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Dominican citizen extradited to U.S. for drug trafficking through sham internet pharmacy

September 02, 2020
New York, NY – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, Acting U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, and the Inspector in Charge of the New Jersey Office of the Unites States Postal Inspection Service...
September 02, 2020
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Union County woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine

September 02, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Union County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute...
September 02, 2020
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Third major takedown of drug trafficking ring nets 14 arrests

September 01, 2020
SEATTLE - The third major drug ring takedown resulted in 14 arrests today. U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran and DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Weis announced the culmination of these three wiretap investigations. “Even during this Covid-19 crisis, these alleged drug traffickers preyed on Washingtonians, using extraordinary violence to...
September 01, 2020
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Chase Smothermon sentenced to 45 years for abducting, torturing and killing one victim, brutally beating a second

September 01, 2020
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A federal judge sentenced Chase Smothermon, 32, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to 45 years in prison for abducting and assaulting two men, one of whom was tortured, killed, and mutilated. Smothermon suspected the victims of stealing drugs and money from his home. On Jan. 24, Smothermon pleaded...
September 01, 2020
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Operation LeGend Results in 355 Arrests, Including 33 Murder Suspects

September 01, 2020
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced today that 355 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers in Operation LeGend. Among those arrested since the launch of the operation, 88 are federal defendants in the Western District of Missouri, and 21 are federal defendants...
September 01, 2020
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Saratoga County drug dealer sentenced to 20 years for overdose death

August 31, 2020
ALBANY, N.Y. – Steven M. Boice, age 30, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for distributing furanyl fentanyl that caused an overdose death in Saratoga County in February 2017. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York...
August 31, 2020
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Twenty one defendants face federal methamphetamine and cocaine conspiracy charges

August 28, 2020
AUSTIN, TX - Over the past two weeks, federal, state and local authorities have arrested 21 individuals in connection with a cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking operations based in the Austin area, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John F...
August 28, 2020
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Franklin County, Mo., man sentence in meth and firearms case

August 28, 2020
ST. LOUIS – Joshua Matthew Spencer, 30, of Franklin County, Missouri, was sentenced today to 10 years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to his involvement in conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to court documents, Spencer...
August 28, 2020
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Lawrence man sentenced to 45 years in prison for operating major fentanyl trafficking organization

August 27, 2020
CONCORD, NH – DEA New England Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Sergio Martinez, 30, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for leading a continuing criminal enterprise and participating in a money laundering conspiracy based...
August 27, 2020
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Hartford man sentenced to 9 years in prison for role in heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring

August 27, 2020
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Fernando Tolentino Jr., also known as “Humacao,” 50, of Hartford was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport...
August 27, 2020
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