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Career Offender Sentenced To 110 Months For Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine

EUGENE, Ore. - On June 9, 2014, Gretchan Anderson, 43, of Portland, Oregon was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 110 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Upon her release from prison, Anderson will be on supervised release for four years. Anderson is a career...
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Second Marijuana Grow Robber Sentenced To Long Prison Term

SEATTLE - Ferdinand Clay, who was shot while fleeing from the robbery of a marijuana distributor was sentenced on June 6, 2014, in U.S. District court in Seattle to 12 years in prison. On August 13, 2013, Clay, 32, and Melvin Charles Slaughter, 31, tied up and robbed Maple Valley...
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Operation Shaw-Crank Redemption Results In 11 Defendants Being Sentenced To A Combined Total Of Over 93 Years For Drug-Trafficking

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Conner Eldridge announced that eleven individuals have been sentenced to a combined total of over 93 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation known...
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Seven Involved With Online Pharmacy Based In Florida Indicted For Internet Pharmacy And Money Laundering Conspiracy

SEATTLE - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington indicted seven people late yesterday for an illegal drug distribution scheme involving an internet pharmacy. The originator of the scheme, Juan Gallinal, 41, of Pembroke Pines, Florida will be summoned to appear for arraignment in Seattle. The internet...
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Birmingham Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Selling Heroin That Caused A Death

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 20 years in prison for selling heroin that caused the 2013 death of a Northport man, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. Harold Donald Mims, 31...
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Marijuana Grower Who Shot And Wounded Fleeing Robber And Unknowing Witness Sentenced To Prison

SEATTLE - A marijuana grower and dealer who used firearms to confront fleeing robbers, firing a dozen times in a residential neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 32 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Jason Loken, 38, of Maple Valley, Washington, thought...
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Nevada Woman Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Charges In Idaho

BOISE, Idaho - Sadith Chavez-Perez, 23, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2014, in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine. Chavez-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, on February 11, 2014. According to the plea agreement, on March 27, 2013, Chavez-Perez...
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Bolton, Mississippi Resident Sentenced To Prison For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

JACKSON, Miss. - Kelvin Robinson, 46, of Bolton, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on May 15, 2014 to 172 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, and 120 months in prison for money laundering, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Floyd H...
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Pasco Man Sentenced To 18 Years For Heroin Trafficking

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arnulfo Gomez Tejeda, 39, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced on May 13, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on September 12, 2013, to possession with intent to distribute heroin. Tejeda was sentenced to an 18 year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 10 year term...
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DEA, SPD & ATF Seize Cache Of Guns In Magnolia Home

SEATTLE - The tenant who rented the basement of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, and his heroin supplier, have both been charged with gun and drug crimes after selling heroin and a firearm to a person working with law enforcement. At the time of the arrests last week, law...

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