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Mexican Citizen Sentenced to over 5 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl in Bakersfield

… restaurant to sell to a person 15,000 counterfeit M30 pills containing fentanyl. During the meeting, Pena-Gamez … from Pena-Gamez’s vehicle approximately 3 pounds of pills containing a detectable amount of fentanyl. Charges …
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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 … and more than $100 million.  The fentanyl powder and pill seizures equate to nearly 193 million deadly doses of …
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Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force takedown results in charges against 60 individuals, including 53 medical professionals

… prescriptions for controlled substances and over 32M pills; ARPO Strike Force grows to 10 districts, expanding to … alone, the pharmacy allegedly dispensed over 1.75 million pills. These cases were brought with assistance from the …
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Twin Falls Former Pharmacy Technician Sentenced For Diverting Controlled Substances

… Federer arranged for the sales by text message and then put pill bottles in her car glove box in the pharmacy parking … Federer illegally sold two bottles, each containing 100 pills of 20 mg oxycodone, and two bottles, each containing …
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Mexican National of Orchestrating Fentanyl and Meth Scheme that Sent Narcotics Across U.S.

… of fentanyl (which included nearly 27,000 counterfeit pills) and approximately 18.4 kilograms of methamphetamine. … house that resulted in the seizure of the fentanyl, fake pills and methamphetamine. Gonzalez pleaded guilty last year …
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Florida Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Jail And 18 Months Home Confinement For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… and the ensuing search revealed approximately 345 oxycodone pills and a note addressed to the person in Harrison stating the pills would cost $4,000.  Law enforcement subsequently … mailed an additional 22 packages containing oxycodone pills to the person in Harrison, Maine. The person would …
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Drug Ring Tied to Aryan Prison Gang Indicted With 24 Federal Arrests

… than ten kilos of methamphetamine, 11 kilos of fentanyl pills and more than a kilo of fentanyl powder, three kilos … investigation, law enforcement seized 830,000 fentanyl pills, 5.5 pounds of fentanyl powder, 223 pounds of …
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Florencia 13 Gang Member Sentenced to 160 Months in Federal Prison

… responsible for the distribution of thousands of deadly pills containing fentanyl in early 2019.  A partner of Leon, … s apartment was searched in March of 2019 where 5000 pills containing fentanyl, one pound of heroin, over $20,000 … conduct to include the distribution of large quantities of pills containing fentanyl and heroin.  Even after his …
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Staten Island doctor pleads guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone

… cash.  Anderson prescribed large quantities of oxycodone pills to patients he knew had no legitimate medical need for … including his co-defendant Arthur Grande, who sold the pills on the streets of New York.  Anderson often held … or were plainly not taking, and instead were selling, their pills.  When Anderson was arrested in October 2018, the DEA …
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Twin Falls Woman Pleads Guilty To Controlled Substance Delivery

… Federer arranged for the sales by text message and then put pill bottles in her car glove box in the pharmacy parking … Federer illegally sold two bottles, each containing 100 pills of 20 mg oxycodone, and two bottles, each containing …
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San Antonio Woman Pleads Guilty to Providing Fentanyl That Led to Man’s Death

… U.S. Attorney Amy Hail is prosecuting the case.   Fake Pills Guilty Plea One Pill Can Kill Fentanyl On On Press Release Image Layout …
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July 15, 2021
… Substance Conspiracy November 8, 2010 Ohio Man Convicted of Pill Distribution Conspiracy in Eastern Kentucky November 5, … Jury Charges 12 People and 2 Businesses in Huge Internet Pill Conspiracy April 13, 2010 Bullitt County Couple …
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Prescription Drug Take-Back To Be Held Saturday, April 26, 2014

… the public its eighth opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.  Bring your pills to a disposal site.  (The DEA cannot accept liquids, …
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Trial scheduled for Champaign man charged for allegedly trafficking

… on charges that he allegedly trafficked quantities of pills containing alprazolam, marked as ‘Xanax,’ and … March 2017 to May 2018, Caamano trafficked quantities of pills containing alprazolam, marked as ‘Xanax,’ knowing it …
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Anesthesiologist Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Unlawfully Distributing Oxycodone

… prescriptions to an Everett pharmacy, pick up the oxycodone pills, and then sell the pills to people who he knew did not have a legitimate medical need for the pills.  Le knew that some of the people to whom he sold the …
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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 …
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Complaint Filed Against Houston Pharmacy and its Owners for Violations of the Controlled Substances Act

… of Schedule II hydrocodone and Schedule IV carisoprodol pills to numerous male customers whose prescriptions …
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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 …
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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 …
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West Charlton Woman Sentenced On Narcotics Conviction

… 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 …
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Newnan Dentist Sentenced To Prison For Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances

… named in the original complaint as an abuser of opiate pain pills. This patient was a long-time dental patient at … eight months. She admitted to being addicted to opiate pain pills. In January 2012, investigators interviewed the owner … patients, most of whom admitted to seeking Schedule II pain pills from Maddux for the purpose of supporting their drug …
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DEA Administrator Milgram's Remarks at the Press Conference on December 16, 2021

December 16, 2021
… 16, 2021 press conference announcing the results of "One Pill Can Kill" Phase Two DEA Administrator Anne Milgram …
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Norwalk Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Third Federal Narcotics Conviction

… was in possession of a large quantity of cocaine, oxycodone pills and marijuana.  On June 7, 2019, Sandalo was arrested … grams of cocaine, six kilograms of marijuana, 77 oxycodone pills, 46 fentanyl pills, 771 THC vape cartridges, and $53,943 in cash. On …
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Mexican Citizen Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl in Bakersfield

… restaurant to sell to a person 15,000 counterfeit M-30 pills containing fentanyl. During the meeting, Pena-Gamez … from Pena-Gamez’s vehicle approximately three pounds of pills containing a detectable amount of fentanyl. …
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Vallejo Men Sentenced to Prison for Robbery and Assault of Federal Officer

… crystal methamphetamine and thousands of methamphetamine pills to an undercover agent. Ruiz agreed to sell heroin to … Halloween mask, knife, and 3,000 additional methamphetamine pills were later seized from Ruiz’s residence. Ruiz was …
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South Texas Woman Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… of Channelview, Texas, who pleaded guilty to her role in a pill mill operation that operated during parts of 2013-2015, … officer indicated that he wanted to obtain 30mg oxycodone pills and paid the clinic $420 in cash but never met with a …
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President Biden Releases National Drug Control Strategy to Save Lives, Expand Treatment, and Disrupt Trafficking

… HERE . Read the fact sheet on the Strategy HERE . Fake Pills Overdose Press Conferences Synthetic drugs Drug …
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Colorado Attorney General, DEA Task Force Dismantle Major Drug Trafficking Ring

… - (307) 778-1500 More than 77,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that flooded the Metro area during … substances, including heroin and counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, … investigation has recovered: 77,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills (contain fentanyl) 250 pounds of methamphetamine 60 …
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U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak issues progress report

… Defendants were charged with distributing fake Roxicodone pills that actually contained fentanyl. The distribution of … favors, Dr. Burton supplied opioids to women who sold the pills. Dr. Burton was sentenced to eight years in federal …
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Essex County, New Jersey, Woman Admits Leadership Role In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… to various doctors’ offices and obtained prescriptions for pills containing oxycodone, had the prescriptions filled by various pharmacies, and sold the pills to members of the conspiracy and others. Horvath also … getting the prescriptions filled, and helped them sell the pills. Oxycodone is a Schedule II controlled substance - …