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Northeast Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Dismantled

… 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 …
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U.S. Attorneys And Federal Law Enforcement Leaders Conduct Summit To Target Heroin And Opioid Trafficking And Overdose Epidemic

… 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 …
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Baton Rouge Man Convicted Of Possession With The Intent To Distribute Heroin

… 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. …
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Young Laredoan Admits to Transporting Fentanyl Disguised as Oxycodone

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

… 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 …
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Florida Woman, Kristen Franco, Sentenced To 27 Months In Jail For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… 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. …
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DEA Operation Meltdown Shuts Down Hundreds of Illegal Online Pharmacies

… of orders of diverted pharmaceuticals and counterfeit pills without valid prescriptions. Under the Controlled …
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State and Local Task Forces

January 22, 2025
… DEA seized more than 47 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and nearly 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. The 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

… 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 …
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Third major takedown of drug trafficking ring nets 14 arrests

… 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 …
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Repeat Offender Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Distributing Drugs for a Transnational Drug Trafficking Ring

… – 11 for drug distribution Fentanyl_oxy_30mg_bulk pill spill copy.jpg DEA file photo: Fake pills laced with fentanyl  Methamphetamine Stock photo.jpg …
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“M30 King of Fresno” and 17 Members of His Drug Trafficking Ring Charged

… charging them with trafficking fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills, cocaine, and methamphetamine. “Many of the deaths and near deaths in drug overdoses are caused by counterfeit pills that look like prescription pills, but are not and …
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Online drug dealer pleads guilty in fentanyl overdose death

… guilty in federal court yesterday, admitting that he sold pills containing fentanyl to a La Jolla man, causing his … online advertisements for the illegal sale of prescription pills. The victim responded to one of Lucas’ posts in 2017 and began purchasing various prescription pills from him.   According to his plea agreement, on the …
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Denver Man Sentenced for Fentanyl, Meth Trafficking, Illegal Firearm

… federal court today for transporting thousands of fentanyl pills and methamphetamine through Kansas City, Mo., aboard a …
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St. Louis County Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison in Connection with Fentanyl Death

… of a controlled substance. Matthews admitted selling pills that resembled the painkiller Percocet to his …
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Orlando Man Sentenced To 32 Years for Possessing Illegal Firearms and Selling Fentanyl That Killed a Woman

… Misty Lynn Parady (35, Orlando), sold fake “M30” pills laced with fentanyl to “N.K.” Between April 2020 and … to be oxycodone. After some time, N.K. realized that the pills she was buying from them contained fentanyl. On …
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Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Oxycodone Conspiracy And Structuring Cash Transactions

… a drug conspiracy involving the distribution of oxycodone pills across Southeastern Massachusetts and beyond. Christan … and to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone pills and structuring cash transactions. U.S. District Court … February 2023 and July 2023, Russell supplied oxycodone pills to co-conspirator Kenneth Veiga, who then …
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Spokane Valley Man Sentenced to Federal Prison on Firearm and Fentanyl Trafficking Charges

… Diversion Registration: Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Kosnicki_pills.jpg Seized fentanyl pills. Kosnicki_sock.jpg Cash hidden in sock. …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Recommends Including Conversations on Dangers of Drugs in Back-to-School Routines

… Mexican cartels, namely CJNG and Sinaloa, continue to press pills designed to look like common prescription medications …
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DEA Reminds Families to Discuss the Dangers of Drugs Before Students Return to School

… consequences of experimentation. Methamphetamine and fake pill seizures remain high in Nebraska and the DEA wants to … to target youth. “We’ve seen methamphetamine pressed into pills shaped like marshmallows from cereal and fake pills …
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Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

… who admitted to dealing more than 142,000 counterfeit pills was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison. …
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Third Man in Multi-Kilogram Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced

… from various sources of supply. The group would then use a pill press to manufacture thousands of counterfeit prescription pills resembling legitimate pain medications, such as …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… 18-45. In 2023, DEA seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. This is … Louisiana and Mississippi, seized 275,000 fentanyl pills and nearly 230 pounds of fentanyl powder. The fentanyl …
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Charlotte Man is Sentenced for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Crime

… Two Stolen Firearms younce_handgun.JPG Suspected fentanyl pills_x.jpg Seizures of fentanyl both in pill and powder …
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Grand Junction Man Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death

… children, and other members of his family, to distribute pills that appeared to be legitimate 30mg Oxycodone pills, but in fact were counterfeit and spiked with …
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Fentanyl Distribution Nets West Texas Man 12 Years in Federal Prison

… which undercover agents made multiple purchases of blue M30 pills containing fentanyl from Arevalo. While executing a … 2022, investigators seized approximately 517 grams of M30 pills containing fentanyl, a loaded handgun and a large …
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DEA Warns of Brightly-Colored Fentanyl Used to Target Young Americans

… partners seized brightly-colored fentanyl and fentanyl pills in 26 states.   Dubbed “rainbow fentanyl” in the …
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Nampa, Idaho, Man Sentenced to Five Years for Drug Trafficking

… McLean also admitted that he sold another person fentanyl pills on three occasions. On January 27, 2021, he sold 10 compressed fentanyl pills; on February 2, 2021, he sold 19 compressed fentanyl …
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A Year of Impact: DEA Recognizes its Success in Combatting Drug Cartels and Saving Lives

… in 2025 resulted in the seizure of: 47 million fentanyl pills  9,938 pounds fentanyl powder  567,668 pounds cocaine … progress. DEA laboratory testing indicates 29% of fentanyl pills analyzed during fiscal year (FY) 2025 contained a …
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DEA Washington Division is Ready to Celebrate the 25th National Drug Take Back Day Across the DMV

… DEA Agent- Bags with Controlled Substances- Take Back Pills.jpg Pills- DEA Take Back Day- 2023 Washington, DC  – …