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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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Wasilla Man Sentenced To 64 Months In Federal Prison For Attempting To Traffic Methamphetamine Into Alaska

… both to citizens of the United States and to those of Mexico. He further noted that Mr. Locklear had observed …
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Leader Of Mexican Drug Organization Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison

… and methamphetamine into the U.S. from sources of supply in Mexico. Rio-Corrales, one of the leaders of the conspiracy, …
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California Man Gets Six Years In Federal Prison For Role In Worcester Drug Deal

… of methamphetamine in January. He faces deportation to Mexico at the conclusion of his jail sentence. Had the case …
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Aspen And Los Angeles Residents Indicted For Cocaine Distribution

… ties to the violent cartels that have murdered thousands in Mexico,” said DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin …
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Operation Pitchfork Reaps 15 Federal Drug Indictments

… the U.S. illegally after having been previously deported to Mexico. The deportation followed a 2009 Minnesota conviction …
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Mexican National Sentenced For Large Marijuana Grow On Public Lands

… charges. Villasenor-Cesar is a native of Michoacan, Mexico and had entered the United States illegally. He had …
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Major Black Tar Heroin Supplier Sentenced To Over 24 Years In Prison

… are sending a message loud and clear to drug dealers from Mexico and everywhere else that if you come to Huntington, …
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Manchester Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy Charge Resulting From Substantial Methamphetamine Seizure

… in the court proceeding, Ramirez-Aldava, a citizen of Mexico, operated El Patron Sports Bar and Grill, LLC, …
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DEA agents in Iowa take more than $2 million in drugs off streets

… of Foreign Assets Control process for sanctions on three Mexico-based, Sinaloa Cartel Kingpins in accordance with the …
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Hartford Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 12 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to …
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Investigation Leads To Sentencing Of Significant Connecticut Cocaine Trafficker

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso and then transported the drug to …
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Local Task Forces Crack Down on Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution Networks

… trafficking conviction and his subsequent deportation to Mexico; Owenn Mitchell , of Salem, Oregon, was indicted on …
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Dominican Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… a heroin, cocaine and trafficking organization with ties to Mexico. Gilberto Alicea, 31, of Bani, Dominican Republic and …
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Pasco Man Sentenced To Life Imprisonment Following Jury Conviction For Murder In Connection With Drug Trafficking

… with ties to the Eastern District of Washington, Mexico, North Dakota and Idaho, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) …
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Grand Jury Indictes 9 For Laundering Drug Money

… in drug money and funnel the proceeds to accounts in Mexico and throughout the United States. “The DEA’s Utah …
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DRUG INVESTIGATION PAYS OFF

… dollars in drug proceeds from the United States back to Mexico.  DEA Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey D. Sweetin …
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Three Waterbury Men Indicted For Trafficking “Black Tar” Heroin

… of approximately 1.5 kilograms of “black tar” heroin from Mexico and was searching for a buyer.  The DEA subsequently …
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Federal Jury Finds New York Man Guilty Of Heroin Trafficking Offenses

… of 40 years.  They await sentencing. Andrade, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Norwalk, has been detained since his …
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Colombian Crime Syndicate Leader Sentenced To Prison For Role In Mediating Drug Money Disputes

… debts on behalf of other drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico and Colombia.  These organizations contracted with …
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Virginia Motorcycle Dealership Seized In Methamphetamine Bust

… Bristol Virginia Area. The methamphetamine was sourced from Mexico, transported through Los Angeles, to the Atlanta, …
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Sunnyside Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking And Being An Illegal Alien In Possession Of Ammunition

… name of “Omar Fuentes”.  Fuentes, a citizen and national of Mexico, had been arrested and deported from the United …
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Ringleader of Central Valley drug trafficking organization sentenced to 20 years prison

… U.S. District Judge.   Olivares Hernandez, 52, a citizen of Mexico and formerly of Turlock, Calif., pleaded guilty on …
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Record-Breaking Seizure: Over 70 Kilograms Of Heroin, $2 Million Cash And Firearm Recovered In The Fieldston Section Of The Bronx

… of heroin at least once a month from suppliers in Culican, Mexico, an area controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel. The …
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Virginia Motorcycle Dealership Seized in Methamphetamine Bust

… Bristol Virginia Area. The methamphetamine is sourced from Mexico, transported through Los Angeles and then transported …
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Tri-City Metro Drug Task Force receives over $132,800 forfeiture award from U.S. Department of Justice as a result of dismantling fentanyl-laced pill drug trafficking ring in the Tri-City area

… pills, are illegally manufactured most commonly in Mexico and have found their way into this community and …
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Dangerous fentanyl masked as counterfeit oxycodone, 20,000 pills seized in the Bronx and Manhattan

… in these investigations are believed to have originated in Mexico. A highly potent synthetic opioid, fentanyl is …
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International Drug Dealer Sentenced To 15 Years

… defendant was involved in the trafficking of marijuana from Mexico throughout, New York, Florida, Virginia, Arizona, and …