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Repeat drug distributor sentenced to more than six years in prison, rearrested in midst of drug deal involving fentanyl pills

January 31, 2020
SEATTLE - A Snohomish, Washington, man who was sentenced just last week to 78 months in prison for dealing fentanyl-laced pills and cocaine is back behind bars tonight after being arrested on his way to a drug deal in Whatcom County. Michael John Scott, who tells his drug contacts to...
January 31, 2020
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Baltimore felon selling fentanyl, heroin, using surveillance drones, and possessing illegal firearm, sentenced

January 31, 2020
BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Malik Moseley, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moseley was charged as part of the federal-state initiative announced in...
January 31, 2020
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Hampton, Virginia woman dealing multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine sentenced

January 30, 2020
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Hampton woman was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 500 grams or more of cocaine. According to court documents, Kimberly Massenburg, 45, served as a go-between for...
January 30, 2020
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Chicago man sentenced to 20 years in prison

January 30, 2020
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – David Gibson, 48, of Chicago, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Mr. Gibson was sentenced to 240 months in prison (to be served consecutively to a 12...
January 30, 2020
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Four members of an Aiken County drug conspiracy sentenced in federal court

January 30, 2020
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Scott Dylan Green, Joseph Price Langford, Ricardo Dunbar, and James Clinton Gunter, Jr., all of Aiken County, were sentenced in federal court for their involvement in a methamphetamine and heroin conspiracy. United States District Judge J. Michelle...
January 30, 2020
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Two Mexican drug traffickers charged with the murder of a Mexican soldier and conspiring to import cocaine into the United States

January 29, 2020
NEW YORK – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced that German Gomez-Castruita and Benjamin Contreras-Rangel were charged in a criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to import cocaine...
January 29, 2020
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Three men admit roles in Passaic County cocaine trafficking conspiracy

January 28, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced three New Jersey men today admitted their roles in a Passaic County cocaine distribution conspiracy. Narcisco Ramirez, 46, of Passaic; Kiuny Perez, 42, of...
January 28, 2020
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St. Petersburg man sentenced to over twelve years in prison for selling cocaine

January 28, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. - Shamon D. Heatly (37, St. Petersburg) was sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for selling cocaine. Heatly had pleaded guilty on October 28, 2019. According to court documents, an undercover law enforcement officer met with Heatly, at which time Heatly directed the officer...
January 28, 2020
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Eleven arrested in DEA and AZDPS joint enforcement operation targeting Tucson drug traffickers

January 28, 2020
TUCSON, Ariz. – The Drug Enforcement Administration announced today the arrest of 11 people as the result of the culmination of a year-long joint investigation by the DEA’s Sierra Vista Resident Office along with the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Border Strike Force, into the alleged drug trafficking activities of...
January 28, 2020
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Chicago area drug trafficker convicted of drug and firearms offenses

January 27, 2020
URBANA, Ill. – A federal jury deliberated less than two hours before returning guilty verdicts late yesterday evening, Jan. 23, 2020, against Deon Evans, 35, of Markham, Illinois., for trafficking methamphetamine, carrying or possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon...
January 27, 2020
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