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Rhode Island Man Sentenced to Twenty Years in Federal Prison in One of Rhode Island’s Largest Fentanyl Seizures

May 29, 2025
… a stash house in Pawtucket from which 19,315 fentanyl-laced pills made to resemble pharmaceutical grade Percocet pills …
May 29, 2025
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DEA’s OD Justice Devotes Critical Resources to Fatal Drug Poisoning and Overdose Death Investigations Across the United States

December 16, 2024
… Florida: A 27-year-old in Florida died from a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl, leading investigators to supplier … Further probes identified Bradley Hunter, who sourced fake pills from a Mexican cartel. Both were arrested along with …
December 16, 2024
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within American Communities

May 08, 2023
… NE-SD.Diversion.registration@dea.gov Suspected fentanyl pills_x.jpg Seizures of fentanyl both in pill and powder …
May 08, 2023
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Brother and Sister Plead Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl Sales

February 08, 2023
… Government Alleges Fake Oxycodone (M-30) Pills Containing Fentanyl Caused Overdose and Death to …
February 08, 2023
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Debt Collector and Drug Distributor for Cartel Connected, Violent, Drug Distribution Ring, Sentenced to 10 years in Prison

November 23, 2022
… Handgun in leather holster Plastic bag of fentanyl pills.jpg Plastic bag of fentanyl pills Seattle – A 31-year-old Renton, Washington man was … heroin, cocaine, and potentially deadly fentanyl pills in King, Pierce, Lewis, and Snohomish Counties.  This …
November 23, 2022
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Kennewick WA Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison

April 11, 2022
… of liquid methamphetamine and 19,000 deadly fentanyl-laced pills, along with a loaded firearm. Zavala-Alvarez was also …
April 11, 2022
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Prolific Snohomish County fentanyl dealer sentenced to 15 years in prison

March 06, 2020
… on December 12, 2019, of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl pills, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and … dozens of individuals dealing thousands of fentanyl pills onto the streets of the north sound communities that …
March 06, 2020
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Manchester Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Participating In Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

January 31, 2017
… for participating in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills, a conspiracy to launder money, distributing … part of group of drug traffickers who were distributing the pills in Manchester, New Hampshire.  During a law … were actively involved in the distribution of oxycodone pills.  On multiple occasions, intercepted calls showed that …
January 31, 2017
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Pearl River Man Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Oxymorphone Causing The Overdose Death Of 21-Year Old Man

January 03, 2013
… with illegally distributing codeine, methadone, and Valium pills. Oleksowicz was presented today before U.S. Magistrate … prescription pain medication. Some of these diverted pills, like Opana, are known on the streets as ‘Stop Signs’, …
January 03, 2013
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East Texas Man Sentenced to 20 years in Federal Prison for Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

April 01, 2025
… in the lethality and availability of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine.  The Public …
April 01, 2025
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Monmouth County Man Sentenced to 188 Months in Prison

November 04, 2022
… to distribute and possess with intent to distribute pills containing cyclopropyl fentanyl, an analogue of …
November 04, 2022
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Dominican National Pleads Guilty To Fentanyl Trafficking

February 18, 2025
… has pleaded guilty to trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills. Freddy Artemio Guerrero Soto, 29, pleaded guilty to … an undercover agent ordered 30,000 blue pressed fentanyl pills and 500 grams of powder fentanyl from Ernesto Andujar …
February 18, 2025
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Taunton Man Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Oxycodone Conspiracy

February 08, 2025
… and to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone pills. Campbell was indicted by a federal grand jury in … July 2022 and June 2023, Campbell distributed oxycodone pills to others for further re-distribution. He also obtained oxycodone pills from his co-conspirator and co-defendant Kenneth …
February 08, 2025
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Three Lawrence Men Arrested On Drug Charges

October 15, 2024
… Practitioner 571-362-9171 Approximately 35,000 pills seized allegedly containing fentanyl and …
October 15, 2024
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Dark Web Fentanyl Distributor Receives 20-Year Sentence

January 28, 2022
… Dylan Holcomb, 28, sold counterfeit Xanax and Oxycodone pills across the country on the dark web.  Using a …
January 28, 2022
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Virginia dentist running elaborate prescription scheme, reported to DEA tip line, sentenced

October 02, 2019
… patients, wrote illegal prescriptions for over 40,000 oxy pills NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Beach dentist was sentenced … to distribute prescription opioids and muscle relaxant pills without a legitimate medical purpose. According to … to prescribe opioids such as hydrocodone and oxycodone pills for his personal use and the use of his …
October 02, 2019
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Two Charged with Fentanyl Distribution in Fresno County

January 19, 2023
… are flooding the United States with deadly, fentanyl-laced pills,” said U.S. Attorney Talbert. “We remain committed to … violence and overdose deaths caused by these deadly pills. Law enforcement efforts, however, are not enough, and … the public to be aware of the threats and dangers of these pills.” “Fentanyl is the greatest drug threat to public …
January 19, 2023
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Defendant Convicted of Distributing Fentanyl that Resulted in U.S. Marine’s Death

September 29, 2022
… to evidence presented at trial, Atta sold fake “M30” pills containing fentanyl in April and May 2020 to the … identified in court records as C.M.R., knowing that these pills contained fentanyl. Atta used social media to market …
September 29, 2022
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Former Inmate Admits Distributing Fentanyl at Santa Rita Jail That Killed Fellow Inmate

June 10, 2022
… and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. One Pill Can Kill :  Fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled … can be diluted with cutting agents to create counterfeit pills that purport to mimic the effects of Oxycodone and can …
June 10, 2022
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Drug trafficker with ties to Sinaloa cartel sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison

November 18, 2019
… of heroin, approximately 40,000 counterfeit pharmaceutical pills laced with fentanyl (known on the street as “fake … because they are designed to look like brand-name oxycodone pills), a cache of firearms and multiple rounds of …
November 18, 2019
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Northeast Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Dismantled

May 09, 2018
… Ultimo Montilla with a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills. The case has been assigned to United States District … opioid addiction by pushing tens of thousands of oxycodone pills throughout the Northeast, allegedly. Every day, more … of tens of thousands of highly addictive and dangerous pills, helping to fuel the opioid epidemic plaguing our …
May 09, 2018
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U.S. Attorneys And Federal Law Enforcement Leaders Conduct Summit To Target Heroin And Opioid Trafficking And Overdose Epidemic

August 26, 2015
… to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region.  The effort was announced … to the national epidemic of heroin and prescription pill abuse that has hit Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, … organizations that distribute heroin and prescription pills and by increasing prevention and educational …
August 26, 2015
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Baton Rouge Man Convicted Of Possession With The Intent To Distribute Heroin

July 14, 2016
… federal prosecution related to drug trafficking of heroin pills pressed to resemble Oxycodone. On Tuesday, July 12, … officers with the Baton Rouge Police (BRPD) discovered 554 pills during a traffic stop of a pickup truck operated by … BRPD officers located two plastic bags containing 554 blue pills in the lower storage compartment of the truck. …
July 14, 2016
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Young Laredoan Admits to Transporting Fentanyl Disguised as Oxycodone

December 14, 2022
… where authorities found 13 bags containing 1.42 kg. of blue pills. They initially believed the pills were oxycodone …
December 14, 2022
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Lewiston pharmacy tech sentenced for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances

April 09, 2019
… while working at the pharmacy. Moore stole almost 60,000 pills over the next eleven months until she was arrested. These pills included over 45,000 pills of hydrocodone, 1,880 pills of oxycodone and 1,600 …
April 09, 2019
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Florida Woman, Kristen Franco, Sentenced To 27 Months In Jail For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

September 24, 2012
… of her jail term. According to Court records, Franco sent pills containing oxycodone by Federal Express from Florida … April of 2010 to July of 2011. Franco obtained these pills from at least two different Florida doctors. Although the pills were prescribed to her, she sold many of the pills. …
September 24, 2012
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State and Local Task Forces

January 22, 2025
… DEA seized more than 60 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and nearly 8,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. The 2024 …
January 22, 2025
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DEA Phoenix & the AZ Attorney General “Huddles Up” with NFL Alumni and Rise Up Glendale to Spread Awareness about Fentanyl

May 16, 2024
… aims to provide greater awareness about fentanyl and fake pills made to look like prescription medications.   DEA … Last year, the agency seized a record 78.4 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. In …
May 16, 2024
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Third major takedown of drug trafficking ring nets 14 arrests

September 01, 2020
… seized the during the investigation_1.jpg Approximately 500 pills tainted with fentanyl seized during the … of methamphetamine, 55 pounds of heroin, 41,200 fentanyl pills, 30 firearms; and more than $1. 3 million in drug … seized 10 kilos of methamphetamine, 1,000 fentanyl-tainted pills and a loaded firearm from the lead defendant in this …
September 01, 2020
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Repeat Offender Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Distributing Drugs for a Transnational Drug Trafficking Ring

December 22, 2022
… – 11 for drug distribution Fentanyl_oxy_30mg_bulk pill spill copy.jpg DEA file photo: Fake pills laced with fentanyl  Methamphetamine Stock photo.jpg …
December 22, 2022