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Colombia's ‘Most-Wanted Drug Lord Since Pablo Escobar' Pleads Guilty in US
A Colombian man once referred to as the country’s most notorious drug lord since Pablo Escobar has pleaded guilty to cocaine smuggling charges in the U.S.
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DEA's Most Corrupt Agent: Parties, Sex Amid ‘Unwinnable War'
José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sports cars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.
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‘Parents Worst Nightmare': 15K Rainbow Fentanyl Pills Found Hidden in Legos in NY Bust
Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration said their latest seizure of “rainbow fentanyl” is the largest ever in New York, with 15,000 brightly colored pills containing the drug found hidden in children’s toys.
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DEA Announces Rainbow Fentanyl Bust in Manhattan
Investigators say a woman in Manhattan was busted for selling rainbow fentanyl and hiding it in Lego boxes, Erica Byfield reports.
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What Is Rainbow Fentanyl?
Officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration are warning of fentanyl appearing in bright colors, sometimes resembling sidewalk chalk or candy.
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3 Indicted for Part in Largest Seizure of NY-Destined Cocaine in Decades: Feds
Three men are facing charges for taking part in a drug trafficking scheme that would have brought about a ton of cocaine to New York streets, authorities said. The bust marks the largest cocaine seizure destined for the streets of New York in over a decade. Jorge Aponte-Guzman, Nelson Agramonte-Minaya, and Carlos Maisonet-Lopez, who were initially arrested Sept. 29, were…
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Confiscated Illegal Activity Money Turns Into New Bronx Basketball Court
The NYPD and the city are using
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DEA Agent, Gunman Killed in Amtrak Train Shooting in Arizona
Authorities say a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was killed when a passenger opened fire as officers were doing a routine inspection for illegal contraband on an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona
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‘One Pill Can Kill': DEA Warns About Fake Prescription Drugs Laced With Fentanyl
The DEA and its law enforcement partners have seized 9.5 million counterfeit pills so far this year, with fake tablets containing fentanyl making up the majority of that figure
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Mexico President Justifies Release of Kingpin Targeted by US
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended the 2013 ruling that freed one of the drug lords most wanted by U.S. authorities, even though Mexico’s Supreme Court later ruled it was a mistake.
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Fake Prescription Pills May Contain Lethal Dose of Fentanyl, DEA Says
Last year, 17-year-old Zach Didier of Rocklin, California, died when he took what he thought was a prescription pain pill he purchased from someone he met on Snapchat. The pill ended up being a counterfeit with a lethal amount of the powerful opioid fentanyl.
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DEA Warns of Alarming Post-COVID Rise in Drug Use; NY Sees 214% Jump in Meth Seizures
Alarming amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl were seized in New York last year, reflecting a disturbing trend that has been overshadowed in part by coronavirus-related deaths, officials say. The state saw a whopping 214 percent increase in meth seizures and a 59 percent rise in fentanyl seizures in 2020 compared with the year prior, according to the New York Division…
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Tiger Among Animals Officials Find in Search of Texas Home
Authorities seized animals including a white Bengal tiger, bobcat, kinkajou, porcupines, llamas, emus and deer after finding them at a South Texas residence while executing a search warrant last week.
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Feds: DEA Investigator Tried to Meet With 14-Year-Old for Sex
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigator has been arrested on charges he sent sexually explicit images to an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old boy. Frederick L. Scheinin, 29, was charged with attempted production of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor. He appeared Friday in Manhattan federal court and was released on house arrest with electronic monitoring. A…
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Angels Deny Knowledge of Organization's Reported Involvement in Skaggs' Drug Use
The Los Angeles Angels’ director of communication told federal investigators that he provided oxycodone to Tyler Skaggs and abused the drug with the pitcher, according to an ESPN report published Saturday.
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US Narcotics Agent Admits Role in Decade-Long Drug Trafficking Scheme
A federal narcotics agent has admitted his role in a decadelong drug conspiracy that took thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York.
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DOJ Moves to Add Marijuana Growers for Research
The Justice Department is moving forward to expand the number of marijuana growers for federally-authorized cannabis research.
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NJ Fertility Clinic Employee Writes Fake Prescriptions, Steals Fentanyl, Police Say
An employee of a South Jersey fertility clinic is accused of swiping dozens of doses of the powerful narcotic fentanyl.
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Women Buy Box of Legos in Ga., Find $40K in Meth Inside
Three Georgia women bought a box of Legos while visiting a South Carolina consignment shop, only to find that the box was actually filled with about $40,000 worth of methamphetamine. Bulloch County Sheriff’s Investigator Jim Riggs tells The Statesboro Herald that the women gifted the box to a child, who opened it and discovered the three pounds of drugs. Deputies...
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Manhattan Doctor Gets 20 Years in Prison in Opioid Prescription Case
Federal prosecutors say an 83-year-old Manhattan doctor has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally dispensing thousands of opioid prescriptions to patients, one of whom died of an overdose two days after visiting the doctor.