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ATLANTA NEWS 2007

July 15, 2021
… International Ecstasy Ring Is Dismantled November 1, 2007 Pill Peddling Podiatrist Sentenced In Drug Diversion Scheme …
July 15, 2021
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DEA and Partners Announce Results of 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… addiction and potential overdose by removing prescription pills from their homes. The April event included 4,425 …
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DEA Holds Prescription Drug Take-Back Event October 26

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially …
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December 20, 2024
… , National Takeback Day ,  Operation Engage  and One Pill Can Kill . To find out more about what we do, or to  …
December 20, 2024
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… Domestic DEA aims to dispose of 10 million pounds of unused pills WASHINGTON – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 …
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DEA achieves significant milestone during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… Domestic Americans across the country dropped off unused pills reaching a program total of nearly 11 million pounds …
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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 …
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U.S. Attorney's Office Prosecuted 85 Firearm Offenders in Eastern Washington with Cases from DEA and Federal Partners

… A Person and Conspiring To Distribute Fentanyl-Laced Pills in Tri-Cities Jonathan Scott Ard was sentenced to 12 … Neighborhoods can be found  here. ### Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons Synthetic drugs Fentanyl On On Press …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking

… more than half a pound of methamphetamine, heroin, assorted pills, digital scales, a revolver, and a loaded 9-millimeter …
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Turlock Man Charged for Large-Scale Drug Trafficking Operation

… kilograms) of cocaine, 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of fentanyl pills, 6.6 pounds (3 kilograms) of fentanyl powder, and …
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Former medical doctor sentenced to over three years prison for unlawfully prescribing oxycodone

… Owens, Judge Alsup stated, “[Owens] was not running a pill mill,...but he was doing something just as bad...He …
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Stuart Encourages West Virginians To Participate In DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day 15th National Prescription Drug Collection Event Scheduled For Saturday, April 28th From 10:00am To 2:00pm

… in more than 9 million pounds - more than 4,500 tons - of pills. “DEA is committed to the citizens of West Virginia,” …
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Gloucester County, New Jersey, Man Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Oxycodone

… in prison for conspiring to distribute 5,000 oxycodone pills.   Kristopher Williams, 29, of Glassboro, New Jersey, …
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Norridgewock Man Pleads Guilty To Distributing Oxycodone

… Maine parking lot, Lancaster sold eleven 30 mg oxycodone pills for $500 to a person working with law enforcement.  …
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Sanford Man Pleads Guilty To Distributing Oxycodone

… 2014, in Sanford, Levesque sold 40 - 80 milligram oxycodone pills, through a middleman, to an individual working with …
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Sanford Man Sentenced To Eight Months For Distribution Of Oxycodone

… in Sanford, Levesque sold forty 80-milligram oxycodone pills, through a middleman, to a cooperating source working …
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Maine Man Sentenced To Five Years For Conspiracy To Traffic Oxycodone And Cocaine

… were arrested. About an ounce of cocaine and 35 oxycodone pills were seized.  This case results from a joint …
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Maine Oxy Trafficker Sentenced

… on August 31, 2016, Lancaster sold eleven 30 mg oxycodone pills to an individual working with law enforcement for …
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DEA Schedules Deadly Synthetic Drug U-47700

… a heroin sale. In addition, the drug can be pressed into pill format and marketed as a wide variety of prescription …
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DEA’s Third National Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Collects 188.5 Tons

… and increased enforcement to address “doctor shopping” and pill mills. View Photos from the Third National Take-Back …
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New York Man Sentenced For Distributing Oxycodone

… proceedings, on June 26, 2012, the defendant sold oxycodone pills to an undercover law enforcement agent.  At …
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New York Man Sentenced To 4 Years For Trafficking Oxycodone

… bus and was found to have 386 15mg and 863 30mg oxycodone pills in his boxer shorts.     United States Attorney …
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Pittston Woman Sentenced To Over Two Years On Federal Drug Charges

… on May 9, 2012, the defendant sold over 30 oxycodone pills to a confidential informant working with law …
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Pittston Woman Sentenced To Over Two Years On Federal Drug Charges

… on May 9, 2012, the defendant sold over 30 oxycodone pills to a confidential informant working with law …
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Nesspor Sentenced To Prison For Oxycontin Trafficking Conspiracy

… at least two others to unlawfully distribute 80mg Oxycontin pills. Nesspor was indicted by a federal grand jury in …
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Stockton Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced To 25 Years In Federal Prison

… of pseudoephedrine created from crushed cold and allergy pills. On …
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Hays County Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison

… 11 grams of fentanyl. Thayer had been purchasing fentanyl pills from other dealers in and around Hays County for …
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San Antonio Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Lethal Doses of Meth and Fentanyl

… Calve are prosecuting the case. Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Overdose On On Press Release Image Layout Landscape …
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Concord, N.C. man pleads guilty to unlawful distribution of anabolic steroids

… law enforcement also seized an electronic and a manual pill press/tableting machine that belonged to Hodges, often …
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 30 Months for Theft of Medical Products and Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute

… was responsible for diverting over 28,000 hydrocodone pills from the medical chain of supply to the illicit drug …