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DEA’s 15th Rx Drug Take Back Day Hailed As Huge Success In Tennessee

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. DEA launched its …
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Suburban Man Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison For Leading Chicago-area Cell Of International Drug Trafficking Organization

… ran a stash house in Bensenville where heroin and cash from drug sales were stored.  He also sold drugs in the … customers, Jesus Salgado would often pick up the heroin from the stash house, and then drop off the proceeds at the … drug pipeline.  Authorities seized four kilograms of heroin from the Bensenville stash house and shut it down as part of …
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DEA's 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Delivers Positive Numbers Throughout South And Central Texas

… Antonio - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 HOUSTON - From Waco to Houston to Laredo, Texas, Texan’s showed their … lives by removing unused painkillers and controlled drugs from homes,” said DEA Acting Administrator Robert W. …
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Lockport Woman Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge

… New York and sold drugs to H.C. H.C. died hours later from a fentanyl overdose. On February 12, 2015, the Niagara … was a passenger. Law enforcement officers seized fentanyl from inside the car. Kimmons and Ventura were arrested. On … source again bought crack cocaine as well as heroin from the defendant. Charges are pending against Oliver …
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Convicted Felon Pleads Guilty In 100 Pound Meth Conspiracy

… that Robert “Bobby” Whitenack, 37, a convicted felon from Westside, Iowa, was convicted on the charges of … involvement in a meth trafficking conspiracy that spanned from January 2014 through May of 2017, distributing at least … of Whitenack’s collecting $10,000 in drug proceeds from customers, to Whitenack’s possession of firearms during …
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Bradenton Man Sentenced To More Than 10 Years For Drug Trafficking

… positive for cocaine. Officers also recovered $237 from a fanny-pack strapped to Johnson’s waistband and another $207 from his front pants pockets. Shortly thereafter, Code … later told law enforcement that Johnson had told him to run from the car and get rid of the objects. He also stated that …
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Two South Florida Men Sentenced For Conspiring To Distribute Hundreds Of Pounds Of High-grade Marijuana

… traffickers had stolen approximately $250,000 of marijuana from the conspirators. In February 2015, during a recorded … meeting, the conspirators discussed recouping their debt from the drug traffickers and continuing their drug … seized more than 1,300 pounds of high-grade marijuana from a storage facility in Orlando and a house linked to …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Firearms Straw Purchasing And Smuggling Operation

… crime. By pleading guilty, Pesqueira admitted that from July 2010 to May 2013, he purchased firearms, as well … to individuals in order for them to purchase firearms, from El Paso area gun dealers to include a Barrett .50 … conducted by ATF and DEA agents together with investigators from Homeland Security Investigations, United States …
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Sinaloa Cartel Bodyguard Pleads Guilty To Federal Murder Charge In El Paso

… pleaded guilty to one count of murder resulting from the use or carrying of firearms during and in relation … Western District of Texas and the District of New Mexico from 2002 to 2006; and, while in Albuquerque, NM, in July … trafficking operation and to prevent Rodriguez-Gonzalez from providing law enforcement with details of Ruiz’ …
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Sinaloa Cartel Bodyguard Sentenced To Federal Prison For Murder

… pleaded guilty to one count of murder resulting from the use or carrying of firearms during and in relation … Western District of Texas and the District of New Mexico from 2002 to 2006; and, while in Albuquerque, NM, in July … trafficking operation and to prevent Rodriguez-Gonzalez from providing law enforcement with details of Ruiz’ …
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Kentucky Crack Cocaine Trafficking Operation Halted

… large quantities of powder cocaine as well as crack cocaine from the Atlanta, Georgia area, into Henderson and … remaining defendants have been arrested on state charges from Trafficking controlled substance 1st degree cocaine to … damage this major pipeline for cocaine which stretched from Atlanta, Georgia, to Henderson, Kentucky. This case is …
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Christian County Kentucky Crack Cocaine Crew Sentenced

… to be sentenced on April 27th and 28th. Three defendants from Christian County, Kentucky, were previously convicted … two year-long investigation was the DEA with assistance from the Western Kentucky Gun Crime Task Force. The task force includes investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF), …
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Final Defendant Sentenced In 100 Kilo Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy In Kentucky

… and Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Sentences range from 60 months to life in prison for the 20 defendants in … the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), with assistance from the Western Kentucky Gun Crime Task Force. The task force includes investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF), …
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Detroit Pharmacist Indicted For Distribution Of Controlled Substances

… the Indictment charges Madu with using the proceeds from the conspiracy to purchase two Infiniti vehicles and a … McQuade said. "The number of people who die in one year from overdoses of prescription drugs in the United States is six times the number of people who die from overdoses of all other illegal drugs combined." DEA …
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Florida Doctor Convicted In Kentucky For Illegally Prescribing 600,000 Pain Pills

… her pain clinic in Florida. Most of her patients traveled from West Virginia, southern Ohio and Boyd, Lawrence and … was the easiest doctor to obtain a prescription from and that she prescribed the highest quantity of … Virginia patients. Over 600 patients came to her clinic from those states. The clinic grossed $1.9 million in one …
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Five Men Convicted In Largest Crystal Meth Seizure In Michigan

… 2012, more than 20 pounds of pure crystal meth were seized from a vehicle and pole barn in Van Buren County. The meth … case prevented an extremely large amount of crystal meth from flooding our community. It is an excellent example of … Police Metropolitan Enforcement (MET), with assistance from other state and local agencies.  The case was …
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Seventeen People Indicted For Distribution Of Cocaine, Heroin And Marijuana

… Terrance A. Tarver obtained cocaine and marijuana from individuals in Columbus for distribution in Youngstown, Akron and Columbus. Tarver also obtained heroin from sources in Youngtown and Akron for distribution in … details a distribution network of people who obtained drugs from Tarver and then sold them throughout Northeast Ohio. …
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Columbus Man Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison For Role In Cocaine Distribution Ring And Money Laundering

… Cagle distributed multi- kilo quantities of cocaine from Texas to Ohio COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stephen A. Cagle, 46, of … kilograms of cocaine that was being transported into Ohio from Texas. The defendant was also involved in operating an … often transporting several hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ohio to Texas.   While executing a search warrant at …
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Ohio Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

… patterns occurred even after at least eight customers died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials … Oxycontin, Percocet, Roxicet, Opana, and others -- from Adolph Harper's medical officers in Akron between 2009 … after he learned that some of his customers had died from overdose-related deaths. He also continued to …
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California Man Indicted For Trafficking One Kilogram Of Methamphetamine Into Northern Ohio

… two to three pounds of methamphetamine to Cleveland from the Los Angeles, California, area.  On April 10th, … drugs worth tens of thousands of dollars into our community from California,” Rendon said. “The law enforcement agents … partners, we have successfully halted this individual from regularly importing large amounts of this addictive …
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Two Mexican Nationals Charged In Ohio After 200 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized In Cleveland

… in Northern Ohio in past 20 years CLEVELAND - Two men from Mexico were charged in U.S. District Court after … license plates was expected to come to the Cleveland area from the Baltimore area to deliver drugs or pick up money … then appeared to work on the trailer and then take items from the trunk of the Nissan and put them in the trailer. …
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DEA And Community Partners In Michigan Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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DEA And Community Partners In Kentucky Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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DEA And Community Partners In Ohio Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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Former Ohio Police Officer Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Extortion

… illegal activities included providing illegal drugs taken from police department property room to be sold on the … to sell and split the profits. A portion of the drugs came from the police department’s property room, which Dailey … bath salts and hundreds of oxycodone pills were missing from the property room. Further investigation revealed that …
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Guilty Plea For Southern Ohio Physician Who Ran Prescription Pill Mil

… John Temponeras, 82, was also a physician at the clinic. From June 2005 until May 2011, Temponeras and her father saw … area had declined to accept or fill her prescriptions from Unique Pain Management so she opened the dispensary …
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Ohio Man Sentenced To 16+ Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Fentanyl That Resulted In Overdose Death

… cover the funeral costs for an overdose death that resulted from Chandler’s drug distributing. Benjamin C. Glassman, … law enforcement conducted a controlled purchase of fentanyl from Chandler. While executing a search warrant at a … The Hamilton County Heroin Task Force has agents assigned from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Cincinnati …
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West Michigan Man Receives 30 Years: Trafficked In Cocaine And Methamphetamine

… prison for drug trafficking. Following his discharge from federal supervision in the earlier case, Johnson led a … large quantities of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine from Mexico and to distribute them in West Michigan. This … even in the parts of the United States furthest removed from our southern border. Countering that reach here in …
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
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Two Dallas Women Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… superseding indictments. The 2015 indictment alleged that from at least May 2013 through July 2014 the defendants … to purchase 30mg oxycodone pills and 10mg hydrocodone pills from her. Cane asks Robinson what price to charge for the … by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service, Texas Department of …