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Siblings Sentenced for Selling Drugs Near Elementary School

… found over 50 grams of meth; nearly two kilograms of pills that had the appearance of candy and contained …
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Pharmacy Owner Convicted of Unlawfully Dispensing 1.5 Million Doses of Controlled Substances

… units of controlled substances, including over 1.1 million pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone. Trial evidence showed …
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Madison Physician Agrees to Pay $110,000 to Resolve Allegations of Controlled Substance Prescribing Violations

… that begin with a doctor over-prescribing opiate pain pills and that end with the former patient overdosing on …
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DEA 360 Maine and Partners Host Two Day Virtual Town Hall Summit

… use within sex trafficking and assault. Addressing pills to heroin epidemic from a prevention perspective.  The …
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Uxbridge doctor sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute over 3.5 kilograms of amphetamines

… 1,500 prescriptions for Adderall—amounting to over 110,000 pills—were filled in Massachusetts alone based on Caraceni’s …
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Dorchester man sentenced for federal narcotics and firearms charges

… Ramirez were arrested and law enforcement seized fentanyl pills and powdered fentanyl from a drug stash house in …
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Dover man sentenced to 10 years for methamphetamine trafficking

… approximately one ounce of methamphetamine and 115 ecstasy pills.  Hodgkins was sentenced to 84 months on Sep. 25, …
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DEA New England Field Division collects over 44 tons of prescription drugs during the 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… help remove unwanted, expired and unused prescription pills that can be abused, stolen, or resold. These events …
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Lawrence man sentenced to five years for interstate opioid trafficking conspiracy

… transport, and distribute large quantities of oxycodone pills shipped from Florida to Massachusetts. Urena then …
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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 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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Arizona Prison Inmate Charged with Brokering Sale of Fentanyl and Meth in Illinois

… pound of crystal methamphetamine and nearly 1,000 fentanyl pills sent to the buyer at an address in Joliet, Illinois, …
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Carlsbad man sentenced to five years on gun and drug charges

… that on May 13, 2019, he possessed approximately 279 pills, or 30.911 grams, of fentanyl with the intent to …
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to Over Ten Years in Federal Prison

… cocaine, 620 grams of marijuana, large amounts of various pills, drug paraphernalia, and approximately $51,000 in …
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Florida-Based Pharmaceutical President Indicted in Counterfeit Promethazine-Codeine Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Fake Pills Arrests/Convictions - Major Money Laundering …
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St. Petersburg man sentenced for distribution of synthetic opioid

… officer during which he sold the officer hydromorphone pills and an approximate total of 52 grams of a synthetic …
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Career Offender Sentenced to 20 Years for Drug Offense

… a bag containing a quarter kilogram of methamphetamine, 110 pills, digital scales, hypodermic needles, and Shedd’s …
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Law enforcement agencies collaborate to take down major methamphetamine suppliers

… of methamphetamine, along with heroin and prescription pills. The Fresno Sheriff’s Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) was …
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Disabled Methamphetamine Lab in Southern Maryland Motel

… $300 worth of cocaine and a cutting agent, 200 ecstasy pills with a street value of $5000 and an undisclosed amount …
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Angola man sentenced to 121 months in prison

… search of the motorcycle revealed scales, a glass pipe, pills, and baggies that were later analyzed and found to …
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DEA arrests six on drug charges, including MS-13 gang member

… two kilograms of cocaine, 1,000 suspected fentanyl pills, $28,000 in cash, and 16 weapons, including stolen …
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Colorado doctor pleads guilty to distributing oxycodone for no legitimate purpose

… prescriptions to that patient (a total 462 oxycodone 30 mg pills) were illegitimate and outside the usual course of …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… DEA aims to dispose of 10 million pounds of unused pills DENVER – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 …
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Chicago area drug trafficker convicted of drug and firearms offenses

… fully loaded firearms, an extra magazine, and 173 ecstasy pills that contained methamphetamine. Trial evidence …
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Fentanyl Related Overdose Deaths Spike in Lincoln and Omaha

… mixed with cocaine, methamphetamine and also in counterfeit pills made to look like legitimate name brand …
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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 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 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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Daniel C. Comeaux named Special Agent in Charge of the Houston Division

… criminal organizations, violent gangs, counterfeit pills, illicit diversion of legitimate pharmaceuticals, and …
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Justin King Named DEA Omaha Division Special Agent in Charge

… with the threats posed by methamphetamine, counterfeit pills, opioids and other dangerous drugs on a daily basis,” …