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DEA Announces Major Steroid Operation

… and protecting public health.” There is great danger in buying steroids, chemicals, and other illicit products on … extremely unsanitary, further illustrating the danger in buying these products illegally.  For example, recent lab …
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

… local communities face. Highlights in the report include usage and trafficking trends for drugs such as prescription … Drug Threat Assessment can be accessed at https://go.usa.gov/xdjnt . # # # On …
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Final Defendant Sentenced in Gang-Related South Georgia Meth-Trafficking Conspiracy

… Sharpe and Hamilton are among 35 defendants indicted in USA v. Baker et. al , dubbed Operation Stranded Bandit. …
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Lead Defendant Pleads Guilty in Waycross-Area Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… Hayes was one of six defendants named in February 2021 in U.S.A. v. Hayes, et. al, an indictment targeting a drug …
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Lead Defendant Sentenced in Middle Georgia Methamphetamine-Trafficking Conspiracy

… was indicted in July 2021 along with 29 other defendants in USA v. Monroe et. al. The indictment was the culmination of …
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Violent Gang Members, Cartel Conduit Sentenced to Federal Prison for Roles in Major Meth-Trafficking Conspiracy

… as described in the indictment unsealed in December 2020 in USA v. Baker et al. Other key figures sentenced in U.S. …
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Prosecution of Richmond County Narcotics Conspiracy Wraps Up

… the greater Augusta community.” The 2019 indictments in USA v. Freeman, et. al. , a two-year investigation initiated …
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Heroin, fentanyl trafficking targeted in Operation Jump Start, with seven indicted on federal charges

… now-unsealed indictment. Each of the seven defendants in U.S.A. vs. Joseph, et al., is charged with Conspiracy to …
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to Two Decades in Federal Prison

… of 32 defendants named in the November 2022 indictment in USA v. Morales-Jimenez et al ., the culmination of an …
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Federal Jury Convicts Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico Associate of Murdering Federal Witness, Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

Federal Jury Convicts Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico Associate of Murdering Federal Witness, Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses December 13, 2023 El Paso Contact Info Contact Us (915) 832-6000 571-324-7093 carlos.a.briano@dea.gov Carlos A. Briano Recruiter …
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Albuquerque Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Drug Trafficking Offenses

… (432) 686-4085 Meth and heroin bundles.jpg 18-cr-02648-DHU USA v. Gallegos et al. - Photo of bundles on table. …
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Nine defendants charged in international drug trafficking conspiracy

Nine defendants charged in international drug trafficking conspiracy August 07, 2019 San Francisco Contact Info Contact Us (415) 436-7900 (415) 436-7994 Akilah Johnson SanFranSpecialAgentRecruiter@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us San Francisco …
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DEA Investigations Lead To Treasury 311 Patriot Act Designation Against Hizballah-Backed Financial Institutions

… primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT (Section 311) - the first time the Department …
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Father, Son, Sentenced for Trafficking Cocaine to St. Louis

… Dixson Jr. and/or Dixson III sent couriers to Texas to buy kilograms of cocaine from Miguel Angel Gonzalez, who … bought it from Carlos Gonzalez. Dixson Jr. was at one point buying as much as eight to 16 kilograms per week. During the …
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Johnson City Doctor Pleads Guilty: Failure To Keep Drug Records/ Making False Statements To Drug Enforcement Administration

… most practitioners, as did Dube, renew their registration on-line. On both the paper and on-line forms, the registrant has to answer four “Liability” … or placed on probation? Is any such action pending? The on-line form requires that a “yes” or “no” block be checked …
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Florida Pharmacist And Web Site Operator Sentenced For Illegally Distributing Prescription Drugs

… which sold these drugs over the Internet.  Many of White’s online customers were located in the Eastern District of … operated by Spence were only required to complete an online questionnaire, or answer questions over the … paid physicians to review the customers’ responses to the online or telephone questionnaires and to issue …
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Fentanyl Supply Chain

February 07, 2025
… This is possible because drug traffickers are able to buy the tools they need, like pill presses and stamps, online,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. “E-commerce …
February 07, 2025
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Dominican citizen extradited to U.S. for drug trafficking through sham internet pharmacy

… drug distribution operation  purporting to be an online pharmacy.  Guzman-Cabrera was arrested on July 3, … the United States through a website purporting to be an online pharmacy. Thanks to the outstanding investigative … also like to stress to the public the need to research your online pharmaceutical vendors, ensuring the medicines you …
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LeFlore County Resident Sentenced To Twenty Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Meth

… a sale for 27.85 grams of methamphetamine in a controlled buy during an undercover investigation by the Oklahoma … a sale for 52.9 grams of methamphetamine in a controlled buy during an undercover investigation by the Drug …
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Manchester Man Sentenced to 80 Months in Federal Prison for Operating Counterfeit Pill Lab

… methamphetamine pills from the defendant during controlled buys in March and April, 2024.  Investigators applied for … blue pills that the defendant sold during the controlled buys. DEA tested some of the pills and powders recovered …
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Homicides in Buffalo Down Over 50% Following Implementation of VIPER

… possess firearms and ammunition; Individuals who unlawfully buy, sell, or traffic (or attempt illegally to buy, sell or traffic) guns; and Violent criminals and drug …
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DEA and FDA shut down 44 websites advertising illegal vaping cartridges

… to advertise the sale of illicit THC vaping cartridges online, and by seizing these websites today, we are able to focus on other online and in-person sources of illegal and potentially … with our federal, state and local partners.” Some of the online networks advertised THC vaping cartridges by brand …
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Treasury sanctions Argentina-based Goldpharma drug trafficking and money laundering organization

… Milwaukee - (414) 336-7300 Goldpharma network of illegal online pharmacies traffics opioids to the United States … and money launderers use to capitalize on the Internet and online pharmacy sites to sell highly addictive illicit … Aires, Argentina, operates virtually via a network of online “pharmacy” websites, which sell both legitimate and …
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Seven People Charged in Augusta-Area Drug Trafficking Operation

… death. As described in the newly unsealed indictment in USA v. Wheatley et. al, the investigation in Operation Wheat …
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Lead Defendant in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced to Nearly 15 Years in Federal Prison

… co-conspirators in Savannah. The January 2024 indictment in USA v. Pinckney et al. charged Pinckney and 12 co-defendants …
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Key Defendant in Drug Trafficking Network Sentenced to Nearly 20 Years in Federal Prison

… defendants were named in a 27-count federal indictment in U.S.A. vs. Bulloch, et al . As described in court documents …
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Nine Defendants Indicted in Burke County Drug Trafficking Investigation

… Atlanta to the Waynesboro, Ga., area. The indictment in USA v. Rhaney et al , dubbed Operation Washout, represents a …
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Cocaine Supplier, Codefendant Sentenced to Federal Prison in Richmond County Narcotics Conspiracy

… The sentences are the culmination of the 2019 indictment in USA v. Freeman, et. al. , a two-year Organized Crime Drug …
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Final Defendant Sentenced in Prosecution of Middle Georgia Methamphetamine-Trafficking Conspiracy

… communities.” The July 2021 indictment of 30 defendants in USA v. Monroe et. al, dubbed Operation Monroe Doctrine, was …
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Albuquerque Employers Benefit from DEA Training and Resources Available Through Operation Engage

August 18, 2023
… curriculum, which has an employer component made up of four online modules that employees can complete is about an hour. … Specialist. “We reminded all the participants that the online modules are free and that employees get a certificate …
August 18, 2023