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Illegal Immigrant Sentenced to More Than 2 Years for Trafficking Drugs at a Public Housing Development in Portsmouth

February 23, 2025
… deserve better than to be endangered by those dealing and buying dangerous narcotics nearby. We will continue to …
February 23, 2025
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Pill Distributor Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Trafficking Tens of Thousands of Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

December 08, 2024
… Diaz posing as a potential drug customer seeking to buy counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl. On …
December 08, 2024
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Felon Pleads Guilty in Connection to Distributing Crack Cocaine, the Illegal Possession of Four Firearms, Ammunition, and a Glock Switch

April 16, 2024
… they found money that had been used in the controlled buys, four firearms, ammunition, magazines and other firearm …
April 16, 2024
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Jury Convicts Winchester Man of Distribution of Heroin Resulting in an Overdose

November 03, 2021
… heroin pipeline and conducted dozens of controlled heroin buys, traffic stops, search warrants, and interviews with …
November 03, 2021
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North Carolina Man sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Opioids through the Dark Web

September 28, 2021
… poison are caught and prosecuted.” “Use of the Dark Web for buying and selling illegal drugs is a growing menace that …
September 28, 2021
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Indiana Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to 35 Years for Distribution Resulting in the Overdose of a Kentucky Woman

December 13, 2023
… near-death overdose, Matlock continued to invite Lindsey to buy heroin laced with fentanyl. On Feb. 28, 2021, EMS and …
December 13, 2023
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Three Sentenced in Austin for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in 18 Year Old’s Death

December 05, 2023
… Drug Enforcement Administration agents conducted controlled-buys with Lee and Zepeda, indicating that the two were …
December 05, 2023
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Henderson County Methamphetamine Distributor is Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

September 14, 2023
… a confidential source to arrange multiple controlled buys of methamphetamine from Nalley. On December 22, 2021, …
September 14, 2023
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth

August 11, 2023
… June 2021 and April 2022, the DEA conducted 13 controlled buys from the distributors working for Bernal, for a total …
August 11, 2023
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Ringleader of Major Drug Trafficking and Money-Laundering Conspiracy in St. George Sentenced to Prison

July 28, 2023
… drug suppliers. Agents conducted at least 13 controlled buys to include the purchase of methamphetamine and …
July 28, 2023
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Brevard County Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Offense

April 21, 2023
… From March through September 2022, during undercover drug buys and pursuant to a search warrant at Keel’s home. law …
April 21, 2023
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Methamphetamine Wholesaler is Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison

March 30, 2023
… Haywood County, after he had travelled to Georgia to buy methamphetamine. Law enforcement stopped Douville’s …
March 30, 2023
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DEA issues warning over counterfeit pills

August 05, 2019
… Evans said.   Counterfeit medicine that U.S. consumers can buy online poses a serious hazard to consumers’ health, …
August 05, 2019
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Tri-Cities Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking

August 12, 2022
… meetings with Gonzales as well as two separate controlled buys, where Gonzales sold the confidential source at total …
August 12, 2022
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Tenderloin Drug Dealer Sentenced to 46 Months for Fentanyl Sales

June 09, 2022
… with an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a drug buyer.  Melendez arranged through the messages to sell … of fentanyl supply and said that he would drive to meet and buy fentanyl from Melendez in the San Francisco Bay Area and …
June 09, 2022
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Three Convicted in $500,000 Mexican Cartel Weapon Scheme

May 18, 2022
… the sale of a ranch in Mexico and they were planning to buy land in Laredo to build a home. Perez-Ortiz later …
May 18, 2022
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East Bay Resident Found Guilty of Attempting to Help Smuggle Cocaine Through Bay Area Airports

March 09, 2022
… drug trafficker who would fly to the Bay Area to buy cocaine and needed a quick way to transport it back to …
March 09, 2022
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Illinois Ice Meth Dealer Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison

February 25, 2022
… that Wright worked with associates to pool money to buy larger quantities of methamphetamine and would …
February 25, 2022
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DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

November 04, 2019
… involved in more deaths than any other illicit drug.  “Buying drugs from street dealers is deadly especially when …
November 04, 2019
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Groveton woman sentenced to 65 months for participating in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

June 05, 2019
… that she and her co-conspirator went to Lawrence to buy “dope.” Willey consented to a search of the car and …
June 05, 2019
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Loudon man sentenced to 120 months in prison for participating in methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy

April 16, 2019
… in Pembroke and distributed the drugs to New Hampshire buyers. Bean and Waters would then wire the proceeds of … a total of more than $28,000 to Espejo in Las Vegas to buy methamphetamine. On May 2, 2018, postal inspectors …
April 16, 2019
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Dominican man sentenced to 10 years in prison for fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

October 30, 2018
… DEA agent in Nashua, New Hampshire. Based on these drug buys, law enforcement officers arrested the defendant at his …
October 30, 2018
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New Orleans man pleads guilty to various drug trafficking and firearms crimes, resulting in shooting of DEA Task Force Officer Stephen Arnold

August 06, 2018
… of that investigation, DEA made four separate controlled buys of ¼ and ½ ounce quantities of crack cocaine from Hardy …
August 06, 2018
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Central Florida Law Enforcement Warns of THC-Laced Edibles that Resemble Common Snack Foods

October 29, 2021
Central Florida Law Enforcement Warns of THC-Laced Edibles that Resemble Common Snack Foods October 29, 2021 Miami Contact Info Contact Us (571) 362-3364 (571) 362-3364 - Option 5 Miami.FD.PIO@dea.gov 571-362-3106 Miami.Recruiting@dea.gov Talk to a …
October 29, 2021
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Flagler Beach man sentenced to nearly 11 years in federal prison for selling benzoyl fentanyl and other drugs online

May 14, 2019
… Jodoin. Also in May 2018, during the time the undercover buy was being conducted, Jodoin posted an advertisement on …
May 14, 2019
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Authorities Announce Federal, State and City Partnership to Attack Drug-Trafficking and Violent Crime in Petersburg, VA

October 17, 2007
… arrest, and prosecute those persons who are selling or buying illicit narcotics in the City of Petersburg. Some of …
October 17, 2007
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Multiple Arrests Dismantle North Little Rock Drug Trafficking Organization

March 27, 2018
… executed three search warrants, and made nine controlled buys and seizures. Agents seized nine firearms, 189 …
March 27, 2018
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Kentucky Career Criminal Sentenced To 20 + Years For Head Role In Cocaine Conspiracy

February 06, 2013
… acknowledged that he and Catching used drug proceeds to buy merchandise for the store.   Court documents state that …
February 06, 2013
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Six Charged In Southern Ohio With Running Heroin Ring

February 01, 2018
… proceeds. Investigators intercepted calls and observed drug buys on numerous occasions between October 2017 and January …
February 01, 2018
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Heroin Dealer Connected To The Overdose Death Of A Texas Woman Is Arrested On Federal Drug Charge

October 30, 2016
… at 7:00 p.m., the victim negotiated, in text messages, to buy a “dub” and a “point” from an individual, later …
October 30, 2016