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Dixon Woman Charged with Meth Trafficking

March 22, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Dixon, Missouri, woman was charged in federal court today with possessing methamphetamine to distribute. Connie M. Gonzales, 51, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mo., with one count of possessing methamphetamine to distribute. According to an affidavit filed...
March 22, 2022
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Drug Trafficking Defendants Sentenced to Prison

March 22, 2022
TUCSON - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Diego Bernal-Robles, 29, and Cipriano Arturo Rojas-Armenta, 44, were convicted for being involved in a drug trafficking organization. On September 22, 2020, police concluded a several months long investigation and executed a search warrant where the men were living in Tucson. Police recovered...
March 22, 2022
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 15 Years on Drug and Firearm Offenses

March 22, 2022
HAMMOND, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Ricky Shultz, 51, of De Motte, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio on...
March 22, 2022
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Seven Arrested in Camarillo for Alleged Drug Trafficking

March 22, 2022
LOS ANGELES – On March 16, 2022, members of the Ventura County Combined Agency Team (VCAT) and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division concluded a multiple month-long investigation of a major narcotic trafficking organization with the arrest of seven suspects and the seizure of a...
March 22, 2022
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Stratford Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Federal Prison for Role in Heroin Trafficking Operation

March 22, 2022
STRATFORD, Conn - Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NADYAR MALAKA, 35, of Stratford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 48 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin. Judge Shea also...
March 22, 2022
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Two Rhode Island Men Indicted in Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

March 21, 2022
BOSTON – Two Rhode Island men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their alleged roles in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that spanned across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. Jasdrual Perez, 33, of Cranston, R.I., and Erik Ventura, 33, of Providence, R.I., were each indicted on one...
March 21, 2022
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Armed Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

March 21, 2022
ST. ALBANS, Vermont - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Darren Johnson, aka “Buck,” 40, of St. Albans, Vermont, was sentenced today to serve 18 months in prison after his conviction for distribution of cocaine base. Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey...
March 21, 2022
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South Florida Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Dealer Sentenced to Over 31 Years in Federal Prison

March 21, 2022
MIAMI – Antony Junior Harris, 40, a prolific drug dealer living in Boynton Beach, Florida has been sentenced to 380 months in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release. The sentence comes after a federal jury sitting in Fort Lauderdale found Harris guilty of attempting to, and conspiring...
March 21, 2022
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Member of Meth Conspiracy Sentenced to 25 Years for Narcotics Trafficking & International Money Laundering

March 18, 2022
ABINGDON, Va. – A Bristol, Tennessee man was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in federal prison for conspiring with others in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, and South Carolina to traffic methamphetamine from Mexico into Southwest Virginia and then launder the monetary proceeds. Jeremy Cole Canter, 34, pleaded guilty in September 2021...
March 18, 2022
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U.S. Attorney Announces Conviction of Chappaqua Man

March 18, 2022
NEW YORK CITY –Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the unsealing today of a four-count superseding information charging Deejay White with offenses relating to his participation in a May 29, 2019 gunpoint robbery in the Bronx targeting more than 150 kilograms of...
March 18, 2022
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