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KC Man Sentenced to 21 Years for Meth Trafficking at Camdenton Hotel

January 20, 2022
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine to distribute when officers found large amounts of illegal drugs in his room at a Camdenton, Mo., hotel. Anthony Martinez Harris, 49, was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal...
January 20, 2022
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Bridgeport Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison

January 19, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN LUCAS, also known as “Dutch,” 62, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today via video conference by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervise release, for trafficking narcotics...
January 19, 2022
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Heroin Conspiracy Results in 12-Year Sentence

January 19, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Kansas, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy. Solomon B. Hawthorne, 31, was sentenced to 12 years and one month in federal prison without parole. Today’s sentence includes a term of two years for violating...
January 19, 2022
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10 Charged for Multi-Year Cocaine Conspiracy

January 14, 2022
MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy O'Shea, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that three indictments have been unsealed charging a total of 10 people with participating in a cocaine conspiracy. The indictments were returned by...
January 14, 2022
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Colombian National Extradited to the United States Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy

January 13, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – Oscar Marsiglia Barrios (54, Colombia) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States (U.S.). Marsiglia Barrios faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to court...
January 13, 2022
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Five Members of Pinellas County Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Charged and Arrested

January 12, 2022
TAMPA , Fla . –United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Jovante Raschod Thomas, a/k/a “Wood,” a/k/a “Tae” (40, Pinellas Park), Troy Lydell Mctier Jr. (29, St. Petersburg), Adrian Fulton Ashby, (50, St. Petersburg) Marquesha Dequaila Leseon Isaac a/k/a “Auntie,” a/k/a “Angie” (36, St...
January 12, 2022
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Colombian National Extradited from Panama Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges in the United States

January 12, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – Gerardo Gomez-Lubo, a/k/a Francisco Niño (42, Colombia), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States. Gomez-Lubo faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to the...
January 12, 2022
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 151 Months for Cocaine Distribution

January 12, 2022
HAMMOND, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Regional Office in Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Odell Lucas, 44, of Schererville, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James Moody...
January 12, 2022
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Crack Cocaine Dealer with Guns Sentenced to 10 Years

January 11, 2022
East St. Louis, Ill. – An East St. Louis, Illinois, man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for dealing crack cocaine and illegally possessing firearms. Charles Curren, 51, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for four counts of distribution of crack cocaine and one count of possession with...
January 11, 2022
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Portland-Area Drug Trafficker Indicted for Kidnapping and Murder

January 07, 2022
PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal superseding indictment was unsealed today charging a Mexican National residing in Clackamas County, Oregon for his role in the 2019 kidnapping and murder of a Washington State man and other drug trafficking crimes. Marcos Alonso Castillo-Bernal, 46, has been charged with conspiring to possess with intent to...
January 07, 2022
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