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Armed Leader of a Drug Trafficking Organization Shipping Kilogram Quantities of Cocaine from Puerto Rico Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison

… Organization Shipping Kilogram Quantities of Cocaine from Puerto Rico Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison February … bringing kilogram quantities of cocaine into Raleigh from Puerto Rico.   On March 4, 2024, Arias, age 32, pled … Service to send shipments of kilogram-quantities of cocaine from Puerto Rico to various addresses in Raleigh.  The …
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Upper Marlboro Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for Heroin and Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… County Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least June 2016 through July 2017, Stewart conspired … and Prince George’s County.  Stewart obtained heroin from Broxton and then sold smaller quantities of heroin to …
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5 Sinaloa Cartel Members plead guily to trafficking charges in Operation Cookout

… a global pandemic—to protect the communities we serve from these deadly drugs,” said Jarod Forget, Special Agent … successfully removed a number of violent drug organizations from the streets, and will enable these communities to focus … According to court documents, Ramiro Ramirez-Barreto, 44, from the Mexican State of Morelos, operated a continuing …
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Chinese drug traffickers charged in fatal opioid conspiracy

… one killer drug in America today, and most of them come from China,” said Attorney General Sessions.  “That’s why … shipping the drugs. The Zheng DTO explained in emails and online that it had “special ways” to “go through customs …
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Major Cocaine Supplier For The East Coast Extradited From Puerto Rico To New York City: Six Charged In Long-term Investigation

… Major Cocaine Supplier For The East Coast Extradited From Puerto Rico To New York City: Six Charged In Long-term … conspired to smuggle millions of dollars in cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York City and Rhode Island through …
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Maryland Man Convicted of Fentanyl Distribution

… communities.” According to the evidence presented at trial, from on or about January 21, 2022, through September 28, …
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Baltimore Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Conspiracy Charge

… saw the DTO leader arrive and intercepted a message from the DTO leader to Gardner stating, “Here cuz”.  The DTO …
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Montgomery County Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl that Led to an Overdose Death

… 1’s car to complete the transaction.  Surveillance video from Hotel A, as well as cell-site location records, …
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Two Baltimore, Maryland Men Facing Federal Indictment for the Attempted Murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent

… his official duties.  Further, the indictment alleges that from 2020 until December 29, 2021, Hester and Rogers …
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DEA Washington Joins D.C. Partners to Announce New Partnership Focused on Violent Crime

… on this effort to keep area families and communities safer from drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths. ## …
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DEA Washington Launches New Conference Series to Work with Healthcare Professionals & Help End the Overdose Crisis

… scale throughout the DMV, in making our communities safer from the problems associated with prescription drug …
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Essex Man Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison for Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… DTO member obtained two to three ounces of crack cocaine from Hammond, which were then sold to the DTO’s customers. …
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Final Member of Large Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization in Virginia, Sentenced

… a member of a conspiracy that trafficked methamphetamine from the West coast into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced …
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Brother and Sister Plead Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl Sales

…  A review of the female victim’s phone found text messages from the previous evening with Larry Eastman where the …
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Montgomery County Drug Dealer Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl That Led to an Overdose Death

… release, for distribution of fentanyl.  A victim died from using drugs that Agbi distributed.  Judge Grimm also …
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Silver Spring, Maryland Man Faces Federal Charges for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in the Death of a Minor Victim

… advised law enforcement the victim purchased “percs” from an individual known as “Mick”.  The witness also …
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Union Bank of California Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement And Forfeits $21.6 Million To Resolve Bank Secrecy Act Violations

… San Diego and Miami Field Divisions, with assistance from the DEA Bogota Country Office, the DEA Madrid Country …
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Jose Morales Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering A Witness In A Baltimore City Case

… to prevent Long, who was also an employee of Morales, from testifying against him. The jury learned that three …
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Member of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Pleads Guilty to a Federal Racketeering, Distributing Large Quantities of Drugs, Two Murders and an Attempted Murder

… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from at least 2016 through March 26, 2020, Bobby Cannon was … East Baltimore.  On January 4, 2019, Cannon borrowed a car from a female associate in southwest Baltimore and later … officers saw that Cannon had a gun, which they recovered from his jacket pocket.  Officers then searched Cannon’s van …
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Six Men Facing Federal Drug Charges

… were seized by law enforcement.  The packages were shipped from Brownsville, Texas to an address associated with the … to Velasquez’s residence.  Tracking information obtained from the shipping company revealed that IP addresses … on January 20, 2022, based on arrest warrants issued from the criminal complaint.  As part of these arrests, law …
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Money Launderer and Wholesale Supplier of Narcotics to East Baltimore Monument Street Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison and Ordered to Forfeit $472,000

… Investigators conducted controlled purchases of narcotics from drug distributors in the shops, including Roundheart, … mixture. The total proceeds obtained by Williams from supplying controlled substances to co-conspirators was … or leased. Investigators recovered a total of $363,233 from various bank accounts associated with Williams' drug …
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Manager of Pain Clinic, Her Boyfriend, and Customers Facing Federal Charges for a Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… forged prescriptions for opioids using prescription pads from the clinics’ doctors, then illegally sold the forged … prescriptions.  For example, the complaint alleges that from July 2019 to April 2021, more than 40 prescriptions … that pharmacies had begun to refuse opioid prescriptions from Memorial Care.  The criminal complaint further alleges …
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Six indicted in drug conspiracy that included production and distribution of power synthetic opioid

… in the six-count indictment in U.S. District Court and from testimony in court proceedings, six defendants are … in the federal system.   According to the indictment, and from testimony delivered in court proceedings, Forrester …   “Illegal opioid production and distribution, whether online or through conventional drug distribution methods, is …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Last Mile comprised 1,436 investigations conducted from May 1, 2022 through May 1, 2023, in collaboration with … to nearly 193 million deadly doses of fentanyl removed from communities across the United States, which have … with whom we were able to make these arrests and seizures from these violent drug trafficking organizations”. …
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DEA Washington Chief Issues Public Safety Alert: Dangerous Increase in Fake Rx Pills Containing Fentanyl

… are being so well made they aren’t able to be told apart from legitimate pills, outside testing. DEA lab analyses … fatal overdose deaths in unwitting victims across our area, from every background and every lifestyle,” said Special … lost to this horrible danger is too many. Only ONE pill from illegitimate sources can kill, and has. And we’re …
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Thirty-Five Indicted For Trafficking Heroin Throughout Virginia Peninsula

… DEA’s mission to take down drug trafficking organizations from the street to the source,” said DEA SAC Cooper-Davis. … organization that smuggles large quantities of heroin from New York City into the Tidewater area, which has been … The indictment alleges that after obtaining the heroin from Taylor’s lieutenants, the mid-level distributors would …
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Nine Indicted on Multiple Charges Arising From Armed Burglaries of Marijuana Grow Facilities That Resulted in Death of Oakland Police Officer

… Nine Indicted on Multiple Charges Arising From Armed Burglaries of Marijuana Grow Facilities That … Two OPD undercover vehicles chased two vehicles fleeing from the burglary scene.  One vehicle, driven by Brown, …
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Matriarch Sentenced for Role in Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization

… United States WASHINGTON, DC- According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Chinda, … received clandestine maritime and air shipments of cocaine from sources in South America. Individual shipments of … America, managed the proceeds that the organization made from the sale of cocaine and, at times, paid sources of …
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Colombian Drug Kingpin Charged With Smuggling 35 Pounds Of Heroin Destined For New York In Freight Containers

… centers on a shipment of 16 kilos of (over 35 lbs.) seized from a freighter ship in Miami on January 10, 2012. The load … traffickers ran their business on principals similar to an online commerce company; one - place an order, two- fill the …
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Illegal Immigrant from the Dominican Republic Sentenced to More than Five Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Deliver Cocaine

… Illegal Immigrant from the Dominican Republic Sentenced to More than Five … with Lazala-Soto telling the trooper that he had driven from New Jersey the day before to see his son for lunch. … admitted he was transporting cocaine and had driven from New York to Austin and met someone at a gas station.  …