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Prolific opioid dealer sentenced to 13 years in federal prison

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Skyler Christopher Sanders (33, Bradenton) was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, methamphetamine, carfentanil, and fentanyl. He pleaded guilty on December 21, 2017. According to court documents, Sanders and his associates sold drugs out of a house in...
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DEA, FBI and SPD operation across Puget Sound Region leads to the arrest of 36 subjects involved in a violent drug trafficking organization

(SEATTLE) - In the fourth major drug trafficking ring takedown in as many months, federal, state and local law enforcement officers fanned out across King, Pierce, Snohomish, Skagit and Thurston counties to execute search warrants and arrested 36 members of a drug trafficking organization. These arrests are the fourth takedown...
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Bradenton drug dealer sentenced to prison

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Tony Marvin Johnson (34, Bradenton) was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He had pleaded guilty on December 7, 2017. According to court documents, on June 15, 2017, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Tampa District...
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Four Anchorage residents charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into prison for distribution

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - Four Anchorage residents have been charged for attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Anchorage Correctional Complex (“ACC”). Steven Cao, 32, a federal inmate at the time of the offense, Brandon Beltz, 26, Jennifer Delossantos, 33, and Allyson Moore, 20, all...
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Three Additional Members of Heroin Drug Trafficking Organization Plead Guilty

(ORLANDO, Fla.) - Harold Omar Vargas-Delgado (33, Kissimmee), Cary Mitchelle Vargas-Delgado (34, Orlando), and Angel Ruben Maldonado, Jr. (42, Orlando) pleaded guilty today to charges related to their involvement in multiple conspiracies to distribute heroin throughout central Florida. In addition, Harold Omar Vargas-Delgado pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent...
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Ocala Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiracy To Traffic Methamphetamine And Fentanyl

(OCALA, Fla.) - Tirso Hernandez-(35, Ocala) was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. A federal jury found him guilty on February 21...
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Former National Director Of Anti-corruption In Colombia Extradited To The United States To Face Wire Fraud And Money Laundering Charges Related To Foreign Bribery

(WESTON, Fla.) - The former National Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and an attorney from Colombia were extradited yesterday to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges related to the promotion of foreign bribery. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, 36, the former National Director of Anti-Corruption in...
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Honduran Drug Kingpin Sentenced To Life In Prison

(MIAMI) - Honduran national Sergio Neftali Mejia-Duarte - was sentenced today to life in prison for his involvement in a large-scale international narcotics transportation organization. On January 9, 2018, a Miami jury found Mejia-Duarte, 41, guilty of conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine with the knowledge that the...
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Raids On Multiple Marijuana Grow Houses In Investigation Of International Money Laundering And Interstate Marijuana Trafficking

SEATTLE - Over the last few days investigators executed search warrants at 17 different Puget Sound area locations, and a commercial property in New Jersey, in connection with an internationally funded drug trafficking organization sending thousands of pounds of marijuana grown in Washington to the New York City area. One...
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Four Plead Guilty In Multi-State Drug & Money Laundering Conspiracy

(PENSACOLA, Fla.) - Aaron M. Booker, 26, Joseph F. Booker Jr., 28, and Kaishawndra Lyons, 25, all of Pensacola, and Uy Nguyen, 34, of Vallejo, California, have pled guilty to charges arising from a multi-state drug and money laundering conspiracy. Nguyen and the Booker Brothers pled guilty to conspiracy to...

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