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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Is This Saturday

October 18, 2016
… the search window, or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the … the NSDUH.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
October 18, 2016
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs 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
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North Country Couple Sentenced On Methamphetamine Charges

November 20, 2017
… Thomas, 30, also of Lewis County, purchased pseudoephedrine pills with an aggregate weight of 96 grams from different … often rotated the stores from which they bought the pills. Granger and Thomas purchased the pseudoephedrine … Thomas themselves “cooked” methamphetamine with some of the pills they had purchased.  Granger and Thomas ingested the …
November 20, 2017
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Stephentown Man Sentenced To 30 Years For Gun And Drug Convictions

July 20, 2016
… more than 30 grams of heroin, and more than 700 oxycodone pills ALBANY, N.Y. - Joshua Stegemann, age 39, of … recovered large amounts of cocaine, heroin, and oxycodone pills, along with two loaded handguns, a loaded shotgun, and … more than 30 grams of heroin, more than 700 oxycodone pills, three firearms, dozens of rounds of ammunition, and …
July 20, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… the search window, or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the … combined.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household … firearms.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… the search window, or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the … combined.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household … firearms.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… the search window, or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the … combined.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household … firearms.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

October 18, 2016
… collected nationwide. That’s more than a quarter pound of pills for each of the 25 million children aged 12 to 17 in America, pills that won’t result in abuse or overdose.   The public … their zip code .  Or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
October 18, 2016
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

October 17, 2016
… have been collected. That’s more than a quarter pound of pills for each of the 25 million children aged 12 to 17 in America, pills that won’t result in abuse or overdose.  DEA San Diego … service is free of charge, with no questions asked. Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the …
October 17, 2016
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Visalia Doctor Sentenced For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

September 29, 2014
… for abuse, and users will often crush and snort the pills or dissolve and inject them to get an immediate high. … cards. After obtaining the oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, the defendants shipped the pills to other states. Eight defendants in that case pleaded …
September 29, 2014
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Long Beach Man Sentenced To 6 Years & 4 Months In Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone And Hydrocodone

September 29, 2015
… for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and hydrocodone pills. According to court documents, in April 11, 2013, Chim … pharmacies in Modesto, and then transported and mailed the pills to others involved in the conspiracy in Washington … on the black market. After illegally selling the pills, the defendants deposited the cash proceeds of the …
September 29, 2015
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Bristol, Tennessee, Man Sentenced to Over 24 Years for Fentanyl Distribution Related to an Overdose Death

August 07, 2025
… sales of fentanyl-laced, counterfeit Roxicodone 30mg pills to a confidential informant.   On April 1, 2024, … quantity of fentanyl-laced, counterfeit Roxicodone 30mg pills and $13,754 in cash, as well as more than 130 …
August 07, 2025
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Wilson Man Sentenced to 10 Years on Fentanyl and Firearm Charges

April 25, 2025
… - (910) 815-4513 Fentanyl 2.jpg Bag of seized fentanyl pills. NEW BERN, N.C. – A Wilson man was sentenced Wednesday … conducted a search of Freeman’s house and located fentanyl pills and firearms. One of the firearms seized was equipped …
April 25, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Three More Indicted in Drug-trafficking Conspiracy

January 26, 2023
… marijuana, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, purported ecstasy pills, purported Percocet pills (believed to be counterfeit pills made with fentanyl), and purported OxyContin pills. …
January 26, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

First of Six-Member Drug Trafficking Ring Bringing Hundreds of Pounds of Narcotics to Western Washington Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison

July 10, 2024
… transport massive quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl pills, cocaine and heroin was sentenced today in U.S. … kilograms of heroin, more than five kilograms of fentanyl pills and more than six kilograms of cocaine. There were two …
July 10, 2024
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 05, 2023
… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than …
May 05, 2023
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Coordinated Law Enforcement Operations Lead to Takedown of Portland-Area Transnational Drug Trafficking Cells

November 02, 2021
… Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Seized 200,000 Counterfeit Oxycodone Pills Suspected to Contain Fentanyl PORTLAND, Ore .—In … the seizure of approximately 200,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills suspected to contain fentanyl, two pounds of fentanyl …
November 02, 2021
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Atlanta News 2010

July 15, 2021
… Fifty Defendants Charged in Large-Scale Claiborne County "Pill Mill" Conspiracy December 21, 2010 Operators and … and Accomplice Charged with Illegally Distributing Pain Pills in Atlanta November 1, 2010 More Than One Pound …
July 15, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Multi-Agency Law Enforcement Operation Tackles Gun Violence In Miami-Dade County

May 29, 2013
… --1,728 grams cocaine --634 grams heroin --2473 MDMA pills --2874 Oxycodone pills --15,208 grams of marijuana --5 bullet proof vests --576 Percocet pills --10 Morphine pills      DEA Special Agent in Charge …
May 29, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

October 12, 2011
… estimates, Florida prescribes ten times more oxycodone pills than all other states combined. Each day, individuals … our efforts on those pharmacies who are churning out pills that are fraudulently prescribed at area pain clinics. …
October 12, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Grand Jury Returns 77-Count Indictment Against Nassau Cardiologist For Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Rival Doctor

November 09, 2015
… but we see criminal organizations selling diverted pills on the street; an increase in Medicaid fraud; and … police investigation involving the purchase of Oxycodone pills led to the additional undercover purchases of two … that the assault weapons and prescriptions for the pills were originally acquired and transferred to the seller …
November 09, 2015
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Mexican National Who Supervised a Drug Trafficking Organization Operating in Orville, Washington, Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

February 19, 2025
… Rainbow fentanyl seized by investigators Seized fentanyl pills, fake M-30s. Download Original Image Seized fentanyl pills, fake M-30s. Drugs and firearms seized during the …
February 19, 2025
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International law enforcement operation targeting opioid traffickers on the Darknet results in over 170 arrests worldwide and the seizure of weapons, drugs and over $6.5 million

September 22, 2020
… 11 pounds of methamphetamine and 14 pounds of pills pressed with methamphetamine. Andres Bermudez, 37, of … of more than one million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and laundered approximately $2.8 million over the …
September 22, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Hobbs Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Chase that led to Fentanyl and Meth Bust

August 08, 2025
… vehicle traveling in Hobbs, New Mexico, contained fentanyl pills and methamphetamine. Agents located the vehicle and … was executed, revealing approximately 425 grams of fentanyl pills, 98 net grams of pure methamphetamine and three …
August 08, 2025
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Asylum Grantee Sent to Prison for Role in Fentanyl Conspiracy

May 13, 2025
… 987 grams of fentanyl powder and 4,568 fentanyl pills, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) … later seized 987 grams of fentanyl powder and 4,568 pills weighing 450.9 grams, which also contained fentanyl.   …
May 13, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Fresno County Resident Charged with Federal Gun and Drug Crimes

April 03, 2025
… baggies, vials containing fentanyl, more than 200 fentanyl pills, and more than 100 alprazolam pills. A search of Yama’s residence on the same day revealed … of the car resulted in the seizure of more alprazolam pills, ammunition, and a ghost gun. Prior to September 2020, …
April 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Remove Unneeded Prescriptions, Prevent Addiction

April 20, 2023
… Agent Nathan Parker (571) 387-2558 utahrecruiter@dea.gov Pills and Poster- Take Back DENVER  – The Drug Enforcement …
April 20, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl That Caused Fatal Overdose

January 30, 2023
… guilty today, Carder admitted that he distributed four blue pills that appeared to be oxycodone, but which were … early hours of June 20, 2021, C.L. used one of the fentanyl pills he obtained from Carder. Later that morning, C.L.’s …
January 30, 2023
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Jamestown Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy

June 14, 2023
… in U.S. currency, fentanyl, methamphetamine, morphine pills, hydrocodone pills, buprenorphine pills, psilocybin mushrooms, cellphones, suboxone strips, …
June 14, 2023
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Reno Resident Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

November 20, 2023
… of methamphetamine and 1,000 counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills out of the vehicle. He then crashed the vehicle into a … to the seizure of several hundred counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills and approximately four pounds of methamphetamine. In …
November 20, 2023