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Pharmacist Sentenced To 78 Months In Prison For Attempting To Weaponize Deadly Toxins And Possessing Narcotics Manufacturing Equipment

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a licensed pharmacist was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for attempting to weaponize the lethal toxins...
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Nutritional Supplement Chain Reaches Settlement In Connection With Drug Diversion

(BOSTON - New England Field Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Ferguson and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announced that the United States reached a civil settlement yesterday with Performance Nutrition, a Seekonk, Mass.-based business that sells nutritional supplements online and in retail stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and...
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New York Man Involved In Danbury Home Invasion Drug Robberies Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that on Friday, January 23, Scott Myrie, also known as “Venom,” 27, of Bedford Hills, N.Y., was...
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Blaine Man Pleads Guilty To Bath Salts Distribution Conspiracy

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nate Brewer - , 34, of Blaine, Maine, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to...
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Bangor Resident Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Bath Salt Distribution Conspiracy

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gina Nelson, 31 - , of Bradley, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr...
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First Of Cape Cod Brothers Sentenced To Twenty Years For Oxycodone Trafficking Scheme

(BOSTON - After a month-long federal trial, Joshua M. Gonsalves was sentenced on multiple charges arising from a three-year conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of 30-milligram oxycodone pills which he and his brother distributed on Cape Cod and generated over $5 million in proceeds. Joshua M. Gonsalves, 34, of Dennisport...
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Esmond Street Career Criminal Sentenced To 16 Years For Drug Trafficking

(BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday to 16 years in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearm charges. Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Field Division and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, announced that Gerald Smith, a/k/a “G-Man,”...
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New York Man Sentenced To More Than 8 Years In Prison For Supplying New Haven Drug Dealer

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Johnny De Los Santos, also known as “Na-Na,” 30, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced today...
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Doctor Arrested On Charges He Conspired To Illegally Distribute Thousands Of Highly Addictive Oxycodone Pills By Writing Fraudulent Prescriptions For People He Never Treated Or Examined

TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a medical doctor from Union County, NJ has been arrested on charges he conspired with a drug dealer and others to illegally...
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Bangor Resident Sentenced To Over Three Years For Bath Salt Distribution Conspiracy

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Elizabeth Mikotowicz, - 26, Bangor, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 37 months in prison and...