Recent Posts in Methamphetamine Category
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 Jan 23, 2012 By admin
San Bernardino County district attorney’s office requested a court-approved injunction to crack down on a Rancho Cucamonga street gang that uses the downtown area as its gang turf. The ...
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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 18, 2011 By admin
L.A. City prosecutors have charged two men with violating an injunction prohibiting gang and narcotics activity on Los Angeles' skid row. This represents the first legal action since the ...
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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 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 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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Posted on May 9, 2011 By admin
In Santa Maria, California, federal agents arrested 11 individuals following a investigation into the drug trafficking network of two Central Coast street gangs. Federal agents assigned to the task ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By admin
Many Westside gang members were arrested on suspicion of firearms and narcotics offenses observed at a Venice storefront run by Federal undercover agents. Federal agents with the federal Bureau of ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2011 By admin
Dozens of members of Los Angeles' 38th Street gang were arrested under a federal racketeering indictment saying they are responsible for numerous murders and drug trafficking , as well as ...
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