Ship Fentanyl, Other Drugs into United States through Dark Web Connections

… dark web.jpeg Deadly Fentanyl.jpg BRUNSWICK, GA:   Two men from Canada and the United Kingdom have been indicted in the … law enforcement agencies involved.” “The number of deaths from drug overdoses, particularly Fentanyl and its … Vancouver; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and its Online Undercover Operations Unit and Federal Serious and …
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Mexican Citizen Pleads Guilty To Role In Organization Responsible For Flying Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Cocaine To The U.S. And Laundering Money From Its Sales

… Of Kilograms Of Cocaine To The U.S. And Laundering Money From Its Sales December 08, 2014 Houston Contact Info … and money laundering organization operating out of Mexico from 2002-2008 has been convicted, announced Drug …
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Judge sentences cartel-connected drug dealer to 25 years for trying to establish cocaine pipeline from Mexico to St. Louis

… dealer to 25 years for trying to establish cocaine pipeline from Mexico to St. Louis September 17, 2020 St. Louis … and elsewhere, obtained bulk quantities of cocaine from suppliers with ties to the Sinaloa Cartel. Burris then … Office for the Eastern District of Missouri with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of …