A 38-year-old Kent, Washington resident was sentenced Tuesday in Seattle to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. Omar Vazquez-Limon was arrested in August 2020 in northern California as he transported kilos of
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A Florida Bloods gang boss was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison on Monday. 36-year-old Antonio Eugene Brutton had pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl
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The Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) dismantled a criminal organization smuggling large quantities of cocaine from South America to Europe via the Canary Islands. The investigation identified a significant threat; criminal organizations’ increasin
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51-year-old Dairo “Otoniel” Antonio Úsuga David, Colombia’s most powerful drug lord, was sentenced on Tuesday to 45 years in prison for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise as a leader of the multibillion-dollar paramilitary and narcotics tra
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Ernesto Diaz-Velazquez, a 40-year-old Texan, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute approximately 19 kilograms of meth this week, the DEA announced in a press statement. He had pleaded guilty Decemb
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The world of narcos is one where truth is stranger than fiction. Just look at fugitive cartel boss Sebastián Marset. While on the run from serious drug and murder charges, he fled to Bolivia. Last week, he barely managed to escape arrest. Rather than
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A federal drug trafficking investigation has resulted in charges against a dozen individuals for allegedly trafficking fentanyl-laced heroin, cocaine, or other drugs on the South Side of Chicago. Some of the defendants allegedly supplied or sought to
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The leader of a large-scale, long-term St. Louis fentanyl trafficking ring was sentenced to 15 years in prison this week. 40-year-old Jamore Clark, of unincorporated St. Louis County, admitted in a guilty plea in January that he had been caught with
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A Nuestra Familia drug trafficker was sentenced on Monday to over 11 years in prison. 34-year-old Ernesto Zibray, of Delano, California, was charged as part of Operation Red Reaper, a multi-agency operation that resulted in three federal cases chargi
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Truman Capote, the late, famous American novelist and playwright, once said, “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” A more than perfect observation of what took place in New York and various outlier areas of north-eastern Am
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Authorities in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands dismantled a network of drug traffickers composed mainly of Albanian nationals. Last week, during a joint action, 35 suspects were arrested and 51 places were searched in the countries involved.
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The walls are closing in on members of the Irish Kinahan crime group. After the U.S. Department of State offered a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of its key bosses, authorities around the world are hunting them down.
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Authorities in Italy, Belgium and Germany joined forces with Eurojust and Europol in a new operation against the Calabrian Mafia, known as the ‘Ndrangheta, and its drug trafficking activities. Today, 31 suspects were arrested and assets worth over €3
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A Boston man responsible for leading a large drug trafficking organization was sentenced Thursday for drug conspiracy and gun charges. 50-year-old Mujab Mubarak, who goes by the nicknames “Big Homie,” “Easy,” and “E,” was received a 10 year prison te
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A man working for the Nuestra Familia prison gang was sentenced Tuesday to over 21 years behind bars. 41-year-old Florentino Gutierrez, of Hanford, California, was behind the trafficking of 2 kilograms of methamphetamine.
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Three men have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in a Cape Cod drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin throughout the Cape Cod and Pawtucket, R.I., regions. The men committed a violent kidnapping recorded on video and
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Branding is important. Even when you have a product as successful – and addictive - as cocaine. Though the stuff practically sells itself to everyone - from junkies and sports fans to Wall Street Gordon Gecko wannabes and vegan yoga instructors - it
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Police in Italy and Spain arrested 33 suspects yesterday morning in a coordinated action against a globally active money laundering criminal network. The alleged perpetrators, who are of Italian, Albanian, Colombian, Moroccan, and Syrian nationality,
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German and Belgian authorities took down an Albanian organized crime group involved in large-scale drugs trafficking and money laundering across Europe. On 25 May, over 300 officers, including special intervention and K9 teams, carried out a series
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A Pope County, Arkansas, drug dealer with connections to the New Aryan Empire prison gang was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. 55-year-old Marcus Millsap, of Little Rock, was convicted of conspiracy to violate racketeering laws, attempted mu
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