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Robeson County Woman Stopped with Fentanyl in Child Car Seat Receives 25 Year Sentence

December 27, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. – A Robeson County woman was sentenced Dec. 21, 2022 to 300 months in prison for conspiring to distribute four hundred grams or more of fentanyl and for possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On April 7, 2022, Jania Delicia Leggett, 28, pled guilty to...

Flight Attendant Pleads Guilty to Possessing Fentanyl with the Intent to Distribute

December 27, 2022
SAN DIEGO - Terese L. White, a flight attendant residing in Dallas, Texas, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a drug-trafficking charge, admitting that she used her privileges as a flight attendant to bypass the more robust security screening process at San Diego International Airport in order to smuggle...

Repeat Offender Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Distributing Drugs for a Transnational Drug Trafficking Ring

December 22, 2022
SEATTLE – A 50-year-old Washington State man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl pills, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Preston Joseph Smith was arrested in December 2021 in Port Angeles, Washington on allegations he...

Bronx Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison for Delivery of 1000 Bricks (50,000 bags) of Fentanyl to Syracuse

December 20, 2022
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Marvin Antonio Lantigua, 32, of the Bronx, New York City, was sentenced today to serve 10-years in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute a kilogram of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the...

Multi-Agency Investigation Shuts Down Violent Drug Trafficking Ring

December 14, 2022
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, multiple law enforcement agencies utilized information collected from a long-term narcotics investigation to execute search warrants at seventeen locations within the City of Rochester; Town of Sweden, and Town of Greece. This was a long-term investigation by the Monroe County District Attorney’s...

Bronx Man Indicted Following Seizure of Approximately $2.5 Million Worth of Powdered Fentanyl and Fentanyl Pills

December 14, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – An indictment filed by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor charges Eric Hooks in connection with the seizure of approximately 8 kilograms of powdered fentanyl (over 17 pounds) and up to 10,000 counterfeit pills allegedly containing fentanyl from a vehicle and an apartment in the...

Spanaway, Washington Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Key Role in Drug Distribution Ring

December 13, 2022
Seattle – A 61-year-old Spanaway, Washington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to eight years in prison for his key role in a large drug distribution ring, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Dwayne Douglas George was indicted in November 2021, along with 16 other defendants...

Man Indicted by Queens DA in Possession of Deadly Fentanyl

December 12, 2022
QUEENS, N.Y. – Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division announced that Dennis Carrol was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned today on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance. After...

Utica Man Pleads Guilty to Large Fentanyl Conspiracy

December 08, 2022
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Eric Ares, 37, of Utica, New York, pled guilty yesterday to one count of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and to distribute fentanyl, and one count of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino III...

Gainesville Man Convicted of Drug Trafficking and Firearm Offense

December 07, 2022
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A federal jury in Gainesville convicted Edwin Giovanny Mendoza-Verdugo, 20, of Sinaloa, Mexico, on one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, further finding Mendoza-Verdugo responsible for 40-400 grams of fentanyl, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. The...
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