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District Attorney Vance And White House Drug Policy Director Kerlikowske Host Panel Discussion In Washington Heights On Drug Abuse Prevention Rates Of Death Declining In NYC In All Major Drug Categories Except Prescription Drugs DA’s Office To Partner

… Prosecutor. “For decades New Yorkers have suffered from the violence and devastation that drug dealing and … percent of the people who abuse prescription drugs get them from the medicine cabinets of friends or family members, … medications recreationally said they obtained the drugs from friends or relatives, underscoring the need for close …
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DEA Seizes Record-Breaking 2.7 Million Fentanyl Pills

… an enforcement operation the last week of April, agents from the DEA Albuquerque District Office seized 2.7 million … blow against the Sinaloa Cartel that removes poison from our streets and protects American citizens from the scourge of fentanyl,” said Attorney General Pamela …
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Heroin Investigations Lead To Two Major Seizures: $12 Million Street Value

… These arrests stopped this highly addictive opioid drug from flooding our communities and prevented senseless overdoses that stem from heroin addiction.” New York State Police Superintendent … conspired to transport 15 kilograms of (33 pounds) from California to Hauppauge, Long Island inside a tractor …
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Southwest Georgia Man Sentenced to Prison for Armed Meth Trafficking

… Defendant Admitted “Lifelong” Meth Dealer Firearms seized from Vinson's residence.jpg Firearms seized from Vinson's residence Justin Vinso aka Tiny was arrested … was arrested on January 26, 2023 Methamphetamine purchased from Vinson.png Methamphetamine purchased from Vinson …
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Op Sweet Silence Defendant Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Serve 20 Years in Prison

… federal, state and local partners to prevent this poison from finding its way onto our streets.”    “This is a huge … and local law enforcement conducted Operation Sweet Silence from Aug. 2022 until May 2024, an extensive investigation … learned co-conspirators facilitated and received directions from Turner and Mullins to conduct drug transactions on …
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Ghost Gun and Narcotics Trafficking Ring Shut Down in NYC

… Task Force, which is comprised of agents and officers from the New York City Police Department, New York State … selling ghost guns and assault weapons in our state. From stopping the companies that sell these dangerous ghost …
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Medical Professionals Performed Perfunctory Exams On Longshoremen And Filled Scripts For Narcotics In Elaborate Scheme To Rip Off Insurance Companies

… a crooked chiropractor who conspired to rip off millions from insurance companies in a complex fraud scam. The number … placed pill in front of pill. That distance would stretch from Howland Hook to the foot of my office," said Richmond …
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Nationwide and in the Southern District Of Georgia

… in today’s arrests.  In addition, HHS announced today that from July 2017 to the present, it has excluded 2,700 individuals from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and all other …
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Nationwide and in the Southern District Of Georgia

… in today’s arrests.  In addition, HHS announced today that from July 2017 to the present, it has excluded 2,700 individuals from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and all other …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

… Just Think Twice Domestic Twice-annual event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 30 WASHINGTON - After … combined.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household medicine cabinet,” said DEA Acting …
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Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Southeast Alaska Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… shipped parcels containing controlled substances from California and other parts of Alaska to various places … and physically mailing parcels containing drug proceeds from Alaska to co-conspirators in California and Mexico. … serve three years on supervised release after her release from prison. Stormy Cleveland, 39, of Ketchikan, pleaded …
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Trafficker Sentenced to 19.5 Years in Prison for Supplying Weapons and Ammunition to Sinaloa Cartel

… fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana) from South America and Mexico, transported the drugs to … United States. The TCO then smuggled the bulk cash proceeds from its drug trafficking activities back to the TCO’s … vests. A considerable number of these items were sourced from within the United States and clandestinely smuggled …
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More Charges Against State Lawmaker for $900,000 COVID-19 Fraud Scheme

… the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and remained closed from March to June 2020. Derges allegedly sought CARES Act … amount of $503,350. In total, Derges applied for $882,644 from the CARES Act Relief Fund on Lift Up’s behalf. Congress … her claim, Derges provided invoices totaling $296,574 from Dynamic DNA for more than 3,000 COVID-19 laboratory …
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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 …