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39 Defendants Indicted in $4.7 Million Meth, Heroin Conspiracy

… bring drug traffickers to justice and protect our community from the violence and other harms that result from the flow of illegal drugs.” On June 8, 2022, Homeland … led an operation that involved 140 officers and agents from 14 state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. …
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Co-Founder of Sinaloa Cartel Charged in Superseding Indictment with Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Fentanyl

… Garcia Allegedly Continues to Lead the Sinaloa Cartel From Hiding BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A fifth superseding indictment … the continuing criminal enterprise and several conspiracies from May 2014 to January 2024. Zambada Garcia remains at …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from 4 out of 10 pills in 2021 and 6 out of 10 pills in … lives lost.  Nearly 70% of these drug poisonings are from fentanyl.    In New York, it is estimated that …
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U.S. Attorney Announces Charges in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen in New York City

… - (914) 682-6256 Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot From India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist … Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a …
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U.S. Attorney Announces Charges in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen in New York City

… - (914) 682-6256 Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot From India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist … Damian Williams said: “As alleged, the defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a …
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Montenegrin National Charged with Maritime Narcotrafficking of Over 20 Tons of Cocaine

… Ships to Transport Over $1 Billion Worth of Cocaine from Colombia to Europe via the United States BROOKLYN, N.Y. … last night as he attempted to board an international flight from Miami International Airport. Gogic is expected to … law enforcement, 20 tons of poison was intercepted en route from Colombia to Europe. Gogic’s arrest underscores law …
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Five defendants, including two medical doctors, charged as part of Northeast Regional Health Care Fraud Takedown

… who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and … pleaded guilty to possession of fentanyl that he stole from his employer, a hospital on Long Island. The charges … bill our federal health care programs are stealing from taxpayers and robbing vulnerable patients of necessary …
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Seven Defendants Sentenced for Drug and Firearm Offenses Related to 2019 Burlington Murder

… court records, in late 2018, Lesine Woodson came to Vermont from Orlando, Florida, to sell cocaine base in partnership with Benzel Hampton, who was also from Orlando. Shortly after arriving in Vermont, Woodson … of Hampton. Woodson brought several individuals to Vermont from Orlando, Florida, including her 18-year-old cousin, …
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Seven Indicted in Seattle in Connection with Coast-to-Coast Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… sold their illicit narcotics throughout the U.S., from the Southwest border to the Pacific Northwest and all … been modified to fire fully automatic.  Hill is prohibited from possessing firearms due to previous convictions. At … The drugs were still in the suitcases they had traveled in from Arizona. Law enforcement also seized more than $387,000 …
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42 Defendants Facing State Or Federal Drug Charges For Allegedly Selling Heroin On City’s West Side

… heroin were seized during the course of the investigation from last August through this month.  Early today, DEA … Court.  The 26 state defendants face charges ranging from Class 1 to Class X Delivery of a Controlled Substance … throughout the day. Triplett obtained his heroin largely from supplier, Levaughn Collins, also known as “Sweet …
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Drug Kingpin Indicted Following Record-Breaking Meth And Heroin Seizure

… Romedi Lara-Serrano, as the drugs were being transferred from a tractor trailer to a car at the I-95 service area in … drugs in mid-June. The load had already crossed the border from Mexico into Texas at the time the investigation began. … was set in motion. Agents tracked the shipment as it moved from Texas to New Jersey. On July 3, Mota and Lara-Serrano …
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Tricked-out Upper Manhattan Stash Apartments Conceal $12 Million In Heroin And $500,000 In “Crystal Meth”

… of a long-term investigation, investigators and agents from Special Narcotics and DEA’s Long Island Division Office … lbs. of methamphetamine and shoe soles that had been ripped from several pairs of women’s footwear. International … use hollowed out shoes to conceal narcotics. Also seized from Apt. 21E were 100 grams of heroin from the pocket of a …
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Wife of Sinaloa Cartel Kingpin Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

… fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana) from South America and Mexico, transported the drugs to … the U.S. 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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DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

… commitment to protecting American lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed … contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76% of pills tested just two years prior in FY 2023. … fentanyl powder purity decreased to 10.3%, down from 19.5% during the same time period. These reductions in …
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Ten Charged with Crack Cocaine Distribution in Mount Vernon

… to solving violent crime and removing guns and drugs from our city streets.  This operation is an example of what … unsealed today in White Plains federal court: [1 ] From at least January 2022 until November 2022, Esteban …
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Two Defendants Charged with Firearms and Narcotics Trafficking

… Conspired to Traffic Narcotics and More Than 50 Firearms From Ohio to New York 1. Firearms Sold on June 4, 2022.jpg … than 50 firearms, along with methamphetamine and fentanyl, from Ohio to New York. Vasquez and Colon will be presented …
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Over 20 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, heroin and cocaine seized in Ozone Park, Queens: Three arrested

… presses seized in mill_0.jpg guns and narcotics 2 seized from vehcile.jpg Equipment, packaging, and cutting agents … Perry Funchess and recovered over 20 kilograms of narcotics from an Infinity Q70 sedan and 94-04 80th Street, Apt. 1. On … a loaded AK-47 rifle and a loaded .380 caliber pistol from inside the bags. In coordination with the Special …
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Pill Press Machines, Over 16lbs of Alleged Fentanyl, Meth, Cocaine and Oxycodone Recovered in Queens: Three Arrested

… Illegal Pills Containing Potentially Lethal Drugs Across from Public School Marijuana & Mushrooms Seized Download … kilograms (10 pounds) of fentanyl in powder and pill form from a residence in Ozone Park, Queens. Also recovered were … allegedly used a residence located across the street from PS 377Q, S.T.A.R. Leadership Academy, as an illicit …
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Carfentanil: A Synthetic Opioid Unlike Any Other

May 14, 2025
… involving carfentanil increased approximately sevenfold – from 29 deaths from January to June 2023, to 238 deaths from January to June 2024. Carfentanil has now been detected …
May 14, 2025
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Community Event
March 05, 2019 - March 06, 2019
March 05, 2019 - March 06, 2019

New Mexico Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness

11:30 PM - 2:30 AM (EST)
Rio Rancho, NM
More than 3,000 Students to Participate in the New Mexico Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in partnership with the DEA 360 Campaign to hold educational event promoting healthy choices and a drug-free lifestyle for students What: Public health officials refer to the opioid drug epidemic...
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to … of prescription drug abusers say they get their drugs free from friends and family, including from the home medicine cabinet. Take Back Day is a unique …
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Americans Flock To National Drug Take Back Day

… than 3,500 tons) of prescription drugs have been removed from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and nightstands by … prescription painkillers, say they obtained those drugs from friends and family, including from a home medicine cabinet, according to the National …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, April 29, from 10 am to 2 pm local time, at over 5,000 sites around … injury-related death in the United States, eclipsing deaths from motor vehicle crashes or firearms.  The majority of … drug abusers report that they obtain their drugs from friends and family, including from the home medicine …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

… Twice Domestic WASHINGTON - This Saturday, October 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the federal Drug … is one of the best ways to prevent a member of your family from becoming a victim of the opioid epidemic,” said DEA … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Mexican National and Alleged Alien Smuggler Indicted in El Paso on First Material Support of Terrorism Charges for Supporting CJNG

… multi-caliber AR-15 variant aka “El Dorado” recovered from Navarro-Sanchez’s possession during her arrest in … multi-caliber AR-15 variant aka “El Dorado” recovered from Navarro-Sanchez’s possession during her arrest in … March 2023. Photo of man-made tunnel used to smuggle aliens from Mexico to the United States. Download Original Image …
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Jury Convicts Three Men of Meth and Cocaine Conspiracies Across Multiple States

… in methamphetamine and cocaine conspiracies that spanned from California to Texas to Arkansas and involved multiple … Toney received multiple pounds of methamphetamine directly from Smith at an apartment complex in Little Rock several … to Toney, Toney was purchasing kilograms of cocaine from Rogers. Evidence at trial detailed Toney and Rogers’ …
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Suitcases Stuffed with 45 Pounds of Meth Lead to 10-Year Federal Sentence

… drug courier, flying repeatedly via commercial air carrier from the West Coast to the Midwest while hauling drugs and … the Indianapolis International Airport on a one-way flight from California. Federal agents intercepted him at baggage … partners, we stopped a major shipment of methamphetamine from reaching the Midwest and ensured the individual …
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DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

… commitment to protecting American lives and communities from the devastating impacts of fentanyl, which claimed … contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76% of pills tested just two years prior in FY 2023. … fentanyl powder purity decreased to 10.3%, down from 19.5% during the same time period. These reductions in …
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Honduran Nationals Extradited to the United States to Face Federal Fentanyl Trafficking Charges

… PORTLAND, Ore .— Two Honduran nationals were extradited from Honduras to the United States to face charges for their … Tuesday. According to court documents, special agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) learned … pursue threats like these no matter where they come from,” said David F. Reames, Special Agent in Charge, DEA …
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Tallahassee Brothers Receive 10 Years in Prison for Large Scale Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana

… the addiction and violence that too often follows from drug traffickers flooding our streets with this poison. … purchasing hundred-pound quantities of marijuana per week from farms and brokers in California and reselling the … conducted a controlled purchase of 28 pounds of marijuana from Cleveland Blackshear. During the surveillance, FDLE …