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Man Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the Distric of New Jersey announced a DeKalb, Illinois man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking...
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners To Collect Unwanted Prescription Drugs On April 28

CAMDEN, N.J. - This Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement partners will give the public its 15th opportunity in eight years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted...
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"18 Park" Gang Leader Gets 35-year Sentence

NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced that one of the leaders of the violent Bronx gang known as “18 Park,” Marquis Wright was sentenced...
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DEA Aims For Record Removal Of Unused Pills Through Its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative

NEW YORK - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country...
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Drug Kingpin Extradited: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group

BROOKLYN, NY - Daniel Rendon-Herrera, also known as “Don Mario,” will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on charges of leading a continuing criminal enterprise. In May 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...
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Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Conspiracy To Distribute More Than 45 Kilograms Of Narcotics

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Miami man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute over...
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Second New Jersey Pharmacist Sentenced To Prison In Less Than A Week

CAMDEN, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Carig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a second Burlington County, New Jersey, pharmacist was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a...
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Drug Crew Indicted For Selling Heroin And Fentanyl That Led To The Deaths Of Six Individuals

BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 23-count indictment charging four defendants with conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or...
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Burlington County Pharmacist Sentenced To 15 Years For Illegally Distributing Opioids From “pill Mills”

CAMDEN, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Medford, New Jersey, pharmacist was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for illegally distributing and dispensing oxycodone from two pharmacies located in...
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Mercer County Man Sentenced To 92 Months In Prison For Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Trenton man was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more...

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