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Virginia Motorcycle Dealership Seized in Methamphetamine Bust

April 10, 2003
… the Bristol Virginia Area. The methamphetamine is sourced from Mexico, transported through Los Angeles and then … to the LILLY DEALERSHIP in Abingdon, Virginia. Proceeds from these sales are then transported back to the Los …
April 10, 2003
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Jose Morales Sentenced To Over 21 Years In Prison For Heroin And Marijuana Distribution Conspiracies

August 02, 2013
… smuggle heroin into prison and run a marijuana conspiracy from prison GREENBELT, Md. - - U.S. District Judge Roger W. … Morales contacted the women, providing them with a contact from whom they could obtain the heroin.  He described to … exchange the heroin by kissing, transferring the heroin from the woman’s mouth to Morales’.  For example, beginning …
August 02, 2013
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Office Manager For Michigan Physician Sentenced To Prison For Accepting Kickbacks And Failure To Report Income From Medical Marijuana Certificationss

October 06, 2014
… Prison For Accepting Kickbacks And Failure To Report Income From Medical Marijuana Certificationss October 06, 2014 … Patrick Miles announced today. The convictions arise from an Indictment which charged that between January 2004, …
October 06, 2014
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Previously Convicted Felon From Newark, New Jersey, Charged With Firearms Possession, Drug Distribution Offenses

December 09, 2015
… Previously Convicted Felon From Newark, New Jersey, Charged With Firearms Possession, …
December 09, 2015
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Mexican National Who Supervised a Drug Trafficking Organization Operating in Orville, Washington, Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

February 19, 2025
… law enforcement conducted a series of controlled drug buys from Medrano and others selling drugs on his behalf. On … 12 firearms. “Drug traffickers like Mr. Medrano profit from the pain they cause selling poison to our neighbors,” …
February 19, 2025
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DEA and its Partners Remove More than 670,000 Pounds of Unused Medications from Communities Nationwide

May 28, 2024
… Remove More than 670,000 Pounds of Unused Medications from Communities Nationwide May 28, 2024 Seattle Contact … more than 18.6 million pounds of unneeded medications from communities across the country. According to a report … for a nonmedical purpose obtained that medication from a family member or friend. DEA continues to expand …
May 28, 2024
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Two Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms in Case Arising from Investigation of Aryan Family Prison Gang

September 16, 2024
… Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms in Case Arising from Investigation of Aryan Family Prison Gang September 16, … Network in Alaska; Younger Conspirator Transported Drugs from Arizona to Washington Stash House Where Fentanyl Pills … not some street-level dealer…. The amount of societal harm from these substances is almost immeasurable.” Discussing …
September 16, 2024
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Two Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl Resulting in Death

January 17, 2024
… nor ease the unnecessary pain the family was subjected to from losing a loved one. However, I hope knowing these drug … to see that some are so willing to take part in profiting from it with no concern whatsoever for life,” said Interim … helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit the online treatment locator. # # # Drug Trafficking Fake Pills …
January 17, 2024
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight Against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country this past … has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception. The DEA’s Washington … who misused a prescription medication obtained the medicine from a family member or friend. The Centers for Disease …
November 01, 2021
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16 Defendants Indicted On Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering And Gun Charges

November 24, 2003
… and the United States Attorney's Office, and arise from a 4 year conspiracy by the defendants to distribute … powder cocaine, crack cocaine, and phencyclidine (PCP), from at least September 1999 to July 2003. The following 16 … coordinated the movement of bulk quantities of cocaine from New York to the Maryland-Washington, DC area in …
November 24, 2003
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Pharmacist Admits Attempting To Use Deadly Toxins As Weapons, Possessing Narcotics Manufacturing Equipment

May 29, 2014
… “To make this happen we pull together various resources from the FBI and work closely with our law enforcement … applications. Gonzalez made the purchases through an online third-party vendor marketplace and all the items were …
May 29, 2014
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Joint DEA /State Investigation Results In Charges Against Entire Baltimore Drug Trafficking Organization

March 11, 2011
… BALTIMORE, MD. - At least 425 law enforcement officers from DEA, Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Marshals … organization in the Latrobe Homes area of East Baltimore from at least 2008 through March 2011. Twenty-two defendants … of law enforcement’s commitment to keep this city safe from the violence and crimes associated with drug …
March 11, 2011
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Twelve Alleged Members Of Mexican-Based Cocaine Trafficking Ring Indicted

October 14, 2011
… that has utilized a distribution network to smuggle cocaine from Mexico to northern Virginia. This indictment was the … was unsealed. “Our local communities are not immune from the poison the Mexican drug cartels bring to the … result of the concentrated efforts by agents and detectives from the FBI, DEA, ICE, Alexandria Police Department and the …
October 14, 2011
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Hagerstown Pharmacist Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud For Improperly Billing Medicare And Medicaid

June 14, 2013
… 25 North Cannon Avenue in Hagerstown.  Russo admitted that from January 2009 through December 2010, he filled … “in stock” and how much it would cost; customers traveled from out of state or in van loads to his pharmacy; and many …
June 14, 2013
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Hagerstown Pharmacist Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud For Improperly Billing Medicare And Medicaid

June 17, 2013
… 25 North Cannon Avenue in Hagerstown.  Russo admitted that from January 2009 through December 2010, he filled … “in stock” and how much it would cost; customers traveled from out of state or in van loads to his pharmacy; and many …
June 17, 2013
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Six Individuals From Americana Corridor Of South Orlando Indicted For Federal Firearm And Drug Trafficking Offenses

August 22, 2014
… Six Individuals From Americana Corridor Of South Orlando Indicted For …
August 22, 2014
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Five Charged in Sophisticated Scheme to Mail Cocaine from Puerto Rico New York City inside Children’s Lunchboxes

October 27, 2021
… Five Charged in Sophisticated Scheme to Mail Cocaine from Puerto Rico New York City inside Children’s Lunchboxes … conspiracy to smuggle millions of dollars in cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York and Massachusetts via the U.S. … Police. In carrying out the charged conspiracy, which ran from May of 2020 to July of 2021, accused ringleaders Carlos …
October 27, 2021
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Wethersfield Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin Distribution Charge Stemming From 19-Year-Old’s Overdose Death

January 26, 2017
… Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin Distribution Charge Stemming From 19-Year-Old’s Overdose Death January 26, 2017 New … of a Wethersfield motel and purchased two bags of heroin from Carrillo for 10 dollars.  Carrillo was arrested on a …
January 26, 2017
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Chicagoland Man Sentenced To More Than 15 Years In Prison For Orchestrating The Major Marijuana Distribution From Sacramento

March 14, 2014
… Prison For Orchestrating The Major Marijuana Distribution From Sacramento March 14, 2014 San Francisco Contact Info … According to testimony presented at trial, Brock, who is from a suburb of Chicago, was the target of an interstate …
March 14, 2014
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Sumter County Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy in Sumter, Richland Counties

August 15, 2025
… RCSD narcotics investigators made several undercover buys of methamphetamine and fentanyl from Tucker over a three-week period. During this same time, …
August 15, 2025
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Georgia Man Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine from Inside an Alabama Prison

March 14, 2025
… in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine from Inside an Alabama Prison March 14, 2025 New Orleans … orchestrate shipments of bulk fentanyl and methamphetamine from the Atlanta, Georgia area into southern Alabama and … in Atmore, Alabama and seized half a kilogram of fentanyl from him. Melton’s coconspirator was on his way back from …
March 14, 2025
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Three defendants sentenced for conspiring to send nearly 14 kilograms of 100 percent pure methamphetamine from California to Georgia

June 12, 2019
… nearly 14 kilograms of 100 percent pure methamphetamine from California to Georgia June 12, 2019 Atlanta Contact … nearly 14 kilograms of 100 percent pure methamphetamine from California to Georgia.   “These individuals established … this tight-knit group and have removed this poison from our streets.”   According to U.S. Attorney Pak, the …
June 12, 2019
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DEA Task Force seizes $150 million worth of opioids from tractor trailer headed to Northeast

March 04, 2019
… DEA Task Force seizes $150 million worth of opioids from tractor trailer headed to Northeast March 04, 2019 New …
March 04, 2019
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“NFL” Gang Member Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering Charges

June 27, 2022
… Baltimore Police Department. According to his guilty plea, from 2017 to April 2019, Davis participated in the Normandy, … base, and fentanyl to drug users and drug redistributors from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.  … obtained heroin and fentanyl in distribution quantities from other NFL members, which he then sold to customers on a …
June 27, 2022
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Baltimore Fentanyl Dealer Admits to Selling Narcotics to Customers Across Four States

March 07, 2022
… During the existence of the conspiracy, which spanned from January 2017 to December 2020, scores of customers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia …
March 07, 2022
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Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty and is Sentenced to Four Years in Federal Prison

March 09, 2022
… Distribute Heroin Less Than Three Weeks After His Release from State Prison Baltimore, Md., – U.S. District Judge … Baltimore District Office. According to his guilty plea, from September 2020 to November 2020, Skordalos participated … joined the DTO less than three weeks after his release from state prison. In September 2020, federal agents …
March 09, 2022
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Narcotics Dealer Sentenced to Ten and a Half Years in Federal Prison for Federal Drug Trafficking Charges and Assault on a Federal Officer

November 22, 2021
… after ingesting narcotics, and the child obtained narcotics from Wall’s belongings, ingested the narcotics, and … task force officer attempted to physically stop Trimmer from fleeing. Trimmer then proceeded to grab the officer’s …
November 22, 2021
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Prince George’s County Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison for a Heroin Distribution Conspiracy Conducted Over the Dark Web

November 09, 2021
… Washington Division. According to Ramseur’s plea agreement, from at least April 2014 through December 2015, Ramseur was … Ramseur accepted orders for heroin and received payments from customers in Bitcoin. Ramseur and his co-conspirators packaged and shipped heroin from Capitol Heights, Maryland, to customers throughout the …
November 09, 2021
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California Narcotics Trafficker Sentenced

July 29, 2021
… to fellow co-conspirators who then shipped narcotics from the west coast to the east coast of the United States. … regularly traveled to the New York area to collect money from accomplices and other narcotic customers.  For example, … the quality, logistics, and potential financial gain from trafficking-controlled substances. Additionally, there …
July 29, 2021
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Baltimore Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

February 03, 2014
Baltimore Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison February 03, 2014 Washington, DC Contact Info Contact Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 Washington.Special.Agent@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 800 …
February 03, 2014