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Bakersfield Man Pleads Guilty To Warehouse Pot Grow Valued At More Than $4 Million

October 03, 2011
FRESNO, CA- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and DEA Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Mark McGrath, 50, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess marijuana with intent to distribute it. According to court documents, McGrath and co-defendants Dustin York...
October 03, 2011
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Mexican National Sentenced For Conspiracy To Distribute Controlled Substances And Distributing Methamphetamine And Cocaine

October 03, 2011
BOISE -- - Sergio Said Gonzalez-Borquez, 21, a Mexican national formerly residing in Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced on October 3, 2011 to five years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Gonzalez-Borquez pled guilty on March 14, 2011 to count one...
October 03, 2011
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Worcester Man Sentenced To Twenty Years For Selling Cocaine

October 03, 2011
BOSTON, MA. - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute multiple kilograms of cocaine. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Office and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced that Eric Gonzalez, 35, was sentenced...
October 03, 2011
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DEA And Attorney General Announce Arrests Connected To Multi-Million Dollar Haul Of Cocaine From Mexican Cartel

September 30, 2011
PHOENIX, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today announced the arrests of 17 of 23 suspected members of a large scale cocaine trafficking organization. This organization has smuggled over 1,300 kilograms of cocaine into the United States since April 2011...
September 30, 2011
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Eighteen Indicted By Federal Grand Jury On Drug Charges In Detroit

September 30, 2011
DETROIT, MI -- - An indictment charging 18 defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana has been unsealed, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Robert L. Corso, Special Agent In Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Andrew G. Arena, Special...
September 30, 2011
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More Than Two Dozen Boeing Employees Arrested In Drug Sting

September 29, 2011
PHILADELPHIA, PA - DEA and FBI agents today arrested employees and former employees of Boeing’s Ridley Park plant and one non-employee in a coordinated, long-term, undercover effort aimed at prescription drug abuse at the manufacturing plant, DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Vito Guarino announced. Joining Acting SAC Guarino was...
September 29, 2011
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Las Vegas Physician And Pharmacist Charged With Unlawful Sales Of Large Quantities Of Prescription Painkillers

September 29, 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced that three men, including a Las Vegas physician, his assistant, and a local pharmacist, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they conspired to unlawfully distribute large quantities of highly addictive prescription drugs in and around...
September 29, 2011
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Milwaukee Area Pharmaceutical Controlled Substance Distribution Rings Targeted

September 29, 2011
MILWAUKEE, WI. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 23 defendants on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The following 20 individuals were charged by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office: Gloria Blackmon...
September 29, 2011
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Four Sentenced For Distribution Of Oxycodone In Rhode Island And Massachusetts

September 29, 2011
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Four men have been sentenced to federal prison for distributing oxycodone in the Fall River, Mass., and Tiverton, R.I., areas. The four were arrested following an investigation which began in the summer of 2010 by agents from the DEA Worcester Tactical Diversion Squad, which included numerous undercover...
September 29, 2011
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Texas Businessman Found Guilty Of Laundering Millions Of Dollars For A Mexican Narcotics Trafficking Organization

September 28, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell , the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Vikram Datta, the owner of multiple retail perfume stores located on the...
September 28, 2011
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