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Seven Involved With Online Pharmacy Based In Florida Indicted For Internet Pharmacy And Money Laundering Conspiracy

… 200 customers in Washington state between 2009 and 2012.  “Pill mills and rogue internet pharmacies are set up to sell … alleges that the pharmacy shipped hundreds of thousands of pills of hydrocodone, phentermine, (Xanax) and (Tylenol 4) …
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Leader of Lawrence Area Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy and Firearm Charges

… courier provided the confidential source with the requested pills, which tested positive for fentanyl. For the third transaction, the pills distributed by Rodriguez Then’s DTO tested positive …
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DEA announces launch of Operation Crystal Shield

… and distributors also sell methamphetamine as counterfeit pills or frequently use methamphetamine as an adulterant; … may not know that. The emerging trend of methamphetamine in pill form also targets prescription stimulant users and …
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Dark web fentanyl trafficker sentenced to 13 years in federal prison

… which time Scanlan sold approximately 52,000 fentanyl pills throughout the United States. According to court … role in aiding and abetting the distribution of fentanyl pills to a woman identified as A.W., who later died. …
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Lakeside Gang Member Indicted In Fentanyl Overdose Death

… According to the complaint, Shephard distributed fentanyl pills to the Marine Corporal with Shephard acknowledging that the pills could lead to an overdose. The United States faces the …
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

… heroin, and marijuana. The trafficking of marijuana and pills, both diverted and counterfeit oxycodone, has … crisis.  Increases in fentanyl-containing counterfeit pills demonstrates traffickers’ continued efforts to expand …
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Vallejo Drug Dealer Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison

… the investigation, agents seized approximately 45,000 MDMA pills, 4 pounds of crack cocaine, 2 pounds of heroin, and … glorifying and promoting the use and distribution of MDMA pills. This case is the product of an extensive …
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Jacksonville Pharmacist, Pharmacy Owner Admit to Charges Related to Illegally Filling Drug Prescriptions Issued by South Georgia Doctor

… like Weise and his associates who are involved in this ‘pill mill’ activity are nothing more than drug dealers who … safer today.” “As demonstrated through this investigation, pill-mill clinics cannot thrive without pharmacists willing …
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day 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 … their zip code .  Or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA Sponsoring 12th National Prescription Take Back Day

… unwanted prescription medications from the home.  If the pills are not there the temptation to abuse them, especially … their zip code .  Or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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Man Pleads Guilty To Methamphetamine Related Charges

… October 2015 and April 2017, he purchased pseudoephedrine pills from different drug stores in and around Onondaga … scrutiny he often rotated the stores where he bought the pills. Redhead further admitted that he purchased the …
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Lexington Man Sentenced for Trafficking in Fentanyl and Carfentanil

…                                               -END-   Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness Synthetic drugs Fentanyl On On …
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South Florida doctor sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

… recruited patients gave Marrero-Castellanos their Oxycodone pills.  Marrero-Castellanos sold those pills to others.   Suarez-Gonzalez and Arlene Gonzalez …
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Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced To 108 Months In Prison

… in Charge Shroba said. “Mixing your own fentanyl laced pills, in a makeshift laboratory, shows complete and utter … April of 2017. A search of Walker’s home found a makeshift pill operation, where Walker was measuring out fentanyl into …
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Statewide Initiative Targets Distributors Of Heroin And Opioids That Cause Overdose Deaths

… to obtain and distribute more than 100,000 oxycodone pills. In addition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office continues to … supplied individuals with a vast quantity of prescription pills that they illegally distributed to others.   “While …
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Santa Clara Resident Sentenced To Forty Four Months In Prison For Burglary Of Controlled Substances

… Alto, CA, without permission, and stole approximately 5,737 pills from the pharmacy. He also admitted that the replacement value of the stolen pills to the pharmacy is $14,512. The sentence was handed …
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Modesto Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Structure Cash Proceeds Of Interstate Oxycodone And Hydrocodone Trafficking

… Fresno and Modesto, California, and then arranged for the pills to be shipped to Washington for sale on the black … co-defendant David Ruem to have the cash proceeds of the pill sales deposited into certain bank accounts held by …
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Operation Engage Michigan

March 28, 2025
Operation Engage Michigan Kalamazoo Kalamazoo Top Local Drug Threats Mexican drug trafficking organizations are the primary source for cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and low-grade marijuana in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area.  Both …
March 28, 2025
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Marin Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

… grams of oxycodone which amounts to 1,530 thirty-milligram pills.  Dr. Chiarottino admitted that in prescribing the pills, he did so with the intent to act outside the usual …
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Multi-Kilogram Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to 19 years in Federal Prison

… 978 grams of fentanyl, hallucinogens, marijuana, oxycodone pills, four firearms, and $717,480 in cash. Additional drugs …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… 686-4085 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 …
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Houston area man who posed as physician found guilty of conspiring to unlawfully prescribe hundreds of thousands of doses of opioids

… pain clinic was found guilty today for his role at a “pill mill” at which he and his co-conspirators illegally … Clinic of Rosenberg, Texas, which operated as an illegal pill mill, to unlawfully prescribe controlled substances to …
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DEA Washington Division Hosts Community Pop Up Events

July 07, 2021
… monitoring, and the ease and ability to order counterfeit pills and drugs online, we want to get the word out.” …
July 07, 2021
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South Florida doctor pleads guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

… recruited patients gave Marrero-Castellanos their Oxycodone pills.  Marrero-Castellanos sold those pills to others.    Suarez and Arlene Gonzalez facilitated …
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South Florida doctor pleads guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

… recruited patients gave Marrero-Castellanos their Oxycodone pills.  Marrero-Castellanos sold those pills to others.    Suarez and Arlene Gonzalez facilitated …
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Ringleader and Members of Multi-State Anabolic Steroid Trafficking Network Sentenced

… raw materials received from China to manufacture liquid and pill-form steroids for wholesale distribution. Lambert’s … for Lambert several days a week pressing powders into pills and shipping product to customers across the country. …
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Three Defendants Indicted In One Of The Nation’s Largest-Ever Fentanyl Seizures

… of fentanyl represents more than 44 million fraudulent pills on the street which could be fatal for users.  These … heroin - deaths from fentanyl-laced heroin and counterfeit pills are epidemic in the United States.  Just 2 milligrams …
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Lake Worth resident sentenced to 10 years for distributing heroin and fentanyl

… heroin, marijuana, Adderall, Methoxyacetyl Fentanyl pills (which were made to look like Oxycodone pills), plastic baggies and digital scales.   This case was …
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Houston Prepares to Embark on its 6th Annual Citizens Academy

March 12, 2019
… the Teen Academy, Red Ribbon week, national prescription pill take back events and community drug awareness day.  The …
March 12, 2019
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… taken in over 7.1 million pounds-more than 3,500 tons-of pills.  The public can find a nearby collection site here or by calling 800-882-9529. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …