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DEA Revokes Registration for Seattle Nurse Who Wrote Prescriptions for Controlled Substances After His State License Was Suspended

June 24, 2025
SEATTLE, Wash.-- On June 20, 2025, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revoked the DEA registration of registered nurse practitioner (ARNP) Scott Eric Hansen. Hansen’s state license was indefinitely suspended in 2024 after a finding that his ability to issue controlled substance prescriptions posed an immediate danger to public health and...
June 24, 2025
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Mexican National Sentenced to Prison for Role as Drug Ring Courier

June 23, 2025
SEATTLE, Wash. – A 33-year-old citizen of Mexico, who was illegally residing in Kent, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Martin Alonzo Peinado Torres said in court that he was lured to the U.S. by...
June 23, 2025
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Tallahassee Brothers Receive 10 Years in Prison for Large Scale Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana

June 21, 2025
TALLAHASSEE, FLA – United States Attorney John P. Heekin announces the last of four co-defendants was sentenced today in a large-scale conspiracy that distributed over 1000 kilograms of marijuana in Tallahassee. Tyquan Watson, 28, of Tallahassee, Fla., received 10 years in prison. His half-brother, Cleveland Blackshear, 26, of Tallahassee also...
June 21, 2025
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Memphis Man Sentenced to 150 Months for Gun and Drug-Related Offenses

June 20, 2025
MEMPHIS, Tn. – Quantrese Brazzell, 48, of Memphis has been sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Interim U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy, Jr. for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence...
June 20, 2025
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Eastside Rollin 20s Crips members and associates indicted

June 20, 2025
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A twelve-count indictment was unsealed today in the Eastern District of Virginia charging nine members of the Eastside Rollin’ 20s Crips (RTC) violent street gang with crimes including a drug conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, firearms offenses, and a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, armed...
June 20, 2025
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Two Anchorage Residents Charged with Conspiring to Traffic Fentanyl Pills and Powder to Alaska, Laundering the Proceeds

June 20, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging an Anchorage man and woman with conspiring to traffic large quantities of fentanyl to and within Alaska and laundering over half a million dollars in drug proceeds. According to court documents, between August 2024 and...
June 20, 2025
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Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Southeast Alaska Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

June 18, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The final defendant in a Southeast Alaska drug trafficking conspiracy pleaded guilty today to conspiring to traffic drugs and launder money connected to a transnational drug trafficking enterprise. According to court documents, on Aug. 24, 2022, U.S. Postal Inspectors seized a suspicious package addressed to Patricia Seal-Uttke...
June 18, 2025
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Illegal Alien Sentenced to more than Three Years in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

June 16, 2025
Anniston, Alabama – A St. Clair County woman has been sentenced on multiple drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona. U.S. District Court Judge Corey L. Maze sentenced Claudia Montano Gonzalez, 43, a native and citizen of Mexico, to 39 months in prison. In October 2024, Gonzalez pleaded...
June 16, 2025
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Mexican Drug Trafficker Caught with Tens of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills, Cocaine, Heroin, and Stolen Guns Sentenced to Federal Prison in Washington State

June 16, 2025
Spokane, Wash. – Jose Efrain Gonzalez-Rodriguez, age 24, of Mexico, who was unlawfully present in the United States, was sentenced after pleading guilty to drug trafficking and firearm charges. United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice imposed a sentence of 120 months in prison to be followed by 5 years...
June 16, 2025
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Slidell Man and Woman Indicted for Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, False Statements in Loan Applications, Money Laundering, and Federal Controlled Substances Act Violations

June 16, 2025
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – Acting United States Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced that JAMAR HOWARD (“HOWARD”), age 38, and CHARENYIA CARMOUCHE (“CARMOUCHE”), age 31 of Slidell, were charged in a recently unsealed twelve-count indictment on May 30, 2025 with conspiracy to commit offenses, in violation of Title 18, United States...
June 16, 2025
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