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PRESS RELEASE

Danbury Woman Sentenced To 57 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone

October 31, 2013
… occasions to pick up hundreds of 30-milligram oxycodone pills from her supplier. Also, in February 2012, Papadakos … arranging the purchase of 2,000 15-milligram oxycodone pills. Over a three-month period, Papadakos facilitated the distribution of 8,000 pills with a total street value that exceeded $100,000. …
October 31, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

New York Man Stopped On I-95 With Crack, Oxycodone Sentenced To Six Years In Prison

February 14, 2014
… release, for trafficking crack cocaine and oxycodone pills. According to court documents and statements made in … the bag of crack, as well as two bags containing oxycodone pills, onto the highway.  Although the narcotics were … to recover nearly 190 grams of crack, 147 30-mg oxycodone pills, and an additional amount of crushed oxycodone …
February 14, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Three Holyoke Residents Plead Guilty To Oxycodone Conspiracy

March 04, 2014
… in Springfield for their role in distributing oxycodone pills shipped from Florida. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent … were part of a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills which they received in large quantities from Florida via Express Mail.  The pills were then sold in western Massachusetts and the drug …
March 04, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Former Marlborough Resident Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Robbing 5 Connecticut Pharmacies

October 20, 2014
… a firearm that was in his waistband and demanded oxycodone pills.  The pharmacist gave Haney more than 2000 oxycodone pills of different strengths and Haney exited the store. On … 9, 2013. Haney has admitted that he used most of the pills to fuel his own addiction to pain medication and sold …
October 20, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

New York Man Sentenced To More Than 5 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone

October 28, 2014
… New York to pick up oxycodone from Fields and transport the pills to Dyber in Connecticut.  Dyber distributed the pills he received from Fields and Garcia to customers and … to possess with intent to distribute 5,000 oxycodone pills. Dyber, Garcia and Vanderpool have also pleaded …
October 28, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Two Defendants Plead Guilty To Conspiring To Sell Prescription Drugs Unlawfully

January 07, 2011
… N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell OxyContin pills. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in … both admitted that they had purchased and sold OxyContin pills and that Justin Doyle, one of the 33 defendants, was … station in Cheektowaga and is accused of actively selling pills while at work to a broad network of other distributors …
January 07, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

San Diego Neighborhood Pharmacist Pays $150,000 Penalty For Mishandling Drugs

June 12, 2014
… that Ms. Loechler was unable to account for nearly 16,000 pills over a two-year span. The unaccounted-for pills were the powerful and highly addictive drug oxycodone, … for services, dispensing expired drugs, and “advancing” pills to customers. In addition to paying $147,500 in …
June 12, 2014
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West Charlton Woman Sentenced On Narcotics Conviction

September 07, 2016
… for possessing and intending to sell hundreds of Oxycodone pills that she stole from the Ballston Spa pharmacy that … 10, 2016 plea to possessing and intending to distribute 400 pills of Oxycodone, a controlled substance.  In her plea, Burgess admitted that she stole the pills from a Ballston Spa pharmacy where she worked.  This …
September 07, 2016
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Sacramento Woman Sentenced To 38 Months In Prison For Role In Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Conspiracy

June 28, 2013
… trips from California to Juneau carrying the oxycodone pills on her person. McGrath distributed the pills to local dealers and collected the drug proceeds. … of the conspiracy, McGrath transported approximately 1500 pills of oxycodone and laundered over $14,000 in drug …
June 28, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs On October 28

October 24, 2017
… the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … and unwanted prescription drugs. Individuals can take pills and other solid forms of medication to one of almost …
October 24, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Sacramento And Bay Area Drug Traffickers Given Lengthy Sentences

May 16, 2013
… December of 2008, agents purchased approximately 9,000 MDMA pills from Johnson. During the investigation, … 8, 2008, the California Highway Patrol seized 11,000 MDMA pills from a vehicle driven by Robert Ly after he was … Highway 80 near West Sacramento. Approximately 39,000 MDMA pills were seized during this investigation. This case is …
May 16, 2013
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Fentanyl Supply Chain

February 07, 2025
… - DEA Issues Letter to E-Commerce Companies on the Sale of Pill Presses Used to Make Fentanyl Pills “Drug traffickers are killing Americans by selling …
February 07, 2025
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Statement from DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on the Increase in DEA Fentanyl Seizures Containing Xylazine

April 26, 2024
DEA Administrator Remarks
… xylazine, up from 25% in 2022.  The percentage of fentanyl pills testing positive for xylazine decreased slightly from … 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder and 79.5 million fentanyl pills in 2023. In April 2023, the White House Office of …
April 26, 2024
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Dominican National Indicted for Fentanyl Distribution While On Supervised Release For Drug Trafficking Conviction

June 01, 2025
… jury in Boston for allegedly distributing 1,000 fentanyl pills while on federal supervised release for a prior drug … identified as a drug supplier who provided fentanyl pills to a distributor and was also observed engaging in …
June 01, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

San Antonio Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Smuggling Meth and Fentanyl from Mexico

May 02, 2025
… that contained a white substance and other white and blue pills.   Approximately 39 packages were removed from the … be 34.9 kgs of methamphetamine and that there were 95,417 pills containing fentanyl. Martinez stated that he had …
May 02, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Four Defendants Charged in Federal Court for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

April 18, 2025
… a package delivered via U.S. Mail containing fentanyl pills.  On July 17, 2024, Fletcher received 10,000 pills from an individual and on August 28, 2024, he received over 29,000 fentanyl pills from Garcia-Ruiz. The indictment also alleges that …
April 18, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Four Defendants Arrested on Charges They Conspired to Illegally Obtain and Distribute Oxycodone Out of a Pharmacy in Warren County

February 24, 2021
… that more than 30,000 high-dose 30 milligram oxycodone pills – known as “blues” – were illegally diverted from the … professionals and other criminals who divert these opioid pills into our communities and cause so much addiction, …
February 24, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Heroin Enforcement Team, Long Island Heroin Task Force, ATF, Nassau County Police Department and Suffolk County DA team up to arrest 19 members of drug ring

November 08, 2018
… York City and sold heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, opioid pills and other controlled substances. “They also … distribution, including cooking crack cocaine and pressing pills, which are counterfeit opioids made of dangerous and … crafted to look like pharmaceutically manufactured pills,” District Attorney Sini said. Several of the …
November 08, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Rocky Mountain Field Division Removes Almost 900,000 Potentially Deadly Doses of Fentanyl from its Communities During Operation Last Mile

May 09, 2023
… in 3,337 arrests, the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than … Mountain Field Division removed more than 375,000 fentanyl pills and 25 pounds of fentanyl powder from its communities. …
May 09, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 05, 2023
… in 3,337 arrests; the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills; more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder; more than …
May 05, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Indictment Charges Alleged Darknet Marketplace Fentanyl Dealer

February 28, 2023
… fentanyl and methamphetamine. The counterfeit oxycodone pills Blair sold contained fentanyl and metonitazene; the counterfeit Adderall pills contained methamphetamine. Blair only accepted …
February 28, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Sixteen indicted in multi-state drug distribution ring

November 02, 2021
… Takedowns and seizures yield tens of thousands of fentanyl pills, firearms, and more than 150 pounds of methamphetamine … 2021, and 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 20,000 fentanyl pills were seized in a traffic stop on September 28, 2021.  …
November 02, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Long Island Doctor Indicted For Causing Oxycodone Overdose Deaths Of Two Patients

September 28, 2012
… Conway issued 5,554 oxycodone prescriptions - 782,032 pills - to numerous individuals between January 2009 and … Conway provided him with two prescriptions totaling 450 pills of the drug; (2) On October 27, 2011, Christopher … days after Conway provided him with a prescription for 180 pills of oxycodone. Patient records seized in this case …
September 28, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Nationwide Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Dismantled

April 29, 2013
… Oregon, arranged for tens of thousands of oxycodone pills, acquired in Miami and Las Vegas, to be distributed to … carrier or through the mail. Over 10,000 oxycodone pills and 1,900 counterfeit oxycodone pills were seized by …
April 29, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Sands Point Cardiologist Sentenced For Vicious Assault-for-Hire Plot Against Rival Doctor

January 31, 2017
… injured or killed an innocent man, we shut down an illegal pill distribution scheme and halted the trafficking of … police investigation involving the purchase of Oxycodone pills led to the additional undercover purchases of two …
January 31, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

First Defendant Sentenced in Family-Based Drug Trafficking Ring Connected to Lummi Nation Overdose Deaths

November 21, 2025
… of a group that distributed more than 800,000 fentanyl pills throughout the United States, including in Arizona, …
November 21, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Federal health care fraud takedown in Northeastern U.S. results in 54 defendants charged and convicted

September 26, 2019
… million in losses and the distribution of over 3.25 million pills of opioids in “pill mill” clinics and doctors’ … the criminal prescription of highly-addictive opioid pills to patients with no medical need, the paying of …
September 26, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Dark Web Drug Vendor and Clandestine Lab Manufacturer Sentenced to Prison for Trafficking in Meth and Fentanyl

May 21, 2024
… in the first six months of 2023 alone. Just one fentanyl pill can kill. Two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a … fatal dose and laboratory testing indicates seven out of 10 pills seized by the DEA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl. …
May 21, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Washington Division Holds Second Annual Family Summit on Fentanyl

October 13, 2023
… tricking our youth into consuming fentanyl and fake pills, harnessing the accessibility and anonymity of social …
October 13, 2023
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Drug Fact Sheets

November 30, 2021
Drug Fact Sheets Advanced Search Enter Keywords Below Filter Results Select To Narrow Search Results Drug Category Drugs of Concern (1) Narcotics (Opioids) (1) Stimulants (1) Synthetic Opioids (1) Clear All …
November 30, 2021

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