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Two San Gabriel Valley Men Who Participated In ‘Black Market Peso Exchange’ That Moved Money Out Of U.S. Sentenced To Federal Prison

April 24, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … pesos. The peso broker finds business owners in Mexico who buy goods from vendors in the United States, such as Peace & …
April 24, 2014
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DEA Hosts the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 25th

October 22, 2025
… are among the most frequently misused prescription pain medications.  For more information or to find a …
October 22, 2025
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DEA Hosts 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday

October 22, 2025
… are among the most frequently misused prescription pain medications.  For more information or to find a …
October 22, 2025
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DEA Hosts the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 25th

October 21, 2025
… are among the most frequently misused prescription pain medications.  For more information or to find a …
October 21, 2025
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Pharmacy Owners Convicted of Illegally Selling 10 Million Hydrocodone Pills Over The Internet, Laundering $20 Million in Proceeds and Failing to Pay Taxes

August 01, 2008
… with web-site operators to fill hydrocodone prescriptions e-mailed to them that were signed by a small group of … Hydrocodone is a dangerous and highly addictive narcotic painkiller. Moreover, the evidence showed that Sodipo and …
August 01, 2008
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DEA Aims For Record Removal Of Unused Pills Through Its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative

April 24, 2018
… of abusers and potentially save lives by removing unused painkillers and controlled drugs from homes,” said DEA … Acting Administrator Robert W. Patterson. “The more unused painkillers or controlled drugs we can help to remove from …
April 24, 2018
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

April 24, 2017
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers, with 6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 …
April 24, 2017
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Two Pharmacists Convicted For Illegally Dispensing To Patients Of A Pill Mill

March 29, 2017
… controlled narcotics to customers of the “pill mill” pain clinic across the street.  They were convicted of a … with agents for the IRS, began investigating the AMARC pain clinic, located in Atlanta, Georgia, and nearby … and pharmacy were illegitimately prescribing and dispensing pain pills to drug addicts and drug dealers.  The …
March 29, 2017
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St. Louis Area Pediatrician Indicted, Accused of Exchanging Prescriptions for Sex Acts

March 14, 2024
… was indicted Wednesday and accused of prescribing pain pills and other controlled substances in exchange for …
March 14, 2024
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DEA Joins with Families Across the Country to Increase Awareness about the Dangers of Fentanyl

November 18, 2022
… are doing to prevent others from experiencing the profound pain of losing a loved one to a fentanyl poisoning inspires …
November 18, 2022
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DEA St. Louis Division Breaks Fentanyl Seizure Record in 2021

January 25, 2022
… our communities.” Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is used for pain in a pharmaceutical setting and 50 times more potent …
January 25, 2022
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

April 26, 2024
… codeine, and morphine, are the most misused prescription pain medications. DEA and its partners will collect tablets, …
April 26, 2024
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DEA showcases the dangers of drug addiction through travelling museum exhibit

February 21, 2019
… as Afghanistan, to the goal of preventing the extraordinary pain, anguish, and loss that comes with drug use.”   …
February 21, 2019
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DEA Encourages Conversations on Dangers of Drugs and Social Media as Students Return to School

August 19, 2025
… are encouraged to emphasize the dangers associated with buying pills online. Nationwide, DEA has seized fentanyl …
August 19, 2025
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Narco-Terrorists Charged in Federal Indictment with Exchanging Cocaine for Firearms, Explosives in War with Colombia’s Government

May 19, 2025
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … a large cocaine-manufacturing ring that trades cocaine to buy firearms to engage in terrorist activity in Colombia, … materials depicting the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles to a buyer. Four other Colombian nationals were also charged in a …
May 19, 2025
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Defendants Sentenced for Trafficking Methamphetamine in Middle Georgia

July 10, 2025
… Informants (CI) to conduct three methamphetamine buys from Mendez and two heroin buys from Willis; the substances were later tested and …
July 10, 2025
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Five Defendants, Including Two Doctors, Charged in Connection with Actor Matthew Perry's Fatal Overdose Death Last Year

August 19, 2024
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … or consent, and lied to wholesale ketamine distributors to buy additional vials of liquid ketamine that Chavez intended … from Iwamasa to Sangha’s stash house in North Hollywood to buy vials of ketamine. On October 24, 2023, while waiting …
August 19, 2024
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DEA Atlanta Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

April 22, 2022
… 815-4513 Making communities safer by disposing unneeded Rx Meds to reduce opioid addiction take Back day.png ATLANTA, …
April 22, 2022
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DEA Charlotte Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

April 22, 2022
… 815-4513 Making communities safer by disposing unneeded Rx Meds to reduce opioid addiction Take Back pic.jpg CHARLOTTE, …
April 22, 2022
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DEA Raleigh Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

April 22, 2022
… 815-4513 Making communities safer by disposing unneeded Rx Meds to reduce opioid addiction DEA_Drug Take …
April 22, 2022
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DEA Columbia Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

April 22, 2022
… 815-4513 Making communities safer by disposing unneeded Rx Meds to reduce opioid addiction take Back day.png Take Back …
April 22, 2022
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Global investigation of Dark Web drug network leads to arrest of 3 German Nationals

May 03, 2019
… allegedly acting as a moderator who, among other things, mediated disputes between vendors and their customers.  Annibale, who used the online monikers “MED3LIN,” also acted as a public relations representative …
May 03, 2019
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DEA One Pill Can Kill Social Media Campaign

October 09, 2024
… Learn more at www.dea.gov/onepill #DYK that you cannot buy a legitimate pharmaceutical drug on social media?  Not … use. Parental Resources Fake Pills: What You Need to Know Buying Drugs Online: What You Should Know Wyatt’s Story Drug …
October 09, 2024
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DEA Reminds Families to Discuss the Dangers of Drugs Before Students Return to School

August 01, 2022
… turning to smartphones as a one-stop shop to market, sell, buy and deliver deadly, fake prescription pills and other …
August 01, 2022
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DEA Encourages Back to School Drug Awareness and Education Among Family and Friends

August 09, 2023
… emphasize this. A lot of people aren’t aware what they’re buying online and ingesting is actually fentanyl disguised …
August 09, 2023
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Milton woman arrested for running multimillion-dollar black market marijuana enterprise

April 02, 2019
… more than $300,000 towards the mortgage on her house and to buy a 2017 Porsche Boxster, among other things.  It is … taxes on its millions of dollars in marijuana sales. In an email referencing cannabis taxes charged by one state …
April 02, 2019
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Two Men Arrested In Multimillion Dollar Synthetic Drug Ring

June 13, 2014
… and you want law enforcement assistance in LA.? Please email:   LAFD-DrugCausedDeaths@dea.gov   Brian M. Clark … various bank transactions and spending the proceeds to buy luxury vehicles, vacations and a $1.4 million home.  As …
June 13, 2014
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Federal Investigation Takes Down New Breed Of Pill Mills In Florida

June 27, 2012
… warrants on clinics at the following locations: Stuart Pain Management, 1146 21st Street; Vero Beach, Southern Back … & Wellness, 7731 W Newberry Road, Gainesville; Sarasota Pain Management, 5580 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota; Miami Dade …
June 27, 2012
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Drug dealer who sold out of his home sentenced to 72 months

September 06, 2018
… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant during the second buy tested positive for heroin. On March 10, 2015, a New …
September 06, 2018
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Lockport Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl

May 10, 2018
… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant during the second buy tested positive for heroin. On March 10, 2015, a New …
May 10, 2018