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DEA Investigation Unravels Drug Trafficking And Corruption By Honduran Congressman

… Twice Domestic Conspiracy included massive cocaine loads from Colombia and elsewhere for U.S. import, safe passage, … devices. The United States is seeking Najera’s extradition from Honduras and he faces a maximum of life imprisonment if … in Honduras and elsewhere worked together with support from Najera and others to receive multi-hundred kilogram …
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DEA Atlanta Division Office Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th ATLANTA - Daniel … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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DEA Charlotte District Office Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th CHARLOTTE, N.C. … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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DEA Columbia District Office Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th COLUMBIA, S.C. - … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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DEA Nashville District Office Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th NASHVILLE, Tenn. … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Portland Man Sentenced To Over Nine Years For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… laundering.     According to court records and proceedings, from August 2011 through October 2013, Jones obtained hundreds of pounds of marijuana from an out-of-state source and distributed it in Maine.  In … 2013, agents executing search warrants seized $291,981 from a storage unit Jones rented, $92,104 from an …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… Vermont Burlington - (802) 951-2900 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th BOSTON - DEA … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 355-0857 San Ysidro - (619) 671-4500 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SAN DIEGO - DEA … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 496-1020 Event will take place in Pennsylvania and Delaware from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 12th PHILADELPHIA - … take place in Pennsylvania and Delaware on September 12th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Former Police Officer Sentenced To Almost Five Years For Dealing Oxycodone

… DEA agent purchased large quantities of oxycodone from Flores at his smoke shop, The Lil’ Red Smoke Shop in … a lengthy investigation of prescription drug dealing from the Indian Smoke Shop on Puyallup Tribal Trust Land in … selling thousands of pills of (oxycodone) and methadone from their smoke shops.  When agents and officers searched …
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Danville Resident Charged In Money Laundering Scheme

… separate occasions, Keslinke accepted a total of $550,000 from the undercover agent. In an attempt to conceal the true … the funds, Keslinke repeatedly deposited the money received from the undercover agent into business bank accounts under … Keslinke then attempted to launder the money by wiring it from his business bank accounts to an account controlled by …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… 837-2324 Stockton - (571) 387-3956 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th SAN FRANCISCO - … Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Bakersfield Resident Sentenced To Four-Year Prison Term For Coastal Marijuana Cultivation Operation

… aka Alejandro Basave Uriostegui , 40, an undocumented alien from Guerrero, Mexico, today to four years in federal prison … to growing marijuana in the Lompoc area for distribution from his residence in Bakersfield. According to court … detectives seized 600 pounds of processed marijuana from three vehicles they had seen leaving a marijuana grow …
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Mexican National Pleads Guilty To Marijuana Conspiracy In Bakersfield

… Salgado Valladares, aka Guerrero, 40, an undocumented alien from Guerrero, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to … marijuana grown in Santa Barbara County for distribution from his residence in Bakersfield, Drug Enforcement … detectives seized 600 pounds of processed marijuana from three vehicles they had seen leaving a marijuana grow …
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DEA Laboratory Testing Reveals that 6 out of 10 Fentanyl-Laced Fake Prescription Pills Now Contain a Potentially Lethal Dose of Fentanyl

… a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from DEA’s previous announcement in 2021 that four out of … deadly dose of fentanyl. This marks a dramatic increase – from four out of ten to six out of ten – in the number of … that wasn’t prescribed directly to you. Never take a pill from a friend. Never take a pill bought on social media. …
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Community Event
October 05, 2019
October 05, 2019

Austin area Girl Scouts earn DEA's Red Ribbon patch by completing adventure activities this Saturday

5:00 AM - 7:00 AM (EDT)
Liberty Hill , TX
LIBERTY HILL, TX. – On Saturday, October 5, 2019, over 100 Girls Scouts from the Austin metropolitan area, ages 8-17, will earn their Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Red Ribbon Patch by completing stations to include Escape Room, Rock Climbing Wall, Dunk-a-Cop, Drunk Goggles, K-9 demo, Fingerprinting, and Healthy/Unhealthy Match Game...
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Six Colombian Nationals and Owner of Consumer Electronic Business Charged for Their Roles in Money Laundering and Unlicensed Money Transmission Business Offenses

… in the Indictments unse aled in Manhattan federal court: From at least in or about June 2018 through at least in or … Amit Agarwal all participated in schemes to launder funds from locations throughout the United States to recipients …
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Husband and wife sentenced to prison for operating Upper West Side pill mill

… painkiller oxycodone for no legitimate medical purpose from an Upper West Side medical practice. As a result of the … verdict on 30 counts on May 4, 2018, and involved testimony from 17 witnesses and over 350 exhibits. As the evidence … of their scheme, nearly $625,000 in cash was recovered from the Scarsdale residence. Licensed to practice internal …
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Owner of Oakland Money Services Business Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Laundering Drug Proceeds to Mexico

… agreement, Ornelas Mora owned and operated Rincon Musical. From no later than September 2020 through August 2022, … laundered drug proceeds by accepting large amounts of cash from drug dealers and wiring it to Mexico, disguising it to …
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First Regional Family Summit on Fentanyl Held in Utah

… one to a fentanyl poisoning or overdose.  A dozen families from across the state, and one father from Kentucky, attended today’s summit, which provided a … provided state and federal leaders the opportunity to hear from families about ways to help elevate local prevention, …
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Walgreens Agrees To Pay A Record Settlement Of $80 Million For Civil Penalties Under The Controlled Substances Act

… black market sales.   According to the most recent report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, … overdose deaths exceeded motor vehicle deaths and deaths from illegal street drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and … stated, “National pharmaceutical chains are not exempt from following the law.  This settlement sends out a clear …
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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces New Effort to Reduce Violent Crime

… of Justice effort to help protect our communities from the recent increase in major violent crimes. “Today, we … grant-making, we will support programming at all stages – from the earliest violence interruption strategies to … and intervention programs that work to keep violence from happening before it occurs. Target enforcement efforts …
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Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute, Distributing Fentanyl Causing Two Overdose Deaths

… pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl from 2021 through 2023 and to distribution of fentanyl in … arrest, and prosecute those who believe they can profit from selling lethal drugs in our community,” stated GCPD …
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Indian National Found Guilty of Possession with Intent to Distribute More than 170 Pounds of MDMA in Eastern Washington

… of imprisonment of twenty years. He may also face removal from the United States. The evidence presented at trial … these individuals, who had crossed into the United States from Canada and were carrying backpacks and a suitcase. From …
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Two Members Of A Violent Gang Sentenced To Prison For Racketeering And Drug Trafficking

… and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were allegedly seized from 11 of the defendants. James Rodrigues, a/k/a “Bummy,” … of grams of cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine) from a stash house in Somerville. During the investigation, … law enforcement made a series of controlled purchases from Rodrigues and other Cameron Street members. This …
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Seven Defendants Sentenced to a Total of 41+ Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of Firearms and Narcotics

… Thompson was a convicted felon and knew he was prohibited from possessing any firearm or ammunition and was arrested. … ammunition. As a convicted felon, Copeland was prohibited from possessing the firearm and ammunition. He pleaded … had the firearm in his possession before ejecting it from the vehicle onto the roadway. Robertson pleaded guilty …
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CEO of Nigerian Airline indicted for bank fraud and money laundering

… fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme … will diligently protect the integrity our banking system from being corrupted by criminals, even when they disguise … to identify and attack criminals that attempt to profit from the exploitation of our nation’s financial systems.” …
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Norcross cousins plead guilty to operating meth lab

… and two co-defendants illegally entered the United States from Mexico and then utilized a family home across the street from an elementary school to operate a methamphetamine … a true menace to society. Now that they have been removed from the streets, our children and the entire community, are …
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Butte Drug Trafficking Organization with Ties to the Sinaloa Cartel Dismantled

… Division of Criminal Investigation with assistance from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.  The … than 2,043 pounds of meth and 722,000 fentanyl-laced pills from Mexico to Butte for redistribution, with $2.98 million …
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California Kingpin Found Guilty of Directing Drug Enterprise

… about the groups’ operations. According to the indictment, from May 2016 to September 2021, Jacobo received bulk … of methamphetamine to his home base in Bakersfield. From there, Jacobo directed that the methamphetamine be sent …