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Record-breaking amount of cocaine seized at Port of New York/Newark

… USCG, NYSP and NYPD interdicted 3,200 pounds of cocaine from shipping container 60 bundles removed from container.JPG Bundles seized from rear of container.JPG Port New YorkNewark Container …
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Drug Kingpin Extradited: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group

… arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York and subsequently extradited from Colombia to the United States on April 23, 2018. James … (NYSP), announced the extradition. The charges resulted from a long-term investigation by the DEA’s New York Drug …
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Doctor Gets 10 Years For Operating “Pill Mill” In Alabama

… hydromorphone and hydrocodone-directly from a drug manufacturer. Ritchea then distributed the pills … just days after receiving a prescription for that drug from him.  The sentencing court also heard testimony from former patients of Ritchea’s who had maintained their …
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Long Island Man Convicted of Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses Defendant Distributed Fentanyl that Caused the Overdose Death of Selden Man

… on the community, including by taking this young man away from his family too soon. This Office, together with our … caused harm or death to others.” The evidence proved that, from January 2017 through May 2019, the defendant conspired … enforcement recovered fentanyl and drug packaging materials from his basement bedroom, and also seized three illegal …
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Cocaine seizures bring recent port of Savannah totals to more than $53 million

… Southern District of Georgia Bobby L. Christine.   Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in … and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Augusta Fire Department, seized packages containing … holding a shipping container that had been transported from the Port of Savannah. Pujols and Ramos were taken into …
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DEA Joins with Families Across Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to Increase Awareness about the Dangers of Fentanyl

… fatal overdose and poisoning victims with regional leaders from law enforcement, public health, drug prevention and … incredible work these families are doing to prevent others from experiencing the profound pain of losing a loved one to … In addition to an overview of current global drug trends from DEA Chicago Division Special Agent in Charge Robert J. …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in Nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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Pill distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully distributing painkillers

… prescription pills to be illegally sold and dispensed from their facilities,” said DEA Assistant Administrator … pharmacies in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee.   From 2008 until 2015, the company generated more than $173 …
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Beaumont residents guilty in federal drug trafficking case

… Texas, area.  Eric Coleman received powder cocaine from Christopher Dudley, who brought it to Beaumont from Houston. Clayton Howard assisted Dudley in transporting cocaine from Houston to Beaumont.  Coleman distributed both powder …
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16 People Sentenced To Lengthy Terms For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received … drugs which had been brought into the United States from Mexico from Zapata to other parts of the United States. The drugs …
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18 Operation Trena Sin Trono Defendants Plead Guilty

… organization were part of the conspiracy that occurred from on or about June 2011 through June 2013. The pleas are … to transport multi-thousand pound quantities of marijuana from Laredo to the Dallas area. The investigation revealed that beginning from on or about June 10, 2011, and continuing through June …
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Ricardo Castang Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Narcotics Trafficking And Fake Sweepstakes Scheme Targeting Elderly Victims

… A long-term investigation into the trafficking of cocaine from Costa Rica ultimately led agents from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force to … Brooklyn, to retrieve packages containing two souvenir bags from Costa Rica with a total of one kilogram of (over 2 …
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Anchorage Trafficker Sentenced To Life In Prison

… intended recipient of 23 pounds of methamphetamine smuggled from Mexico to Alaska. This methamphetamine was delivered to … 2009, investigators with DEA in Anchorage seized $12,000 from a vehicle being sent from Anchorage to Seattle. The investigation revealed that …
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Six Arrested In Massive Queens Marijuana Bust

… them transferring cardboard cartons containing the drug from a tractor trailer parked in Elmhurst, Queens, to two … of removing cartons of marijuana stacked six feet high from a tractor trailer across the street from the Good Fortune Supermarket in Elmhurst when …
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13 Indicted In Multimillion Dollar Interstate Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… Chau have yet to be arrested. The indictment alleges that from October 2008 to April 2013, the defendants obtained … for oxycodone, hydrocodone, and medical marijuana cards from a doctor in Modesto. They recruited other individuals to obtain prescriptions and marijuana cards from the doctor by offering them payments in return for the …
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Members of Alabama drug trafficking organization plead guilty to drug and gun charges

… nineteenth federal defendant, Phillip Maddox, 41, from Auburn, Alabama, is set for trial in October. The four … Dieago Holstick, 36, and Timothy Lamar Spinks, 43, both from Auburn, Alabama; James Earl McIntyre, 28, from Montgomery, Alabama; and James Lee Hamilton, 41, from …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications

… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. On October 23, with … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
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Canadian who arranged drug smuggling helicopter flights across northern border sentenced to 7 years in prison

… distribute controlled substances.  Colin Hugh Martin, 46, from British Columbia, Canada, was indicted in 2010 and … Martin directed the smuggling of large quantities of drugs from what seemed like a safe perch in Canada – never … California in February 2009; and 79 kilograms of marijuana from Canada that was seized by agents from a helicopter that …
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DEA Report: Counterfeit Pills Fueling U.S. Fentanyl And Opioid Crisis

… About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Problems resulting from abuse of opioid drugs continue to grow WASHINGTON - … inhaled or absorbed through the skin.  Other findings from the report: Fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds are … which data is available), which is a 65 percent increase from the 7,864 fentanyl exhibits in 2014. There were …
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Justice Department, DEA propose significant opioid manufacturing reduction in 2019

… limits. The final rule also promotes greater involvement from state attorneys general, and today’s proposed reduction … setting the aggregate production quota, DEA considers data from many sources, including estimates of the legitimate medical need from the Food and Drug Administration; estimates of retail …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, … clean out your medicine cabinet and make your home safe from drug theft and abuse.”  Rates of prescription drug … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Miami-Dade, Florida, Police Officer Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Role In Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity. Judge Wigenton imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court. From June 2012 through November 2012, Mata purchased at …
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Five Plead Guilty To Conspiring To Possess With The Intent To Distribute And To Unlawful Distrbution Of Marijuana

… aware of suspicious “Express Mail” packages being sent from a fictitious address in California to Jennifer Bohan at … in New Hampshire. A review of the shipping labels from the beginning of the investigation through the … of California, sent the packages containing marijuana from California to New Hampshire. The marijuana was stored …
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Jury Finds Florida Man Guilty Of Role In Oxycodone Trafficking Ring

… guilty of narcotics and money laundering charges stemming from his role in an oxycodone trafficking ring.  The trial … the jury returned the verdict yesterday. This matter stems from “Operation Blue Coast,” an investigation headed by the … Force into the large-scale trafficking of oxycodone pills from Florida to Connecticut.  The investigation revealed …
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Former Spartanburg County Magistrate Enters Guilty Plea In Drug Conspiracy Case

… it was quantities of both cocaine and methamphetamine, from a person in South Carolina. The confidential source … this person told him that the drugs were taken directly from an unidentified law enforcement agency’s evidence … Court, Marcus Woodrow Kitchens, who had removed the drugs from the evidence room of the Clerk’s Office. Kitchens pled …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Oregon from 2010-2014, resulted in  69,359 (34.6 tons) of drugs …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Idaho from 2010-2014, resulted in 36,364 (18.2 tons) of drugs …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … results for the previous nine Take-Back events in Alaska from 2010-2014, resulted in 20,415 (10.2 tons) of drugs …
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Financier Of A Network Of High-Tech Marijuana Grow Facilities Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison

… of high-tech, indoor, marijuana grow facilities stretching from Florida to Connecticut. Each of these facilities cost … amounts of high-grade marijuana into the United States from Canada. On December 8, 2001, U.S. Customs and Border Protection caught Bui trying to smuggle from the U.S. to Canada over $30,000 hidden in his socks to …