Former Government Official In The Dominican Republic Sentenced To 15 Years For Conspiring To Import Cocaine Into The United States

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that the Dominican Republic’s former Consul General to Jamaica, JEREMIAS JIMENEZ CRUZ, was sentenced today to 179 months…

March 16, 2022

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69-year-old killed in snorkeling accident near Key West

Florida News·Police Blotter

KEY WEST, FL – Police have reported a woman who was snorkeling near Key West has died while snorkeling from a local charter boat. Police said Karen Ruth Zaslow was snorkeling on…

March 11, 2022

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356 Haitian Migrants Intercepted in South Florida

US and World News

MIAMI— U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, Office of Field Operations, along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners responded simultaneously to a maritime…

March 8, 2022

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Kivalina Man Sentenced for Child Exploitation

Department of Justice Press Releases

FAIRBANKS – A former substitute teacher from Kivalina, Alaska, was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline…

February 22, 2022

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Guatemalan National is Extradited on International Cocaine Trafficking and Maritime Smuggling Charges

Department of Justice Press Releases

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Mokhtari (619) 546-8402 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – February 17, 2022 SAN DIEGO – Suspected drug trafficker Rafael Orlando Ramirez Barillas, a Guatemalan national who was extradited to the United…

February 18, 2022

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Three Guatemalans Extradited to the United States on International Cocaine Trafficking Charges

Department of Justice Press Releases

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Mokhtari (619) 546-8402 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – February 17, 2022 SAN DIEGO – Three Guatemalan nationals who were extradited to the United States from Guatemala to face international cocaine…

February 18, 2022

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St. Croix Man Sentenced for Fleeing from Park Rangers After Shots Were Fired on Buck Island

Department of Justice Press Releases

St. Croix, USVI – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that a St. Croix man, Aneudis Acevedo, age 33, appeared before Judge Wilma A. Lewis, in District Court, and was sentenced today…

February 17, 2022

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Suspected Ecuadorian Drug Trafficker Extradited to San Diego for Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine

Department of Justice Press Releases

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Mellor (619) 546-9733 and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Bredariol (619) 546-8419 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – February 11, 2022 SAN DIEGO – Pedro Cornelio Pilligua Iduarte, the owner…

February 12, 2022

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Former Mexican Federal Police Commander Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

Department of Justice Press Releases

Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ivan Reyes Arzate, a former Mexican Federal Police Officer and Commander of the Mexican Federal Police’s Sensitive Investigative Unit (“SIU”), was sentenced by United States…

February 10, 2022

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Dominican Drug Lord Extradited to the United States from St. Maarten to Face Drug Trafficking Charges

Department of Justice Press Releases

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dominican drug lord Justo Germán Rosario (CPOT No. 64), also known as “Papín,” was indicted, arrested, and extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking charges…

February 4, 2022

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Three Defendants Arrested For Operating Narcotics Delivery Service Responsible For Three Overdose Deaths From Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine

Department of Justice Press Releases

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Tim Foley, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), and Keechant…

February 1, 2022

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Dominican Drug Lord extradited to the United States from Colombia to Face Drug Trafficking Charges

Department of Justice Press Releases·Government News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Today, Colombian authorities extradited Dominican drug lord Cesar Emilio Peralta-Adamez, also known as “El Abusador,” to the United States to face drug trafficking charges filed in the…

December 23, 2021

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Taylor Energy Company to Pay Over $43 Million and Transfer $432 Million Decommissioning Trust Fund to the United States for Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Department of Justice Press Releases

Taylor Energy Company LLC (Taylor Energy), a Louisiana oil and gas company, has agreed to turn over all its remaining assets to the United States upon liquidation to resolve its liability for…

December 22, 2021

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Guatemalan man who was extradited to Ohio sentenced to 140 months in prison for Colombia-to-United States cocaine conspiracy

Department of Justice Press Releases

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Guatemalan man was sentenced in federal court here for distributing at least five kilograms or more of cocaine on the high seas. In March 2020, Jose Luis…

December 8, 2021

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Colombian National Extradited From Costa Rica To Face Drug Charges In The United States

Government News

Tampa, Florida – Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the unsealing of a 2019 indictment charging Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros, a/k/a “Nostradamus,” (41, Colombia, South America) with conspiracy to distribute large amounts…

November 20, 2021

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International Money Launderer And Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To More Than Seventeen Years’ Imprisonment And Ordered To Forfeit Over $1 Million

Breaking News

Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Diego Fernando Cardona Lozano (46, Cali, Colombia), also known as “El Doctor” and “Pomada,” to 17 years and 6 months in…

November 13, 2021

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Bridgeport Marina Owner Who Illegally Scuttled Abandoned Vessels in Long Island Sound is Sentenced

Government News

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN MAGNESS, 72, of Bristol, Maine, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport…

October 25, 2021

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Man heading to jail after smuggling tons of cocaine using submarine

Breaking News

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Bredariol (619) 546-8419 and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Mellor (619) 546-9733 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – October 15, 2021 SAN DIEGO – Jose Rosario Segura Balentierra, a Colombian…

October 18, 2021

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Two Lyon County Men Sentenced for Causing 3,900-Gallon Oil Spill into Yellow Medicine River

Breaking News

MINNEAPOLIS – Two Lyon County men have each been sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $1,138,772.06 in restitution for causing thousands of gallons of oil to spill into…

October 6, 2021

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Smugglers caught moving 250 kilos of cocaine in the Caribbean

Government News·US and World News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Coast Guard Cutter Reef Shark transferred custody of two smugglers and offloaded approximately 250 kilograms cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan Saturday, following Coast Guard…

October 6, 2021

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