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Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Pleads Guilty To Decades-Long Drug Trafficking Charges

January 24, 2014
MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the guilty plea of Diego Perez Henao...
January 24, 2014
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Jury Finds Pill-Mill Doctor Guilty Of 51 Counts

January 23, 2014
SAVANNAH, Ga. - - Dr. Najam Azmat - , 57, of Waycross, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury last week of all charges relating to his role the running of East Health Center, a pill-mill clinic that operated in Garden City in 2011. United States District Court Judge...
January 23, 2014
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Former Clayton County Police Officer Assigned To U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking

January 22, 2014
ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, formerly a police officer with the Clayton County Police Department assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division stated...
January 22, 2014
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Former NBA Player Indicted For Murder Now Facing Drug Charges

January 15, 2014
ATLANTA - More than a dozen individuals, including former NBA player Javaris Crittenton, were arrested in an early morning drug trafficking sting Wednesday. The operation took place throughout metro Atlanta. The suspects were indicted on Friday on multiple drug charges including Conspiracy to Commit the Crime of Trafficking in Cocaine...
January 15, 2014
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Oldsmar Man Sentenced To Prison For Oxycodone Distribution

January 15, 2014
TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces today that U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Rick (33, Oldsmar) to two years and nine months...
January 15, 2014
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Freeport Physician Sentenced To 30 Years For Illegal Prescribing

January 15, 2014
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Doctor Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. (58, Freeport), was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday for health care fraud...
January 15, 2014
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Federal Jury Returns Guilty Verdict For Cocaine Trafficker

January 13, 2014
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte federal jury convicted today Pedro Oscar Dieguez, also known as "The Cuban," 48, of Indian Trail, N.C., on cocaine trafficking and related charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today's announcement...
January 13, 2014
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Former NFL Player Sentenced For Drug And Gun Charge

January 13, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Robert Cedrick Baker III, age 37, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to serve 75 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a...
January 13, 2014
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Anderson, S.C. Attorney Pleads Guilty To Obstruction

January 13, 2014
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Charles Anderson, an attorney in Anderson, S.C., pleaded guilty to obstruction charges in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Michelle Childs in Greenville, S.C., announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Harry S. Sommers, Special Agent in Charge of the...
January 13, 2014
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Orange County Pharmacist Charged With Illegally Distributing Pain Medications

January 10, 2014
ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the return of an indictment charging Valentine (52, Orlando) with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent...
January 10, 2014
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