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New Yorkers Remove Almost 11,000 Pounds of Unwanted Medications During DEA’s Fall National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

Since 2010, DEA’s National Prescription Take Back Day has collected 21,679,861 pounds of unused, unwanted, and expired medications – the equivalent of more than 10,840 tons – to help prevent ...
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Safely Removes More Than 645,000 Pounds of Unwanted Medications Nationwide

Across the DEA St. Louis Field Division, communities safely disposed of 30,997 pounds of unused and expired prescription medications at more than 200 locations spanning Kansas, Missouri and Southern ...
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Madison Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Trafficking & Firearms Offenses

The case involved a joint investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant United ...
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HSTF Investigation Results in Historic New Mexico Fentanyl Seizure, Arrest of State Employee

On October 29, 2026, agents and officers executed a federal search at Ramirez’s residence where they located multiple duffel ...
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Sioux City Woman to Federal Prison for Meth Distribution Conspiracy

United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand sentenced Nikkel to 168 months’ imprisonment and eight years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Nikkel remains in ...
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Dominican National Sentenced to More than 12 Years in Prison for Role in Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

CONCORD, N.H. – Dominican national Danaury Espinal-Lara, 46, has been sentenced in federal court by U.S. District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to 151 months in federal prison for conspiring to ...
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Indiana Man Sentenced to Over 5 Years for Cocaine Trafficking, Gun Crime

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – On Oct. 29, 2026, Leto Lorenzo Hill, 38 years old, of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after pleading guilty to ...
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Homeland Security Task Force: Two Connecticut Men Found with 21 Kilos of Cocaine Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison

According to court documents and statements made in court, as part of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, on February 23, 2026, Connecticut State Police troopers stopped a 2024 Subaru ...
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Nine Charged as a Result of Homeland Security Task Force Investigation into Southeastern Connecticut Cocaine Trafficking

Greco, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that the following nine individuals have been charged by indictment with offenses related to the distribution of cocaine and ...
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Lawrence Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Manufacture And Distribute Counterfeit Pills

BOSTON – A Lawrence, Mass. man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to his involvement in a drug trafficking organization (DTO). Over two kilograms of suspected controlled substances and a pill ...
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Trafficking Fentanyl and Crack Cocaine While Armed

HAMMOND, Ind. - On Oct. 29, 2026, Jabari Casey, 45, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to possessing with intent to distribute 40 grams ...
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Top Ecuadorian Leader of Los Choneros, a Violent Foreign Terrorist Organization, Extradited to the United States to Face International Narcotics and Firearm Charges Following ...

Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Terrance C. Cole, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), John A. Condon, Acting Executive ...