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Federal Jury Convicts Father and Son for Killing a Niagara Falls Man in Furtherance of a Drug Conspiracy

… drugs. The investigation included a series of controlled buys and payments involving defendant Lavon Parks. …
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Orlando Man Sentenced To 32 Years for Possessing Illegal Firearms and Selling Fentanyl That Killed a Woman

… After some time, N.K. realized that the pills she was buying from them contained fentanyl. On October 31, 2021, …
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Melvin Hill Sentenced on Federal Drug And Firearms Charges

… told Burlington narcotics investigators that they could buy narcotics from Hill. In February and March, this source …
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DEA Reminds Families to Discuss the Dangers of Drugs Before Students Return to School

… turning to smartphones as a one-stop shop to market, sell, buy and deliver deadly, fake prescription pills and other …
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Pill Distributor Pleads Guilty To Trafficking Tens Of Thousands Of Pills Containing Fentanyl And Methamphetamine

… Diaz posing as a potential drug customer seeking to buy counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl. On …
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Pill Distributor Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Tens of Thousands of Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… Diaz posing as a potential drug customer seeking to buy counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl. On …
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Albuquerque Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking

… The citizen called Kerr and set up a time and location to buy fentanyl pills. DEA agents established surveillance at …
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California Man Sentenced to 9 Years in Federal Prison for Transnational Drug Trafficking Scheme

… A confidential informant was used to set up a meeting to buy as much as 20 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 500 …
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Defendant Caught with 14 Kilos of Fentanyl and Seven Kilos of Methamphetamine Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison

… and methamphetamine.  After conducting some controlled buys of drugs, agents moved in to arrest Guerrero-Acosta.  …
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Fentanyl Distributer Tied to 13-Year-Old’s Overdose Death Pleads Guilty

… messenger to a 13-year-old girl who asked him if she could buy “percs.”  Soliz agreed and delivered the pills to her …
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Nationwide Drug Trafficking, Law Enforcement Impersonation, and Fraud Ring Disrupted

… as a FBI Special Agent, attempted to dissuade a person from buying a property in Placer County, claiming that the seller …
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DEA El Paso Division Safety Bulletin

… exposure can be fatal. We remind the public that buying from street dealers is dangerous, because purchasers …
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Milton woman arrested for running multimillion-dollar black market marijuana enterprise

… more than $300,000 towards the mortgage on her house and to buy a 2017 Porsche Boxster, among other things.  It is …
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Large-scale, Spokane based fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine trafficker sentenced to 180 months in federal prison

… Spokane, Washington area. On June 11, 2020, a controlled buy of fentanyl-laced pills was conducted from Bridges. A …
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Birmingham Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl That Caused 20-Year-Old’s Death

… agents received fentanyl despite having attempted to buy heroin. A third charge of possession with the intent to …
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Crack-dealing Gang Dismantled In The Bronx

… the John Adams Houses, with undercover officers making 32 buys of crack cocaine. Three defendants are also charged …
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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 …
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National Jewish Health Study Documents Health Dangers Of Indoor Marijuana Grows

… these operations may go undetected, an unsuspecting family buying the residence at a later date may be put at risk of …
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Operation Shaw-Crank Redemption Update: Final 3 Defendants Sentenced To A Combined Total Of Over 17 Years In Prison For Drug-Trafficking Organization

… and Arkansas River Valley area. Numerous controlled buys, surveillance, search warrants, and monitoring have …
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Three New Orleans Men Receive Lengthy Prison Sentences In Heroin Conspiracy Involving Overdose Death

… 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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DEA-Led Operation Pill Nation Targets Rogue Pain Clinics In South Florida

… in Operation Pill Nation resulting from 340 undercover buys of prescription drugs from over 60 doctors in more than …
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Federal And State Authorities Arrest 15 Individuals On Federal Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Charges

… derived from the importation, receiving, concealment, buying, and/or selling cocaine; (2), transport or transmit …
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Two Men Arrested In Multimillion Dollar Synthetic Drug Ring

… various bank transactions and spending the proceeds to buy luxury vehicles, vacations and a $1.4 million home.  As …
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20 Year Sentence For Birmingham Man On Drugs, Weapons Charges

… agents received fentanyl despite having attempted to buy heroin. A third charge of possession with the intent to …
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Last Of The Arellano Felix Brothers Enters Guilty Plea In San Diego

… some of the income to pay AFO members to commit crimes; to buy firearms, ammunition and vehicles; to travel on …
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Eldon Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Meth Conspiracy, Attempted Jail Escape

… made references to picking up the two after the escape and buying them clothes to wear. On Nov. 13, 2012, Atterberry …
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Owner Of Smoke Shops In Bakersfield, Fresno And Visalia Pleads Guilty To Fraud Relating To The Sale Of Synthetic Drugs

… transaction in property derived from drug trafficking to buy a time share in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. If convicted of the …
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Detroit News 2008

July 15, 2021
… Charges August 1, 2008 DEA Catches Drug Thug Trying to Buy Two Kilograms of Cocaine August 1, 2008 Mexican Illegal … July 22, 2008 Louisville Drug Dealer Admits Attempting to Buy Two Kilograms of Cocaine and Assaulting a Federal …
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Gastonia Pharmacist Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone

… - (864) 234-0237 North Carolina Asheville - (828) 350-3440 Charlotte - (704) 770-2050 Greensboro - (336) … these pills on the street and, at times, even suggested the price the customer should charge per pill. Investigators …
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DEA St. Louis Division Safely Disposes of More Than 33,000 Pounds of Unused Medications on 28th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… DEA St. Louis Division Safely Disposes of More Than 33,000 Pounds of Unused Medications on 28th National … Wichita - (316) 838-2500 Missouri Cape Girardeau - (573) 334-1534 Jefferson City - (573) 635-1331 Springfield - (417) 888-9800 The DEA St. Louis Division …