PRESS RELEASE

Stamford Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Oxycodone Distribution Charge

… heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills, including Percocet and Xanax.  In May 2015, task … made a controlled purchase of 10 30mg oxycodone pills from Muriqi.  On October 26, 2016, investigators … A search of the vehicle revealed 558 30mg oxycodone pills, and Muriqi was arrested on state narcotics charges.  …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back This Saturday

… 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.   The public … their zip code .  Or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
PRESS RELEASE

Los Angeles Man Found Guilty Of Federal Narcotics Conspiracy Involving The Opioid Acetyl Fentanyl

… from China, which they then used to produce homemade pills designed to look like pharmaceutical products. Bowen and his co-conspirators then distributed the pills in bulk across the nation. The drug organization also …
PRESS RELEASE

Members Of Pasco County Oxycodone Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced In Federal Court

… organization acquired more than 60,000 oxycodone pills for distribution in Pasco County and Kentucky. Kathy … been indicted and his case is pending. Once the oxycodone pills were obtained, the majority were transported to … aggressive stance against the illegal use of prescription pills,” said Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco. “This case …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Hopes To Remove A Third Of A Million Pounds Of Expired Prescription Drugs From Circulation On Its Sixth Take-Back Day April 27

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … “With the success of investigations like Operation Pill Nation I and II, there are fewer rogue doctors and pill …
PRESS RELEASE

Former Las Vegas Doctor Sentenced To Over 3a½ Years In Prison For Selling Prescription Painkillers To Undercover DEA Agent

… on July 20, 2011, Bararia unlawfully sold 500 hydrocodone pills for $1125 to a DEA undercover agent in the parking lot … the unlawful distribution of approximately 3,600 oxycodone pills between July 28 and Nov. 8, 2011, and the possession of 2,038 oxycodone pills that were recovered from his vehicle on March 1, 2012, …
PRESS RELEASE

Head Of New Haven-Area Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Sentenced To More Than Five Years In Federal Prison

… at unscrupulous pain clinics, commonly referred to as “pill mills.”  He also arranged to have three Florida … to him on a regular basis.  Marchitto sold most of the pills that he and his associates were able to acquire to an …
PRESS RELEASE

Jury Finds Florida Man Guilty Of Role In Oxycodone Trafficking Ring

… Task Force into the large-scale trafficking of oxycodone pills from Florida to Connecticut.  The investigation … by commercial airline or automobile, and sold the pills for profit to various Connecticut-based narcotics …
PRESS RELEASE

Alabama Doctor Arrested For Unlawful Distribution Of Prescription Drugs And Money Laundering

… Those charges stem from Dr. Ritchea’s operating a “pill mill,” which is a medical clinic created to dispense … to the indictment, Dr. Ritchea used the proceeds of his pill mill to purchase Schedule II pain … hydrocodone-directly from a drug manufacturer.  With these pills, Dr. Ritchea was able to fill his patients’ unlawful …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

North Country Couple Sentenced On Methamphetamine Charges

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Stephentown Man Sentenced To 30 Years For Gun And Drug Convictions

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Visalia Doctor Sentenced For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Long Beach Man Sentenced To 6 Years & 4 Months In Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone And Hydrocodone

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Hobbs Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

… possessing three firearms and approximately 3,800 fentanyl pills. Less than a month later, on November 9, 2023, agents … backpack and vehicle search approximately 10,000 fentanyl pills, over 827 grams of pure methamphetamine, and four …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA and Local "Trifecta" Partnership Announce 70% Reduction in Fentanyl Deaths, Proving Blueprint for 'Fentanyl Free America'

… and Justice The "Trifecta" model stands on three pillars: 1. Transnational Disruption: Focused on breaking … (LA, AL, AR, & MS) seized nearly 1.25 million fentanyl pills (187 kilograms), contributing to the national total of …
PRESS RELEASE

Bristol, Tennessee, Man Sentenced to Over 24 Years for Fentanyl Distribution Related to an Overdose Death

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Wilson Man Sentenced to 10 Years on Fentanyl and Firearm Charges

… - (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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Three More Indicted in Drug-trafficking Conspiracy

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

… 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 …
PRESS RELEASE

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

… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than …
PRESS RELEASE

Coordinated Law Enforcement Operations Lead to Takedown of Portland-Area Transnational Drug Trafficking Cells

… - (509) 454-4407 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 …
GENERAL INFORMATION

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