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Major Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

… been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of (MDMA), methamphetamine, (which is a drug similar … drug traffickers. In total, Bushay distributed over 185,000 pills.  Bushay also used former-Customs and Border …
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Former Marlborough Resident Pleads Guilty To Robbing Five Connecticut Pharmacies

… a firearm that was in his waistband and demanded oxycodone pills.  The pharmacist gave Haney more than 2000 oxycodone pills of different strengths and Haney exited the store. …
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Scarborough Man Sentenced To Nine Years On Drug And Health Care Fraud Charges

… 150 fraudulent oxycodone prescriptions for more than 13,000 pills from Dr. John Perry for no medical purpose. The … filled at pharmacies in southern Maine and the oxycodone pills were sold. Goodwin used proceeds from these illegal …
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Eagle Dentist Sentenced For Prescription Drug Fraud

… prescription at a pharmacy and return the majority of the pills to Akhtar. Sometimes Akhtar provided the person … the person picking up the prescription kept some of the pills. On November 4, 2013, Akhtar pleaded guilty to two …
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Ring Leader Of Fraudulent Oxycodone Prescription Scheme Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Investigators identified more than 800 fraudulent … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill. Eleven individuals were charged as a result of the …
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Massachusetts Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Trafficking Oxycodone

… troopers and found to be in possession of 500 oxycodone pills.  Snow - admitted the pills were his and that he intended to distribute them.  At …
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New Haven Man Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Role In Fraudulent Oxycodone Prescription Scheme

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Investigators identified more than 800 fraudulent … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill.  Eleven individuals were charged as a result of the …
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Buxton Man Sentenced To Over 4 Years On Drug Conspiracy Charge

… in a conspiracy in which co-conspirators obtained oxycodone pills from numerous medical providers in Florida by fraud … 2011, agents seized a package containing over 800 oxycodone pills that had been sent from Florida to Maine by a …
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Surveillance Leads To Seizure Of $8 Million Worth Of Heroin

… in part by those that become addicted to diverted pain pills, and it’s the heroin and pain pills sold in the illegal drug market causing the most harm …
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2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown

… over $14.6 billion in intended loss s and over 15 million pills of illegally diverted controlled substances. The …
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Pleads Guilty To Narcotics Trafficking Crimes Carrying Sentence Of 20 Years To Life And $1 Billion In Forfeiture

… 83 kilograms of cocaine and tens of thousands of MDMA pills through the U.S. and Canada BROOKLYN, N.Y. -   - … pounds of marijuana, 83 kilograms of cocaine, 60,000 MDMA pills, multiple firearms and ammunition, more than 800 …
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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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Public Response To DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Keeps Growing

… Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills than the previous one, demonstrating the American … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Shortly after DEA’s first Take-Back Day event …
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DEA Office In Atlanta Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … area, where Georgians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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DEA Office In Charlotte Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … where North Carolinians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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DEA Office In Columbia Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … where South Carolinians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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DEA Office In Nashville Holding Its Fourth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … area, where Tennesseans will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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Florida Doctors No Longer Among The Top Oxycodone Purchasers In The United States

… Florida has been viewed as the epicenter of the nation’s ‘pill mill’ epidemic, new statistics reflect that the efforts … Since 2011, TDS initiated investigations such as Operation Pill Nation I and II.  Collectively these investigations …
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Nine Sentenced For Illegally Distributing Controlled Substances Over The Internet

… in its four years of operation using websites such as ezdietpills.net, pillsavings.com, and doctorrefill.net.  Arnold laundered … pharmacies that filled the drug orders and shipped the pills to customers.  Johnson was ordered to forfeit …
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Fairfield Doctor Who Illegally Prescribed Oxycodone Sentenced

… 2016, authorized the couple to receive thousands of pills of oxycodone and Percocet, a medication containing … through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury.  The Controlled Substances …
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Nineteen indicted in cartel-connected drug trafficking conspiracy

… 20 pounds of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, 200 fentanyl pills, nine firearms, and more than $250,000 in cash.  … various quantities of cocaine, heroin, 1500 fentanyl pills, and six firearms. "The results of this operation are …
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Milford Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Illegal Drug Distribution And Health Care Fraud Offenses

… “We are finding with increasing frequency that the types of pills he distributed are contributing to drug overdose … recklessly and illegally put these and other prescription pills on the street.  I thank our partners in this ongoing …
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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DEA North Carolina Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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New Haven Man Sentenced To 11 Years In Federal Prison For Role In Fraudulent Oxycodone Prescription Scheme

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Investigators identified more than 800 fraudulent … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill.  DeJesus, Julian Cintron and David Thompson, all of …
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Haverhill Resident Guilty Of Drug Conspiracy

… participated in the distribution of cocaine and oxycodone pills in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. More than $18,000 … arrested on October 1, 2015, and a quantity of oxycodone pills and over $2,000 in cash were recovered from his …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 6 1/2 Years for Fentanyl-Related Charges

… facilitate other transactions when co-defendants sold pills purporting to be oxycodone that were actually …
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Fairfield Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

… 2016, authorized the couple to receive thousands of pills of oxycodone and Percocet, a medication containing … through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury. The Controlled Substances Act …
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