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Gang Member Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison on Racketeering Charge and Related Crimes

March 11, 2024
NEWARK, N.J. – A member of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips gang was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role a racketeering conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Amir Edmonds, aka “G Baby,” 22, of Newark, pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2023, before U.S. District...
March 11, 2024
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Leader of the Rodriguez Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 10 years for Drug Conspiracy and Money Laundering

March 08, 2024
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK –Ivan Rodriguez, Senior, 48, of Utica, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 121 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, distribution of more than 400 grams of fentanyl, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Carla Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino...
March 08, 2024
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Selling Fentanyl to DEA Informant Nets Three-Time Drug Trafficker 14 Years in Prison

March 08, 2024
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The U.S. Attorney's Office announced that Jimmy L. Hudson, Jr., 47, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has been sentenced to serve 14 years and seven months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl. At his guilty plea hearing last year, Hudson admitted that he sold a quantity...
March 08, 2024
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Trailer Full of Meth Lands Trafficker in Prison

March 08, 2024
McALLEN, Texas – A 51-year-old Edinburg man has been sentenced following his conviction of conspiracy to possession with intent to distribute 200 kilograms of meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux of the Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Daren Lynn Lopez...
March 08, 2024
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Man Sentenced to More than Ten Years for Trafficking Cocaine and Obstructing Justice

March 07, 2024
CHICAGO, Ill. — Sheila Lyons, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Field Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney Morris Pasqual for the Northern District of Illinois announced a man has been sentenced to more than ten years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine in the Chicago area and...
March 07, 2024
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Idaho Man Pleads Guilty to Selling His Co-Worker Fentanyl Pills that Resulted in the Co-Worker’s Death

March 07, 2024
BOISE, Idaho – Tanner Lee Goforth, 37, of Nampa, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl after selling a co-worker fentanyl that led to his overdose death, announced U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit today. According to court records, on May 17, 2022, Goforth met his friend and co-worker, the victim, at a...
March 07, 2024
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Mom Pleads Guilty to Providing Fentanyl That Killed Her Sons’ Father

March 07, 2024
Dallas, TX - An Albuquerque mother who concealed a deadly dose of fentanyl inside her children’s luggage pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal drug crime. Magdalena Silva Banuelos, 47, was indicted in November 2022. She pleaded guilty Wednesday to distribution of fentanyl before U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn. In...
March 07, 2024
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Hyannis Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Fentanyl Conspiracy Operating Across Southeastern Massachusetts

March 07, 2024
BOSTON – A Hyannis woman has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for her involvement in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed fentanyl throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Rebecca Bartholomew, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to three years in prison and...
March 07, 2024
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East Hartford Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl Pills

March 07, 2024
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMARI LEWIS, 25, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing...
March 07, 2024
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Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty To Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

March 07, 2024
BOSTON – A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on March 1, 2024 in federal court in Boston to his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Fredis Manuel Guerrero Guzman, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of...
March 07, 2024
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