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Gun and drug trafficking ring dismantled in the Bronx

BRONX, N.Y. – New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett, New York City Police Department Commissioner Dermot F. Shea, and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge New York...
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Cocaine trafficker sentenced in Western District of New York

BUFFALO, N.Y.— U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Tammy Hoover, 41, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of...
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Mexican National sentenced to 9 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Tehama County

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Miguel Alvarez Cervantes, 55, a Mexican national living in Los Molinos, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley, to nine years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C...
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DEA installs drug collection box in Louisville federal building

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Louisville Division today announced that a prescription drug collection box is now available in the lobby of the Mazzoli Federal Building, located at 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Place, in downtown Louisville. This is the first permanent prescription drug collection box in...
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Georgia pharmacy, pharmacist accused in civil suit of unlawfully dispensing thousands of opioids and other controlled substances

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A South Georgia pharmacy and its pharmacist are accused in a newly filed federal civil complaint with dispensing thousands of highly addictive controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. Chip’s Discount Drugs Inc., Chips Discount Drugs LLC, and pharmacist Rogers Wood, of Hazlehurst, Ga., are...
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Two South Carolina Department of Corrections inmates sentenced to decades in federal prison for roles in separate drug trafficking rings

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Glenn Quanta Pernell, 41, and Joseph Umphlett, Sr., 39, both inmates in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in separate major drug trafficking rings run from inside prison...
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Jury convicts career drug dealer of trafficking cocaine

ATLANTA – Alfonzo Jamal Lewis has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute, and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. This successful investigation and prosecution should be a warning to other drug traffickers that the Atlanta-Carolinas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area...
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Two SCDC inmates sentenced to decades in federal prison for roles in separate drug trafficking rings

Columbia, S.C. - Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Glenn Quanta Pernell, 41, and Joseph Umphlett, Sr., 39, both inmates in the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in separate major drug trafficking rings run from inside...
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Dark web fentanyl trafficker sentenced to 13 years in federal prison

ST. LOUIS – Melissa Scanlan, known as “The Drug Llama,” has been sentenced to 160 months in federal prison in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for trafficking fentanyl throughout the United States via the “dark web,” engaging in an international money laundering conspiracy, and...
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Buffalo man going to prison for selling crack cocaine

BUFFALO, N.Y.— U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Julian Brown, 47, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District...

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