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Operation Special Delivery Dismantles International Interstate Drug Ring

June 15, 2011
MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman, along with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced today the dismantling of a year-long investigation concerning drug trafficking organizations that were responsible for the distribution of thousands of pounds of marijuana throughout...
June 15, 2011
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Third Man Convicted By A Federal Jury For Conspiring To Buy Five Or More Kilograms Of Cocaine

June 06, 2011
TUCSON, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced that Evelio Cervantes-Conde, a Cuban immigrant lawfully residing in the United States, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday afternoon, May 27, 2011, for both attempting...
June 06, 2011
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Destin Physician Convicted Of Drug Offenses Resulting In Patients’ Deaths

May 24, 2011
PENSACOLA, FL. - Destin physician Robert Bourlier, 55, was convicted today of 17 counts of health care fraud and 126 counts of unlawful dispensing of controlled substances, announced Mark R. Trouville, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge and Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern...
May 24, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Agency Heads Announce Major Criminal Action Against Cartel

May 19, 2011
TUCSON, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, and Tohono O’Odham Nation Police Chief Joseph Delgado today announced the arrests of 27 of 46 suspected members of the Jesus Valencia Rodriguez drug trafficking organization, who work on behalf of the Mexican Sinaloa...
May 19, 2011
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Lake Worth Doctor Arrested On Fifty-Five Counts Of Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone At Lake Worth Clinic

May 18, 2011
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 indictment of Cesar Deleon, 65, a doctor from Lake Worth, for his participation in the illegal distribution of pain...
May 18, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

--Media Advisory-- Breakup Of Major Drug-Smuggling Organization To Be Announced

May 18, 2011
PHOENIX, AZ. - Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Doug Coleman and Chief Joe Delgado from the Tohono O’odham Police Department will announce tomorrow in a press conference the details of a 9-month investigation that targeted the activities of a major drug...
May 18, 2011
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Floridian Fuzz Guilty Of Hauling Cocaine Through East Texas

May 09, 2011
BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...
May 09, 2011
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DEA Destroys 5 3/4 Tons Of Drugs

May 09, 2011
WESTON, FL. - On April 30th, Floridians turned in approximately 11,567 (5 ¾ tons) of unwanted or expired prescription drugs at 228 collection sites across the state during the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Initiative. In the Tampa area, 2 ½ tons were collected, Orlando area, 1...
May 09, 2011
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Arizona Residents Dispose Of 3 Tons Of Prescription Drugs

May 06, 2011
PHOENIX, AZ. - Today, Douglas W. Coleman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that over 6,000 pounds of prescription drugs were collected during Operation Take-Back Arizona. The one-day DEA nationwide campaign was held on April 30, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and provided...
May 06, 2011
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Former Medellin Cartel Associate Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

May 03, 2011
MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced that defendant Sigifredo Maya, 48, of Medellin, Colombia, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent...
May 03, 2011
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