Trevor Scott Sparks, a Kansas City, Missouri, federal defendant who escaped after trial and was recaptured, was sentenced in federal district court on Tuesday for his role in leading a $4.1 million heavily armed drug-trafficking conspiracy, and direc
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Two men who orchestrated the transportation and distribution of over 500 pounds of ice methamphetamine to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were sentenced on August 16 and 30, 2023, to a total of 63 years in federal prison.
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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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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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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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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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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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The final of four defendants has been sentenced to federal prison for his part in a multi-state drug trafficking scheme. 40-year-old Charles House, of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last week after a federal jury found
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A convicted drug dealer was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston to trafficking counterfeit oxycodone and Adderall pills that contained fentanyl and methamphetamine. 30-year-old Vando Gvozdarevic had pleaded guilty on July 7, 2022, to posse
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Seven people were indicted last week in an investigation into a drug trafficking ring in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Three people were arrested in Arizona and four in Seattle. In addition, two people named in indictments in Pittsburgh were arrested in
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One of the leaders of a violent international drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine in the Puget Sound region was sentenced Tuesday over 12 years in prison. 37-year-old Jose Elias Barbosa, of Kent, Washi
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The last of fifteen members of a large-scale methamphetamine distribution conspiracy based in Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced last week. The case revolved around members and associates of the Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club.
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Two brothers with ties to Cartel de Jalisco Nuevo Generación, one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, have been sentenced last week to a combined 70 years in federal prison for methamphetamine and money laundering offenses.
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A Mexican man involved in a Mexico‑based drug trafficking organization that was distributing significant amounts of methamphetamine in the Waterloo, Iowa, area was convicted by a jury on Thursday after a three‑day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapi
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A Mexican national was sentenced in federal court in Austin at the end of January to 14 years in prison for his role in a narcotics distribution network that spanned the U.S. 37-year-old Victor “Cuñado” Penaloza-Calderon, of Michoacan, Mexico was the
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The boss of a violent, prolific drug trafficking ring was sentenced on January 31 in a Seattle court to 15 years in prison. 36-year-old Cesar Valdez-Sanudo pleaded guilty in June 2022 to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to c
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A drug trafficker from Idaho was sentenced to life in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced on January 27. 46-year-old Adam Lee Vallely, of Blackfoot, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, possession with t
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A member of the Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced this week to almost 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
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A member of the Indian Brotherhood was sentenced to life in prison this week for his role in two separate homicides. 33-year-old Matthew Onesimo Armstrong, of Seminole, Oklahoma, had previously pleaded guilty to murder, kidnapping, and gun and drug c
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The flow of drugs continues unabated. Despite the War on Drugs and despite the hard work by honest law enforcement agencies, it is said that only 10 percent of the shipments of narcotics are intercepted by authorities. Gangsters Inc. tries to keep tr
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