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Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg Meets With Drug Control Officials In China

January 13, 2017
… China on counter-narcotic issues and the evolving threat from synthetic drugs. On October 1, 2015, China took an … China due to the wave of recent deaths in the United States from these synthetic opioids.  In Hong Kong, Rosenberg met … sharing to combat fentanyl and New Psychoactive Substances from the Far East to the U.S.  Officials also discussed …
January 13, 2017
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DEA And Partners To Hold Roundtable Discussion

September 19, 2016
… 21, 2016, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) will join leaders from federal, state and local law enforcement and public … will also have the opportunity to hear perspectives from the DEA, the Oregon Medical Examiner’s Office, the … take place at the Oregon Department of Justice in Portland from 8:00AM to 12:00PM. Members of Oregon’s law enforcement …
September 19, 2016
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DEA’S 15h Rx Drug Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In The Atlanta Field Division & State Of Tennessee

May 07, 2018
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. DEA launched its …
May 07, 2018
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DEA’s 15th Rx Drug Take Back Day Hailed As Huge Success In Georgia

May 07, 2018
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. DEA launched its …
May 07, 2018
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DEA’s 15th Rx Drug Take Back Day Hailed As Huge Success In North Carolina

May 07, 2018
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.             DEA launched its …
May 07, 2018
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DEA’s 15th Rx Take Back Day Hailed As Huge Success In South Carolina

May 07, 2018
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. DEA launched its …
May 07, 2018
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DEA’s 15th Rx Drug Take Back Day Hailed As Huge Success In Tennessee

May 07, 2018
… remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they could be stolen and … that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. DEA launched its …
May 07, 2018
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Suburban Man Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison For Leading Chicago-area Cell Of International Drug Trafficking Organization

May 18, 2018
… ran a stash house in Bensenville where heroin and cash from drug sales were stored.  He also sold drugs in the … customers, Jesus Salgado would often pick up the heroin from the stash house, and then drop off the proceeds at the … drug pipeline.  Authorities seized four kilograms of heroin from the Bensenville stash house and shut it down as part of …
May 18, 2018
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DEA's 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Delivers Positive Numbers Throughout South And Central Texas

May 07, 2018
… Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov HOUSTON - From Waco to Houston to Laredo, Texas, Texan’s showed their … lives by removing unused painkillers and controlled drugs from homes,” said DEA Acting Administrator Robert W. …
May 07, 2018
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Lockport Woman Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge

March 08, 2018
… New York and sold drugs to H.C. H.C. died hours later from a fentanyl overdose. On February 12, 2015, the Niagara … was a passenger. Law enforcement officers seized fentanyl from inside the car. Kimmons and Ventura were arrested. On … source again bought crack cocaine as well as heroin from the defendant. Charges are pending against Oliver …
March 08, 2018
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Convicted Felon Pleads Guilty In 100 Pound Meth Conspiracy

April 09, 2018
… that Robert “Bobby” Whitenack, 37, a convicted felon from Westside, Iowa, was convicted on the charges of … involvement in a meth trafficking conspiracy that spanned from January 2014 through May of 2017, distributing at least … of Whitenack’s collecting $10,000 in drug proceeds from customers, to Whitenack’s possession of firearms during …
April 09, 2018
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Bradenton Man Sentenced To More Than 10 Years For Drug Trafficking

March 08, 2018
… positive for cocaine. Officers also recovered $237 from a fanny-pack strapped to Johnson’s waistband and another $207 from his front pants pockets. Shortly thereafter, Code … later told law enforcement that Johnson had told him to run from the car and get rid of the objects. He also stated that …
March 08, 2018
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Two South Florida Men Sentenced For Conspiring To Distribute Hundreds Of Pounds Of High-grade Marijuana

March 06, 2018
… traffickers had stolen approximately $250,000 of marijuana from the conspirators. In February 2015, during a recorded … meeting, the conspirators discussed recouping their debt from the drug traffickers and continuing their drug … seized more than 1,300 pounds of high-grade marijuana from a storage facility in Orlando and a house linked to …
March 06, 2018
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Firearms Straw Purchasing And Smuggling Operation

September 25, 2013
… crime. By pleading guilty, Pesqueira admitted that from July 2010 to May 2013, he purchased firearms, as well … to individuals in order for them to purchase firearms, from El Paso area gun dealers to include a Barrett .50 … conducted by ATF and DEA agents together with investigators from Homeland Security Investigations, United States …
September 25, 2013
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Sinaloa Cartel Bodyguard Pleads Guilty To Federal Murder Charge In El Paso

May 16, 2014
… pleaded guilty to one count of murder resulting from the use or carrying of firearms during and in relation … Western District of Texas and the District of New Mexico from 2002 to 2006; and, while in Albuquerque, NM, in July … trafficking operation and to prevent Rodriguez-Gonzalez from providing law enforcement with details of Ruiz’ …
May 16, 2014
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Sinaloa Cartel Bodyguard Sentenced To Federal Prison For Murder

September 03, 2014
… pleaded guilty to one count of murder resulting from the use or carrying of firearms during and in relation … Western District of Texas and the District of New Mexico from 2002 to 2006; and, while in Albuquerque, NM, in July … trafficking operation and to prevent Rodriguez-Gonzalez from providing law enforcement with details of Ruiz’ …
September 03, 2014
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Kentucky Crack Cocaine Trafficking Operation Halted

January 20, 2011
… large quantities of powder cocaine as well as crack cocaine from the Atlanta, Georgia area, into Henderson and … remaining defendants have been arrested on state charges from Trafficking controlled substance 1st degree cocaine to … damage this major pipeline for cocaine which stretched from Atlanta, Georgia, to Henderson, Kentucky. This case is …
January 20, 2011
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Christian County Kentucky Crack Cocaine Crew Sentenced

March 31, 2011
… to be sentenced on April 27th and 28th. Three defendants from Christian County, Kentucky, were previously convicted … two year-long investigation was the DEA with assistance from the Western Kentucky Gun Crime Task Force. The task force includes investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF), …
March 31, 2011
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Final Defendant Sentenced In 100 Kilo Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy In Kentucky

May 26, 2011
… and Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Sentences range from 60 months to life in prison for the 20 defendants in … the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), with assistance from the Western Kentucky Gun Crime Task Force. The task force includes investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF), …
May 26, 2011
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Detroit Pharmacist Indicted For Distribution Of Controlled Substances

October 14, 2011
… the Indictment charges Madu with using the proceeds from the conspiracy to purchase two Infiniti vehicles and a … McQuade said. "The number of people who die in one year from overdoses of prescription drugs in the United States is six times the number of people who die from overdoses of all other illegal drugs combined." DEA …
October 14, 2011
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Florida Doctor Convicted In Kentucky For Illegally Prescribing 600,000 Pain Pills

December 18, 2012
… her pain clinic in Florida. Most of her patients traveled from West Virginia, southern Ohio and Boyd, Lawrence and … was the easiest doctor to obtain a prescription from and that she prescribed the highest quantity of … Virginia patients. Over 600 patients came to her clinic from those states. The clinic grossed $1.9 million in one …
December 18, 2012
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Five Men Convicted In Largest Crystal Meth Seizure In Michigan

June 19, 2013
… 2012, more than 20 pounds of pure crystal meth were seized from a vehicle and pole barn in Van Buren County. The meth … case prevented an extremely large amount of crystal meth from flooding our community. It is an excellent example of … Police Metropolitan Enforcement (MET), with assistance from other state and local agencies.  The case was …
June 19, 2013
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Seventeen People Indicted For Distribution Of Cocaine, Heroin And Marijuana

June 25, 2013
… Terrance A. Tarver obtained cocaine and marijuana from individuals in Columbus for distribution in Youngstown, Akron and Columbus. Tarver also obtained heroin from sources in Youngtown and Akron for distribution in … details a distribution network of people who obtained drugs from Tarver and then sold them throughout Northeast Ohio. …
June 25, 2013
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Columbus Man Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison For Role In Cocaine Distribution Ring And Money Laundering

December 11, 2014
… Cagle distributed multi- kilo quantities of cocaine from Texas to Ohio COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stephen A. Cagle, 46, of … kilograms of cocaine that was being transported into Ohio from Texas. The defendant was also involved in operating an … often transporting several hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ohio to Texas.   While executing a search warrant at …
December 11, 2014
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Ohio Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

February 13, 2015
… patterns occurred even after at least eight customers died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials … Oxycontin, Percocet, Roxicet, Opana, and others -- from Adolph Harper's medical officers in Akron between 2009 … after he learned that some of his customers had died from overdose-related deaths. He also continued to …
February 13, 2015
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California Man Indicted For Trafficking One Kilogram Of Methamphetamine Into Northern Ohio

May 04, 2016
… two to three pounds of methamphetamine to Cleveland from the Los Angeles, California, area.  On April 10th, … drugs worth tens of thousands of dollars into our community from California,” Rendon said. “The law enforcement agents … partners, we have successfully halted this individual from regularly importing large amounts of this addictive …
May 04, 2016
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Two Mexican Nationals Charged In Ohio After 200 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized In Cleveland

September 14, 2016
… in Northern Ohio in past 20 years CLEVELAND - Two men from Mexico were charged in U.S. District Court after … license plates was expected to come to the Cleveland area from the Baltimore area to deliver drugs or pick up money … then appeared to work on the trailer and then take items from the trunk of the Nissan and put them in the trailer. …
September 14, 2016
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DEA And Community Partners In Michigan Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

October 18, 2016
… 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 cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 18, 2016
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DEA And Community Partners In Kentucky Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

October 18, 2016
… 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 cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 18, 2016
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DEA And Community Partners In Ohio Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday

October 18, 2016
… 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 cabinet. Last April, during its 11th …
October 18, 2016