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“Shrek” Receives Significant Sentence In Operation El Patron

… drug and international money laundering charges resulting from a long-term Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task … organization. He assisted with a drug conspiracy, existing from 2006 to 2010, that shipped cocaine, marijuana and U.S. currency from Mexico through Laredo to Atlanta, Ga., and throughout …
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More Los Zetas Money Launderers Convicted, Others Head To Prison

… who transported bulk cash drug proceeds in tractor trailers from the Chicago, Ill., area to Laredo. Casarez then … as a commercial truck driver who transported drug proceeds from the Chicago area to Laredo. Santos was implicated in … for the organization and coordinated the cash deliveries from the Chicago area to Laredo totaling approximately $6 …
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19 Arrested In Connection With Austin-Based Cocaine Distribution And Bulk Cash Smuggling Operation

… count of bulk cash smuggling. The indictment alleges that from January 2009 to the present the defendants conspired to … multiple sources of cocaine smuggled into the United States from Mexico. Authorities allege that in addition to … Florida and Alabama for further distribution. Proceeds from the sale of the cocaine were transported back to Austin …
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Denver Woman Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Illegally Distributing Prescription And Illicit Drugs

… of confidants who would obtain controlled substances, all from the same medical doctor.  The confidants would then … officers observed Hee and a co-defendant sell the narcotics from an SUV in various parking lots.  As part of the … (commonly known as ecstasy), cocaine, and marijuana from Hee and her co-defendant.  Some of the sales took place …
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Public Response To DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Keeps Growing

… to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers. … (371 tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 5,829 locations … with DEA on the event.  When added to the collections from DEA’s previous five Take-Back events, more than 2.8 …
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Longmont Police Department And DEA Arrest Doctor For Oxycodone Distribution

… Indictment alleges doctor illegally distributed from his practice LONGMONT, Colo. - The Longmont Police … of Oxycodone, a schedule II controlled substance, from his medical practice.  The arrest was based on a Grand Jury Indictment from the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office.  The …
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DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Sets New Record

… or approximately 17.7 tons of medicines that were prevented from being diverted for abuse, misuse, or accidental … drug abusers report in surveys that they get their drugs from friends and family.  Americans understand that cleaning out old prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and bedside tables …
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Naples Man Pleads Guilty In Connection With Sunshine Pharmacy Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

… been scheduled.           According to the plea agreement, from February 2009 through July 2012, Adam Parrish conspired … and caused claims to be submitted for reimbursement from the Medicaid, Medicare, and TRICARE programs for … and caused claims to be submitted for reimbursement from these programs for prescriptions for beneficiaries and …
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Three Sentenced In Methamphetamine Conspiracy

… approximately two to four kilograms of methamphetamine from Atlanta to Panama City Beach on approximately 10 … up at Love’s apartment carrying cash in amounts ranging from approximately $4,000 to $13,900, for the purchase of methamphetamine from Love.  Kreis and Bettinger admitted that they had …
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Head Pharmacist Of West Orange Pharmacy Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison For Selling Oxycodone Without Prescriptions

… $1.5 million, consisting of illegal profits obtained from his illegal sales of oxycodone and his submission of … substance when presented with a written prescription from a doctor.   On at least six separate occasions from Feb. 1, 2012, to August 6, 2012, Stefanelli sold …
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Former NY Law Firm Partner Admits To Conspiring To Defraud Two Law Firms Out Of More Than $7 Million

… litigation support companies to obtain millions of dollars from two law firms where she was a partner. Keila Ravelo, … for a company identified in the indictment as “Law Firm 1” from July 1, 2005, through October 2010. She then became …
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DEA New Jersey Welcomes New Special Agent In Charge

… first female SAC for DEA in New Jersey.  “I am originally from the Boston area and I am glad to be back in the … In 2016, approximately 1,900 residents of New Jersey died from an opioid overdose.  SAC Nickerson said, “We will … in as a Special Agent in the Boston Division, and graduated from the DEA Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  Upon graduating …
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Guatemalan Drug Smuggler Convicted

… According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, from a date unknown to September 2011, Hernandez-Preciado … organized a series of maritime cocaine smuggling shipments from Ecuador to Guatemala. Specifically on May 19, 2011, a …            Evidence presented at trial included testimony from members of the USCG, wiretap intercepts conducted by …
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Bahamian And Jamaican Nationals Charged With Marijuana Importation

… announce the indictment of Quinton Jamal Mitchell, 31, from Sweeting's Cay Settlement, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas, and LeRoy Anthony Edwards, 56, from Kingston, Jamaica. Mitchell and Edwards were arraigned … Mitchell. Upon arriving to shore, Mitchell ran away from the scene. A second male later identified as LeRoy …
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

… on Drug Use and Health. And more Americans died in 2010 from overdoses of prescription (22,134, including 16,651 from narcotic painkillers) than from motor vehicle accidents, says the Centers for Disease …
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Chattanooga Drug Dealer Whose Heroin Led To Death Pleads Guilty

… Rachels.  Rachels gave a portion of the heroin she received from Corbett to Logan Whiteaker, who drove her to the drug … was found on the bathroom counter. Whiteaker graduated from Hamilton County Drug Court less than 24 hours prior to … Enforcement Administration, and its task force partners from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the Tennessee …
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Central Falls Man Charged With Conspiring To Traffic Five To Seven Kilos Of Cocaine

… R.I., man in a conspiracy to arrange for a drug runner from Rhode Island to travel to England and then Aruba to … traffic between five and seven kilograms of cocaine from Aruba to England. As part of the alleged conspiracy, … in England last summer to arrange for a person to travel from Boston to England and then on to Aruba to pick up a …
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Doctor, Physician Assistant Charged With Fraudulently Obtaining And Distributing Prescription Medicines

… Rhode Island Hospital. According to the affidavit, an agent from the DEA learned in June that Dr. Villarreal was … that the prescriptions were written on prescription pads from Rhode Island Hospital and were allegedly forged with … show at least 89 prescriptions filled at various pharmacies from July 2009 through June 2011. This matter is being …
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Drug Trafficker Receives Seventeen-Year Sentence For Distributing Drugs In Vincennes Area

… Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Marijuana Transported from Mississippi to Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, MN. - A 17-year … that operated in the Washington and Vincennes area from April, 2009 through July, 2010. Eason obtained methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana from the Coldwater, Mississippi area and had the substances …
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Hartford Heroin Distributor Sentenced To 8+ Years

… and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction. According to court … documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from a DEA Hartford Task Force investigation into a drug … On May 13, 2015, one of Jerrick’s associates traveled from Hartford to New York City where law enforcement …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… Vermont Burlington - (802) 951-2900 Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th BOSTON - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Firearms Traffickers Sentenced To Federal Prison

… Providence today for trafficking more than a dozen firearms from North Carolina into Providence between November 2014 … February 2015, and the interruption of the flow of firearms from North Carolina to an apartment in the Hartford Park … of the flow of illegal firearms into Providence from Greenville, North Carolina, and the arrest of Kinmonte …
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Brothers Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Heroin

… a controlled purchase of approximately 50 grams of heroin from Jimmy and Miguel Estevez.  On November 25, 2013, the brothers travelled from New York to a location in Trumbull, Connecticut, to … Miguel Estevez were obtaining large quantities of heroin from multiple sources of supply, and used multiple vehicles …
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Hartford Grocer, Two Others, Charged With Heroin Trafficking

… with heroin trafficking offenses.   This matter stems from an ongoing investigation being conducted by the Drug … Hartford Task Force, which includes participants from the Bristol, East Hartford, Hartford, Manchester, New … trafficking organization that Beltre has been operating from his business, the Beltre Family Grocery store located …
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Ellington Man Sentenced To 61 Months In Federal Prison For Stealing Firearm, Selling It To Heroin Dealer

… he had just discovered that the revolver had been stolen from his truck.  He also stated Ashline had been his employee.  Analysis of the cellular telephone seized from Pantojas revealed approximately 72 incoming and … by a previously convicted felon.  Ashline was detained from the date of his arrest until June 2015 when he was …
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Two Brothers Charged With Distributing Heroin Involved In Overdoses

… charges against two brothers.  The charges stem from an ongoing statewide initiative targeting narcotics … told investigators that he and the victim purchased heroin from and individual he knew as “Eric” in the area of Brooks … Street and Ogden Street where the victim purchased heroin from Erick Delgado. It is further alleged that on May 3, …
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Manchester Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin And Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

… 1.8 kilograms of fentanyl and $198,000 in drug proceeds from an apartment occupied by the defendant and another … enforcement seized approximately $560,000 in drug proceeds from a safe deposit box in the defendant’s name. The … for the forfeiture of any property constituting or derived from the conspiracy. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled …
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Bridgeport Meth Dealer Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison

… orchestrated four controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Leigh-James.  The DEA’s Bridgeport Task Force then made two additional controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Leigh-James.  On August 12, 2015, Leigh-James sold an … purity of the methamphetamine sold by Leigh-James ranged from 98.7 percent to 100 percent.  Leigh-James was arrested …
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CVS Pharmacy Pays $600,000 To Settle Controlled Substances Act Allegations

… prescription file or readily retrievable location away from other prescription records in violation of the law.  In … in a readily accessible location separate and apart from other records required to be kept under law. The … prescription file or readily retrievable location away from other prescription records in violation of the law.  In …
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Bridgeport Man Charged With Selling Heroin To Overdose Victim

… distribute, and distribution of, heroin.  The charge stems from an ongoing statewide initiative targeting narcotics … victim’s iPhone revealed that the victim had ordered heroin from Norris earlier that day.  Witness interviews and … analysis revealed that the victim had purchased heroin from Norris for several months prior to the victim’s …