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PRESS RELEASE

DEA Seizes Over 30 Kilos Of Heroin And Cocaine And $1Million In West Michigan Investigation

September 04, 2017
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that his office sought, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Phillip J. Green issued last Friday and earlier today, arrest warrants for 18 separate defendants charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in the areas of Grand Rapids...
September 04, 2017
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Houston Man Sentenced To 15 Years For His Part In For One Of The Largest Meth Distribution Rings In Southwest Missouri

September 01, 2017
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - - Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Kansas City District Office, today announced that Robert Canales, 34, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in a 28 person conspiracy involved in distributing meth in southwest Missouri. “This was one...
September 01, 2017
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U.S. District Court Enters Judgment Against Fugitive And Surety In Fentanyl Distribution Case

September 01, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered judgment against fugitive defendant Candelaria Dagandan Vazquez and her surety Candelaria Antoinette Sapp in the amount of $50,000, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The Honorable Susan Illston...
September 01, 2017
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Six Involved In Large Scale Methamphetamine Trafficking Group Arrested

September 01, 2017
DALLAS - Six individuals have been charged by three separate federal criminal complaints, unsealed today, stemming from their role in selling large quantities of methamphetamine in the Dallas and Desoto areas, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney John Parker of...
September 01, 2017
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Alleged Marijuana Growers In Siskiyou County Arrested For Conspiring To Bribe Sheriff

August 31, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Chi Meng Yang, 31, of Montague, and his sister Gaosheng Laitinen, 36, of Mt. Shasta, were charged today for conspiring to commit bribery, bribery of a public official, conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, and manufacturing marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to the criminal complaint, on...
August 31, 2017
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Illinois Man Admits Role In Cross-country Drug Distribution Conspiracy

August 31, 2017
TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a DeKalb, Illinois, man who was arrested transporting four kilograms of heroin to Indiana pleaded guilty today in Trenton federal...
August 31, 2017
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Ohio Man Sentenced To 7 Years In Federal Prison For Leading Heroin Distribution Ring

August 31, 2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio - David McShan, 39, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 74 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for his role in running a Steubenville-area heroin-trafficking ring. McShan and his brother, Frederick A. McShan, 37, were each convicted following a weeklong jury...
August 31, 2017
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$1 Million Worth Of Methamphetamine Secreted In Candles Seized And Five People Arrested

August 30, 2017
NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of...
August 30, 2017
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Members And Associates Of Violent Bronx Street Gang Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Racketeering And Firearms Offenses

August 29, 2017
NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD) announced the unsealing today of an...
August 29, 2017
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DEA Arrests Two Individuals In Synthetic Drug Conspiracy Linked To An Overdose Death

August 29, 2017
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a man from New York and a woman from New Jersey were arrested this morning for their roles...
August 29, 2017
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