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24 Indicted: Some Of The Largest Methamphetamine Manufacturers, Distributors, Users In Central New York State Year Long Major Investigation Reveals Return Of Smurfing, Clandestine Laboratories – 16 Arrested Of 24 Indicted

… indicted personally purchased thousands of pseudoephedrine pills over the last two to three years, and received thousands of pills from individuals, known as “smurfs,” who bought the pills to trade for the finished product, methamphetamine, …
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Several Million Dollars’ Worth of Narcotics Including Fentanyl Seized in Mount Vernon

… - (914) 682-6256 38 Kilograms of Fentanyl, 25,000 Fentanyl Pills, and $35,000 of Drug Proceeds WHITE PLAINS, NY – … District Attorney’s Office. Approximately 25,000 pills alleged to be fentanyl, many marked “M30,” and an …
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DEA to hold 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… Comeaux, Houston Division.  “The majority of prescription pill abusers get their pills from home medicine cabinets, therefore we ask everyone …
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Twenty Charged in ‘Operation Shut Down Corner’

… lbs of drugs (including cocaine, fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills, methamphetamine, and marijuana), $420,000 in assets … high priority transnational organized crime networks. Fake Pills Gangs Press Conferences Arrests/Convictions - Major …
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Twelve charged with narcotics trafficking offenses

… of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and prescription pain pills (including oxycodone), obtained narcotics from a … with Brown, Pratt and others to distribute prescription pills, including Oxycodone, in Washington and elsewhere. …
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Indictment Charges Stamford Men with Trafficking Fentanyl

… approximately three kilograms of counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl. If convicted of the charge in the …
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Six Individuals Indicted on Charges of Criminal Conspiracy Involving Illegal Drugs and Firearms in Eastern Washington

… States Attorney Benjamin D. Seal. ### Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons OCDETF/Task Force Synthetic drugs …
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Multi-state international drug trafficking organization targeted in 18-month investigation

… in U.S. District Court in Tacoma today. “The dangerous pills containing fentanyl flowing through this pipeline … methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills in Pierce, Kitsap, King, Skagit and Snohomish … law enforcement seized thousands of counterfeit oxycodone pills tainted with fentanyl, a powerful and potentially …
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Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl That Killed One Woman, Hospitalized Another

… Task Force investigated the case.  Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Overdose Fentanyl On On Press Release Image Layout …
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Toppenish Woman Charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearm Offenses

… stems from information that she was supplying fentanyl pills to multiple users in the Yakima area.  Based on this … of Gorst’s motel room, where enforcement seized fentanyl pills, methamphetamine, and a Smith and Wesson semiautomatic …
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Two Hunterdon County women sentenced for distributing opioids

… them at pharmacies in Flemington, and then distribute the pills to Marie DeJulia, 42, of Lodi, New Jersey, from Call’s … The conspirators distributed thousands of 30 mg oxycodone pills. In addition to the prison terms, Judge Wolfson …
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Three Current And Former Rikers Island Correction Officers Indicted For Trafficking In Narcotics, Bribery And Smuggling Contraband In Jail

… in which they received what they believed to be oxycodone pills, along with cash “courier fees.” The fees that were … As part of the charged conspiracy, she delivered the pills to Dominguez. Suarez was arrested yesterday and … in exchange for delivering what he believed to be oxycodone pills to an inmate in February 2014. Gifth resigned from the …
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Staten Island brothers plead guilty to opioid distribution conspiracies

… negotiated the purchase of thousands of oxycodone pills and distributed oxycodone pills from his residence. The government’s case is being …
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DEA 2020 Year in Review: Combatting Serious Drug-Related Threats During the Pandemic

… focuses on educating online retailers about the sale of pill presses and components, and the associated regulations … distribution of 40 million medically unnecessary pain pills. Criminal and administrative actions like these send a …
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DEA’S National Drug Take-Back Day Collected Nearly 16 Tons In The Pacific Northwest

… Take-Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever.  After seven previous Take Back Days spread over almost four years, 780,158 - ( 390 - tons) of pills were brought to the 6,072 - collection sites that DEA …
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New Jersey Man Sentenced For Role In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… to various doctors’ offices and obtained prescriptions for pills containing oxycodone, had the prescriptions filled, and sold the pills to members of the conspiracy and others. Of the 16 …
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Three Charged with Trafficking Narcotics in the Naugatuck Valley

… additional quantities of fentanyl and cocaine, narcotic pills, a .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol with an …
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New Jersey nurse charged with drug and weapons offenses

… search warrants resulted in the location and seizure of pills and powder (suspected Adderal), prescription washing materials, assorted pill bottles, U.S. currency, a vehicle, and 30 firearms to …
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Two Chinese nationals charged with operating global opioid and drug manufacturing conspiracy resulting in deaths

… adulterated cancer medication, creating counterfeit pills that replaced the active cancer-fighting ingredient … drugs. It also created and shipped counterfeit Adderall pills that were adulterated with deadly bath salts. The …
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Texas clinic owner and clinic employee sentenced to prison for conspiring to unlawfully prescribe hundreds of thousands of opioids

… 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 …
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Idaho Couple Sentenced to 133 and 96 Months in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute Meth, Heroin, and Cocaine

… Assistant U.S. Attorney position. Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons Synthetic drugs Methamphetamine Cocaine …
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Wisconsin Dentist Pleads Guilty to Oxycodone Diversion Charge

… wrote a prescription to his dental hygienist for oxycodone pills and asked her to fill the prescription and return the pills to him for his own use.  His hygienist, who cooperated …
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Career Offender Sentenced to 17 Years on Drug Charges

… convicted of trafficking cocaine, fentanyl, prescription pills and other narcotics in and around Henderson County, … half a kilogram of powdered cocaine, fentanyl, oxycodone pills, crack cocaine, and other drug paraphernalia. Butler …
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39 Defendants Indicted in $4.7 Million Meth, Heroin Conspiracy

… of cocaine, 10.5 kilograms of marijuana, 687 Xanax pills, 3.1 kilograms of unknown pills, a quantity of bulk cash, five firearms, a 3D printer …
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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 …
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DA Sini & DEA: Suffolk County Legislator arrested for allegedly offering to illegally supply a prostitute with narcotics in exchange for a sex act

… provide the undercover police officer with oxycodone pills. Spencer was arrested at the arranged meeting location … vehicle and was found in possession of two oxycodone pills. Spencer was arraigned today by Acting Suffolk County …
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DEA announces 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… DEA SAC Steven S. Whipple.  “The majority of prescription pill abusers first abused pills found in a home medicine cabinet.  This year’s …
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Former Police Officer & Tech Worker Sentenced In Illegal Online Pharmacy Scheme

… who distributed hundreds of thousands of narcotic pills and other prescription drugs via an illegal internet … and 2012.  The pharmacy shipped hundreds of thousands of pills of hydrocodone, phentermine, (Xanax) and (Tylenol 4) … brought in more than $9 million in revenue from the sale of pills during the three year scheme.  The pharmacy operated …
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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 …
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Second Largest Border Meth Bust in History on Southern Border

… 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills and heroin as part of the second largest … pounds of fentanyl powder, and almost 37 pounds of fentanyl pills, worth an estimated $7.2 million.  CBP officers seized …