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PRESS RELEASE

Workers Comp Manager Sentenced In High Profile Pill Mill Case

April 24, 2017
MOBILE, Ala. - A former worker’s compensation manager, Christopher Manfuso, has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to immediately pay a $50,000 fine, for his role in the operation of the massive pill mill run by Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch, announced DEA...
April 24, 2017
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

April 24, 2017
LOS ANGELES - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners...
April 24, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

April 24, 2017
WASHINGTON - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are...
April 24, 2017
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38 Years For Lymon On Firearms, Heroin Trafficking Charges

April 24, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - This morning Chief U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo sentenced Davon Lymon, 36, of Albuquerque, New Mexico for his conviction on federal heroin trafficking and firearms charges. Lymon was sentenced to 216 (18 years) of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. The Chief Judge ordered...
April 24, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

April 24, 2017
DALLAS - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are...
April 24, 2017
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Two Dallas Women Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

April 24, 2017
DALLAS - Glenda Cane, 47, and Shalisa Robinson, 31, both of Houston, Texas have been sentenced for their role in a pill mill operation that operated during 2013-2015 announced United States Attorney John R. Parker. Cane and Robinson were sentenced last week to 18 months each in federal prison by...
April 24, 2017
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Hartford Man Sentenced To 6 Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Heroin, Possessing Firearm

April 24, 2017
APR 24 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Daniel Gamero, 24, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in...
April 24, 2017
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Fairfield County Drug Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 13 Years In Federal Prison

April 24, 2017
APR 24 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Bobby Gutierrez, also known as “B.O,” 37, formerly of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District...
April 24, 2017
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Guilty Plea To Trafficking Large Quantities Of Heroin In Maine

April 24, 2017
APR 24 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Todd Shorey, 52, of Newport, Maine, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin. According...
April 24, 2017
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Major Gulf Cartel Affiliated Cocaine Distributor Sentenced Was Able To Import 100’s Of Kilos Of Cocaine For Distribution Throughout United States

April 21, 2017
BEAUMONT, Texas - Amador Saldana, a 45-year-old Roma, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Mr. Saldana pled guilty on October...
April 21, 2017
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