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Staten Island brothers plead guilty to opioid distribution conspiracies

October 02, 2019
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Joseph Calabria pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Last week, on Sept. 23, 2019, his brother, Michael Calabria, pleaded guilty to conspiring to...
October 02, 2019
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Alleged Mexican drug kingpin charged with leading a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges

October 02, 2019
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Vicente Carrillo Fuentes with running a continuing criminal enterprise, as well as firearms offenses, money laundering and other drug-related crimes through his leadership of the Juarez Cartel, a violent drug trafficking organization. Carrillo Fuentes was...
October 02, 2019
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Members of “Mike’s Candyshop” drug delivery service charged with distributing heroin and cocaine

October 02, 2019
NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, United States attorney for the Southern District of New York; James P. O’Neill, commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York; Peter C. Fitzhugh, the special agent in charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations; and Ray...
October 02, 2019
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Bergen County man admits money laundering

October 01, 2019
NEWARK, N.J. –A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to launder the proceeds of narcotics activity, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Bobbie L. Henderson III, 36, of Edgewater, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler in Newark federal court to an information charging him...
October 01, 2019
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Alexandria man with no medical qualifications dispensing thousands of prescriptions, including to children

September 27, 2019
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former pharmacy owner was sentenced today to four years in prison for fraudulently filling and dispensing thousands of prescription medications, including opioids, outside the usual course of professional practice. Latif Mohamed Chowdhury, aka "Gulam Latif Chaudhury," 29, operated and controlled two now-defunct pharmacies known as Alexandria...
September 27, 2019
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Two heroin and cocaine trafficking rings in Western New York dismantled

September 27, 2019
ERIE COUNTY, N.Y> – Ray Donovan, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Attorney General Letitia James, and New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett today announced the arrests of 23 people for their roles in two drug trafficking rings operating in New...
September 27, 2019
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Five defendants, including two medical doctors, charged as part of Northeast Regional Health Care Fraud Takedown

September 26, 2019
BROOKLYN, NY - Four individuals, including two doctors, a pharmacist who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and a pharmacy owner have been charged for their participation in schemes in which the Medicare and Medicaid programs were fraudulently billed more...
September 26, 2019
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Alleged Colombian drug kingpin extradited to the United States to face charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise

September 20, 2019
BROOKLYN, NY - Santos Roman Narvaez Ansazoy will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on charges of leading a continuing criminal enterprise. The defendant was arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest warrant and was extradited yesterday from...
September 20, 2019
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Career criminal, selling deadly heroin and fentanyl around Norfolk, off the streets

September 17, 2019
NORFOLK, Va. – Barry Jamel Alexander, 33, of Norfolk, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin. Over the last five years, Alexander sold quantities of heroin in excess of two kilograms to customers on multiple occasions. Alexander sold heroin mixed with fentanyl to a...
September 17, 2019
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Fourteen people indicted, $1 million worth of drugs and 65 firearms seized in massive takedown

September 13, 2019
NORFOLK, Va. – Over 100 law enforcement agents, officers and other personnel executed Operation High Tide this week, resulting in a series of arrests of individuals allegedly involved in selling drugs and guns in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Portsmouth. Operation High Tide is a large-scale narcotics trafficking and firearms investigation that...
September 13, 2019
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