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Gulf Cartel Plaza Boss Heads To Prison For Life

… do not find refuge in the United States.” Rincon, 42, from Matamoros, Mexico, was convicted of conspiracy to … five kilograms of cocaine and 1000 kilograms of marijuana from January 2002 until his capture on Oct. 26, 2011. “HSI … During his time in that leadership role, the money derived from the Gulf Cartel was more than $20 million. As the plaza …
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Colorado Attorney General Joins Forces With DEA, U.S. Attorney, To Execute Largest Heroin Bust In History Of Rocky Mountain Region

… Two for a total of 54 state-level indictments combined from Phase One and Phase Two.  The operation also resulted … network that brought heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine from Mexico to a vast network throughout the West.  The … officers fully identified all aspects of the organization from the opium poppy fields and heroin laboratories in …
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Blytheville-Area Drug Traffickers Arrested Twenty Five Charged In 62-count Indictment

… agencies and provide whatever resources we can to remove from our communities those individuals who provide a source … drug paraphernalia, and several firearms were seized from multiple houses during the operation.  The DEA … 2014, charges 25 defendants in 62 separate counts stemming from a large-scale investigation into methamphetamine and …
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Dominican National Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year, today admitted his role in … including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, along …
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Dominican National Sentenced To 39 Months In Prison For Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year was sentenced today to 39 … including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, from unwitting individuals, who often reside in the … task force in New Jersey composed of investigators from the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, along …
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One Of The Largest Marijuana Seizures In Indiana History Announced After Six-Month Investigation

… by the investigators thwarted over five tons of marijuana from hitting the streets, while the second punch denied the foreign suppliers the proceeds from previous drug sales.” “The DEA and Metro Drug made … I am also proud to announce that the millions in cash taken from the Mexican drug lords will help fund public safety …
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Former Wesleyan Student Admits Distributing Synthetic Drug That Caused Multiple Overdoses

… distribute, and to distribute, (“Molly”).  The charge stems from an investigation into the distribution of controlled … are ingesting.  Wesleyan students who bought these drugs from this dorm-room chemist literally risked their lives by … of the Wesleyan campus.  Lonergan regularly sold Molly from his dorm room, charging approximately $20 per .1 gram, …
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High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Member’s Guilty Plea Unsealed; Zambada-Niebla’s Cooperation With U.S. Revealed

… will be no trial for Zambada-Niebla, whose case was severed from that of his co-defendants.  Among his co-defendants are … since the 1970s and their principal livelihood was derived from their sale of narcotics in the United States. … the importation of multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Central and South American countries, including …
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16 People Linked To San Fernando Valley-based Narcotics Delivery Service Indicted By Federal Grand Jury

… hidden compartments and the movement of bulk cash collected from narcotics transactions.             In relation to the … of drugs were packaged and dispatched to customers from a facility maintained by the ring in Van Nuys. … was a dispatcher, delivered drugs and collected proceeds from other delivery (currently a fugitive); A currently …
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DEA’s Traveling Exhibit “Drugs: Costs And Consequences” Opening In Cedar Park, Texas Gala And Ceremony To Be Held Thursday Evening Sept. 21, 2017 At 7:30 PM Ribbon Cutting Ceremony To Be Held September 22, 2017 At 10:00 AM

… Division. “The more we can educate parents and children from across the state on the dangers of drug abuse, the more … money laundering-in an historical and present-day context-from trading opium on the Silk Road in the 1800s to the …
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Top Department Of Justice Award Recognizes Federal, State, Local Law Enforcement Efforts Along The “Heroin Highway”

… enforcement agents and officers, and a federal prosecutor from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of … Highway.” This notorious stretch of highway, running from I-195 East from Providence, R.I., to Cape Cod, Mass., has been used for …
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Owners Of Miami Export Business Found Guilty Of Operating Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business And International Money Laundering

… in connection with their transmission of over $100 million from foreign businesses into and through the United States … to effect the transmission of at least $100 million from entities outside the United States, mostly located in … of construction companies.  After they received this money from the Venezuelan Company, the defendants received …
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Dutchess County Man Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People

… 19, 2014, and statements made during court proceedings: From at least late 2013 to February 2014, Sica and others … County Medical Examiner’s report concluded that he died from “acute heroin intoxication.” Delello’s death did not …
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Arizona Residents Dispose Of Over 6 Tons Of Prescription Drugs

… to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables and kitchen drawers. … 13,069 (6½ tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 95 locations manned … with DEA on the event.  When added to the collections from DEA’s previous five Take-Back events, more than 48,000 …
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Cocaine Concealed In Hundreds Of Pounds Of Yucca

… - (914) 682-6256 Drug stash house found across the street from P.S. 196 in the Bronx nyc070716_fig1.jpg … found concealed in fake Latin American root vegetables from a basement apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The apartment is located across the street from P.S. 196, an elementary school, and close to two other …
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International Drug Trafficking Ring Used "Front" Companies To Transport Drugs Across America

… the organization utilized contacts and sources of supply from Mexico, California, and elsewhere for drug trafficking … in Charge James J. Hunt stated, “The Sinaloa Cartel’s reach from Mexico into U.S. cities is most evident in this … have successfully dismantled the organization that spanned from Mexico to Buffalo at all levels of operation.” “As set …
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Guilty Verdict In Major Drug Trafficking Case

… - (914) 682-6256 Heroin and fentanyl transported from Mexico to Albany, NY for street distribution ALBANY, … District Attorney Soares stated, “Not one person is immune from the harsh realities of the heroin epidemic that plagues … This organization’s circuitous drug smuggling route from Mexico to Florida to New York was used to evade …
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Feds Seize Another Tunnel; Multiple Arrests And A Ton Of Marijuana Seized

… The tunnel, approximately 415 yards in length, stretches from El Sarape Restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico to a … rented a “walk behind saw and concrete blade” from a local business in El Centro, California, presumably … the drug traffickers used another residence four miles from the tunnel exit as a stash house at 1056 Horizon …
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Investigations Into Heroin And Oxycodone Powder Trafficking Ends In Arrests

… used a confidential informant to purchase oxycodone powder from Torres in the Southside Mall parking lot in the Town of … In June 2014, an arrest warrant was issued for Torres from the Town of Oneonta Court for criminal sale of a …
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels, And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced To 27 Years For Leading A Billion Dollar Narcotics Trafficking Enterprise

… in narcotics proceeds that federal agents seized from multiple locations in New York, California, … transported tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana from outdoor growers in British Colombia to Montreal, … run by the Hells Angels and Native American co-conspirators from the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation along the …
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Breaking Bad Drug Dealer Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People

… 19, 2014, and statements made during court proceedings: From at least late 2013 to February 2014, Sica and others … County Medical Examiner’s report concluded that he died from “acute heroin intoxication.” Delello’s death did not …
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Pill Trafficking that Resulted in an Overdose Death

… importing tens of thousands of fentanyl pills and cocaine from Mexico and distributing them in northern California and … October 2019, a teenage victim died of fentanyl poisoning from fentanyl pills that Escobedo distributed. Fifteen other … guilty, and 13 have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 19 months to 27 years. This case is the product of an …
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South Dakota’s 2025 Fentanyl Seizures Follow National Trend

… Across the United States, the DEA has noticed a shift away from pill production with cartels opting instead for the … in South Dakota have seen powder, which decreased in purity from nearly 20% to 10.3%, mixed into other substances … said. “Too often we think the Midwest is insulated from the effects of this poison impacting cities along the …
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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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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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DEA operation nets 628,000 Carfentanil pills in L.A. County

… potent than fentanyl. The majority of the pills were seized from one stash location in Los Angeles County. The operation … “This is a massive seizure, 628,000 carfentanil pills taken from a single drug trafficker. Our agents, with vital backing from local partners, mitigated a catastrophic danger. The …
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Four Men Charged with Trafficking Nearly Five Tons of Cocaine Hidden in Furniture

… that shipped approximately 4,500 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to the continental United States, including … for our communities. I applaud our law enforcement partners from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of … five tons of cocaine in furniture so they could ship it from Puerto Rico to New York City and elsewhere. As alleged, …
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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 …