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Man Sentenced To 36 Months In Prison For Making Meth

… process, Billings engaged in the practice of “smurfing” (buying small quantities) at local pharmacies. The sentencing …
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Two Men Sentenced On Meth Charges

… Varney and Carter engaged in the practice of “smurfing” (buying small quantities) at local pharmacies to get around …
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Heroin Pipeline Stretching From Mexico To NYC And Long Island Dismantled

… Heroin Pipeline Stretching From Mexico To NYC And Long Island Dismantled December 19, … dollar illegal drug pipeline which ran directly from Mexico to New York City and Long Island as part of an …
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Freedom of Information Act

January 19, 2025
… that such records (or portions of them) are protected from public disclosure by one of nine exemptions, or by one … of three special law enforcement record exclusions. Submit Online via DEA's Public Access Link (PAL) PAL is a web …
January 19, 2025
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Four Arrested in Alleged Montauk Drug Ring

… - (914) 682-6256 Group Allegedly Trafficked Cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Sell at Local Bars RIVERHEAD, … Force. During the investigation, a series of undercover buys were allegedly secured from Garces-Diaz and the three …
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Seven Charged With Oxycodone Conspiracy In Broward County Pill Mill Operation

… Defendant Hector Bruno remains a fugitive.     Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report … sometimes death.               The indictment alleges that from October 2010 to the present, the defendants operated … including drug addicts and traffickers, seeking to buy large quantities of oxycodone and other controlled …
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DEA Washington Warns of Deadly Counterfeit Drugs on Social Media

July 23, 2021
… they are seeing kids, teens, and young adults ordering online. SAC Jarod Forget says these sales often involve … in just the past few weeks where teenagers will order pills online, go take a walk to pick them up, come right back in, …
July 23, 2021
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Six Arrested for Multi-State Drug Conspiracy Spanning Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Texas

… organization that distributed oxycodone pills obtained from a source in the Houston area, across Southeastern … distributing oxycodone pills. A series of controlled buys were conducted and Campbell’s telephone calls and text … Lambert re-distributed the oxycodone pills they obtained from Campbell to others. On Feb. 24, 2023, law enforcement …
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President Obama Adds NEFD International Drug “Kingpin” To OFAC List

… against Karner generally bars U.S. persons and companies from conducting financial or commercial transactions with … Karner sourced precursor chemicals for his products from Southeast Asia, among other places, after which the … Karner has also used drug trafficking profits to buy, among other things, a ski lodge in the Austrian Alps, …
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Nyack Man Arrested For Sales Of Synthetic Cannabinoid Resulting In One Known Overdose

… SSCs, with brand names like “Green Giant” and “Geeked Up,” from his smoke shop in Nyack, New York.  Grogan mentioned to … undercover law enforcement that he had a supplier of SSCs from whom he could either pick up products after store hours … in Nyack that had “kids lined up outside the door” to buy the products. The SSCs distributed by Grogan caused one …
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Man Indicted In International Drug Conspiracy Extradited To Boston From Colombia

… In International Drug Conspiracy Extradited To Boston From Colombia March 05, 2013 New England Contact Info … States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that a man from Colombia, charged in an international cocaine …
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2nd Major Narcotics Trafficker Extradited To US From Columbia

… 2nd Major Narcotics Trafficker Extradited To US From Columbia January 27, 2017 New York Contact Info Contact … Jorge Alberto Siado-(“Siado”), who arrived in New York from Colombia yesterday afternoon, is the second narcotics …
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Leader Of Brighton Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 50 Months in Prison

… and distribution of drugs to, or collection of proceeds from, drug customers, drug runners or other drug … Drayton also participated in a number of controlled buys involving cocaine base during the investigation. …
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Leader Of Brighton Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

… and distribution of drugs to, or collection of proceeds from, drug customers, drug runners or other drug … DTO. Drayton also participated in a number of controlled buys involving cocaine base during the investigation. …
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Two Sent to Prison After Drug Trafficking in Local Parking Lot

… friend Mendez. Authorities conducted surveillance at a Best Buy parking lot in McAllen in anticipation of the narcotics … after which Perez removed bags containing bricks of cocaine from the trunk of his vehicle. Mendez was parked in another …
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Former Army Soldier Sentenced For Murder-for-Hire And Gun Possession

… to carve a “Z” into the victim’s chest and was planning on buying a hatchet to dismember the body. Evidence at trial … and that Walker contended he could hit the intended victim from more than two football fields away with his rifle. …
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Three New Orleans Men Receive Lengthy Prison Sentences In Heroin Conspiracy Involving Overdose Death

… United States District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt read from the bench a letter written by the victim’s mother, and … calls, ask the caller how much heroin he or she wanted to buy, and direct the caller to drive to a gas station or …
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Leader Of "Pump And Dump" Stock Fraud Scheme Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Nine Years In Prison

… to secretly fund and distribute misleading third-party "buy" recommendations concerning the targeted companies. … than $2 million in cashier's checks, representing proceeds from stock fraud, to Panama and caused them to be deposited …
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Taxi Driver From Lawrence Convicted of Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… Taxi Driver From Lawrence Convicted of Drug Trafficking Conspiracy … drugs, drive drug traffickers and collect drug money from various customers of the DTO on a daily basis.  …
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Los Angeles 2002

July 15, 2021
… Los Angeles 2002  DEC 20, 2002 DEA Suspends Online Drug Activity  DEC 9-13, 2002 DEA Clan Lab School in …
July 15, 2021
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International Fugitive Extradited from Italy Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge

… International Fugitive Extradited from Italy Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge August 11, 2020 … is set for October 22, 2020.  According to court documents, from the late 1980s through early 1997, Yester-Garrido was … indicted in the Middle District of Florida for conspiracy, from February 2012 through February 2015, to distribute …
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Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Wiring Drug-Trafficking Profits to Mexico

… to participating in a conspiracy to commit money laundering from May 23, 2020, to Sept. 20, 2022. Leal-Martinez is the … Leal-Martinez admitted that she accepted drug proceeds from co-conspirators, including Jose Jesus Sanchez-Mendez, … Gonzalez-Celestine participated in four controlled drug buys that were monitored by law enforcement. She sold more …
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Han Gil Hotel demolished, was a "safe haven" for drug distributors

… Attorney’s Office included a condition that the developer buy the property “as is,” and demolish the building within … for years, the hotel – which was located diagonally across from a local elementary school – served as home base for … many drug dealers that once frequented the facility is far from over.” The Han Gil’s former owner, Su Amos Mun, was …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges 23 Members Of Bronx Drug Trafficking Crew With Distributing Crack Cocaine, Cocaine, Marijuana, MDMA And Oxycodone

… Oxycodone. The defendants allegedly controlled the areas from West Burnside Avenue to West Tremont Avenue and from … from drug dealers in the area controlled by BMG. During the buys, officers were able to purchase significant street …
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Two North Texas doctors, one nurse sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violation

… fentanyl, morphine, oxycodone, alprazolam and zolpidem, from his pain management medical offices in Sherman and … 2010 and 2017. The health care fraud conviction resulted from Diamond submitting a claim for reimbursement to … Office and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Stevan A. Buys and Jonathan R. Hornok.   # # #   On …
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Lockport man convicted by a federal jury of narcotics conspiracy tied to the Sinaloa Cartel going to prison for 25 years

… invoices to make it look like Western New Yorkers were buying sea cucumbers at astounding rates and quantities. The … March 23, 2015, Buffalo Police seized 32 kilograms of drugs from the Folger Street location—including Gillon’s eight … Western New York area. Approximately $20,000,000 was sent from Western New York banks to California in a two year …
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Business Owner Who Trafficked Pounds of Meth and Cocaine Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

… and other information presented in court, officials from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, … and cocaine in at least four counties, stretching from Benson down to Wilmington. Johnson’s drug distribution … ammunition. As part of his guilty plea, Johnson admitted to buying a motorcycle worth approximately $17,000, using drug …
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DEA Rocky Mountain Division Announces Record Fentanyl Seizures in 2022

… oversaturated drug market.  Anyone, including our kids, can buy dangerous and deadly drugs at the click of a button. … to do everything within our ability to keep this poison from reaching your communities.” Fentanyl remains the … a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. This is an increase from 2021 when DEA lab testing revealed four out of ten …
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Federal grand jury charges three men for distributing fentanyl-laced pills that caused death of rapper Mac Miller

… indictment alleges Pettit ordered the fentanyl-laced pills from Walter, and then Reavis delivered the narcotics to … unknown person that reads, in part: “People have been dying from fake blues left and right, you better believe law enforcement is using informants and undercover to buy them on the street do they can start putting ppl in …
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New York Drug Enforcement Task Force and NY Attorney General Take Down Ghost Gun Trafficking Ring

… a 438-count indictment, charging three individuals from a gun trafficking operation that illegally sold 47 … ghost guns which were shipped to New York and Pennsylvania from various online retailers before being assembled. The indictment, …