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Mexican National Sentenced to 14 Years for Meth Conspiracy, Illegally Reentering the United States

… transported approximately six kilograms of methamphetamine from a residence in Kansas City, Kansas, on Oct. 1, 2020. He … Esquivel-Alvarez had been deported and removed from the United States on Oct. 16, 2013, and was in the …
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Two Men Sentenced for Transporting Meth in Lawn Mowers' Tires

… EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A man from Arkansas was sentenced to five years and 10 months in … set up a controlled purchase of methamphetamine from a Mexico-based supplier in May 2021. The individual met …
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Meth Distributor Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Prison

… Alton in January 2022 while on mandatory supervised release from the Illinois Department of Corrections for unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. Officers from the Alton Police Department were conducting a traffic …
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California Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Transporting Methamphetamine in Lawn Mower Tires

… EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A man from California was sentenced to five years and 10 months in … set up a controlled purchase of methamphetamine from a Mexico-based supplier in May 2021. The individual met …
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California Man Indicted for Meth Trafficking

… 2023, when he arrived in Kansas City traveling aboard a bus from Denver, Colorado, on his way to Atlanta. Although one … had seen Ruiz-Bibian pick up a hard-sided suitcase from the luggage area of the bus, the affidavit says, he …
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Nurse at St. Louis County Hospital Sentenced to Four Years of Probation for Fraudulently Obtaining Fentanyl

… for fraudulently obtaining fentanyl for her own use. From Jan. 18, 2020 to Feb. 2, 2020, Lindsay J. Maupin, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., fraudulently obtained fentanyl from a Pyxis machine for her own use on multiple occasions. …
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Meth Dealer with Firearm Sent Back to Prison for 16 Years

… undercover DEA agent purchased 55 grams of methamphetamine from O’Leary in December 2020. In January 2021, the DEA … several other firearms. The defendant is a convicted felon from a methamphetamine distribution charge in March 2015 and …
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Arizona Meth Distributor Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

… for distribution of methamphetamine. Following his release from federal prison, Prince must complete five years of … and February 2021, just months after Prince was released from state prison for convictions of identity theft and …
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Meth, Firearm Result in 10 Years of Prison

… phones, and drug paraphernalia. Text messages retrieved from the cell phones showed that Doll coordinated the … by law enforcement officers, which he admitted was proceeds from the distribution of methamphetamine. This case was …
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St. Louis County Man Admits Possessing Methamphetamine

… 387-5067 StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis County on Tuesday admitted selling roughly a  … investigators bought 166 grams of methamphetamine from him while he was armed with a handgun. The Bureau of …
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Nurse at St. Louis County Hospital Admits Fraudulently Obtaining Fentanyl

… by fraud. Maupin, a registered nurse, admitted that from Jan. 18, 2020 to Feb. 2, 2020, while working at Mercy … in St. Louis County, she fraudulently obtained fentanyl from a Pyxis machine for her own use on multiple occasions. …
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Meth Distributer Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

… for distribution of methamphetamine. Following his release from federal prison, Brown must complete five years of … 2022. Brown was selling the drug in bulk in February 2021 from his residence in south St. Louis while on supervised …
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Hazelwood Man Admits Selling Fatal Dose of Fentanyl

… 387-5067 StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov ST. LOUIS – A man from Hazelwood, Missouri, admitted on Tuesday to selling … Lake St. Louis man just hours after the man bought the drug from Jefferson at the Red Roof Inn in Maryland Heights on …
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Selling Counterfeit Pills with Fentanyl Results in 11 Years in Prison

… sentenced in federal court today for distributing fentanyl from his apartment near Liberty High School and for … that he participated in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl from March 4 to April 30, 2021. According to court …
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Springfield Man Sentenced for Heroin Conspiracy

… a kilogram of heroin in Cole, Callaway, and Greene counties from July 1, 2015, to March 27, 2018. Robinson admitted that he transported heroin from St. Louis, Mo., to Springfield. Robinson then …
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Meth Dealing and Money Laundering Results in 17 Years of Prison

… noticing numerous suspicious packages being sent to and from addresses in East St. Louis and Phoenix. During the … to court documents, Cooper admitted to receiving narcotics from Jose and Steven Angulo in 2019 and acknowledged a …
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Crack Cocaine Dealer with Guns Sentenced to 10 Years

… five-year term of supervised release following his release from federal prison as part of his sentence. The crimes … search of his home. Curren had been dealing crack cocaine from his home for at least one and a half years prior to his …
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Poplar Bluff Man Sentenced for Carrying More Than a Kilo of Fentanyl Aboard Train

… luggage aboard a train that stopped in Kansas City, Mo., from Los Angeles, Calif., bound for St. Louis, Mo. Joseph D. … marijuana when Christie walked past him after disembarking from a train originating in Los Angeles. Christie told the …
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15 Indicted for Trafficking Cocaine in Kansas

… stopped more than a million dollars’ worth of cocaine from reaching our communities, and more than $730,000 of proceeds from returning to the organization. This is particularly …
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St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Cocaine, Fentanyl and Weapon Charges

… and subsequently seized over a half-kilogram of cocaine from Davis’s customer. Investigators resumed their … by the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the Florissant Police Department, the Bridgeton, Mo., …
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Joplin Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Meth Conspiracy

… to distribute methamphetamine that was shipped via UPS from Arizona. Johnny T. Taylor, 33, was sentenced by U.S. … law enforcement officers tracked the suspicious package from its origin in Arizona and upon its arrival at the …
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KC man pleads guilty to meth conspiracy, faces 10 years in prison

… bags to the officer before he was able to wrest the bags from her. The officer was then contacted by the room … officer seized a bag of marijuana and a Taurus 9mm pistol from the truck. After obtaining a search warrant for …
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St. Louis man sentenced to 13 years for meth distribution

… was conducting surveillance of suspicious packages mailed from Arizona to St. Louis. On October 17, 2019, postal inspectors intercepted a suspicious package mailed from Scottsdale, Arizona, to a vacant home in Jennings, …
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17 pounds of fentanyl, heroin result in 8 years in prison

… 387-5067 StLouisDiversionOutreach@dea.gov Drugs were headed from California to New York WICHITA, Kan . – A California … Investigators learned Canas was transporting the drugs from California to New York for distribution when he passed …
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Judge sentences St. Louis County doctor for fraudulently obtaining opioid narcotic prescription drugs

… are used for illegal purposes, we seek to prevent them from causing injury or even death by the people who made … our investigative partners in preventing this doctor from contributing further to the opioid crisis." The …
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Former Everton city clerk sentenced to 10 years for money-laundering conspiracy

… that she participated in the money-laundering conspiracy from June 20 to Dec. 6, 2017. During that time, Conn was the … Halfway, Missouri, to send wire transfers of the proceeds from the distribution of methamphetamine to members of the …
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Sparta man sentenced to 14 years for meth conspiracy

… his/her source of methamphetamine had acquired anywhere from one-fourth of an ounce to one-fourth of a pound of methamphetamine from Robinson each week and had been doing so for several …
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Indictment: Kansas man planted poppies in effort to manufacture heroin

… The poppies were identified as Papaver somniferum, a plant from which opium is derived. “Opium poppies are an … Police Department led the investigation with assistance from the Clay County Sheriff’s Department, the Kansas Bureau …
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Hayti, Missouri man sentenced to 17 years in meth conspiracy

… of individuals who were conspiring to bring methamphetamine from the Southwest Border region into eastern Missouri for … no longer be making the Bootheel a stop for drugs coming from the Southwest Border, making Southeast Missouri a …
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Arizona man pleads guilty to transporting fentanyl through Kansas City to New York

… person 3.6 kilograms of fentanyl to carry aboard a bus from Denver, Colorado to New York City. However, the bag became separated from the courier at some point on the bus trip. The bag …