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Arizona Man Pleads Guilty to His Role in Conspiracies to Distribute Fentanyl and Narcotics and to Launder the Proceeds

… organized multi-kilogram deliveries of fentanyl and cocaine from California to Massachusetts. The kilograms were driven by tractor trailer from the area of Ontario, Calif., to Massachusetts. In … witness to pick up drug proceeds in Massachusetts from two co-defendants, with approximately $600,000 in drug …
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DEA Announces New Los Angeles Field Division Special Agent in Charge

… of DEA remain committed to safeguarding our communities from global criminal networks, drug cartels, and narcotics … Special Agent in Charge of the DEA L.A. Field Division, from 2022 to 2025. In April 2024, he was selected as Acting …
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New Haven Man Sentenced to More Than 23 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking and Firearm Possession Offenses

… and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction. According to court … who died after ingesting the drug.  Franco was released from federal prison in December 2020. In 2021, the U.S. … $300,000 in cash. Subsequent analysis of cellphones seized from Franco revealed hundreds of videos depicting Franco’s …
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Member of Violent Bridgeport Gang Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

… customers, and others, sold narcotics, and stole cars from inside and outside Connecticut, often using the cars to … a gunpoint robbery of the Citgo in Stratford, taking cash from the store and a cellphone from a store employee.  They stole three other cars that …
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Hobbs Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Chase that led to Fentanyl and Meth Bust

… attempted a second traffic stop, however the driver fled from officers over the Texas border. Deputies from the Yoakum County Sheriff's Office located the vehicle and began to pursue from Yoakum County into Gaines County where the Gaines …
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Chief Lieutenant Of Drug Trafficking Crew In Central Massachusetts Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

… large quantities of cocaine through packages mailed from Puerto Rico to addresses used by the DTO and mailed … for coordinating the receipt of packages of narcotics from Puerto Rico; negotiating with suppliers; transporting fentanyl as well as drug proceeds to and from customers and suppliers; and packaging fentanyl for …
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Two Money Couriers For Colombian-Based Drug Money Laundering Organization Sentenced

… laundered more than $6 million in drug trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels through the United States, Caribbean … imposed sentences. The defendants were among 20 individuals from Colombia, Jamaica and Florida who were indicted by a … Over the course of the investigation, $1 million was seized from corporate bank accounts and other investigative …
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Nearly 40 Pounds of Heroin and Fentanyl Seized in the Bronx: Three Indicted

… seizure of nearly 40 pounds of alleged heroin and fentanyl from a large-scale narcotics packaging operation in the … recovered approximately 19 kilograms of heroin and fentanyl from the apartments and a vehicle. The DEA estimates the … that remove bulk shipments of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin from the drug market before they hit the streets have never …
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DEA Announces Results of Enforcement Surge to Reduce the Fentanyl Supply Across the United States

… (662) 234-8542 36 Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Removed from Communities between May and September NEW ORLEANS – The … the results of an enforcement operation that spanned from May to September and resulted in significant fentanyl … is equivalent to more than 36 million lethal doses removed from the illegal drug supply. Additionally, 338 weapons were …
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Two Charged with Federal Narcotics Offenses Resulting in Death in Connection with the Poisoning of Four Children at a Bronx Daycare

… are unacceptable.  I commend the work of the investigators from the DEA and NYPD and our partners at the Southern … work tirelessly every single day to stop drug poisonings from taking too many lives too soon.”  NYPD Police …
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Operation Oxy-Concourse: NY Attorney General’s Office and DEA take down narcotics distribution ring in New York City

… is destroying our communities, we must tackle the issue from every angle and this investigation is our latest effort … purchased prescriptions for large amounts of oxycodone from over a dozen sources in and around Kings County, and … Esteban Almonte would then distribute the oxycodone, mainly from within the High Class Barberi in Bronx County, where …
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Operation Hotline Bling

… - (671) 472-7384 photo1-Operation-Hotline-Bling-meth-from-vehicle.jpg … Office and the Riverside Police Department, with assistance from the United States Postal Inspection Service, initiated … of the U.S. Marshall Service and is awaiting transport from the Eastern District of California to the Central …
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Former Union General Hospital CEO and two Blairsville doctors sentenced to federal prison for illegally prescribing and obtaining pain pills

… among law enforcement agencies keeps drug users and dealers from hiding across state lines to conduct their illegal … County, North Carolina. “An excellent job was done by all, from the local level, to the state level and at the federal …
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Former Head of Gulf Cartel Receives Life Sentence for Importing Kilos of Drugs

… Mexican national who was head of Cartel del Golfo (CDG) from 2003 to 2012 has been ordered to serve life in prison … his role in conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States, announced Drug … trafficking leaders like Costilla-Sanchez are not immune from facing stiff punishments,” said Special Agent in Charge …
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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

… and internationally, to protect Florida’s communities from being harmed and destroyed.”    The Justice Department … “Menchito,” and second in command of CJNG, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on charges of alleged drug … Florida Medical Examiners.  Fentanyl, increasingly sourced from Mexico, caused more deaths than any other drug.  …
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Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Narcotics Trafficking Charges

… to distribute heroin in Bernalillo and Santa Fe Counties from Sept. 2012 through Dec. 2013.  It also charged Gene … and property and assets obtained directly or indirectly from the commission of the crimes alleged in the … 2012 and Dec. 12, 2013, he received heroin on consignment from a co-conspirator and redistributed the heroin in …
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Over 30 Arrested In Heroin And Gun Trafficking Sweep

… As a result, more than 38 “bricks” of heroin were purchased from Stevenson and his associates. A “brick” contains … revealed that Stevenson obtained most of the heroin he sold from Uwenzen Jenkins, 39, of West Orange. On July 1, 2011, … July 21, 2011, Stevenson sold two assault rifles, obtained from Leroy Taylor, to an undercover officer in the parking …
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Seventeen Defendants Facing Federal Narcotics Or Firearms Charges Alleging Nexus Of Guns And Drugs In Chicago

… and Mendez obtained kilogram quantities of narcotics from Arguijo on Sept. 3 and Nov. 26, 2012, and from Valencia-Pantoja on Nov. 30, including the cocaine that … of illegal weapons and narcotics in our communities from every angle,” said Garry F. McCarthy, Superintendent of …
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DEA News: Huge Synthetic Drug Takedown

… DEA has identified between 200 and 300 new designers drugs from eight different structural classes, the vast majority … (see B-roll video link below) Chemists and other scientists from DEA’s Office of Forensic Science, as well as CBP …   B-roll from Project Synergy Phase II is available at: …
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Nine Members Of Major Narcotics Ring Extending Throughout Manhattan, The Bronx, And New Jersey Indicted On Conspiracy And Drug-Related Charges

… four years, he evaded drug distribution charges stemming from alleged hand to hand sales to multiple kilogram sales, … filed in court and statements made on the record in court, from July 2012 to March 2015, the defendants engaged in a … significant quantities of cocaine and using proceeds from drug sales to further finance the acquisition of a …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Owner Of Bronx Clinic And 23 Other Individuals Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than Five Million Oxycodone Pills

… Avenue in the Bronx to reclaim their neighborhood from drug dealers are the end results of unified police work … obtained can be deadly, and more people have been dying from prescription drug abuse than heroin and cocaine …
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Thirty-Six People Indicted For Their Roles In Nassau And Suffolk Heroin Ring That Operated Along Rte. 110

… arrested and arraigned on various felony charges ranging from Operating as a Major Trafficker, Criminal Sale of a … profiting off heroin’s potency by selling heroin bundles from locations, including hotels, along Route 110 that paved … Task Force to eradicate drugs and those who sell them from our neighborhoods,” said Nassau County Police …
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Community Event
April 07, 2026
April 07, 2026

The Risks Are Real: The Truth About Fentanyl & Fake Pills

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (EDT)
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A National Virtual School Assembly Date: April 7, 2026 Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm ET Where: Virtual Event Broadcast live from Nashville, TN — site of the Rx Summit! Attention Middle & High School Educators! Join classrooms nationwide for a powerful, FREE, one-hour virtual program designed to educate students about the...
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Family Summit
October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023

Rocky Mountain Field Division Family Summit in Salt Lake City, UT

4:30 AM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
Salt Lake City, UT
The Rocky Mountain Field Division will host its next Regional Family Summit on Thursday, October 19, 2023 in collaboration with the Utah Attorney General's Office. The event is free and open to families who have lost a loved one to a drug poisoning or overdose. The Family Summit will take...
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DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

… 107,735 Americans died between August 2021 and August 2022 from drug poisonings, with 66 percent of those deaths … Jalisco Cartel in Mexico, using chemicals largely sourced from China, are primarily responsible for the vast majority …
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Jury Convicts Cocoa Man of Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Fentanyl

… scales covered with fentanyl and cocaine, and firearms from Swanson’s bedroom.          This case was investigated … Administration Orlando District Office, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Florida …
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Museum
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

DEA Museum Lecture Series: The Kingpin Strategy

3:00 AM - 4:00 AM (EST)
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Former Administrator Robert C. Bonner joins us in the first installment of the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum & Visitor Center’s fiscal year 2021 lecture series Disrupt, Dismantle, and Destroy. Mr. Bonner will speak about leading DEA as it put the “Kingpin Strategy” into place in the early 1990s to combat...
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Fentanyl Awareness

August 20, 2025
… Prevention and Awareness Day with extended DEA Museum hours from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 21. View Press … The Faces of Fentanyl, to commemorate the lives lost from fentanyl poisonings or overdoses. You are invited to … the public on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs. National Fentanyl …
August 20, 2025
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

… seized cellphone, law enforcement found messages from at least March 2020 through December 2022 between … and sale of counterfeit M-30 pills (in quantities ranging from hundreds of pills to thousands of pills) and cocaine in … of seized jewelry, valued at over $50,000, that was seized from his residence. This case was the product of an …
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Illegal Alien and Mexican National Convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Kilograms of Meth

… in Hazlehurst, Georgia at trial for receiving a package from Jalisco, Mexico containing over two kilograms of 100% … 2024, the Defendant attempted to receive a package directly from Mexico containing what was described as a horse saddle. … States Postal delivery. The Defendant accepted the package from law enforcement and brought it inside his residence. …