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U.S. Attorney Scott announces results from joint initiative to reduce ongoing violence in Vallejo

… tablet manufacturing operation that included a pill press, pill binding materials, manufacturing equipment, and …
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37 Alleged Members And Associates Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate ArrestedDefendants Charged With Trafficking Cocaine, Marijuana, MDMA And Prescription Drugs, And Laundering Tens Of Millions Of Dollars In Narcotics Proceeds

… and Peru, and large quantities of diverted prescription pills, such as oxycodone. The drugs were distributed in … and during the past year distributed thousands of oxycodone pills in New York which had been diverted from pain clinics …
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120 Members And Associates Of Two Rival Street Gangs In The Bronx Charged In Federal Court With Racketeering, Narcotics, And Firearms Offenses

… cocaine, but also sells powder cocaine and prescription pills, such as oxycodone.  2Fly members and associates store … marijuana and crack cocaine, but also sells prescription pills, such as oxycodone.  BMB members and associates store …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges In Manhattan Federal Court Against Former Physician’s Assistant For Minor League Hockey Team And Former Player For Team Relating To The Distribution Of Oxycodone

… Percocet, which contains oxycodone, for a total of 2,920 pills.  Johnson did not conduct any in-person treatment or … to Huntington, New York, where Hart lived, to purchase the pills. In April 2011, Boogaard was sent to a rehabilitation …
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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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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the People’s Republic of China Hold Bilateral Drug Intelligence Working Group Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado

… the impact of precursor chemicals on the drug supply, pill presses and related equipment, and the role of online …
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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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Man from the Republic of Congo Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison for Selling Fentanyl That Caused an Overdose Death in Idaho

… Coroner’s Office, which led to the charges. Counterfeit Pills Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness Fentanyl On On Press Release Image …
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DEA Atlanta Field Division Recognizes National Fentanyl Awareness Day

… in 2025, are pressing fentanyl into counterfeit pills that look like prescription medications – such as … | DEA.gov ,  Fentanyl Free America | DEA.gov , and  One Pill Can Kill . DEA resources are all available for public …
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North Hollywood Drug Dealer Who Sold Ketamine that Killed Actor Matthew Perry Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

… residence and found thousands of pressed methamphetamine pills, 79 vials of liquid ketamine, MDMA (Ecstasy) tablets, counterfeit Xanax pills, baggies containing powdered ketamine and cocaine, and …
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Repeat Offender Sentenced for Continuing to Traffic Fentanyl at Northern Quest Casino in Spokane

… in the seizure of over 20,000 deadly fentanyl laced pills, approximately one pound of methamphetamine, … the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ### Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Synthetic drugs Fentanyl Methamphetamine Cocaine On On …
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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 …
PRESS RELEASE

Maine Oxy Trafficker Sentenced

… on August 31, 2016, Lancaster sold eleven 30 mg oxycodone pills to an individual working with law enforcement for …
PRESS RELEASE

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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