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Green Bay Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Dealing Fentanyl Resulting in Death and Possessing a Firearm

April 10, 2024
Green Bay, WI - Sheila Lyons, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Field Division and Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on April 9, 2024, U.S. Senior District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced a Green Bay man, Keenan J...
April 10, 2024
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Idaho Doctor Pays $96,000 to Settle Allegations That He Wrote Unlawful Prescriptions

April 03, 2024
POCATELLO – Dr. Gerald Knouf, a family medicine doctor formerly of Pocatello, Idaho, agreed to pay $96,000 to resolve allegations that he wrote unlawful prescriptions, prescribed dangerous combinations of drugs, and billed Medicare and Medicaid for services that were not performed, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. The settlement also...
April 03, 2024
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Georgia Man Sentenced to 180 Months For Drug Trafficking and Firearms

April 03, 2024
FORT WAYNE, Ind. –Alfred Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced Xavier M. Scott, 57 years old, of Douglasville, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Holly A. Brady...
April 03, 2024
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Bellingham, Washington, Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Dealing Fentanyl While Carrying Firearms

April 03, 2024
SEATTLE– A 42-year-old Bellingham, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to eight years in prison for drug distribution and illegal firearms possession announced U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Adam Wisniewski is the fifth and final defendant to be sentenced in a case involving fentanyl distribution...
April 03, 2024
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Michigan City Woman Sentenced to 144 Months in Prison for Distributing Meth

April 02, 2024
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced Angelica Ortiz, 37 years old, of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty...
April 02, 2024
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$6 Million Worth of Oregon Properties Forfeited in Connection to Interstate Marijuana Trafficking Organization

April 01, 2024
PORTLAND, Ore.-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced today that it has forfeited on behalf of the United States 14 real properties located in Oregon—together worth more than $5.7 million—that were used by an interstate drug trafficking organization to illegally grow marijuana for redistribution and sale in...
April 01, 2024
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California Man and Utah Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking in Idaho

April 01, 2024
POCATELLO, Idaho – Hank David Langley, 42, of Visalia, California and Thomas Joel Schooley, 39, of Hyrum, Utah, were sentenced to 11-and-a-half years and eight years in federal prison, respectively, for trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl in eastern Idaho, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. Langley and Schooley were indicted by...
April 01, 2024
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Vernon County Man sentenced to 11 ½ Years for Trafficking Meth and Fentanyl

April 01, 2024
MADISON, Wis. – John McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Milwaukee and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin announced that Stanley J. Holte, 34, Coon Valley, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 11 ½ years...
April 01, 2024
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Bellingham, Washington, Drug Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl While Possessing Firearms

March 29, 2024
SEATTLE, Wash. – A 39-year-old Bellingham, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison for drug distribution and firearm crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Daniel Faix was arrested in April 2023, and pleaded guilty in January to possession of controlled...
March 29, 2024
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Indianapolis Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to a Decade in Prison

March 29, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind- Michael Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced Pierre Burnett III, 27, of Indianapolis, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with the intent...
March 29, 2024
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