LOS ANGELES A Mexican national has been indicted on federal narcotics trafficking charges that allege he oversaw a drug trafficking organization, officials stated this week. The organization acquired large quantities of fentanyl…
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Calif. Man Charged with Multiple Narcotics Crimes, Including Selling Fentanyl to Teenager Who Died of a Fatal Overdose
RIVERSIDE, California A federal grand jury indicted a Riverside County man for allegedly selling a 17-year-old boy fentanyl in May, officials announced Tuesday. The sale resulted in the boy’s fatal overdose the…
Physician and Clinic Office Manager Convicted of Unlawful Distribution of Over 600,000 Opioid Pills
HOUSTON A federal jury convicted a Texas physician and clinic office manager Wednesday for operating a pill-mill clinic that unlawfully prescribed over 600,000 opioid pills in exchange for cash, officials stated. According…
DEA Seizes More Than 379 Million Doses of Fentanyl in 2022
Press Release WASHINGTON D.C. As 2022 comes to an end, the Drug Enforcement Administration is announcing…
Former DEA Agent Sentenced to 12 Years for Taking $1 Million in Bribes from Drug Dealers
A former DEA special agent was sentenced this week to 145 months, or more than 12 years, in prison for operating a money laundering and fraud scheme while serving as a special…
Physician Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Illegally Prescribing Drugs That Resulted in Death
TENNESSEE A Tennessee physician was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for his unlawful prescribing of opioids that caused the death of one of his patients, according to officials. According to…
Ex-DEA Agent and His Wife Guilty of Stealing Drug Money
FLORIDA A former DEA agent and his wife plead guilty Monday to a 19-count indictment involving drug-related crimes, according to authorities. Jose Ismael Irizarry, 46, and his wife, Nathalia Gomez-Irizarry, 36, admitted…
Alleged Criminals — Hezbollah Associate and Computer Hacker — Extradited to U.S. From Cyprus
GEORGIA A Lebanese national wanted in Florida who is alleged involved in the laundering of drug money through the use of the black market peso exchange in support of Hezbollah’s global criminal…
Former DEA Official Guilty of $4 Million Fraud Scheme by Posing as a CIA Officer
VIRGINIA A former DEA spokesman plead guilty to defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing as a covert officer of the CIA, officials announced. Garrison Kenneth Courtney,…
Former Chief of Honduran National Police Charged with Drug Trafficking and Weapons Offenses
NEW YORK The former Chief of Honduran National Police, Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, aka “El Tigre,” was charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S., officials announced…
DEA: Discovered U.S.-Mexico Border Tunnel Results in 4,400 Pounds of Drugs Seized
SAN DIEGO Federal agents on the San Diego Tunnel Task Force uncovered a sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnel on Thursday, which extends under the United States-Mexico border to a warehouse in a commercial complex…
DEA PRESS RELEASE: Warning over Counterfeit Prescription Pills from Mexico
Press Release DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico WASHINGTON – The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass…