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Former Doctor Sentenced In White Plains Federal Court To 18 Months In Prison For Selling Oxycodone Prescriptions

November 18, 2016
(NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD) George P. Beach II, the...
November 18, 2016
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Nephews Of First Lady Of Venezuela Found Guilty Of Conspiring To Import Cocaine Into The United States

November 18, 2016
(NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores De Freitas were found guilty today of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Together with others, Campo Flores and Flores De...
November 18, 2016
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Alabama Doctor Charged With Illegal Drug Distribution

November 16, 2016
MOBILE, Ala. - A Fairhope, Alabama Doctor, Richard Snellgrove, M.D., has been indicted and arraigned on charges that he prescribed various Controlled Substances outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United...
November 16, 2016
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Nine Members Of Eastern European Organized Crime Syndicate Charged With Racketeering, Extortion, Loansharking, Illegal Gambling, And Drug Trafficking

November 09, 2016
(BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with crimes including racketeering, extortion, loansharking, illegal gambling, and drug trafficking. Eight of the defendants are under arrest, and one remains at large. The...
November 09, 2016
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“2fly” Gang Member Pleads Guilty To Bronx Murder In Connection With Racketeering Conspiracy

November 07, 2016
NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jaquan McIntosh, a/k/a “BJ,” pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with his membership in the “2Fly YGz” (“2Fly”), a violent street gang that operated in and...
November 07, 2016
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Aryan Brotherhood Of Mississippi Gang Member Sentenced To Life In Prison For Racketeering Conspiracy And Related Offenses

November 03, 2016
OXFORD, Miss. - A member of the Aryan Brotherhood of (ABM) gang was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in a variety of violent criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, methamphetamine production and trafficking and other related offenses. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice...
November 03, 2016
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Results Are In And Thousands Of Pounds Of Unused, Unwanted And Expired Medication Was Cleaned Out Of New Yorkers Medicine Cabinets

November 03, 2016
(NEW YORK - - Six years after the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) launched its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Americans continue to turn out in large numbers to rid their homes of unused medications, including controlled prescription (CPDs) such as painkillers, tranquilizers, and stimulants. On October 22, 2016, the...
November 03, 2016
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Two Texas Men Sentenced To Combined 10 Years In Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking

November 02, 2016
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Rosalio Laredo-Garcia, 21 of Hutchins, Texas, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $1,900 fine on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Co-Defendant, Hado Zepeda-Garcia, 25 of Wilmer, Texas was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in federal...
November 02, 2016
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New Orleans Field Division Collects Over 33,000 Pounds On Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

November 01, 2016
NEW ORLEANS - Six years after the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) launched its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day; Americans continue to turn out in large numbers to rid their homes of unused medications. On October 22, 2016, DEA’s 12th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, the New Orleans Field (NOFD)...
November 01, 2016
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NYC Police Officer Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Participating In A Drug Distribution Conspiracy

October 31, 2016
(MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (“NYPD”), and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (“DEA”), announced that...
October 31, 2016
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