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Black market pill manufacturing operation dismantled in Bronx apartment building; superintendent among three charged

October 09, 2018
NEW YORK - Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill; New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II; Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of...
October 09, 2018
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California meth supplier pleads guilty to possession with intent to distribute

October 05, 2018
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James H. Bess, Jr., 63, of Apple Valley, CA, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer to possession with intent to...
October 05, 2018
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Federal jury convicts Arizona man of drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy charges

October 04, 2018
SYRCAUSE, NY - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the New York Division, United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Joseph Cronin, and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II announced that Alonzo Harris, 43, of Youngtown, Arizona, was...
October 04, 2018
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Fatal overdose in Manhattan leads to arrest of alleged drug dealer in Miami

October 03, 2018
NEW YORK - Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced today the arrest of Michael Jones...
October 03, 2018
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New York man sentenced to 14 years for heroin and crack cocaine distribution

October 02, 2018
BURLINGTON, Vt – Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney for the District of Vermont Christina Nolan announced that Michael Brockenbaugh, 37, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Christina Reiss, to a 14-year...
October 02, 2018
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Rolling 30s Crips gang member sentenced to prison

October 01, 2018
ORLANDO, Fl a. - Jose Ramon Rivera (23, Orlando) was sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and methamphetamine, possessing firearms as a convicted felon, and carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime. Rivera pleaded guilty on July 12, 2018. According to court documents...
October 01, 2018
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25-plus Chicago defendants face drug charges for alleged fentanyl or fentanyl-laced heroin sales

October 01, 2018
CHICAGO - More than 25 individuals are facing federal or state drug charges for allegedly selling pure fentanyl or fentanyl-laced heroin in Chicago. Many of the defendants sold narcotics to an undercover law enforcement officer earlier this year, according to the charges. Several of the sales occurred in daytime hours...
October 01, 2018
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Retired nurse sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering

October 01, 2018
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Christine Miles, 59, of Windsor Locks, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven...
October 01, 2018
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Buffalo man charged with selling fentanyl that caused serious bodily injury

September 28, 2018
BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Julian Beavers, a/k/a Ock, a/k/a Marcel Ceasar, a/k/a BJ, 32, of Buffalo, New York, with...
September 28, 2018
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Colombian veterinarian pleads guilty in Brooklyn federal court to heroin importation conspiracy

September 28, 2018
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Andres Lopez Elorez pleaded guilty today before U. S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiring to import heroin into the United States. Richard P. Donoghue, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent...
September 28, 2018
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