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Waterbury man sentenced to 87 months in prison for role in heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring

November 18, 2020
… for street distribution, approximately 1,000 fentanyl pills disguised as Percocet pills, one firearm and approximately $50,000 in cash. On …
November 18, 2020
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Watertown man sentenced to 70 months in prison for role in heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring

July 23, 2020
… for street distribution, approximately 1,000 fentanyl pills disguised as Percocet pills, one firearm and approximately $50,000 in cash. …
July 23, 2020
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DEA to accept electronic vaping devices and cartridges as part of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday

October 22, 2019
… help remove unwanted, expired and unused prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold which helps our continued dedication to combat the prescription pill, fentanyl and heroin epidemic of substance abuse and …
October 22, 2019
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Two Individuals Sentenced in Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution Case

October 12, 2021
… two pounds of methamphetamine and 234 fentanyl pills in Tuschoff’s car. The following day when law … they found more methamphetamine, heroin, and 196 fentanyl pills. Law enforcement officers also recovered $37,775 of …
October 12, 2021
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Local pharmacist pleads guilty to unlawful distribution of oxycodone

April 27, 2020
… charged and only accepted in cash, a higher-than-market-per-pill price, usually $5-6 per pill. Truong ordered a much higher volume of opiates for HP …
April 27, 2020
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South Florida doctor sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

December 17, 2019
… recruited patients gave Marrero-Castellanos their Oxycodone pills.  Marrero-Castellanos sold those pills to others.   Suarez-Gonzalez and Arlene Gonzalez …
December 17, 2019
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Second Significant Sentence Handed Down in "Operation Director's Cut"

January 08, 2007
… and to import and distribute more than 500,000 Ecstasy pills. On two occasions, de Basseville and d’Esclavelles … the shipment of a package containing 10,000 Ecstasy pills obtained in the Netherlands to the United States. De …
January 08, 2007
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Chicago Medical Clinic Owner Gets Six Years Prison for Selling Opioids to Patients Illegally

May 30, 2019
… two kilograms of oxycodone, more than 595,000 hydrocodone pills, and more than 190,000 alprazolam pills (commonly known as Xanax), to individuals whom they …
May 30, 2019
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Former owner of Chicago medical clinic guilty of selling opioid prescriptions to patients who lacked medical need for the drugs

December 11, 2018
… two kilograms of oxycodone, more than 595,000 hydrocodone pills, and more than 190,000 alprazolam pills (commonly known as Xanax), to individuals whom they …
December 11, 2018
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

October 24, 2018
… DEA aims to dispose of 10 million pounds of unused pills El PASO , Texas  – After collecting a total of more … drugs because they believe that taking a prescription pill is a safe way to get high. If we reduce the …
October 24, 2018
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Arizona Man Convicted of Controlled Substance Offense

July 22, 2021
… approximately 10 grams of what appeared to be oxycodone pills. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) laboratory … the presence of methamphetamine and revealed that the pills thought to be oxycodone contained fentanyl. “The …
July 22, 2021
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Members of drug ring connecting North Dakota Indian Reservations and Michigan residents face federal charges

January 07, 2021
… responsible for trafficking tens of thousands of Oxycodone pills, worth an estimated $2.5 million, throughout the three …
January 07, 2021
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DEA launches “Secure Your Meds” winter campaign

December 17, 2020
DEA launches “Secure Your Meds” winter campaign December 17, 2020 Omaha Contact Info Contact Us (402) 965-3600 (571) 387-3545 Emily Murray Recruiter Name Scott Kunkel (571) 362-7282 Omaha.Recruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 7300 World …
December 17, 2020
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Texas clinic owner and clinic employee sentenced to prison for conspiring to unlawfully prescribe hundreds of thousands of opioids

December 10, 2020
… months in prison, respectively, today for their roles at a “pill mill” where they and their coconspirator illegally … Clinic in Rosenberg, Texas, which he operated as an illegal pill mill.  Arif was an employee at Aster Medical Clinic who …
December 10, 2020
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DEA announces 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

October 19, 2020
… DEA SAC Steven S. Whipple.  “The majority of prescription pill abusers first abused pills found in a home medicine cabinet.  This year’s …
October 19, 2020
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DEA Hosts Its Third Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

October 24, 2011
… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. On …
October 24, 2011
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Owner Of Multiple Ohio Pain Clinics Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison And Ordered To Forfeit $6.3 Million In Pain Clinic Profits

May 21, 2014
… Care in Columbus, Ohio. “Bias was a huge part of a greater pill tsunami into the Southern Ohio area,” Assistant U.S. … to sentencing. The “clinics were just a portion of the pill operations being run by felons and failed doctors in …
May 21, 2014
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Four Michigan Men Charged With Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl And Vicodin, That Resulted In Three Overdose Deaths

May 29, 2015
… response to the ongoing epidemic of heroin and prescription pill abuse in the United States and in southeast Michigan. … third indictment charged Stevens with distributing Vicodin pills to an 18-year-old man from Franklin. The man died of …
May 29, 2015
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Michigan Doctor Receives Nearly 5 Year Federal Prison Sentence For Drug Distribution And Health Care Fraud

July 12, 2016
… doctor will spend nearly five years in prison for running a pill mill and fueling the prescription drug addiction … said. "Doctors who poison our community by pushing pain pills for profit will be treated as criminals and held …
July 12, 2016
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New Jersey Doctor Convicted By Federal Jury For Writing Illegal Oxycodone Prescriptions In Drug Distribution Conspiracy

May 22, 2013
… in a conspiracy that put tens of thousands of prescription pills on the streets for resale. Michael Durante, 59, of … provided prescriptions for more than 70,000 oxycodone pills to be illegally resold by his coconspirators. At …
May 22, 2013
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

September 27, 2012
… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
September 27, 2012
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Milford Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Illegal Drug Distribution And Health Care Fraud Offenses

November 30, 2016
… “We are finding with increasing frequency that the types of pills he distributed are contributing to drug overdose … recklessly and illegally put these and other prescription pills on the street.  I thank our partners in this ongoing …
November 30, 2016
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Fairfield Doctor Who Illegally Prescribed Oxycodone Sentenced

February 17, 2017
… 2016, authorized the couple to receive thousands of pills of oxycodone and Percocet, a medication containing … through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury.  The Controlled Substances …
February 17, 2017
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Violent South Coast Drug Dealer Sentenced To Over 20 Years In Prison

September 10, 2015
… brothers believed they were purchasing 15,000 OxyContin pills.  Instead, Monteiro and his crew robbed the Gonsalves … brothers of the $225,000 they brought to purchase the pills.   Judge Casper previously sentenced Monteiro’s heroin …
September 10, 2015
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MGH To Pay $2.3 Million To Resolve Drug Diversion Allegations

September 28, 2015
… hospital.  Altogether, the two nurses stole nearly 16,000 pills, mostly oxycodone, an addictive painkiller.  Both … DEA’s ensuing audit of MGH’s controlled substances revealed pill count discrepancies totaling over 20,000, missing or …
September 28, 2015
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Fairfield Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

October 14, 2016
… 2016, authorized the couple to receive thousands of pills of oxycodone and Percocet, a medication containing … through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury. The Controlled Substances Act …
October 14, 2016
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Johnson City Doctor Pleads Guilty: Failure To Keep Drug Records/ Making False Statements To Drug Enforcement Administration

March 24, 2011
… occasions. On June 3, 2008, he ordered 30 Suboxone 8/2 mg pills from Dendrite Interactive Marketing, a drug … our efforts to help eradicate the illegal prescription pill distribution problem by focusing on the medical …
March 24, 2011
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DEA Office In Atlanta Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

April 24, 2013
… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … area, where Georgians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
April 24, 2013
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DEA Office In Charlotte Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

April 24, 2013
… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … where North Carolinians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
April 24, 2013
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DEA Office In Columbia Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

April 24, 2013
… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … where South Carolinians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
April 24, 2013