Missouri State

Colorado State

CBS Denver

A Northern Colorado man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in supplying fentanyl to a teenage boy. Samuel Strait was sentenced Tuesday afternoon by 8th Judicial District Judge Daniel McDonald.Strait, 32, was prosecuted and convicted for his role in the 2022 overdose death of the teenager. CBS News Colorado has agreed not to publish the name of the victim due to his age.Strait sold the 15-year-old fentanyl pills late at night in July of 2022.Investigators with the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force said the boy contacted Strait multiple times seeking access to fentanyl pills. The boy,...

Fentanyl dealer sentenced to 25 years for 15-year-old's fatal overdose

Tacoma, WA

UPI News

A former attorney from Mexico has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including methamphetamine, the Justice Department announced Monday.

Former lawyer sentenced to 7 years for Mexico drug trafficking

Knewz

The Rocky Mountain Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized around 570,000 fake fentanyl pills from three separate drug busts in Colorado in a week. Knewz.com has learned that the investigation into the seized fentanyl shipments is ongoing, per the DEA. Last year established a record for Colorado as the DEA seized 2.6 […]

DEA Seizes Over Half a Million Fake Fentanyl Pills from Colorado in a Week

Kansas City, MO

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Kristy Tallman

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The owner of an Olathe, Kansas, business pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a money-laundering conspiracy to transfer the proceeds of heroin and methamphetamine trafficking to Mexico. A Kansas City, Mo., woman also pleaded guilty to her role in the drug-trafficking conspiracy.

Kansas City Money Laundering Bust Exposes Massive Drug Operation

Pennsylvania State

Monroe County, PA

East Stroudsburg, PA

The Independent

 Two men have been arrested after three women and a teen girl were abducted and held captive in a storage container in Pennsylvania following the witnessing of a shooting, officials say.Davaun Carlon Jackson, 29, of East Stroudsburg and Isaiah Rogers-Keeney, 19, of Middletown were arrested by state troopers at a Walmart in Mount Pocono in Pennsylvania, at around 10:44 a.m. on Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.Jackson has been charged with kidnapping, rape and terroristic threats, among a string of other charges, while Rogers-Keeney is charged as an accomplice.Their whereabouts came from a member of the public who claimed...

Two men arrested after police discovered that three women and a teen were held captive in a shipping container

PopCulture

They both appeared on Channel 4's '999: On the Frontline.'

Reality TV Star and Girlfriend Found Dead: Murder Investigation Underway in Deaths of Daniel Duffield and Lauren Evans

San Diego, CA

 A former U.S. Customs officer has been convicted of accepting bribes to let drug-filled vehicles into the United States from Mexico, giving traffickers a one-hour window to reach his lane at a San Diego border crossing and pocketing at least $13,000 per vehicle, officials said Thursday. Prosecutors say Leonard Darnell George, a Customs and Border Protection officer working for two separate criminal organizations, allowed at least 19 crossings between late 2021 to June 2022. The vehicles contained several hundred pounds of methamphetamine as well as smaller amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and heroin, and also people being brought into the...

Ex-US Customs officer convicted of letting drug-filled cars enter from Mexico

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Los Angeles County, CA

Federal authorities announced Monday that they have arrested 22 people who were part of a drug-trafficking ring for conspiring to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl. The U.S. Department of Justice said the drugs were imported into the United States from Mexico. The big picture: Court documents state...

22 arrested for trafficking nearly 13,000 pounds of meth

California State

HeySoCal

A statewide fentanyl crackdown that focused on ports of entry along the southern border has resulted in authorities seizing 7 million pills and 3,725 pounds of power since January, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday. Last month alone, investigators seized 1,170,893 pills containing fentanyl and 986 pounds of fentanyl powder. “California’s...

7 million fentanyl pills, 3,700 pounds of power seized statewide this year

Coffee County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Last month, more than twenty individuals were indicted on felony charges in Coffee County. Several of them have recently made local headlines, including Guillermo de la Cruz-Morales, the sole person charged in connection with the disappearance of Maria Diaz, and Cornelius Jamison, accused of cocaine trafficking.

Grand Jury Indicts Over Twenty Individuals on Felony Charges in Coffee County

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Mississippi State

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Oregon State

Bend, OR

(The Center Square) - A man from Bend, Oregon, received a federal prison sentence last week for possessing 20 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Isaac Kitashima, 48, got a nine-year federal prison sentence plus five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.

Oregon meth trafficker gets nine years in federal prison

Daily Mail

Smoking gun texts show Hunter Biden set up a meeting with a convicted drug dealer the night before he purchased the revolver at the center of his federal court case.

Bombshell text messages Hunter exchanged with drug dealer

Arizona State

Nogales, AZ

New York Post

(The Center Square) – US Customs and Border Protection agents continue to seize record amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine, weapons and ammunition at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona.

Seizures in the month of May continued the trend of agents catching alleged smugglers attempting to bring drugs into the US and weapons to Mexico.

Cartel and gang operatives have a pattern of smuggling people and drugs into the US and weapons, ammunition, cash and other contraband using stolen cars, to Mexico, law enforcement officials told The Center Square.

Last month, CBP agents seized more than three million fentanyl pills in one load,...

Arizona border agents seize enough lethal drugs to kill millions of people in just a few stops

Ali Carney, 46, of Newark, received a 65-month prison sentence for conspiring to distribute narcotics, including fentanyl and heroin, and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Gang Member Sentenced to 65 Months for Drug Trafficking

Reader's Digest

As a child who had to take a lot of medication—I grew up in the era when they gave you antibiotics if you sneezed twice—I had quite the collection of those plastic orange pill bottles with the white caps. I remember wondering vaguely why they were that strange color and then deciding that they must have been designed in the 1970s because everything from that decade seemed to have that weird sepia tone to it.

This Is the Real Reason Pill Bottles Are Orange

Saint Johns County, FL

Hastings, FL

Jacksonville Today

Eight people have been arrested on drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation at a convenience store in Hastings, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

8 arrested in Hastings drug and gambling bust

Wyoming State

WyoFile

Secretary of State Chuck Gray is seeking to keep a campaign promise to rid the state of ballot drop boxes, but the group representing the state’s county clerks maintains the decision is up to local election officials.

Gray urges Wyoming to ditch ballot drop boxes; clerks say they’re safe, legal

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Man sentenced for distributing over 5,000 fentanyl pills in northwest Missouri

NEWTOWN, Mo. — A Missouri man has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for his involvement in trafficking fentanyl in northwest Missouri...

Man sentenced for distributing over 5,000 fentanyl pills in northwest Missouri

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