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Seventeen Alleged Leaders And Associates Of CLAN USUGA Indicted In Brooklyn And Miami

MIAMI - Today, United States Department of (DOJ) announce the unsealing of five indictments in U.S. federal courts in Brooklyn, New York and Miami, Florida charging 17 alleged leaders and associates of Colombia’s largest and most influential (banda criminal or criminal group), CLAN (formerly referred to as Los Urabeños). The...
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Twenty Members Of Violent Central Ohio Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced In Federal Court

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty people that were involved in a large scale drug trafficking organization in Central Ohio, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA)...
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Task Force Charges Four Tied To Opana Epidemic In Southern Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS - ―The Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with the Indiana State Police and Scott County Sheriff's Department executed enforcement actions from June 16 through June 20, 2015, which resulted in the arrest of Michael ELKINS, John MORGAN, Tyler TURNER and William THROWER; the seizure of 19 Opana pills, approximately 14...
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APRN Admits Receiving Kickbacks From Drug Company For Prescribing Pain Medication

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Heather Alfonso, 42, of Middlebury, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge...
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Hartford Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Crack Cocaine Trafficking Offense

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson 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 Jamie Coleman, also known as “City,” 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker...
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Businessman Sentenced For Bakersfield Drug Operation

FRESNO, Calif. - - Joseph Nolan, 59, a Malibu businessman and Ventura County resident, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana cultivated at a warehouse that he owned...
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Three Men Sentenced On Drug Charges

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Eric J. Humphrey, 36, of Amherst, NY, his father, John E. Humphrey, Jr., 55, of Buffalo, NY, and...
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Four Mississippi Residents Sentenced To Prison On Drug Charges In “Operation Yeti Ice”

JACKSON, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux and Gregory K. Davis, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, announced the sentencing of four defendants tied to a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization. Cliff Williams, 37, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced to 133 months...
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40 Charged, Huge Cash And Drug Seizures Of Organization Tied To Murders

ST. LOUIS - DEA St. Louis Special Agent in Charge James P. Shroba announced today the results of a successful DEA investigation that yielded over 50 federal indictments for a nationwide drug trafficking organization. The enforcement operation yielded over $2 million in cash, 82 pounds of methamphetamine, 5 kilograms of...
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Members Of Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To Over 46 Years Combined In Federal Prison

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced the final defendants tied to a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in the Fort Smith area were sentenced this week. “Methamphetamine has...