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Six Colombian Nationals Charged With Murder Of DEA Agent

… He was a hero, in every sense of the word, who was taken from us far too suddenly and far too soon," said Attorney … cooperation with Colombian authorities, and with assistance from INTERPOL and the Justice Department’s Office of … Affairs.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael P. Ben’Ary from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of …
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DEA Announces Tip Line, Wanted Poster For Chapo

… term. However, on January 19, 2001, Guzman-Loera escaped from the federal maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. While on the run from Mexican authorities, Guzman-Loerare-established himself … Sinaloa, Mexico. On July 11, 2015, he again escaped from Altiplano federal maximum security prison in the State …
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Lawrence Man Sentenced On Federal Drug Charges

… with the intent to distribute. In May 2013, detectives from the Nashua Police Department conducted a controlled purchase of cocaine from the defendant. During a subsequent search of the vehicle from which that transaction occurred, officers located a …
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Coarsegold Cannabis Cultivator Convicted

… Stockton - (571) 387-3956 46th Federal Conviction Stemming from Multi-agency Operation Trident FRESNO, CA - United … Coarsegold, Calif. This is the latest conviction stemming from Operation Trident, a multi-agency marijuana enforcement … of approximately 639,042 marijuana plants, primarily from public lands in the Sierra foothills and mountains, and …
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Dover Man Arrested After Receiving Large Shipment Of Marijuana

… after the occupants refused to answer the door. Recovered from the residence were over four pounds of marijuana from a box that had just been delivered from California. Also recovered were 12 grams of marijuana …
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More Than 13 Tons Prescription Drugs Turned In By Northern California And Central Valley Residents

… drug abusers report in surveys that they get their drugs from friends and family.  Americans understand that cleaning out old prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers, and bedside tables … drug overdoses-78 a day-in (the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).  Eight …
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Public Response To DEA’s 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Remains Robust

… 837-2324 Stockton - (571) 387-3956 SAN FRANCISCO - Results from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 10th National … on the event.  Approximately 151 tons has been collected from the region during the ten prescription drug take-back … show that many abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine …
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Crawfordville Felon Sentenced to Fifteen Years in Prison for Drug and Gun Charges

… did a great job removing this violent, drug-dealing felon from our streets, and my office will continue to support … Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to Take Back America from the drug traffickers who have flooded our communities … during which methamphetamine and a handgun were purchased from the defendant, investigators executed a search warrant …
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Defendant Convicted and Sentenced in Long-Term Methamphetamine Trafficking Investigation in Washington County

… County Sheriff’s Office. Court documents reflect that from 2019 through 2022, Taylor received large quantities of methamphetamine from a source in Georgia and distributed those drugs to … in Georgia or recruited subordinate drug dealers and users from the area to travel and pick up the drugs for him.  He …
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Drug Trafficker in Western Washington, Caught Twice with Kilos of Drugs and Firearms, Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

… as Key Cog in Drug Distribution Conspiracy Stretching from Colombia to Mexico and into Washington State SEATTLE – … this investigation, federal and state investigators worked from the streets of Seattle to drug suppliers in Mexico and … methamphetamine, cocaine, and two firearms were seized from his vehicle. When Duarte Garcia’s car was searched on …
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Halifax County Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Distributing Narcotics in Halifax County

… Office (HCSO) conducted a series of controlled purchases from Covington from April 2023 to May 2024. Specifically, on July 20, 2023, … a purchase of more than 80 grams of pure methamphetamine from Covington using a confidential source of information.  …
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DEA & DA Sini: 15 gang members & associates indicted for alleged drug distribution ring

… Force, we have indicted 15 individuals on charges ranging from drug trafficking to weapons possession. This … to reducing violent crime and reclaiming our communities from menacing drug trafficking networks and gangs." "My … and their continued partnership to keep Long Island safe from gangs." The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, …
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DEA Announces Results of Enforcement Surge to Reduce the Fentanyl Supply Across the United States

… (307) 778-1500 36 Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Removed from Communities between May and September On September 27, … the results of an enforcement operation that spanned from May to September and resulted in significant fentanyl … is equivalent to more than 36 million lethal doses removed from the illegal drug supply. Additionally, 338 weapons were …
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Leader of Drug Delivery Service Responsible for Three Fentanyl Poisoning Deaths Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

… was fully aware that a customer had previously overdosed from the deadly fentanyl Ortega laced into his product yet … dangerous drugs in New York City via a crew of workers from at least in or about 2015 to in or about February … any of the three victims – Ortega received a text message from a different customer warning Ortega that his drugs had …
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Pharmacy owner charged with illegally distributing oxycodone and operating a health care fraud and kickback scheme

… health care fraud, and providing “kickbacks” to customers from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to induce them to obtain substances from his pharmacy.  Paulsen will be presented before U.S. …
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Six MS-13 gang members indicted for allegedly conspiring to commit murder

… partners are committed to keeping our neighborhoods safe from drug trafficking and the associated violence.”   “These … who, as leaders here in the United States, receive orders from MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador and direct local … a/k/a “Poison,” to commit the murder of a rival gang member from the 18th Street gang.   Mejia Sandoval is alleged to …
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Fourteen members of a Washington Heights drug trafficking organization charged with distributing heroin

… and Rosa remain at large, and Gil will be transferred from immigration detention next week. The case has been … has cut a wide swath across our nation, affecting people from all walks of life, in every neighborhood," said NYPD …
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Canadian Dark Web Vendor Sentenced for Importing Millions of Counterfeit Xanax Pills into the United States

… midst of a catastrophic overdose epidemic where the threat from synthetic opioids disguised as fake prescription … trafficking investigation required significant coordination from multiple federal, state and local law enforcement … ledgers revealed McCann and others purchased alprazolam from China, pressed the alprazolam into counterfeit Xanax …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Fentanyl Distribution and Money Laundering

… phone containing international wire transfer receipts sent from America Latina, a money service business in Oakland.  … because she had received anti-money laundering training from the national wire service companies whose wire services … Agent in Charge Robert Tripp.  “Those who choose to profit from poisoning our communities and endanger public safety …
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Kanawha County Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Crime

… Jackson further admitted that he acquired fentanyl powder from a source outside the United States, the “M30” punch and die sets from China and commercially manufactured binding powder from a company in the United States. Jackson began renting …
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DEA Brings Its “One Pill Can Kill Game Over” Tournament to New England for a First-of-Its-Kind Event

… Field Division will team up with college esports teams from across New England to host the first of its kind, … teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 die every week from a drug poisoning or overdose death, according to a … by Clark University Esports on Thursday, June 6, 2024, from 7 to 9 p.m. ET on Twitch (twitch.tv/onepillcankill).  …
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Six Indicted for Illegal Firearms Possession, Drugs

… a previous felony. Defendants named in federal indictments from the March 2022 term of the U.S. District Court grand … a man brandishing a firearm. Accompanied by an officer from the Georgia Department of Community Supervision, … Task Force arrested Greene in October 2020 after he ran from officers and was found with a pistol and a large bag of …
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Federal Jury Convicts Minnesota Man for Distributing Fentanyl that Caused 11 Overdose Deaths

… of 4-FA, a controlled substance analogue, which was shipped from China. The package actually contained 100 grams of 99 … analogues. According to the evidence presented at trial, from 2014 through December 6, 2016, Broussard obtained controlled substances, including fentanyl, from China-based drug suppliers. Broussard conspired with …
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Indictment charges 24 individuals connected to southeastern Connecticut drug ring

… unsealed today after eight defendants were arrested, stems from a joint investigation led by the Drug Enforcement … Whyte, of New London, obtained heroin, fentanyl and cocaine from various sources in Connecticut and elsewhere, and … narcotics, another firearm and nearly $200,000 in cash from other members of the conspiracy.    The 22-count …
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Coordinated Law Enforcement Operations Lead to Takedown of Portland-Area Transnational Drug Trafficking Cells

… oxycodone, heroin, methamphetamine, and other illegal drugs from sources of supply in California and elsewhere and used … to traffic large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine from California for distribution in the Portland and Salem, … of counterfeit oxycodone, heroin, and methamphetamine from California for distribution in and around Portland and …
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Central Florida cocaine trafficking ring dismantled

… and a currency counter.   According to court documents, from Nov. 27, 2017, through April 18, 2018, leaders of the … shipment of more than 20 kilograms of cocaine into Florida from Puerto Rico. After packaging the cocaine for … partners throughout the region to keep our communities safe from illicit drug trafficking and the associated dangers …
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Federal Investigation Dismantles Major Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Operating In Southeastern New Mexico

… seized approximately seven pounds of methamphetamine from a vehicle driven by Garcia, and $50,000 from Fierro-Carrasco’s residence. Fierro-Carrasco and Garcia … to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine from August through November 10, 2011. According to the …
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Federal Indictment Charges Eight With Participating In Taos County Heroin Trafficking And Money Laundering Ring

… and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that existed from at least June 2012 and continued until Dec. 2015.  It … and all property derived, either directly or indirectly, from proceeds obtained from the criminal activity charged in the indictment. During …
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Two Defendants Admit Roles In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

… 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 with the U.S. Secret Service, and with assistance from the Drug Enforcement (the “New Jersey Task Force”). An …
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27 Defendants Facing State Or Federal Drug Charges For Allegedly Selling Heroin And Crack Cocaine On City’s West Side

… of heroin was seized during the course of the investigation from last August through this month.  Early today, Chicago … to the 12th Street Vice Lords other than making money from selling drugs within the 12th Street territory. “This … Investigation Division.  “This investigation stemmed from numerous citizen complaints, and those citizens should …