Recent Posts in Drug Distribution Category
Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By admin
Drug operators running an online narcotics marketplace through a virtual network facilitated sales of illegal drugs to 3,000 people in 34 countries and every single state in the United States, ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2012 By admin
A rise in deaths from black-tar heroin overdoses in Redlands, California in late 2010 led police to an investigation that has resulted in the indictment of 20 people who made up a large group of drug ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2012 By admin
Long Beach, California police arrested three men after finding drugs and a marijuana-growing operation at a home that later caught fire. Police were on the 1900 block of Caspian Avenue, searching for ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2012 By admin
Around $100 million worth of PCP was seized this week in Los Angeles and Culver City in what police described as a major bust of a national drug trafficking organization. Police said they discovered ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By admin
Local police and federal agents arrested more than 100 suspected gang members throughout San Diego County as part of an investigation into racketeering , firearms trafficking and drug distribution ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By admin
An investigation that lasted for a month resulted in five arrests and the seizure of more than $200,000 in marijuana in Orange County, California. Anthony Mave, of San Clemente, was arrested in ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that Jose Alberto Marquez was sentenced to life in prison, based on his federal jury trial conviction for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, in the second phase of Operation Supernova, an investigation into Ventura County’s largest street gang, three gang members have been arrested on federal drug ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By admin
A federal indictment in Los Angeles has charged 14 people that includes an 88-year-old doctor and two operators of a Los Angeles clinic, with running an illegal insurance fraud scheme to obtain and ...
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Posted on Oct 10, 2011 By admin
In Oakland, California, Desean Gardner was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for his role as the leader of a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute crack cocaine throughout the San Francisco ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By admin
The San Diego FBI office announced the arrest of 26 people with ties to the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Over 250 police and federal agents from San Diego County participated in the arrest. They were ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney in San Diego, California announced that Luis Carlos Barragan was sentenced to serve 168 months in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal drug crime in February ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By admin
Three men were arrested near a San Diego, California, beach as they attempted to smuggle over 700 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Mexico. This latest attempt represents just another ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By admin
In Fresno, California, a United States Attorney and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent announced that Phousangkhy Phanthadeth, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to conspiring to manufacture , ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By admin
Ten members of two Pacoima, California gangs with ties to the Mexican Mafia were arrested by an FBI and Los Angeles Police Department task force for activity in a narcotics distribution network and ...
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Posted on Jun 26, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, three men with ties to street gangs in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties were sentenced to federal prison ranging from a 10 to 15 years after pleading guilty to federal ...
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