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Fugitive Arrested In Major Federal Investigation Of National Drug Trafficking By Vallejo-Based Rappers

… the investigation, agents seized approximately 45,000 MDMA pills, approximately four pounds of crack cocaine, a …
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Fifth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Results In Another Big Haul

… and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Shortly after DEA’s first Take-Back Day event …
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Bakersfield Marijuana Storefront Owner And Employee Indicted

… plants, 25 pounds of processed marijuana, nearly 3,000 pills, including suspected hydrocodone and morphine, a …
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Sacramento Man Pleads Guilty In Multistate Drug Conspiracy

… (approximately 300 to 1,300 plants per house), 13,000 MDMA pills, and a methamphetamine lab capable of producing 10 to …
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Las Vegas Homeland Security Task Force Takedown Results in Arrests and Indictment of Two Men for Distributing Large Quantities of Drugs and Money Laundering

… allegedly trafficking significant quantities of fentanyl pills, fentanyl powder, and methamphetamine, and for … a storage locker and seized approximately 30,000 fentanyl pills; 2.25 kilograms of fentanyl powder; 2.3 kilograms of …
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Portland Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl

… granted a search warrant and found 4,345 grams of fentanyl pills and 2,015 grams of cocaine. On March 5, 2025, a … drug enforcement initiatives.  Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Seizures (Drugs/Property) Synthetic drugs Fentanyl …
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Sinaloa Cartel-Connected Drug Distribution Ring That Used Semi-Trucks to Transport Huge Loads Disrupted With Multiple Arrests

… He was found to have more than two kilograms of fentanyl pills when law enforcement searched his residence on August … and Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Major Law Enforcement Operation OCDETF/Task Force …
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Operation Engage Baton Rouge

March 28, 2025
… stimulant that speeds up the body’s system that comes as a pill or powder. Available in prescription as Desoxyn® to …
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DEA Hosts the 30th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 25th

… nation is safer and healthier when we keep prescription pills from falling into the wrong hands.” Since 2010, DEA’s …
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DEA Surge Targets Sinaloa Cartel Networks Worldwide

… 480 kilograms of fentanyl powder, 714,707 counterfeit pills, 2,209 kilograms of methamphetamine, 7,469 kilograms …
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Results in DEA and Partners Collecting Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of Unneeded Medications in an Effort to Prevent Addiction and Reduce Overdose Deaths

… Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson. “Every pill that is destroyed is one less that can be misused. …
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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.  Our April event included 4,425 …
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DEA destroys more than 16,000 pounds of surrendered prescriptions

… to take too many lives, and many people get their first pills to abuse from the home medicine cabinet,” said Special …
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Meth on the rise in New Jersey

… paranoid delusions, and violent behavior. It can come in pill, powder, liquid, and crystal form also known as “ice” …
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DEA Recognizes First Ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day

… mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs—in powder and pill form—to drive addiction and create repeat customers. …
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San Diego Resident Indicted for Distributing Fentanyl that Resulted in 15-Year-Old’s Death

… your teenager about the dangers of drugs because just One Pill Can Kill,” said DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge …
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Third Defendant Sentenced to Almost 19 Years in Fentanyl Overdose Death of Longtime Rugby Player

… residence, law enforcement seized fentanyl in powdered and pill form; a digital scale with powdered residue; drug …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… 671-4500 DEA aims to dispose of 10 million pounds of unused pills SAN DIEGO – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 …
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Dunkirk Man Arrested, Facing Drug and Gun Charges After Police Find Loaded Uzi and Other Guns in his Residence

… and marijuana packaged for sale, suspected Gabapentin pills, and other assorted drug paraphernalia. The arrest is …
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Doctor Convicted of Second Degree Murder

… individuals who died were prescribed more than 1,800 opioid pills in the same months as their deaths. Three of the five …
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Bridgeport Heroin Distributor Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison

… Martinez transition from the sale of cocaine and opioid pills to the sale of heroin. Fontanez was arrested on …
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Drug Dealer Heads to Prison for Selling Fentanyl to Overdose Victim

… a small baggie of fentanyl powder and several fentanyl pills. McMikle pleaded guilty in February to one felony …
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Missouri Man Admits to Selling Fentanyl Involved in Death

… a small baggie of fentanyl powder and several fentanyl pills. McMikle is scheduled to be sentenced May 21. The …
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Undocumented Man Gets 46 Months in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

… 5, 2021. When officers searched the vehicle, they recovered pills containing 771 grams of fentanyl and 616 grams of …
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Ferguson Man Shot While Searching for His Drugs Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

… 10 kilograms of methamphetamine that had been pressed into pills, then shipped them to his grandmother’s address in the …
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St. Louis Man Sentenced for his Role in Drug-Trafficking Ring

… - (417) 888-9800 Ring distributed 20,000 fentanyl pills per week in St. Louis ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge …
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Springfield Man Pleads Guilty to Meth, Illegal Firearms

… tabs, a baggie containing mushrooms, a baggie with unknown pills, and $1,175. Under federal statutes, Ryder is subject …
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Buffalo Man on Drug Charge Involving Death of a Toddler

… Holloway sold counterfeit M-30 oxycodone hydrochloride pills containing fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl. The …
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Jamestown man pleads guilty to meth charge

… methamphetamine, marijuana, three suspected alprazolam pills, two cellular telephones, and a black scale.     …
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Niagara Falls man indicted on drug, gun charges

… package contained approximately 652 grams of multicolored pills containing MDMA and fentanyl. On May 21, 2020, the …