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2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown

2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown June 30, 2025 Washington, DC Contact Info Contact Us (202) 305-8500 (571) 362-1934 WDOPIO@dea.gov Public Information Office (571) 362-1011 Washington.Special.Agent@dea.gov Talk to a Recruiter /events Find Us 800 K …
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Groveton woman sentenced to 65 months for participating in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

… that she and her co-conspirator went to Lawrence to buy “dope.” Willey consented to a search of the car and …
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Johnston County Trafficker Sentenced For Cocaine Conspiracy

… November 4, 2013, agents used a confidential informant to buy 9 ounces of cocaine from Arrollo-Silva at a stash house …
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Three Defendants Sentenced In Heroin Conspiracy

… calls, ask the caller how much heroin he or she wanted to buy, and direct the caller to drive to a gas station or …
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Two indicted in connection with multimillion-dollar marijuana enterprise

… more than $300,000 towards the mortgage on her house and to buy a 2017 Porsche Boxster, among other things.  It is …
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Three New Orleans Men Receive Lengthy Prison Sentences In Heroin Conspiracy Involving Overdose Death

… calls, ask the caller how much heroin he or she wanted to buy, and direct the caller to drive to a gas station or …
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Bronx-to-Suffolk County Heroin Distribution Network Dismantled Ten Suspects Arraigned On Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin Deer Park Man And His Brother Charged As Major Traffickers

… pay for their next fix,” said DA Spota.     “Winston Rose buys and sells heroin everyday but he isn’t in desperate …
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Eleven Sentenced To Over 97 Years Combined For Methamphetamine Drug Trafficking Offenses

… methamphetamine in Northwest Arkansas.  Numerous controlled buys, surveillance, search warrants, and monitoring were …
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Loudon man sentenced to 120 months in prison for participating in methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy

… in Pembroke and distributed the drugs to New Hampshire buyers. Bean and Waters would then wire the proceeds of … a total of more than $28,000 to Espejo in Las Vegas to buy methamphetamine. On May 2, 2018, postal inspectors …
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East Bay drug traffickers sentenced to 15 years and 10 years in prison

… paid to him by an undercover officer during controlled buy operations in 2016.             In addition to Vicochea …
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Large-scale, Spokane based fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine trafficker sentenced to 180 months in federal prison

… Spokane, Washington area. On June 11, 2020, a controlled buy of fentanyl-laced pills was conducted from Bridges. A …
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Keene woman sentenced to 18 months in prison for role in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

… had been asked to drive another person to Massachusetts to buy drugs and that they had agreed to do so. Bowers …
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New York Man Imprisoned 69 Months For Heroin Trafficking

… used confidential informants to make controlled buys of the heroin from Willis and Murphy in the Rutland …
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Rutland Man Imprisoned 5 Years For Heroin Trafficking

… used a confidential informant to make three controlled buys of heroin from Murphy in Rutland. In November 2012, …
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Eight-week federal trial results in conviction of Chapo associates in Buffalo, NY

… invoices to make it look like Western New Yorkers were buying sea cucumbers at astounding rates and quantities. The …
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Atlanta Armed Robbery Crew Sentenced

… Officer for the DEA, who Dixon had met when “Tony” tried to buy cocaine from Dixon as a part of an investigation. As the …
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Manchester man sentenced to 30 months for participating in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

… asked him and his girlfriend to drive to Massachusetts to buy drugs and that they had agreed to do so.  The defendant …
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Operation Shaw-Crank Redemption Update: Final 3 Defendants Sentenced To A Combined Total Of Over 17 Years In Prison For Drug-Trafficking Organization

… and Arkansas River Valley area. Numerous controlled buys, surveillance, search warrants, and monitoring have …
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Two Men Arrested In Multimillion Dollar Synthetic Drug Ring

… various bank transactions and spending the proceeds to buy luxury vehicles, vacations and a $1.4 million home.  As …
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Alert - Extortion Scam - Alert

… is illegal to purchase controlled substance pharmaceuticals online or by telephone unless very stringent requirements … with DEA.  By ordering any pharmaceutical medications online or by telephone from unknown entities, members of the …
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72 Individuals Indicted For Drug Trafficking In The Municipality Of San Juan

… create a money (known as “el pote,” in Spanish) in order to buy weapons and ammunition, for the use of the members of …
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Dominican man sentenced to 10 years in prison for fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

… DEA agent in Nashua, New Hampshire. Based on these drug buys, law enforcement officers arrested the defendant at his …
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Pamlico County Drug Trafficker Sentenced In Operation "No Quarter"

… Sheriff's Office used another confidential informant to buy 4.8 grams of cocaine (crack) from Willis. The …
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Big Island Marijuana “Ministry” Operator Pleads Guilty To Drug And Tax Offenses

… stating “it’s retail”, and “normal retail, you know, we buy it, you know, at forty-five hundred, five grand a pound, …
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Last Of The Arellano-Felix Brothers Sentenced

… some of the income to pay AFO members to commit crimes; to buy firearms, ammunition and vehicles; to travel on …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges 23 Members Of Bronx Drug Trafficking Crew With Distributing Crack Cocaine, Cocaine, Marijuana, MDMA And Oxycodone

… from drug dealers in the area controlled by BMG. During the buys, officers were able to purchase significant street …
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Indictments target north sound drug trafficking ring distributing 2 kilos of heroin a week

… people working with law enforcement some of whom made drug buys from members of the organization.  The charges …
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Former Army Soldier Sentenced For Murder-for-Hire And Gun Possession

… to carve a “Z” into the victim’s chest and was planning on buying a hatchet to dismember the body. Evidence at trial …
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30 Charged In Federal Drug Indictments

… as well as laundering funds for drug dealers through the buying and selling of cars and structuring cash deposits …
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