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Posted on May 16, 2012 By admin
Federal agents said a drug smuggling case in which TSA screeners allowed luggage with drugs inside through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport represents a serious security breach. A man ...
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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 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 5, 2012 By admin
In San Diego, California, former drug kingpin Benjamin Felix pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges. This marks the end of a decade-old case that targeted ...
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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 16, 2011 By Jerry Kastler
Three men were arrested after the United States Border Patrol said was an attempt to smuggle over 1,400 pounds of marijuana worth about $729,000 into the United States aboard a 25-foot panga boat. Two ...
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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 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 Oct 3, 2011 By admin
United States Border Patrol Agents intercepted a tractor-trailer rig that was loaded with 14 tons of marijuana heading for the Los Angeles area. This seizure is believed to be one of the largest ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By admin
A Compton, California man bound for Japan has been charged with federal drug trafficking after Transportation Security Administration officials at Los Angeles LAX Airport discovered almost 5 pounds of ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By admin
Fifteen people that includes a doctor, a pharmacy manager and gang members, were arrested for conspiracy to smuggle prescription drugs into Mexico from Los Angeles by strapping prescription of pills ...
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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 8, 2011 By admin
In Compton, California, federal prosecutors announced that eight people were arrested and more than a ton of drugs were seized after a investigation discovered two national drug trafficking groups. A ...
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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 Aug 1, 2011 By admin
State and federal agents spanned out across six Northern California counties recently in an attack on marijuana farms in United States forests. Approximately 460,000 marijuana plants were destroyed ...
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Posted on Jul 21, 2011 By admin
An Orange County, California doctor pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges for illegally prescribing painkillers and other abused prescription drugs to patients without a legitimate ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By admin
According to federal agents, nine people have been arrested relating to three separate maritime smuggling incidents along the Southern California coast over the past month. Among those charged in ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 By admin
A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for federal drug crime charges for attempting to transport a bumper crop of crystal methamphetamine across the United States and Mexico border. She hid 12 pounds ...
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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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Posted on Jun 16, 2011 By admin
In Sacramento, California, a federal grand jury returned two indictments charging two men with illegal possession of firearms, firearms trafficking, and drug trafficking . Michael Hernandez, of ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By admin
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department arrested dozens of gang members who have controlled drug trafficking for decades in southwest Los Angeles. LAPD officers and FBI agents carrying more than a ...
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