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Members Of Bronx Drug Trafficking Organization Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Narcotics And Firearms Trafficking Offenses

… DEA and the NYPD, we are committed to protecting our city from drugs and illegal guns.” According to the Indictment … Hughes Avenue, and Belmont Avenue in the Bronx, New York.  From 2016 to August 2017, members of the Hughes Avenue DTO …
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Czar Entertainment Founder James Rosemond Convicted For Ordering The Murder Of Lowell Fletcher

… recruited a crew of men to murder Fletcher upon his release from prison by promising at least $30,000 in payment for … certain rulings by the trial court effectively barred him from advancing a line of defense that Rosemond wanted to …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced In Brooklyn Federal Court To 10 A½ Years’ Imprisonment For Distributing Fentanyl

… overdoses.”  “The defendant peddled fentanyl from New York City to West Virginia with callous disregard … as a message that fentanyl dealers who promote and profit from this deadly epidemic will be held accountable for their …
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Additional Charges Announced Against Two Bronx Men For A 2014 Murder And 2014 Drug-related Shooting

… so law abiding residents can live in neighborhoods  free from drugs and safe from the consequences of drug trafficking.”  SAC Hunt …
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Alleged Leader Of A Mexican Drug Cartel Extradited To United States

… into the United States, was extradited to the United States from Mexico on Nov. 15, 2014, and made an initial appearance … network, shipping multi-ton quantities of cocaine from South America, through Central America and Mexico, and …
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Three Members Of International Synthetic Drug-Trafficking Organization Arrested In Los Angeles

… forfeited over $2 million in cash and other assets obtained from his illegal activities, including a house, two cars and … chemicals used to produce these SSCs were imported from China, then applied to a plant-like substance and sold …
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Smithtown Doctor Indicted For The Illegal Distribution Of Controlled Substances Without Legitimate Medical Need

… substance prescriptions in exchange for sexual favors from female patients. Fagin was previously investigated by … and a pharmacy chain, removed prescription authority from numerous rogue doctors, and expanded …
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Jamaican Drug Lord Christopher Michael Coke Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court

… They were armed with illegally trafficked firearms from the United States, that Coke imported into Jamaica. … of the greatest of $250,000, or twice the pecuniary gain from the offense. On the conspiracy to commit assault in aid …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Doctor And Associates As Members Of A Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Cocaine

… in our country and law enforcement has combined our efforts from the state, local and federal levels to identify and … the Complaint unsealed today in White Plains federal court: From the spring of 2009 through at least May 2011, Fernando …
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Montgomery Pill Mill Doctor Pleads Guilty To Drug Distribution, Health Care Fraud And Money Laundering Charges

… Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. from the Middle District of Alabama. According to court … monthly examinations. The money laundering charges stem from Dr. Sanchez’s spending the proceeds of his operation of …
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Eleven People Indicted For Conspiring To Traffic Oxycodone And Heroin In Boise

… January of this year and includes law enforcement personnel from DEA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, … Diversion Squad will target prescription drug crime from all angles, including criminal distribution schemes, …
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Pain Management Doctor And Clinic Administrator Indicted On 130 Counts In Major Prescription Drug Investigation

… areas Indictment alleges that defendants used funds derived from health care fraud to purchase Arabian horse and luxury … The indictment also alleges that using the money derived from the health care fraud conspiracy, Marilyn and Angelo …
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Federal Designer Synthetic Drug Manufactures And Dealers Sentenced To Imprisonment Part Of Nationwide Effort Under Operation Log Jam

… Zizzo owned Consortium Distribution in Phoenix, Ariz., from early 2011 through July of 2012.  Consortium … effects, were manufactured with raw chemicals imported from China  and domestically, were specifically designed to …
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DEA Announces Results Of Operation Knight Stalker

… large quantities of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico.  Early in the investigation, intelligence … of hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine and other drugs from cell members in Mexico and their counterparts in the …
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New York City Firefighter Charged In Narcotics Sales: Drugs Sold In Front Of Firehouse And Near Schools

… neighborhood of Brooklyn.  The gas station is a block from the Al-Noor School, an Islamic private high school. On … The firehouse is located approximately three blocks away from a childcare center, the Choo Choo Train Daycare. The …
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Marijuana Smuggling Ring Busted Along U.S. - Mexico Border

… to a case unsealed on Thursday. On Wednesday, agents from a multi-agency task force led by the Drug Enforcement … operations like this demonstrates the unyielding commitment from our office and our partners at DEA, Border Patrol and …
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Drug Trafficking Ring Taken Down

… heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States from Mexico, according to a case unsealed on Thursday. On Wednesday, agents from a multi-agency task force led by the Drug Enforcement …
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DEA Launches New Initiative To Combat Illegal Prescription Drug Activity

… drug activity. TIP411, - an internet based tool from Citizen Observer, allows anyone with a cell phone to … cases related to opiate misuse or abuse increased 118.8% from 2005 to 2012.  DEA and its local law enforcement and …
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DEA Takes Down Arizona Spice Manufacturer

… Coleman, “Spice dealers who target our youth cannot hide from the law.  DEA agents will pursue these criminals and … Chris Vasquez.  DEA agents worked jointly with detectives from Casa Grande PD and the Maricopa County Drug Suppression …
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DEA Releases 2015 Drug Threat Assessment: Heroin And Painkiller Abuse Continue To Spike

… to the United States PHOENIX - DEA today announced results from the 2015 National Drug Threat (NDTA), which finds that … In 2013, over 46,000 people in the United States died from drug overdose and more than half of those were caused …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Alleged International Narcotics Trafficker Charged With Conspiring To Engage In Narco-Terrorism And To Support The FARC

… that Jose Evaristo Linares Castillo was extradited from Colombia on charges that he conspired to import … “As alleged, Linares-Castillo ran cocaine laden aircrafts from Colombia, through Venezuela, Honduras, and into Mexico …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces The Arrests Of Two Rikers Island Correction Officers For Marijuana Dealing

… inmates. While Romain and Phillips worked independently from each other, both of them essentially supplied the … and arrange to pick up the marijuana, tobacco, and scalpels from them.  Romain and Phillips charged the inmates a fee to …
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Two Organized Crime Members Sentenced To 180 Months And 168 Months, Respectively, For Conspiring To Distribute Cocaine

… serve three years of supervised release upon their release from prison, and forfeit $500,000 in narcotics proceeds. The … who lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, obtained the cocaine from his sources in Mexico and then arranged for it to be …
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Fairbanks Drug Dealer Sentenced To More Than 10 Years In Prison

… cocaine and heroin, and conspiring to launder the proceeds from the sale of those drugs. “It is time for Etienne Devoe … years in federal prison was intended “to protect the public from drug dealers” like the defendant. Devoe was indicted on …
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Seventeen Arrested In Connection With Lengthy Heroin & Meth Investigation

… at large. The Drug Enforcement (DEA) is seeking assistance from the public regarding their whereabouts.             … The searches and arrests involved agents and officers from: Homeland Security Investigations - Seattle, Port of …
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40 Charged, Huge Cash And Drug Seizures Of Organization Tied To Murders

… and East Coast states with drug shipments origination from either McAllen through Houston and/or from Southern California.  “This is DEA and our partners at …
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Doctor Convicted Of Running Pill Mill And Contributing To A Death

… medical purpose and Nathaniel Backes’ death resulted from the use of that substance. The drug conspiracy … Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with assistance from the Philadelphia Police Department, the North Coventry …
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Two Indicted In Investigation Involving Smuggling Heroin Into Attica Correctional Facility; Two Others Facing Heroin Charges

… that Banks was subject to a protective order preventing him from possessing a firearm.    DEA Acting Special Agent in … poor, suburban resident or prison inmate, no one is immune from the effects of this addiction.  As for the traffickers, …
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International Narcotics Trafficker Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To The Manufacture, Shipment, And Importation Of Tons Of Cocaine Into The United States And Other Countries

… distribution of tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela to the United States and other … planes carrying multi-hundred-kilogram loads of cocaine from clandestine landing strips operated by Rios Suarez and …
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Man Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Two Consecutive Life Terms For February 2000 Double Murder In The Bronx

… “New York DTO”) was receiving large quantities of cocaine from a Mexican drug trafficking (the “Mexican DTO”).  In or … the lobby of 3235 Parkside Place, Darge approached Cuellar from behind and fired a gunshot into Cuellar’s skull.  …