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Palm Beach, Broward And Martin County Pill Mills And Pharmacies Are Shut Down

MIAMI, FL. - 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 Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, announced the unsealing of a federal indictment...
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Thirteen Indicted For Airdropping Multi-Hundred Kilogram Quantities Of Cocaine In The Caribbean Sea And For Money Laundering Offenses

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the unsealing of a July 15, 2011 indictment against 13 individuals on charges that they engaged in a narcotics trafficking...
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Thirty-Two Indicted In Broward And Palm Beach Counties In Second Coordinated Pill Mill Takedown

MIAMI, FL. - 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, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal...
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Twenty-One Charged Federally In “Operation Woodchop”

ORLANDO, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announce today the culmination of “Operation Woodchop,” an investigation into two neighborhood-based street gangs in the Orange and Lake County areas. The operation concluded this morning with...
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Ocean Bank Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement And Forfeits More Than $10 Million

MIAMI - , FL. - Ocean Bank, the largest privately-owned state-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Florida, has entered into a deferred prosecution (“the Agreement”) with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida to resolve charges that it willfully failed to establish an anti-money laundering program. Today’s Agreement...
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Okeechobee Podiatrist Sentenced For Illegal Oxycodone Distribution

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Divisionand Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced the sentencing of defendant Arthur Carl Haspel, 66, of Boca Raton, FL. U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Haspel...
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“Fowl Play” Investigation Dismantles Georgia Cocaine Ring

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles and John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division, announced today that Earl Daniels, 31, of Allendale, faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of life in prison as a result of a federal jury’s verdict finding that...
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Allendale Man Convicted For Participating In Large-Scale Drug Conspiracy Operating Around Allendale, Hampton, And Barnwell

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles and John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division, announced today that Earl Daniels, 31, of Allendale, faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of life in prison as a result of a federal jury’s verdict finding that...
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Bradenton Doctor Charged With Illegally Prescribing Pain Medications

TAMPA, FL. -- - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Aimee Joy Martin, 35, a physician currently practicing in Bradenton, Florida, with seven counts of illegally distributing or causing...
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Multi-Agency Law Enforcement Operation Tackles Gang And Gun Violence In Palm Beach

WEST PALM BEACH, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael McAuliffe, Palm Beach County State Attorney, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and (ATF)...