Sócrates Gabriel Barros, alias Chun, llevaba años en el punto de mira policial en su país y en los EE.UU., que solo en el 2016 le atribuye 14.000 de cocaína incautados en diferentes buques. También le otorga la capacidad de enviar alijos a Centroamérica, el mar Caribe y Europa.
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Marc Fiévet, aka «NS55», est le 55e aviseur recruté par l’échelon nantais de la DNRED. Le skipper a 44 ans lorsqu’il est «tamponné» en 1988 par les douanes à Gibraltar, la minuscule enclave britannique située à la pointe sud de l’Espagne.
C’est la grande époque de la Costa del Sol, devenue en quelques années le nouvel épicentre du trafic de drogue en Europe. Proposant aux malfrats de convoyer leur came à bord de son voilier, NS55 répercute toutes les informations en temps réel à ses officiers traitants, ébahis devant l’audace de cet aviseur hors pair.
Ses résultats sont tellement extraordinaires que Charasse le reçoit en personne à Bercy, et vient lui rendre visite à Marbella.
Encouragé, Fiévet a ouvert un bar-restaurant, en association avec la Douane Française, dans la station balnéaire d’ESTEPONA, le Saint-Georges, où se bousculent la pègre locale et les truands de passage. Mais au fil des saisies, la pression n’en finit pas de se resserrer sur NS55.
Le 23 septembre 1994, il est interpellé dans le sud de l’Espagne. Deux mandats d’arrêt internationaux ont été émis contre lui par le Canada et le Royaume-Uni, convaincus de son rôle dans l’importation de plusieurs tonnes de drogue sur leur territoire.
Lâché par ses ex-amis douaniers, Marc Fiévet fera plus de dix ans de prison entre l’Espagne, l’Angleterre, le Canada et la France.
Depuis, son spectre flotte toujours sur l’histoire du service.
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Le « SECRET DÉFENSE » est toujours appliqué au dossier de Marc Fievet
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Il semblerait que l’honneur ne soit pas une vertu connue par les DG Comolli, Viala, Duhamel, Cadiou, Auvigne, Mongin, Fournel, Crocquevieille, Gintz et Braun-Lemaire
La honte « ad vitam aeternam » sur les DG de la Douane Française
avec la médaille d’or pour l’énarque IGF François Auvigne
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August 24, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A federal jury in Tallahassee convicted Beyah Islam Basha, 44, of Perry, Florida, of two counts of distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The guilty verdict, returned yesterday, at…
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August 23, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Carlos Arturo “Ochenta” Quintana, 40, was arraigned on an indictment charging him with conspiracy to import a controlled substance into the United States. A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging…
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August 23, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Sherman Michael Puckett (34, Clearwater) to 25 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, 10 grams or more of fentanyl analogues, 5 grams or more of methamphetamine, and heroin; and obstructing of…
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August 23, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – United States (U.S.) Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Isaac Enriquez Oyando (34, Mexico), Romeo Santos Hernandez (36, Mexico), John Macias Agua (34, Ecuador), Jaime Velez Arcentales (40, Ecuador) and Eddy Anchundia Velez (32, Ecuador) guilty of conspiracy and possession with the…
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August 23, 2022
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A federal jury in Pensacola has convicted Kenneth Ingram, 62, and Kadeem Ingram, 32, both of DeFuniak Springs, Florida for the offenses of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 28 grams or more of cocaine base and…
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August 23, 2022
STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK – A New Jersey man has been arrested and indicted on charges of first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and related charges in connection with an interstate fentanyl mailing operation that utilized mailing facilities on Staten Island to ship thousands of fake pills across the…
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August 22, 2022
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Jeremy Inderyas, 37, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, August 18, 2022, to 100 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Inderyas had previously pled guilty in federal court to the methamphetamine conspiracy…
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August 22, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber has sentenced Marvin “MJ” Mitchell (36, St. Petersburg) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine. Mitchell had pleaded guilty on April 14, 2022. According to court documents and evidence…
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August 22, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO – Gage Pascoe was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison for distributing pills laced with fentanyl that caused a Walnut Creek woman’s overdose death, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon. The sentence was handed down…
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August 21, 2022
WASHINGTON – On Sunday, August 21, the Drug Enforcement Administration will recognize National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day by joining the many voices dedicated to educating the public on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs. DEA supports the efforts of several organizations –…
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La DEA estadounidense, la NCA británica, la Ofast de Francia, la Politie de Holanda o la Policía Nacional de Colombia son los principales socios de la unidad con base en la Comisaría Provincial. La colaboración de todas ellas con los Greco se traduce en éxitos internacionales de relumbrón. Así, 2021 comenzó con uno de esos trabajos conjuntos orquestados en Pontevedra que descubrió un nuevo modus operandi de los grupos de narcos que operan en el Atlántico, con numerosas embarcaciones para un mismo alijo.
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July 21, 2022
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville DEA agents, working with the Jeffersontown Police Department, intercepted 30 kilograms of cocaine and one kilogram of Fentanyl on July 10, 2022. Officials said that the drugs were intended to be distributed in and around the greater Louisville area and eastern Kentucky. The announcement comes from…
July 20, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis woman has pleaded guilty to misappropriating and adulterating prescription morphine while working as a pharmacist. According to court documents, on October 30, 2019, Jennifer Lee Draheim, 42, a pharmacist at Coburn’s Pharmacy in Ramsey, removed a bottle of morphine sulfate from the Scheduled Drug Cabinet and…
July 20, 2022
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — Ralph Allison Pitt, Jr., 46, of Columbia, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Evidence presented to the Court showed that, on December 6…
July 19, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – INTEGRIS ProHealth, Inc., and its parent, INTEGRIS Health, Inc. (collectively, “INTEGRIS”) paid $120,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that Integris Baptist Medical Center Pharmacy (“Integris Pharmacy”), which is owned and operated by INTEGRIS ProHealth, Inc., violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control…
July 19, 2022
LOS ANGELES – Two Arizona men face federal charges after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division’s Enforcement Group 2, in coordination with the Burbank Police Department, seized 100,000 fake oxycodone pills. A criminal complaint filed in federal court alleges that, in the early morning hours of…
July 19, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Eighteen defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri after law enforcement officers seized approximately 29 pounds of methamphetamine, approximately $57,000, and firearms. Brian E. Hall, 45, of Aurora, Mo., Jacqueline…
July 19, 2022
EAST WINDSOR, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that an East Windsor man has admitted his role in a scheme to acquire and distribute oxycodone obtained through fraudulent prescriptions. On July 5, 2022, JAYSON KEMP, 45, pleaded guilty before U.S. District…
July 19, 2022
NAUGATUCK, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTONIO SMALL, also known as “Tone” and “Bert,” 30, formerly of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 300 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of…
July 18, 2022
NEW YORK – An accused major trafficker was extradited from Colombia to face charges associated with smuggling and selling multi-kilogram quantities of heroin in New York City and for coordinating an international money-laundering scheme. Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New…
July 18, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris for the Central District of Illinois announced that Qwanell Jones, 27, of Alton, Illinois, was sentenced on July 11, 2022, to an aggregate term of 138 months…
July 15, 2022
SYRACUSE, NY – Rory R. Williams, aka “Wildman,” aka “Wild,” aka “Man,” aka “Shawn Carter,” age 45, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty yesterday to distributing N-Ethylpentylone, also known as “molly,” a Schedule I controlled substance. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Matt Scarpino, Special…
July 15, 2022
MIAMI – Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Miami Field Division has issued a Public Safety Alert to warn Florida communities of the increase of mass-overdose events across the state suspected to be related to drug supplies laced with a synthetic opioid. While law enforcement agencies continue to investigate these…
July 15, 2022
CHICAGO — Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., for the Northern District of Illinois, announced that a suburban Chicago physician prescribed opioids to patients without a medical examination or visit and then fraudulently billed Medicare…
July 15, 2022
MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Douglas Mack, 45, Phoenix, Arizona, and Emily Mack, 36, Madison, Wisconsin, were sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge William…
July 15, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – A three-year investigation into an Oklahoma prison-based drug trafficking organization has resulted in 21 defendants being convicted across multiple federal cases. The wrap-up of this investigation and prosecution is jointly announced by Robert J. Troester, United States Attorney, Eduardo A. Chávez, DEA Special Agent in Charge…
July 15, 2022
SEYMOUR, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LOUIE McDOWELL, 49, of Seymour, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and…
July 15, 2022
CONCORD, N.H. – Dawson Boston, 23, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, and two counts of distribution of fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today. According to court documents and statements made…
July 15, 2022
HOLYOKE, Mass. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Daeshawn Jones, 21, of Holyoke, Massachusetts was sentenced on July 12 in United States District Court to 47 months’ imprisonment. Jones had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base, and…
July 15, 2022
BOSTON – A Boston gang associate was sentenced today for cocaine and firearm offenses in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Renardo Williams, 45, of South Boston, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to time served (approximately 32 months in prison) and six…
July 14, 2022
FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Hugo Vigil Villagomez, 42, of Oakdale, and Serafin Villagomez Vigil, 27, of Riverbank, charging them with possessing and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and…
July 14, 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Stockton residents Jose Curiel, 35, and Roberto Tostado-Cadenas, 43, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Curiel and Cadenas arranged to…
July 14, 2022
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Group 48, seized approximately 1 million fake pills containing fentanyl in Inglewood, Calif. earlier this month. This record-breaking bust is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills DEA has made in California…
July 14, 2022
BRIDGETON, N.J. – Cumberland County is the latest region to be assigned the designation of being a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) through the federally funded HIDTA program, Susan A. Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Jennifer Webb-McRae, Cumberland County Prosecutor…
July 14, 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Shawn Andrew Wilson (47, Fernandina Beach) has been sentenced to seven years and eight months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine and for violating the conditions of his…
July 13, 2022
ST. LOUIS – A man from Wildwood, Missouri, has been caught with at least 400 pounds of methamphetamine, federal charging documents allege. Kolby L. Kristiansen, 68, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday with possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Charging documents say that investigators located a storage unit…
July 13, 2022
ST. LOUIS – A man suspected of supplying drugs to a St. Charles mother who died last month was indicted Wednesday on a charge of possession and distribution of fentanyl. The woman’s children, ages 2, 4 and 2 months, had been alone in a bedroom after their mother’s death for…
July 13, 2022
MEDFORD, Ore.—A Josephine County, Oregon man who distributed marijuana throughout the U.S. using his private airplane, and who hired a hitman to kill a drug trafficking associate, was sentenced to federal prison today. John Tobe Larson, 71, was sentenced to 35 months in federal prison and five years of supervised…
July 13, 2022
BRUNSWICK, GA – A newly unsealed federal indictment charges 14 defendants in a South Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy alleged to have been directed from inside a Georgia state prison. The indictment in Operation Pope’s G.O.A.L., an Organized Crime Drug Trafficking Task Force investigation, alleges the drug trafficking conspiracy distributed methamphetamine…
July 13, 2022
PORTLAND, Ore.—A former Clackamas, Oregon dentist pleaded guilty today to illegally distributing controlled substances, including prescription drugs, and anabolic steroids. Salwan Wesam Adjaj, 43, a resident of West Linn, Oregon, waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging him with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute controlled…
July 12, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Joe’s Pharmacy of Peralta, New Mexico, has agreed to pay to the United States $50,000 representing civil penalties under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The agreement settles civil claims against Joe’s Pharmacy…
July 12, 2022
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Fairfax, Virginia man was sentenced today to 52 months for conspiring to distribute between 15 and 45 kilograms of pills containing methamphetamine via the darknet. According to court documents, from about May 2019 through December 2019, Tyler Pham, 39, conspired to distribute peach tablets advertised as…
July 12, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for possessing fentanyl that he intended to distribute in Springfield, Mo. Michael E. Hunt, Jr., 41, was charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield with one count of possessing fentanyl…
July 12, 2022
Salisbury, Md., — Eric Holbrook, age 41, of Fruitland, Maryland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on June 27, 2022, to possession with intent to distribute narcotics and was sentenced to six years imprisonment. According to his guilty plea, during January and February 2020, Holbrook engaged in the distribution of…
July 12, 2022
OMAHA, Neb.–Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division seized approximately 32,000 fake pills in Omaha, some laced with lethal doses of fentanyl, in a two-day span beginning July 8. During the first six months of 2022, DEA investigators seized approximately 151,500 pills in Nebraska, marking an 83 percent…
July 11, 2022
Greenbelt, Md – U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Darick Knighton, age 44, of Alexandria, Virginia, to five years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and distribution of a controlled substance. The sentence…
July 11, 2022
KANSAS CITY, KAN.– A Kansas man was sentenced to 144 months in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking ring. Back in April 2022, Jovanny Medina, 24, of Kansas City, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more…
July 11, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Two men from Southern California were arrested in Manhattan over the past week in connection with the transportation of large-scale shipments of crystal methamphetamine to New York. Two loads totaling approximately 75 kilograms (165 pounds), with a street value of $1.2 million, were intercepted during a…
July 11, 2022
Concord, NH – Wilgfrido Valnodis Arias-Mejia, 46, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Manchester, was sentenced today to 91 months in federal prison for conspiring to sell fentanyl and other substances around the Manchester area, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced. According to court documents…
July 08, 2022
Abingdon, Va., – A man, formerly from California, who recently relocated to Southwest Virginia, was found guilty of conspiracy and drug distribution charges following a three-day jury trial in the United States District Court in Abingdon, Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division, United States Attorney…
July 08, 2022
ST. LOUIS – A man from St. Louis pleaded guilty to drug and gun charges July 8 and admitted a role in a triple shooting in 2021 that killed two. Antaveon Bernard Le’Vell Kent, 22, admitted participating in a plan to steal marijuana that led to the March 16, 2021…
July 08, 2022
SAN DIEGO – Four men were charged today with federal drug trafficking offenses following the seizure of more than 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine discovered already inside the U.S. in two trucks in National City, California. This is believed to be one of the largest methamphetamine seizures in San Diego County…
July 08, 2022
OCALA, Fla. –Jeffrey Walt Boston (45, Orlando) has been sentenced to 8 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing with the intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing cocaine. He was also required to forfeit the firearm and…
July 08, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Magdiel Carmona (27, Tampa) with one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, four counts of possession with the intent to distribute narcotics, four counts of carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking…
July 08, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. –Calfus W. Drummond (37, Gulfport) has been sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl; 500 grams or more of methamphetamine; cocaine and marijuana; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a…
July 08, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that Richard Hornsby, 39, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to…
July 08, 2022
LAREDO, Texas – Two Texas men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 34.5 kilograms of liquid meth associated with the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN), announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Bonifacio Turrubiates, 48, Laredo…
July 08, 2022
HOUSTON – Three men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Esteban Lopez Hernandez, 41, illegally resided in Katy…
July 08, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. –Shyron Deonta Givens, a/k/a “Ron,” (45, St. Petersburg) was sentenced in federal court to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Givens had pleaded guilty on April 16, 2021. According to court documents, Givens was one of eleven defendants charged with federal…
July 08, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 34 year-old man has been ordered to federal prison for 27 years for drug trafficking, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Henry Wilkinson pleaded guilty Nov. 23, 2021. Today, U.S. District…
July 08, 2022
HARTFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Enfield Police Chief Alaric Fox today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a five-count indictment charging…
July 08, 2022
BOSTON – A Boston man was arrested yesterday for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to distribute thousands of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl. Alexis Radhames Diaz Tejeda, 44, was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of…
July 07, 2022
ST. LOUIS – An osteopathic physician from Collinsville, Illinois, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday and admitted illegally prescribing an anti-anxiety drug. Matthew Steven Miller, 43, pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White to one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one…
July 07, 2022
SAN DIEGO – Kaylar Junior Tawan Beltranlap of San Diego pleaded guilty today to distributing a fake pill containing fentanyl that killed a 15-year-old Coronado High School sophomore, referred to in court records as C.J.S., on May 12, 2021. During the change of plea hearing, Beltranlap admitted to utilizing his…
July 07, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that a federal grand jury in Evansville, Indiana, returned an indictment charging two men with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, illegal distribution of…
July 06, 2022
BROOKLYN, N.Y. –Hilda Maria Gonzalez Lopez, also known as “La Boyaca” and “Daniela,” who aligned herself with powerful members of Los Rastrojos, a breakoff group of the violent arm of the Norte Valle Cartel, was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to 10 years in prison and…
July 06, 2022
POULTNEY, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on June 29, 2022 a federal grand jury, sitting in Rutland, charged Javon Wright (a.k.a. “Ace”), 37, of Poultney, Vermont with five counts of distributing fentanyl and cocaine base in May and June…
July 06, 2022
WINOOSKI, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on July 6, 2022, Robert J. Rideout, 59, formerly of Winooski, was sentenced in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to serve 60 months in prison upon his conviction of possession with…
July 06, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. – A Robeson County man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possessing with the intent to distribute thousands of illegal prescription pills including oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, and methadone. On February 16, 2021, Jeffrey Randal Brooks, Jr., pleaded guilty to the charges…
July 06, 2022
PENSACOLA, Fla. —Ahmad T. Ismail, 70, of Bonifay, Florida, settled potential violations of the Controlled Substances Act by agreeing to pay a fine of $130,000 and surrendering his Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration. The settlement was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida…
July 05, 2022
ST. LOUIS – A man from St. Louis County is facing a federal drug charge after allegedly providing fentanyl to a 19-year-old who then suffered what is suspected to be a fatal overdose. William Edward Martin, 21, was charged by complaint Thursday with one count of distributing a controlled substance…
July 05, 2022
BOSTON – A Boston woman was sentenced today in connection with selling two kilograms of cocaine. Ana Guadalupe Acosta Grajeda, 58, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to five years in prison and four years of supervised release. On Sept. 23, 2021, Grajeda pleaded guilty to…
July 05, 2022
BOSTON – A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to distributing methamphetamine. Daniel Lennon, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine and two counts of distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel…
July 05, 2022
WINDSOR, Conn. – Vanessa R. Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced today that the following four men have been charged on federal narcotics distribution charges primarily related to the…
July 05, 2022
BOSTON – A Lawrence man has been charged for allegedly distributing counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, made using multiple pill press machines. Miguel Angel Fajardo, 32, was charged by an Information with one count of possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. Fajardo was previously arrested…
July 05, 2022
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on July 1, 2022, Justin Zayas-Sanchez, 22, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 20 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count…
July 01, 2022
BOISE, Idaho – On Friday, July 1, 2022, Dakota James Hoffman, 29, of Bellevue, Idaho, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced. According to court records, Hoffman distributed oxycodone pills to a man with the initials A.K. who overdosed on…
July 01, 2022
LAREDO, Texas – A leader within Cartel De Jalisco Nueva Generacion has been ordered to federal prison for his role in an elaborate conspiracy of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and…
June 30, 2022
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Jamic C. Johnson, 47, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady…
June 30, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO – Alex Murillo appeared in federal court today and was ordered detained in custody on charges of distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon. Murillo, 26, who resides in Oakland, was…
June 30, 2022
YONKERS, N.Y. – Today, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, Yonkers Police Commissioner Chris Sapienza, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah, and Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced a series of arrests in a multi-agency investigation into illegal firearms trafficking. Earlier in…
June 30, 2022
COLUMBIA, S.C.— Norris L. Bond, 42, of Columbia, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine and possessing a firearm during and in relation to drug trafficking. Evidence presented to the court…
June 30, 2022
BOSTON – A drug distributor within a Boston-area drug trafficking organization (DTO) pleaded guilty yesterday to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine and cocaine base. Nelsin Hernandez, 31, of Brighton, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. U.S. District Court Judge Denise J…
June 30, 2022
BOSTON – A Bronx, N.Y., man has been sentenced in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy that trafficked dozens of kilos of heroin and fentanyl into Springfield from New York City and the Dominican Republic every month. Marvin Ortega, 35, was sentenced on…
June 29, 2022
Baltimore, Md. – Thamar Smith, age 48, of Hagerstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl. The guilty plea was announced by Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s Washington Division; United States Attorney for the District…
June 29, 2022
Baltimore, Md – Keith L. Brown, a/k/a “Clown”, age 63, of Annapolis, Maryland, pleaded guilty on June 27, 2022, to possession with intent to distribute phencyclidine (PCP), crack cocaine, heroin, and cocaine. The guilty plea was announced by Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s…
June 29, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Springfield man has been sentenced in federal court for leading a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Springfield area, including an undercover drug transaction that occurred in a home with two young children. Devin J.H. Wrinkle, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes…
June 29, 2022
NEW YORK – A court authorized search of an apartment in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx resulted in the seizure of approximately 110 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, plus 50 pounds of a substance believed to be crystal meth and up to 75,000 counterfeit pills believed to…
June 29, 2022
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 12 individuals with conspiracies to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. Three of the…
June 28, 2022
SAN DIEGO – Approximately 50,000 fake pills containing fentanyl were seized in a single enforcement operation in San Diego on June 28, 2022. Investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Narcotic Task Force (NTF) and the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) worked together to prevent the fake pills from being distributed…
June 28, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Missouri state representative was convicted by a federal trial jury today for a nearly $900,000 COVID-19 fraud scheme, as well as a separate $200,000 fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a fake stem cell treatment marketed through her clinics in southern Missouri, and…
June 28, 2022
WICHITA, Kan. – A Kansas man has been sentenced to 24 years and seven months in prison for drug trafficking crimes. In March 2022, a federal jury convicted Travis Vontress, 45, of Wichita, of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, and being in possession of a firearm in furtherance…
June 28, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis man to 11 years for selling methamphetamine to drug investigators. Judge White also found that Shaun Glenwood Mack, 44, was a career offender due to prior drug convictions. In August 2020, investigators for the Drug…
June 28, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, man who was arrested with 19 firearms and quantities of illegal drugs in his home was sentenced in federal court today for trafficking methamphetamine and illegally possessing firearms. Rusty W. Snow, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 15 years…
June 28, 2022
LAREDO, Texas – A 47-year-old Cuban national has been sent to federal prison following his conviction of conspiring to distribute large quantities of marijuana and cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Juan Suarez-Pupo pleaded guilty…
June 28, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a pharmacist and pharmacy owner pleaded guilty today to violating the Controlled Substances Act by filling fraudulent and counterfeit…
June 28, 2022
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jose Velasquez, 38, of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to 151 months in prison and five years of supervised release for drug trafficking, money laundering, and illegal reentry, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge…
June 28, 2022
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Steven J. Hecke, 37, of Fort Wayne, was found guilty following a five-day jury trial presided over by…
June 27, 2022
Baltimore, Md. – Juawan Davis, age 25, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. Following his guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Davis to 13 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. The sentence was announced…
June 27, 2022
HARRISONBURG, Va. – A Winchester, Virginia man, who distributed Eutylone, commonly marketed by drug dealers as “Molly” or “Ecstasy” was sentenced last week to 72 months in federal prison. Lamont Antoine Parson, 40, pled guilty in November 2021 to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent…
June 27, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, and Keechant L. Sewell, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment…
June 27, 2022
EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso man was sentenced today to 293 months in federal prison for his role in two deaths resulting from a fentanyl-laced cocaine overdose in November 2017. On February 24, 2022, Paris Lamont Dennis, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of a controlled…
June 27, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Two New York men were charged Monday with conspiring to distribute approximately 110 kilograms of cocaine as part of an international drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Eddie Velez-Pena, 33, of Yonkers, New York, and Robin Medina-Fabian, 38, of the Bronx, New York, are…
June 27, 2022
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Shakespeare Cruz, 48, of New York City, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in the Northern District of New York, announced Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement…
June 27, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 30-year-old Austin man is sentenced to federal prison for attempting to smuggle meth into the country while eating a cheeseburger, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Yen-Tsun Huang pleaded guilty Nov…
June 27, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced that Hunter McSwain has been charged for his role in the fatal overdose death of Nathan May. McSwain has been charged with Dealing a Controlled Substance Resulting in…
June 27, 2022
ROCKFORD, Ill. – Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and Rockford, Illinois Police Department Chief Carla Redd announced that on June 22, 2022, members of the DEA-Chicago Division Rockford Resident Office, alongside members of the Rockford Police Narcotics Unit and assisted by…
June 27, 2022
HARTFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HENRY DEJESUS-MORALES, also known as “Red,” 33, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 44 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release…
June 27, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARMANDO GONZALEZ, 40, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking…
June 24, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Keechant L. Sewell, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced the unsealing…
June 24, 2022
WATERBURY, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES GRANT, also known as “Bobo,” “Bo,” and “Jimbo,” 58, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of…
June 24, 2022
BOSTON – A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Tarik Muhammad, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to two years in prison and three years of supervised release. On June 3, 2022, Muhammad…
June 24, 2022
BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced today for cocaine trafficking, firearms, money laundering and fraudulent tax return charges. William Hoey, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 87 months in prison and four years of supervised release. On March 7, 2022, Hoey pleaded guilty…
June 23, 2022
EL PASO – A former El Paso police officer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for her involvement in a conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise. According to court documents, Monica Garcia, 24, conspired with Fred Saenz, her stepfather and co-defendant, to use Saenz’s residence to distribute cocaine…
June 23, 2022
EL PASO – A former El Paso police officer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for her involvement in a conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise. According to court documents, Monica Garcia, 24, conspired with Fred Saenz, her stepfather and co-defendant, to use Saenz’s residence to distribute cocaine…
June 23, 2022
MIAMI – A South Florida fentanyl dealer whose product killed a man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison today. On May 19, 2021, 21-year-old Peterson Nozinord drove another man, age 27, to a motel in Lantana, Florida. Nozinord checked the man into a room by using Nozinord’s identification…
June 23, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced two men who helped violent drug traffickers try to avoid prosecution to lengthy prison terms. Michael Grady, 67, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 18 years and 10 months in prison and Oscar Dillon III, 48, of St…
June 23, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Three men and one woman were arrested today for participating in a health care fraud scheme to defraud Amtrak by bribing Amtrak employees to allow people to submit fraudulent claims to the Amtrak health insurance plan, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Muhammad Mirza, 50, of Cedar…
June 23, 2022
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – The ringleader of a Houston-based cocaine trafficking operation has been sentenced in the Southern District of Illinois to federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, bringing to a successful close an investigation and prosecution that spanned several states and more than five years. Samuel Ruben…
June 23, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Sixteen residents of Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., and Independence, Mo., have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl. Ublester Molina, 26, Kevin O. Alarcon, 25, Rocky Orozco, 30, Salvador Valdivia, 40, Stephen…
June 23, 2022
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Lamonte Powell, 52, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on…
June 23, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Sixteen residents of Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., and Independence, Mo., have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl. Ublester Molina, 26, Kevin O. Alarcon, 25, Rocky Orozco, 30, Salvador Valdivia, 40, Stephen…
June 23, 2022
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Lamonte Powell, 52, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on…
June 23, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, New York Division, announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Bradley D. Knapp, 43, of Jamestown, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, using and maintaining a…
June 23, 2022
TUCSON, Ariz. – Last week, Jamaar Charles Samuels, 39, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash to 72 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release. Last summer, Judge Rash sentenced Samuels’ co-defendant, Patrick Michael La Fever, 60, also of Tucson, to 97…
June 22, 2022
Baltimore, Md – U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, who presided over this case in the District of Maryland, today sentenced Kenneth Wendell Ravenell, age 63, of Monkton, Maryland, to 57 months in federal prison, followed by three years of…
June 22, 2022
LYNCHBURG, Va. – A former veterinarian, who admitted to stealing opioids, was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison. Patrick Gries, 54, of Madison Heights, Virginia, pleaded guilty in January 2022 to one count of adulteration of a drug held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce and one…
June 22, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Nixa woman who led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase at night with no headlights was sentenced in federal court today for trafficking methamphetamine. Gina N. Nunez, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 12 years in federal prison without parole…
June 22, 2022
BOSTON – A Brockton, Massachusetts man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging drug trafficking conspiracy reaching from Boston to Brockton to Cape Cod. Cody Goncalves, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 13 years in prison and…
June 21, 2022
NORFOLK, Va. – Hidenwood Pharmacy, Inc., located in Newport News, and its owner, Anne Hutchens, of Seaport, have agreed to pay $125,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from alleged record-keeping violations associated with controlled substances. The government alleged that the Hidenwood Pharmacy failed to comply with various recordkeeping requirements…
June 21, 2022
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Alexander Clifford Nelms, 43, and Jorvin Jermaine Cockran, 36, both of Miami, Florida, were convicted and sentenced to ten years in federal prison for their crimes. Nelms pled guilty to one count of possessing with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine on July 27…
June 21, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a man from California to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering. Lester A. “Unc” Bull, 58, pleaded guilty in February to a drug conspiracy charge, money laundering, possession of a firearm in furtherance of…
June 21, 2022
PROVIDENCE. R. I. – Two men were detained in federal custody today, following their arraignment in U.S. District Court in an ongoing Rhode Island FBI Safe Streets Task investigation that has resulted in the seizure of more than one pound of methamphetamine to date, announced United States Attorney Zachary A…
June 21, 2022
ORLANDO, Fla. – U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza sentenced Luis Raul Perez Rodriguez, 50, of Orlando, to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Perez Rodriguez had pleaded guilty on March 28, 2022. According to court documents, on January 21, 2022, Perez Rodriguez had arranged to…
June 21, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the return of an indictment charging Luis Mojica Rojas, 45, of Zephyrhills, Florida, with conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl; conspiracy to commit international money laundering; possession of 400 grams or more of fentanyl with the intent…
June 21, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that Demario Barker, 33, of Kokomo, Indiana, was sentenced last week to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two…
June 21, 2022
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris of the Central District of Illinois announced that a federal jury returned a guilty verdict on June 16, 2022, against Monica Renee Wright, 38, of Colorado…
June 17, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Following a yearlong investigation into narcotics and gun trafficking in Queens and Brooklyn, 13 individuals were arrested in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx during the past two days on charges contained in two indictments that are unsealed and two criminal court complaints that were filed today…
June 17, 2022
SAN DIEGO – Cole Thomas Salazar pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he supplied a fatal dose of fentanyl that resulted in the death of a 24-year-old woman who was found inside her Vista apartment on November 3, 2020. According to his plea agreement, Salazar used an online…
June 17, 2022
FRESNO, Calif. — Adrian Rodriguez Cardenas, 22, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to six years in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon announced. According to court documents, on Jan. 11, 2021, Cardenas negotiated with…
June 17, 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a 19-count indictment Thursday against Quinten Giovanni Moody, aka Christano Rossi, 37, of Dublin, and Myra Boleche Minks, 46, formerly of Roseville, for drug trafficking, impersonating federal law enforcement officials, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney Phillip…
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par Marc Fievet, AKA NS 55 DNRED
Une affaire de café ! Vraiment ?
Avoir voulu juger cette affaire fut une gageure hasardeuse qui n’a rien solutionné et ne solutionnera rien, surtout en ayant oublié tout ou partie des responsables de ces dérives .
ÉTAT de droit, comme ils disent !
Dans un état de droit, comme aiment tant nous le rappeler à longueur d’années tous nos régaliens et autres ‘Politiques’ dans des trémolos de gorges profondes, il s’avère que cet état de droit n’est qu’un étendard brandi pour mieux tromper le citoyen ordinaire.
Que penser d’une justice qui accepte, qui a accepté et qui acceptera encore de se servir de boucs émissaires pour rendre des jugements qui deviennent, sont devenus ou deviendront des vérités définitives selon le dogme républicain de l’ infaillibilité des décisions prononcées ?
La justice aujourd’hui omniprésente doit trancher sur tout, comme si nos magistrats avaient la science infuse et l’onction sacrée reçue à l’ENM (De mémoire le célèbre Azibert en avait les commandes) les dotant d’une autorité qui n’est en réalité que réduite à rendre une justice arrangeante pour les aigles et une autre beaucoup plus dure pour les pigeons.
Ah! Ne pas contrarier le pouvoir établi qui s’autorise tout et son contraire au mépris du bon sens !
Mais qu’en est-il de ce pouvoir établi aux mains du CAC 40 et autres groupes financiers et dépendant d’une caste dirigeante que sont les IGF, énarques et autres issus des grands corps. (Ils sont discrets en cette période!)
Un pouvoir qui s’autorise l’utilisation de toutes les ressources humaines, scientifiques et commerciales de la France pour satisfaire, voire garantir, des positions dominantes au mépris de l’intérêt général.
Pour mémoire, Karachi et son attentat, qui dorment toujours dans quelques tiroirs, restent pour moi la preuve éclatante de la non-indépendance de la justice. Pourquoi le parquet de Paris refuse d’ouvrir une enquête sur les mensonges de plusieurs hauts responsables des services de renseignement français concernant l’un des personnages clés de l’affaire, le Saoudien Ali Ben Moussalem ?
Comment peut-on encore imaginer que les véritables mafieux politiques de l’époque où Nicolas Sarkozy était au Budget n’ont pas encore comparu devant des juges pour assumer les responsabilités qu’ils ont, Léotard excepté qui est en cassation. Balladur innocenté ! Et Sarkozy le magouilleur pas concerné !
Comment peut-on accepter encore que des services entiers de nos régaliennes sont occupés à maintenir en place, à tout prix, ceux qui sont aux manettes?
Quant aux services de renseignement
On ne fait pas du renseignement et autres actions dérivées avec le « Dalloz » en main en le brandissant telle la bible lors des campagnes de christianisation ou autres croisades. N’est pas Torquemada qui veut ! Plus même, lorsqu’on est en guerre, et bien on agit au mieux des intérêts de la cause que l’on défend.
Mais dans toutes guerres , il y a des salauds institutionnels qui profitent du désordre pour se promouvoir voire s’enrichir, et là est le vrai problème !
Alors, pour les quelques cadres de la Douane française qui ont dû répondre de méfaits avérés, bénéficiant j’imagine de la « protection fonctionnelle », il serait peut-être intéressant de chercher à qui profite réellement la mise en touche momentanée de ce service, peut-être orchestrée par des manipulateurs qui n’ont jamais eu à assumer une responsabilité quelconque des méfaits qu’ils ont commis au cours d’une carrière « exemplaire » bien que terriblement coûteuse pour le contribuable français.
Ces grands ‘serviteurs’ de l’État comme ils se présentent sont avant tout au service de leurs intérêts personnels.
Quant à la DNRED
La DNRED a été durant quelques décennies un service performant mais dérangeant pour les magouilleurs aux manettes. C’est vrai, on peut déplacer un ou deux hommes qui dérangent (Souvenons-nous de la corruption à la DCN et de la seule conclusion qui a rétabli nos deux gendarmes qui n’auraient été mutés que suite à une erreur d’appréciation alors que des officiers supérieurs et généraux étaient mis en cause dans une affaire de prêt illégal de main d’œuvre mise à la disposition de la DCN et payée par des faux marchés publics), mais comment alors se débarrasser d’une légion d’agents qui remontent mensuellement des informations toutes plus accablantes les unes que les autres sur l’éthique de nos dirigeants ?
C’est simple, il suffit de ne pas hésiter à déséquilibrer cette ‘agence’ en révélant des actes inconsidérés et inacceptables qu’elle a commis …et qu’elle commettra encore .
Un énarque du nom d’Erwan Guilmin, qui avait pour objectif de devenir le boss de la DNRED, quand il prit la direction de la DOD , n’hésita pas alors à s’aventurer dans des circuits inconnus qu’empruntaient ses prédécesseurs.
C’est vrai, la place de calife, ça se mérite ! Il faut afficher des résultats ! Fichtre, et l’Erwan y prit goût à ces magouilles qu’il croyait indispensables pour arriver à ses fins.
Pendant cette période, la guerre larvée entre DNRED et OCRTIS fut réactivée par l’énarque en mal de reconnaissance. François Thierry avait de tels résultats avec ses opérations ‘Myrmidon’ qu’Erwan voulut chasser sur les terres de François et qu’il commit l’irréparable lors de la saisie bidon du boulevard Exelmans !
Même que Jean Paul Garcia s’attendait à des représailles ! «On a marché sur la queue du tigre», admettait-il en interne en référence aux fameuses «Brigades du tigre», surnom de la police judiciaire à l’époque de Clemenceau.
Une bonne nouvelle quand même pour Erwan Guilmin, depuis ces « affaires », il est devenu « Chargé de mission à la sous-direction des politiques sociales – Secrétariat général » au Ministère de l’économie et des finances en janvier 2018. Introuvable et ne figurant sur aucun listing téléphonique à Bercy, et… Et à la DG de la Douane française, contactée par Marc Fievet, on ne sait que bredouiller…
Alzheimer a frappé grave!
-A quoi servent-ils ces services si ce n’est que paraître et se faire mousser pour justifier des budgets toujours à la hausse alors que les saisies ne font que suivre difficilement les flux destinés à l’approvisionnement d’un marché en pleine expansion.
-A quoi servent-ils ces agents qui ne peuvent dévoiler la réalité des méfaits qu’ils constatent sur les mafieux aux manettes comme sur les hiérarchies qui les dirigent?
Alors les cadres douaniers qui ont comparu devant les juges sont ils vraiment les responsables de la catastrophe ?
Lu dans « Libé »
On a appris qu’à son arrivée à la tête de la DNRED, fin 2010, l’ancien patron Jean Paul Garcia raconte avoir reçu pour mission de «développer encore les résultats», mais aussi de faire de la «communication», et même du «storytelling», anglicisme qu’il découvre à cette occasion. A cette période , c’était Jérôme Fournel qui était le DG de la Douane !
En clair : raconter de belles histoires pour mettre en avant les grosses prises et faire briller le service.
Quoi de mieux alors que de disqualifier l’ensemble d’un service !
-Souvenons nous de Karachi encore! Nicolas Sarkozy lui même dès son arrivée à Bercy avait décrété l’arrêt de toutes les actions d’infiltration sans qu’aucun cadre douanier ne s’élève contre cet ukase ministériel. (Du jour au lendemain, interdiction formelle de sortie du territoire pour les cadres de la DNRED fut décrétée par Sarkozy, et Joseph Le Louarn, le boss de la DNRED n’informa même pas les agents infiltrés. C’est vrai que des agents infiltrés souvent découvrent ce qui a vocation à rester caché, alors si l’on peut s’en débarrasser astucieusement …. On monte des « chantiers » !
-Souvenons nous de l’agent Olivier Thérondel du Tracfin de J.B. Carpentier dans le dossier Cahuzac. Viré, condamné à de la prison pour ne pas avoir respecté l’omerta.
–Souvenons nous aussi…
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La renaissance
Alors, sans doute, seul un énarque pouvait rétablir la confiance et réanimer la DNRED en réorientant les actions des grandes directions performantes qu’étaient la DRD, la DED et la DOD!
Le coup de massue fut tel que l’ensemble des agents en titube encore!
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Ces derniers jours Florian Colas qui dirige la DNRED depuis avril 2021, a donné une (excellente) interview à AEF info.
Originaire du Var, diplômé de Sciences Po et de l’ENA, Florian Colas est sorti deuxième de sa promo en 2012, Il a ensuite rejoint l’Inspection générale des finances (IGF) où il a notamment réalisé un audit du contrôle fiscal des entreprises. Puis, il a fait une pige de quelques mois comme chargé d’affaires chez Wendel. C’est en 2017 qu’il a été recruté à Bercy, d’abord comme conseiller fiscalité du ministre Gérald Darmanin, s’occupant surtout de la mise en œuvre du prélèvement à la source. Avant de devenir directeur adjoint du cabinet puis le bras droit d’Olivier Dussopt en juillet 2020. (source)
Lors de cette interview, Florian Colas, le directeur national du renseignement et des enquêtes douanières, y détaille la montée en puissance de la structure.
Quelques extraits:
La DNRED s’appuie sur deux piliers.
Le premier c’est le code des douanes qui est très adapté pour la lutte et l’interception de trafics en flagrant délit.
Le second pilier, c’est le code de la sécurité intérieure puisque nous sommes un service de renseignement du premier cercle.
AEF info : Sébastien Bombal a récemment été nommé directeur technique de la DNRED, après avoir préfiguré cette direction. À quoi sert-elle ?
Florian Colas : La direction technique est la dernière-née de la DNRED. Elle a été créée le 1er janvier dernier. C’est pour cette raison que la DNRED a été présente pour la première fois au FIC cette année. La direction technique doit répondre à trois défis. D’abord celui de la cybersécurité interne. Elle devra veiller à davantage sécuriser nos outils de communication et informatiques. La DNRED est un service du premier cercle de la communauté du renseignement et doit à ce titre se conformer à des standards extrêmement exigeants. Cela engage notre crédibilité et la confiance des partenaires avec lesquels nous échangeons (DGSE, DGSI, DRM, DRSD, Tracfin).
L’arrivée de la direction technique va entraîner une transformation technologique qui va irriguer nos méthodes. Il va falloir former les agents aux nouveaux outils jusqu’au terrain. Par ailleurs, on nous donne des pouvoirs exorbitants du droit commun, donc il faut toujours une traçabilité et du contrôle.
AEF info : Justement, le 7 juin dernier, les procureurs ont requis devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris des peines à l’encontre de six anciens cadres de la DNRED dont Jean-Paul Garcia, directeur national du renseignement et des enquêtes douanières de 2010 à 2017, dans une affaire de trafic d’importation de café. Cette affaire va-t-elle avoir une incidence sur la prévention de ce type de dérives et sur le contrôle de la déontologie ?
Florian Colas : De fait, la transformation a eu lieu dès la révélation des faits en 2017. Le service a franchi une étape importante avec ce qu’on a appelé la « refondation », qui a conduit à tirer les conséquences des dysfonctionnements mis à jour. Une feuille de route a été mise en œuvre pendant plusieurs années et a profondément transformé la maison. La DNRED d’aujourd’hui n’est pas celle dont on a parlé au cours du procès. Il y a eu une très forte structuration de nos processus internes, un effort de formation extrêmement important. Nous avons également recruté une magistrate qui est ma conseillère juridique et chargée des relations avec l’autorité judiciaire. En parallèle, une cellule de contrôle interne et d’audit a été constituée.
Bien sûr, en matière de déontologie, il ne faut jamais se reposer sur ses lauriers. Je sollicite régulièrement l’inspection générale de la douane, qui a une fonction administrative [contrairement aux inspections générales de la police et de la gendarmerie nationales qui remplissent également une fonction judiciaire]. Il faut en permanence se requestionner pour sécuriser les opérations, d’autant plus que le cadre juridique est complexe et évolutif. Si les conséquences de cette affaire ont été tirées dès 2017, face aux risques que représentent les enquêtes et l’évolution des technologies, on doit continuer d’être robuste.
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C’est Pascal Schmidt qui disait au tribunal : « Un panier de crabes à la DNRED !«
En réalité, c’est un petit panier de crabes, comparé à Bercy, qui est un très très gros panier de très gros crabes.
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June 17, 2022
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Davonte Williams-Dorsey, 25, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced today to serve a total of 180 months in prison for his conviction on charges of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine), Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine), and Possession of…
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June 17, 2022
SEATTLE – The Arlington, Washington based leader of a prolific and violent drug trafficking ring pleaded guilty this week to federal drug, gun, and money laundering crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Cesar Valdez-Sanudo, 36, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and carrying…
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June 16, 2022
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – The DEA Santa Rosa Resident Office, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Property Crimes and Narcotics Unit and the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, Specialized Investigative Unit, concluded a 16-month long investigation into a drug trafficking organization allegedly distributing large amounts of methamphetamine in the region. During the course…
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June 16, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced a St. Louis County man to 10 years in prison for drug and gun crimes. Bryant Taylor, 31, sold oxycodone, heroin and fentanyl to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration Agent and a person working for the DEA in…
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June 16, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Six Springfield, Mo., and Rogersville, Mo., residents have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a scheme to transport tens of thousands of stolen catalytic converters across state lines as part of a multi-million-dollar business. Evan Marshall, 24, of Rogersville, pleaded guilty today before U.S…
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June 16, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Twenty Mexican nationals are among 39 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $4.7 million conspiracy to distribute more than 335 kilograms of methamphetamine and 22 kilograms of heroin over the past two years. “This operation took a significant amount of…
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June 16, 2022
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson today found DWAYNE THOMPSON, 37, of West Hartford, guilty of heroin trafficking offenses. According to the evidence presented during a bench trial in Hartford, in July 2017…
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June 15, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Texas man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing firearms. Tanner Houghton, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on June 14 to 25 years in federal prison without parole. On Oct…
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June 15, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Court Judge John A. Ross on Wednesday sentenced a St. Charles County, Missouri, man to seven years in prison for selling methamphetamine. Adam Lee Jones, 41, pleaded guilty in January to a felony charge of possession with the intent to distribute more than five grams…
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June 15, 2022
CHICAGO – Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration – Chicago Division, and Kewanee Police Department Chief Nick Welgat announced that on June 15, 2022, Juan Montemayor, 30, of Kewanee, Illinois, was charged with delivery of over 900 grams of fentanyl, possession of a…
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June 15, 2022
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – JAMAR TRAYLOR, also known as “J-Hop,” 22, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a racketeering charge stemming from his participation in a violent Bridgeport street gang. Today’s announcement was made by Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for…
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June 15, 2022
BOSTON – A California woman has pleaded guilty in connection with travelling across the country to deliver fentanyl to an undercover officer. Adelaida Yudit Garibay, 46, of Burbank, Calif., pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. U.S. Senior District Court…
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June 15, 2022
COLCHESTER, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Carl Martin, 37, of Colchester, Vermont, was convicted on five of six counts on June 10, 2022, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, following a five-day jury trial before United States…
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June 15, 2022
MERIDEN, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging GERARDO NUNEZ-IRIZARRY, also known as “Indio,”…
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June 15, 2022
MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tonia Greenwood, 45, North Freedom, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to…
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June 15, 2022
WASHINGTON – On June 14 and 15, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram hosted the first-ever DEA Family Summit on the Overdose Epidemic for families from across the country who have experienced the profound loss of a child due to a drug overdose or poisoning. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco delivered…
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June 14, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a Morris County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for his role in a…
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June 14, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis man who sold a fatal dose of fentanyl to 17 years in prison. On March 6, 2020, Markquis Bryant sold fentanyl to a Florissant man who was found dead early the next morning in his…
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June 14, 2022
SAN DIEGO – A two-year investigation has led to the indictment of 26 defendants for international drug smuggling, drug trafficking, and related conspiracy offenses. One of the defendants, Raul Barajas-Padilla, appeared in federal court yesterday for an initial appearance on the indictment. So far, 17 defendants have been arrested. Efforts…
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June 14, 2022
CHICAGO — Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., for the Northern District of Illinois, announced that a man who illegally possessed a semi-automatic handgun in Evanston, Ill., and tried to flee from police has been sentenced to…
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June 13, 2022
MIAMI – Adalberto Fructuoso Comparan-Rodriguez, a/k/a “Fruto,” the former mayor of Aguililla, Mexico and, according to the allegations, a leader of the United Cartels in Michoacán, Mexico, made his initial appearance in federal court in Miami, Florida today after his extradition from Guatemala. A South Florida grand jury returned an…
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June 13, 2022
TACOMA, Wash. – Multiple members of a methamphetamine trafficking ring were indicted last week in U.S. District Court for seven federal felonies related to their drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Some of the conspirators, have been charged in state court over the last ten years, but fled the…
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June 10, 2022
OAKLAND, Calif. – Kameron Patricia Reid pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of distributing fentanyl that resulted in the death of a Santa Rita Jail inmate, announced United States Attorney Stephane M. Hinds, FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan, and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in…
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June 10, 2022
EL PASO – Last week, the New Mexico High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program (NM HIDTA) received a national recognition for its work in southeastern New Mexico under Operation Shape Shifter. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Dr. Rahul Gupta made the announcement. The NM HIDTA…
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June 10, 2022
POCATELLO, Idaho – After a four-day trial, a federal jury sitting in Pocatello found Adam Lee Vallely 46, of Pocatello, Idaho, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, one count of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of possession with the intent to…
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June 10, 2022
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Martin Leonel Perez Castro, also known as “Richard,” was extradited this morning to the United States from Colombia to face charges in the Eastern District of New York of leading a continuing criminal enterprise and participating in an international cocaine manufacture and distribution conspiracy. According to the…
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June 10, 2022
LONDONDERRY, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Timothy J. (“TJ”) Slade, 30, of Londonderry, Vermont was sentenced to time served by Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford in U.S. District Court in Rutland. Slade previously pleaded guilty to the felony charge…
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June 09, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO – Emil Arriola Melendez was sentenced in federal court today to 46 months in prison for the distribution of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon. Senior United States District Judge Maxine M. Chesney handed…
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June 09, 2022
DALLAS, TX – Fourteen alleged methamphetamine traffickers were arrested on Wednesday in Operation Kullvid-20, to announced Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Dallas Field Division. Led by the DEA’s North Texas Strike Force, the investigation has netted a total of 40 federal defendants plus 2,708 kilograms…
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June 09, 2022
NAUGATUCK, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON METZ, also known as “Jay,” 53, of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for…
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June 08, 2022
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – After a week-long trial, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict convicting a California man of conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver controlled substances. Arturo Ledesma, Jr., 33, of Watsonville, Calif., was charged in a superseding indictment on Dec. 10, 2019, with supplying marijuana…
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June 08, 2022
HARTFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARVIN LLOYD, 51, last residing in Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine. According to court documents and statements made…
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June 08, 2022
PHOENIX – Last week, Sigfrido Adolfo Rivero, 56, of Nogales, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash to 121 months in federal prison, followed by 120 months of supervised release. Rivero previously pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl. On May 19, 2021, Rivero was…
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June 08, 2022
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – ASANTE GAINES, also known as “Santi,” 25, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 190 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a Bridgeport gang-related activity, including a brazen daytime shooting…
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June 08, 2022
PROVIDENCE, R.I., – A Johnston man who arranged for the sale and delivery of thousands of fentanyl pills plead guilty in federal court in Providence to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and to distribution of 400 grams or more of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Johnathan King, 31…
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June 08, 2022
MILTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on June 7, 2022, Emanuel Dunn, 36, of Milton, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 60 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count…
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June 08, 2022
WILLISTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on June 7, 2022, Matthew Fidler, 35, of Williston, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 100 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count…
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June 07, 2022
EL PASO – Jennipher Talamantes, a counselor at an El Paso school district, and Jennifer and David Burke, the Executive Directors of Serenity Mesa Recovery Center in Albuquerque, were the only El Pasoan and New Mexicans invited to meet with Administrator Anne Milgram as part of the first-ever DEA Family…
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June 07, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, New York Division, announced that Andrew Medina, 31, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to with conspiracy to possess with intent…
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June 07, 2022
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, New York Division, announced that Lamar Thompkins, 35, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced…
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June 07, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, New York Division, announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Joseph S. Zaso a/k/a Joey Cracks, 38, of Buffalo, NY, and Denver J. Komenda…
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June 07, 2022
SPOKANE, Wash. – On June 3, 2022, United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr., sentenced Lorenzo Jimenez Alanis, 47, of Mabton, Washington, to 15 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, along with downloading and possessing a large collection of child pornography. Judge Mendoza also ordered Alanis to serve five…
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June 07, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 29-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Robert James Blanco pleaded guilty Sept. 7, 2021…
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June 07, 2022
ST. LOUIS – An osteopathic physician from Collinsville, Illinois, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday and admitted illegally prescribing an anti-anxiety drug. Matthew Steven Miller, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of making a false statement concerning a health…
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June 06, 2022
PHOENIX – On Friday, June 3, 2022, brothers Osmar Martinez-Ochoa, 30, and Hector Martinez-Ochoa, 28, of Tucson, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge John C. Hinderaker to each serve 11 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The Martinez-Ochoa brothers previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute…
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June 06, 2022
FRESNO, Calif. —Albert Dominguez Jr., 52, of Ceres, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon announced. According to court documents, Dominguez conspired with Leonor Sarabia-Ramirez, 52, of Modesto, to distribute and did, in…
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June 06, 2022
BENNINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Deven Moffitt, 32, of Bennington, Vermont, was charged today by criminal complaint with three federal felonies: possession with intent to distribute controlled substances; possession of a firearm having previously been convicted of a…
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June 06, 2022
BOSTON – A Holbrook man was sentenced and a Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with their respective roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy. Andre Echevarria, 41, of Holbrook, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised…
C’est la suite d’une enquête d’un an sur le trafic de stupéfiants et d’armes à feu à Brooklyn et dans le Queens.
Au cours de la longue enquête, un agent d’infiltration a acheté de grandes quantités de fentanyl, de cocaïne et d’héroïne d’une valeur marchande de plus de 3 millions de dollars, selon la DEA ( Drug Enforcement Agency).
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Marc Fiévet, aka «NS55», est le 55e aviseur recruté par l’échelon nantais de la DNRED. Le skipper a 44 ans lorsqu’il est «tamponné» en 1988 par les douanes à Gibraltar, la minuscule enclave britannique située à la pointe sud de l’Espagne.
C’est la grande époque de la Costa del Sol, devenue en quelques années le nouvel épicentre du trafic de drogue en Europe. Proposant aux malfrats de convoyer leur came à bord de son voilier, NS55 répercute toutes les informations en temps réel à ses officiers traitants, ébahis devant l’audace de cet aviseur hors pair.
Ses résultats sont tellement extraordinaires que Charasse le reçoit en personne à Bercy, et vient lui rendre visite à Marbella.
Encouragé, Fiévet a ouvert un bar-restaurant, en association avec la Douane Française, dans la station balnéaire d’ESTEPONA, le Saint-Georges, où se bousculent la pègre locale et les truands de passage. Mais au fil des saisies, la pression n’en finit pas de se resserrer sur NS55.
Le 23 septembre 1994, il est interpellé dans le sud de l’Espagne. Deux mandats d’arrêt internationaux ont été émis contre lui par le Canada et le Royaume-Uni, convaincus de son rôle dans l’importation de plusieurs tonnes de drogue sur leur territoire.
Lâché par ses ex-amis douaniers, Marc Fiévet fera plus de dix ans de prison entre l’Espagne, l’Angleterre, le Canada et la France.
Depuis, son spectre flotte toujours sur l’histoire du service.
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Le « SECRET DÉFENSE » est toujours appliqué au dossier de Marc Fievet
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Il semblerait que l’honneur ne soit pas une vertu connue par les DG Comolli, Viala, Duhamel, Cadiou, Auvigne, Mongin, Fournel, Crocquevieille, Gintz et Braun-Lemaire
La honte « ad vitam aeternam » sur les DG de la Douane Française
avec la médaille d’or pour l’énarque IGF François Auvigne
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par Marc Fievet, AKA NS 55 DNRED
Sans doute silence du à une consigne savamment transmise, voire une prudente réserve sur ce dossier qui a interpellé bon nombre de nos concitoyens.
Dès le début de cette affaire, j’avais écrit que le manque de courage de nos grands manitous d’ « Enarchie » ou d’ailleurs, très forts pour pousser des cris d’orfraie, mais incapables d’assumer une quelconque responsabilité, aurait des conséquences durables sur le fonctionnement des services actions de la Douane française.
Jamais, cette affaire n’aurait dû « tomber » dans le domaine public via la justice qui ne pourra que faire plus de mal que de bien à l’institution. Il fallait traiter en interne avec rigueur et sans passe droit ou autres mesures de copinage de type mafieux ces dérapages connus et jamais vraiment dénoncés par nos fonctionnaires participants, à l’insu de leur plein gré, auprès d’une hiérarchie perdue, qui a donné les ordres aux gabelous au cours des « opérations clandestines bidons », de couper leurs portables et d’utiliser des téléphones d’emprunt ?
Certes, on ne fait pas de renseignements et autres actions dérivées avec le « Dalloz » en main en le brandissant telle la bible lors des campagnes de christianisation ou autres croisades.
Mais vouloir aujourd’hui juger cette affaire est une gageure hasardeuse qui ne solutionnera rien, surtout en oubliant tout ou partie des responsables de ces dérives .
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June 03, 2022
BOSTON – A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston on conspiracy and distribution charges involving fentanyl. Valentin Pujols, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to time served (14 days in prison) and two years of supervised release, with the…
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June 03, 2022
BOSTON – Dr. Hooshang Poor, a Newton geriatric medicine physician, has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that he prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice, a violation of the Controlled Substances Act. Dr. Poor previously resolved allegations in February 2019 that he violated the False…
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June 02, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Two Houston women have admitted to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Today, Clarissa Hernandez, 23, admitted to her role in…
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June 02, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Brian Stanton, 38, of Athens, Georgia, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison following his trial conviction on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine. Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the…
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June 02, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –Roderick L. Robinson, 55, of Port St. Joe, Florida, also known as “Raggedy” and “Rags,” was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison for his part in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence. “Those…
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June 02, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Liberty, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing fentanyl from his apartment near Liberty High School and for illegally possessing a firearm. Daniel I. Ramirez, 22, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to 11 years in federal prison without…
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June 01, 2022
SAN DIEGO – Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr., a former U.S. Marine with dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship, was sentenced in federal court to 195 months in prison for leading an international organization that transported ton-quantities of cocaine from South America to Mexico and into the United States. Dominguez had previously…
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June 01, 2022
SAN DIEGO – Drug dealer Saul Caro pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he sold the fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose of a thirty-five-year-old San Diego resident, identified in court records as M.S. According to his plea agreement, on April 11, 2021, Caro and the victim exchanged…
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June 01, 2022
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, New York Division, announced today that Deshan Scott, 22, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession of a firearm in…
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June 01, 2022
BRUNSWICK, GA: Two men from Canada and the United Kingdom have been indicted in the Southern District of Georgia on federal charges alleging an international operation used the Dark Web to distribute illegal drugs in the United States, with some of those drugs resulting in the deaths of two U.S…
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June 01, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 21-year-old Hidalgo County man has been sent to federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 4.5 kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Matthew Ethan Joseph Castillo pleaded guilty Feb. 10. Today, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ordered Castillo to…
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May 31, 2022
Seattle – A father and son who ran a multimillion-dollar illegal marijuana business in Monroe, Washington, were each sentenced to five-year prison terms today, on drug and money laundering charges. Kenneth Warren Rhule, 28, was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana and laundering…
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May 31, 2022
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on May 31, 2022, Hussein Mubarak, 21, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss to 10 months’ imprisonment and a 3-year term of supervised release for possession with intent…
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May 31, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two St. Joseph, Mo., men have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and to illegally possessing firearms. Franklin T. Hicks Jr., also known as “Frankie,” 41, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to participating in a conspiracy to…
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May 31, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Three defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri after law enforcement officers seized approximately 29 pounds of methamphetamine. Brian E. Hall, 44, of Aurora, Mo., and Jacqueline Aldrete Bojorquez…
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May 31, 2022
PHOENIX – Special Agent in Charge Cheri Oz and Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that Jose Luis Montoya Miranda has been indicted on one count Conspiracy, one count Illegally Conducting an enterprise, one count Transportation of a Narcotic Drug for sale (Fentanyl) in an Amount over the Statutory Threshold…
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May 28, 2022
EL PASO – In the past few days, the Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso Division has learned of several instances of individuals who used illicit drugs and then experienced overdose symptoms. It is suspected that the illicit drugs may be mixed with a synthetic opioid. DEA El Paso Division has…
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May 27, 2022
CHICAGO — Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., for the Northern District of Illinois, announced that an alleged drug trafficker charged with distributing heroin in the Chicago area was arraigned today in federal court in Chicago after…
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May 27, 2022
WATERBURY, Conn. – United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery, Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo announced that the following 14 individuals have been arrested on federal narcotics trafficking charges related to the distribution of…
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May 27, 2022
TRUMBULL, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID CIANCIMINO, 63, of Trumbull, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally distributing prescription medication…
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May 27, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that QUENTINE DAVIS, 31, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking…
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May 26, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 40-year-old Kingsville resident has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of possession with intent to distribute over 120 grams of pure meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Aarika…
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May 26, 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Edrick D. Jackson (28, Lake City) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and three counts of distribution of cocaine base (also known as “crack” cocaine). Jackson faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in…
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May 26, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Derrick Samuel Lewis (51, Sarasota) guilty of conspiracy, possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and possession with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. Lewis…
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May 26, 2022
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Kelvin Franklin, 39, of South Bend, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio on…
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May 25, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that seven individuals have been sentenced for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including methamphetamine and marijuana. The defendants had previously been indicted on…
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May 25, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 29-year-old man residing in Mission is sentenced to federal prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute drugs, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Reynaldo Perez Jr. pleaded…
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May 25, 2022
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A West Warwick man who arranged for the sale of substantial quantities of fentanyl-laced counterfeit OxyContin to an undercover member of the Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force was sentenced today to four years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Richard Delsanto, 29…
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May 25, 2022
BOSTON – A Springfield man was arrested today on a drug offense involving fentanyl distribution. Christian Camacho, 25, was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. Camacho was released on conditions following an initial appearance this afternoon in federal court in…
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May 25, 2022
MIAMI – On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16 million…
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May 24, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Jermaine Ryan Alvarez, 38, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court today to nine years in prison for one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of heroin and one count of…
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May 24, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, announced that Alexander Arguedas, a/k/a “Reckless,” was sentenced today to 32 years and 6 months in prison in…
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May 24, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Nalerton Charles, also known as “Lite,” was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to 210 months’ imprisonment for distribution and possession with intent to distribute narcotics. Charles pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2021. Breon…
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May 24, 2022
DALLAS – Two drug traffickers who plotted to assassinate a DEA task force office have plead guilty, announced Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent in Charge of Dallas Field Division Manuel Gomez-Garcia, 35, and Jorge Humberto Velazco Larios, 29, were indicted in the summer of 2020. Mr. Gomez pleaded guilty to…
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May 24, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16…
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May 24, 2022
HARTFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAICO TURELL, 49, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fentanyl distribution and firearm…
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May 24, 2022
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Two men from Central Falls who played integral roles in a Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) that shipped dozens of kilos of cocaine into Rhode Island through the U.S. Postal Service were sentenced today to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. George Mojica, 42, and…
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May 24, 2022
BOSTON – A Taunton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl. Carlos Rivera, 47, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to five years in prison and four years of supervised release. On Jan. 24, 2022, Rivera pleaded…
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May 23, 2022
SAN DIEGO – On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16…
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May 23, 2022
NEW ORLEANS – On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16…
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May 23, 2022
OMAHA, Neb. – Communities across the five state DEA Omaha Division, which includes Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off 18,729 pounds of unneeded medications at 176 collection sites on April 30. Nationally, DEA…
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May 23, 2022
PHOENIX – On April 30th, 2022, the DEA Phoenix Field Division, along with our law enforcement and community partners collected 8,215 pounds of unneeded prescription medications throughout the State of Arizona, as part of DEA’s on-going commitment to prevent addition and reduce overdose deaths. Nationwide, more than 720,000 pounds of…
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May 23, 2022
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Woonsocket man was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for participating in the distribution of crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Bradley Dewalt, 30, was one of eighteen “Operation River Fork” defendants arrested during a 2020 FBI Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation…
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May 23, 2022
TUCSON, Ariz. – Today, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced the unsealing of a 30-count indictment against 13 individuals for charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin. On May 4, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned the indictment against the…
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May 23, 2022
SEATTLE– On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16 million pounds…
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May 23, 2022
TUCSON, Ariz. – Tyrell Kester, 36, of Marana, Arizona, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Márquez to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Kester previously pleaded guilty to possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. On April 22, 2021, federal agents and…
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May 23, 2022
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16…
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May 23, 2022
WASHINGTON – On April 30, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off more than 720,000 pounds of unneeded medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16 million…
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May 20, 2022
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Victor Nevarez, Juan Rivera Arzate, Adhemar Castaneda Becerril, and Pedro Gaona Salse were four of six charged defendants arrested and arraigned last week in federal court on narcotics trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade…
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May 20, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a citizen of the Dominican Republic, who was extradited to the United States on money laundering charges, made his…
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May 20, 2022
WICHITA, Kan. – A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment May 20 charging Alberto Vasquez, 48, of Tucson, Ariz., with one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, fentanyl. Ever Quintana-Lopez, 31, of Wichita, was also charged with one count of possession of fentanyl with…
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May 20, 2022
BOSTON – A Lawrence, Massachusetts, man was arrested yesterday on fentanyl distribution charges. Rafael Sierra-Baez, 42, was charged with five counts of distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. Following an initial appearance yesterday before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler, Sierra-Baez was detained pending a detention…
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May 20, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that a federal grand jury has indicted 15 people on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Specifically, the indictment charges the defendants…
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May 20, 2022
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Destine Calderon, 27, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a Bridgeport gang, and his role in a gang-related shooting that occurred in…
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May 20, 2022
BOSTON – A Brockton, Massachusetts, man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking fentanyl and cocaine. Paul Nova, aka “Meagan,” 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 150 months in prison and four years of supervised release. In June 2021…
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May 20, 2022
BOSTON – A Sutton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Bruce Marando, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release. On Aug. 20, 2021, Marando was convicted…
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May 20, 2022
BOSTON – A Lowell, Massachusetts man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving methamphetamine disguised as counterfeit Adderall pills. Vimoon Sortsoy, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to five years in prison and four years…
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May 20, 2022
BOSTON – A Revere, Massachusetts, man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with attempting to purchase 20 kilograms of cocaine from undercover agents. Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 10 years in prison and five years of…
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May 20, 2022
BOSTON – A Lawrence, Massachusetts, man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl. Hector Minaya Melo, aka “El Jefe,” 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 54 months in prison. In May 2021, Minaya…
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May 19, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Court Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced on May 19 a drug dealer who mailed crystal methamphetamine to St. Louis from Arizona to seven and one-half years in prison. Hosea Simpson, 36, pleaded guilty in February to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Beginning in 2019…
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May 19, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Republic, Mo., man, who led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase, was sentenced in federal court May 19 for possessing methamphetamine to distribute. Heath E. Yarger, 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 14 years in federal prison without parole. On…
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May 19, 2022
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Court Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced a significant dealer of methamphetamine May 19 to nine years in prison. Anne R. Jekel, 42, of St. Louis County, was caught multiple times in possession of methamphetamine and guns. On Nov. 29, 2016, Maryland Heights police officers arrested…
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Habitué des conférences de presse, il semble que le ministre du Budget aura quelques difficultés à s’exprimer sur cette sinistre affaire montée de toutes pièces dans le seul but de doper artificiellement les chiffres !
La justice soupçonne l’opération« Aurore » d’avoir été montée de toutes pièces
Si la justice doute encore, c’est à désespérer du travail d’intelligence que l’instruction a fourni !
Seuls, sur le banc des accusés de ces filouteries douanières, quelques responsables irresponsables et beaucoup d’absentéisme volontaire !
Vincent Monnier de l’OBS a sorti un papier à l’instant
EXTRAIT
Par Vincent Monnier publié le 31 mai 2022 à 17h25
C’était ce qu’on appelle une « saisie record ». De celles qui font les gros titres de la presse, gonflent d’un coup les statistiques et suscitent les félicitations des ministres de tutelle. A l’été 2015, les agents de la Direction nationale du Renseignement et des Enquêtes douanières (DNRED) mettent la main sur 43 tonnes de café contrefait de la marque L’Or de Maison du Café, tout d’abord dans un poids lourd arrêté à un péage de l’autoroute A1, puis dans un entrepôt d’Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise). « Une première sur le territoire national », claironnent alors Bercy et la Direction des Douanes. Las, les développements judiciaires de cette affaire ne seront pas vraiment ceux initialement escomptés.
Depuis le 9 mai, six anciens haut gradés de la DNRED – un service figurant parmi le premier cercle de la communauté du renseignement, au même titre que la DGSI ou la DGSE –, deux aviseurs et un intermédiaire comparaissent devant la 11e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris pour des faits d’« importation en bande organisée de marchandises contrefaites », « escroquerie », « détournement de fonds publics ».
La justice soupçonne l’opération, baptisée « Aurore », d’avoir été montée de toutes pièces dans le seul but de doper artificiellement les chiffres. Autrement dit, cette saisie de contrefaçons serait elle-même contrefaite. Un comble pour des douaniers.
Désolé, c’est réservé aux abonnés !
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May 19, 2022
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Jovanni Limon Salas was sentenced to prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking organization. On May 13, 2021, police were investigating a suspected drug trafficker and observed a drug deal occur in a business parking lot. Police followed Limon Salas away from…
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May 16, 2022
Alliance, Neb. — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Educational Foundation offered its first-ever, free, afterschool lacrosse clinic to middle school students in Alliance, March 28-April 4, in partnership with the Alliance Police Department, Cheyenne Youth Lacrosse Team and USA Lacrosse. Coaches and players with the Cheyenne Youth Lacrosse team in…
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May 13, 2022
BOSTON – A New York man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges involving fentanyl. Chanty Reynoso Vasquez, 27, of Bronx, N.Y., was indicted on possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. According to the indictment, on March 30, 2022, in…
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May 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, Vt.- The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Nicole LeClair, 34, of Washington, Vermont, and Christopher Emmons, 51, of Washington, Vermont, were arrested today during search warrants at their residences. LeClair has been charged with distributions of controlled substances that occurred at…
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May 13, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – A North Carolina man is charged with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree for allegedly selling 22 kilograms (over 48 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine in Manhattan and Queens during an undercover investigation. Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Frank…
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May 13, 2022
PROVIDENCE – A Providence man, arrested in April 2021 moments after he claimed a package that was found by investigators to contain nearly two kilograms of cocaine shipped from Puerto Rico, pled guilty in federal court on Wednesday to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine…
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May 13, 2022
BOSTON – A Lowell man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy connected to a Colombian-based criminal enterprise. Juan Pablo Ariasgil, 41, of Lowell, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to four years in prison…
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May 13, 2022
RUTLAND, Vt. – The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Craig Wilkins, 37, of Rutland, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to charges that he possessed two handguns as a convicted felon and that he possessed fentanyl and cocaine base with…
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May 13, 2022
HARTFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KENDALL HOOKS, 50, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. According to…
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May 12, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, New York Field Division, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration…
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May 12, 2022
NAUGATUCK, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADAM MINES, 38, of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin. According to…
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May 12, 2022
TRENTON, N.J. – A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for tax evasion and filing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Gordian A. Ndubizu, 67, of Princeton Junction, New Jersey, is charged in an eight-count indictment unsealed today with four counts of tax evasion and…
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May 12, 2022
TRENTON, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a former pharmacist was arrested today for her role in distributing and dispensing outside the course of professional practice…
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May 12, 2022
R. Denise Foster Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Caribbean Division, Robert Bell Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Division and Richard G. Frohling United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced the extradition of Haitian police officer Alex Mompremier from Haiti based on an indictment…
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May 11, 2022
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the conviction of Christian Pabon, a/k/a “Banga,” of racketeering conspiracy and murder in aid of racketeering. A unanimous jury convicted PABON of every count presented to the jury after a one-week trial…
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May 11, 2022
MILWAUKEE – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, Renita D. Foster, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Caribbean Division, and U.S. Attorney Richard G. Frohling for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced the transfer of Haitian police officer Alex Mompremier from Haiti…
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May 11, 2022
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Darryl Hemphill, 34, of Rock Hill, pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Evidence presented at the change of plea hearing established that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Rock Hill Police Department began to investigate a group of defendants who were…
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May 11, 2022
NEW BERN, N.C. – Michael Hall, 34, of Duplin County, was sentenced to 180 months in prison for charges related to drug trafficking and firearms. Hall was convicted of the following charges: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine…
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May 11, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Moralles Mendez, 44, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to…
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May 11, 2022
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Carlos Javier Figueroa a/k/a Javi, a/k/a Big Bro, 44, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted following a federal jury trial of narcotics conspiracy, possession…
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May 11, 2022
FLORENCE, S.C. – Darryl Lamont McKenith, 33, of Aynor, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Evidence presented to the court showed that McKenith was involved in a multi-year conspiracy to distribute…
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May 10, 2022
SAN DIEGO – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat…
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May 10, 2022
Seattle – A significant drug distributor for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Adrian Izazaga-Martinez, 32, of Kent, Washington, was ordering 8-pound loads of methamphetamine. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District…
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May 10, 2022
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Marco Antonio Medina, 29, of Phoenix, Arizona, was charged last week via criminal complaint with three counts of possession of controlled substances for distribution and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. Medina was arrested on May 2 and had his initial appearance in…
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May 10, 2022
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Javier Gil, 37, of South Bend, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on his…
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May 10, 2022
SEATTLE– In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat that fentanyl…
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May 10, 2022
ST. LOUIS – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat…
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May 10, 2022
NEW YORK CITY – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous…
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May 10, 2022
El Paso – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and other valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat that fentanyl…
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May 10, 2022
MADISON, Wis. – John G McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that TJ Myers, 33, of Merrill, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 137 months…
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May 10, 2022
MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeffrey Kemp, 55, of Chicago, was sentenced on Friday, May 6, by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to…
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May 09, 2022
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Office of the United States Attorney filed federal criminal complaints charging Benjamin Reily Bliss; Louis Alexander, aka “lulu;” and Brandon William Carranza-Arthur with crimes related to the distribution of fentanyl to high school students in Monterey County. The charges were announced by Drug Enforcement Administration…
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May 09, 2022
DALLAS – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat that…
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May 09, 2022
BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Ronald Williams, a leader of the ‘90s Crew street gang based in the Canarsie and East Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn, was sentenced by United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall to 24 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, conspiracy…
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May 09, 2022
WASHINGTON – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat that…
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May 06, 2022
DALLAS, TX – A Dallas drug trafficker who rammed his vehicle into a police car during his arrest has been charged with gun and drug crimes, announced Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent in Charge of DEA Dallas. Angel Manuel Fuentes-Melendez, 23, was indicted on Tuesday with one count of conspiracy…
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May 06, 2022
Richmond, Va., – Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Division announces the launch of Operation Engage in Richmond, Virginia. Operation Engage is comprehensive, community-level initiative, implemented to target and address the drug and related violence issues in cities with high levels of drug related problems. Operation Engage is new…
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May 05, 2022
MACON, GA – Thirteen defendants have been sentenced to terms of up to 15 years in prison after an extensive operation that targeted a middle Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy. Eight men and four women were indicted in February 2021 under Operation Breaking the Bond, an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task…
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May 04, 2022
WATERBURY, Conn. – Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LENWOOD GATLING, 38, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses. According to court documents and statements made in court, between…
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May 04, 2022
PROVIDENCE – A Providence resident who sold crack cocaine on at least three occasions while under surveillance by members of the FBI’s Safe Street Task Force was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Michael Rodriguez, 26, pled guilty on August 31…
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May 04, 2022
BOSTON – A Providence man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl and heroin. Darwin J. Gonzalez Reyes a/k/a “España,” 36, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 10 years in prison and five years of…
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May 04, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANGEL RODRIGUEZ-MENDEZ, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal possession…
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May 04, 2022
WATERBURY, Conn. – Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LONNIE JOYNER, also known as “Flo,” 37, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release…
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May 04, 2022
HAMMOND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Bruce Leipart, 39, of Hobart, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James T. Moody on his plea…
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May 03, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy…
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May 03, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – A 29 year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a large drug conspiracy involving heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B…
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May 03, 2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – A 55 year-old Ennis resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute kilograms of meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Enrique Perez…
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May 03, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS – Michael Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminstration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced on that 18 individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The indictment charges the defendants…
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May 02, 2022
Brooklyn, N.Y. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace announced two citizens of Lebanon, Mohamad Yassine and Hassan Rahman, will be arraigned today on money laundering charges for operating…
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May 02, 2022
Williston, VT. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Gregory Lewis, 26, of Williston, Vermont, was sentenced today to serve 58 months in prison after his convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm and distribution of cocaine base. United…
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May 02, 2022
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. – Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FABIO VARGAS-GONZALEZ, 46, of Wethersfield, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a fentanyl trafficking offense. According to court documents and statements made in court, the DEA’s Hartford Task Force developed information…
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May 02, 2022
BOSTON – Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc., an affiliate of the Waltham-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (Thermo Fisher), has agreed to pay $25,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act, by improperly purchasing and distributing chemicals regulated by the Act. Thermo Fisher self-disclosed these violations to the…
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April 29, 2022
MIAMI – Miami federal prosecutors have charged British Virgin Islands (BVI) Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie, Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority Oleanvine Pickering Maynard (O. Maynard), and the Port Director’s son, Kadeem Stephan Maynard (K. Maynard), with cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracies for agreeing to facilitate the safe…
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April 29, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – Marvin “MJ” Mitchell (36, St. Peterburg) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl, and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl. Mitchell faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each…
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April 29, 2022
MIAMI – On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, a federal district judge in West Palm Beach sentenced a 31-year-old man from Okeechobee County, Florida, to 130 months in prison for drug trafficking. Juan Manuel Nieves previously pled guilty to distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine. According to the court…
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April 29, 2022
OCALA, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that a federal jury has found Jonathan Jermaine Thomas (32, Ocala) guilty of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, and more than 1 kilogram of heroin…
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April 29, 2022
BOISE, Idaho – A Boise man was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin. According to court records, an investigation into Dennis Radford Colby, a/k/a “Dragon” and his drug trafficking organization began in 2020. On February 4, 2021, Colby was observed…
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April 29, 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Three Jacksonville men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Steven Ray McWhorter (49) was sentenced to 11 years and 4 months, Christopher Douglas Green (48) was sentenced to 10 years, and Kevin Joseph DeWitt (50) was sentenced 3…
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April 29, 2022
FRESNO, Calif. — Renato Aguilera, 30, of Porterville, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon announced. Another member of the conspiracy, Maria Delgado…
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April 29, 2022
WASHINGTON – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle to settle Garcia, et al. v. Merrick Garland, Attorney General, Dep’t of Justice, a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of female Special Agents who were not selected for overseas assignments between 1990…
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April 29, 2022
MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea, of the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that Cadott Miller Pharmacy, Ltd., located in Cadott, Wisconsin, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $20,000 to resolve civil allegations…
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April 29, 2022
Waterbury, Conn. – Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DOMINGO GUZMAN, 45, last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 114 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his…
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April 29, 2022
BOSTON – A Springfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to drug trafficking charges involving fentanyl. Juan Jimenez, 48, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and two counts of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of 40…
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April 29, 2022
DALLAS, TX – A Panamanian national has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations during his federal trial in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Dallas Field Division. Jorge Albeiro Silva-Salazar, 53, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five…
La cooperación con la agencia antidroga norteamericana (DEA) y la Policía Nacional de Panamá ha permitido que la droga no alcance el mercado.
La investigación comenzó con la detección de una organización criminal radicada en Panamá y Colombia. Esta banda intentaba hacer llegar cuatro contenedores hasta el puerto de Barcelona. Uno de ellos estaría destinado al transporte de la droga, pese a declarar llevar cartón prensado como mercancía legal.
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The Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was killed Tuesday by armed men who arrived aboard a jet ski at the place where he was honeymooning in the Colombian Caribbean. The crime is revealing the transformation of Paraguay to a cocaine producer and the links between the type of politics and drug trafficking.
RFI consulted with analyst Carlos Aníbal Peris, a political scientist who specializes in drug trafficking at the Catholic University of Asunción, about this crime, which is now under investigation to determine the motive and circumstances of the murder.
-The Pecci prosecutor’s investigation resulted in the mega operation “A Ultranza Py” last month, which led to the resignation of several politicians involved in a criminal structure of international cocaine trafficking. This case sheds light on what you call narcopolitics in Paraguay …
Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, along with his wife Claudia Aguilera
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Des directives auraient-elles été données sous forme de conseils ou plutôt de souhaits pour que ce procès ne bénéficie pas de toutes les capacités de ces grandes rédactions ?
Espérons que le Journal du Dimanche fasse exception demain !
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DNRED (80 ans): ils sont venus, ils étaient tous là (ou presque)…
Belle assemblée constituée de Guy Gouin, Gérard Estavoyer, Joseph Le Louarn et Jean Henri Hoguet qui sont venus au siège de la DNRED pour fêter avec Jean Paul Garcia, les 80 ans d’existence du service.
Mais un peu d’histoire !
C’est dans ‘Association pour l’Histoire de l’Administration des Douanes’ que nous trouvons les explications de l’évolution de la DNED en DNRED
Dans le cadre de notre rétrospective de l’histoire des services d’enquêtes, de recherche et de renseignement de l’institution douanière française, le passage de la « DNED » à la « DNRED » constitue un séquence déterminante. C’est en 1988 que voit le jour une véritable direction du renseignement au sein du service.
Pour relater cette séquence, est reproduit ici l’éclairage apporté par Jean-Henri Hoguet, promoteur de cette mesure novatrice et chef du service à cette époque.
La Direction du renseignement
L’année 1988 a d’abord été celle de l’adjonction d’un pôle Renseignement à la D.N.E.D., devenue de ce fait D.N.R.E.D., suite à la parution d’un arrêté ministériel du 1er mars 1988 et de 1’Instruction Cadre du 19 mai. Comme proposé par le G.P.A. (Groupe Prospective et Action), le Centre de Documentation et d’Évaluation (C.D.E.), créé quelques années auparavant et qui, faute d’une doctrine bien établie et appliquée avec des moyens correspondant aux objectifs à atteindre, devait disparaître. Les moyens de l’ex -C.D.E, étaient transférés, au moins en partie, à la Direction du Renseignement. La partie Évaluation du C.D.E. était reprise, au niveau des principes, par la Direction générale et l’application pratique des règles relatives à la Valeur en douane relevait des Directions régionales à travers les bureaux de douane et les C.E.R.D.O.C.
Le C.D.E. avait été dirigé jusqu’ici par un directeur, flanqué de deux adjoints cadres supérieurs qui régnaient sur un effectif d’environ 70 agents. Le personnel, livré à des tâches peu exaltantes et mal encadré, relevait plus de la réserve indienne que de la troupe d’élite. Je reçus carte blanche de la D.G. – ce qui est rare – pour ne conserver que les agents que j’estimerais convenir à l’accomplissement des nouvelles tâches de renseignement. Ce contrat prévoyait toutefois que je devais garder le directeur. Je n’ai conservé qu’environ la moitié de l’effectif du C.D.E..
Pour faire fonctionner la nouvelle Direction du Renseignement, il fallait certes des « petites mains » non expertes, mais surtout un encadrement de spécialistes de la lutte contre la fraude. Or, où les trouver sinon chez les enquêteurs de la D.N.E.D. ? Je fis le tour des cinq divisions parisiennes de la Direction des Enquêtes et Recherches en expliquant aux agents ce que je voulais faire avec cette nouvelle Direction du Renseignement et de la Documentation, et les moyens que j’entendais y consacrer, y compris à l’étranger. Je demandais que chaque Division – sur la base du volontariat – me « prête » pour un an ses deux meilleurs agents, libre à eux si l’aventure leur plaisait, de rester un temps plus long à la D.R.D. Si cette expérience ne les satisfaisait pas, ils étaient assurés de retourner, au bout d’un an, dans leurs unités d’origine. Le pari était risqué – un enquêteur de classe n’aime rien plus que de faire des enquêtes avec un résultat probant au bout. Un enquêteur c’est avant tout un chasseur. S’asseoir derrière un bureau ou un ordinateur, peloter des listings ou confronter des séries de données n’a rien de très passionnant, encore que tout enquêteur prépare souvent son enquête de la sorte. Devant la réticence des enquêteurs à venir à la D.R.D., je leur racontais que j’avais rencontré à Londres, au siège de 1’Investigation Division, un enquêteur réputé qui, antérieurement, avait battu moult fois la campagne dans le cadre de ses investigations et qui maintenant se contentait de recueillir des informations, de les analyser et de lancer ses jeunes collègues sur les routes. Cet agent me disait qu’assis derrière son ordinateur, il éprouvait « une véritable jouissance chaque fois qu’il avait réuni le faisceau d’informations qui ferait tomber son client ». L’homme derrière l’ordinateur ajoutait : « avant je me déplaçais, maintenant j’envoie les autres et ça marche ». C’est ainsi qu’avec un peu de persuasion j’ai pu débaucher une petite dizaine (9 au départ) d’enquêteurs qui ont fait démarrer la D.R.D. Quelques-uns y sont restés plus d’un an. Je n’ai pas été ensuite ingrat avec ces agents qui m’ont cru et ont eu le courage de tenter l’aventure.
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La mise en place de la nouvelle D.N.R.E.D.
Concernant le fonctionnement du service, on peut dire que 1988 a vu la mise en marche de la D.R.D. et le début de rapports nouveaux entre cette Direction et celle des Enquêtes Douanières. Nous revenions de loin car, au début, les enquêteurs de la D.E.D., soucieux de conserver leurs enquêtes d’initiative, niaient la nécessité, l’utilité et même la viabilité d’une Direction du Renseignement. Pour les enquêteurs, la Direction du Renseignement ne pouvait avoir qu’une tendance monopolistique et confiscatoire au regard de l’information opérationnelle.
A la D.E.D., on avait également innové. On avait monté des opérations faisant intervenir soit plusieurs échelons, soit une division parisienne et plusieurs échelons. Ces opérations concernaient des livraisons surveillées de stupéfiants naissant à la frontière espagnole et se terminant à Marseille, Lyon ou dans le nord, mais aussi d’autres opérations plus classiquement douanières relatives à un produit importé mais ayant des points de chute disséminés sur tout le territoire. L’importance de ces opérations amenait naturellement à évaluer leur coût en hommes, en matériel et en frais de déplacement et à tirer de cette évaluation des conséquences au regard de la rentabilité
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La D.N.R.E.D. en 1989
Les 14 et 15 mars, je me rendis, en passant par Lille où je pris Bardu avec moi, à Anvers. Le but du voyage était d’examiner avec nos collègues douaniers belges les possibilités d’échanges de renseignements en matière de conteneurs arrivant dans ce grand port et dont une bonne partie était ensuite acheminée sur la France. Je m’aperçus qu’en Belgique la Douane a d’abord pour directive du gouvernement de ne pas freiner le commerce afin que le bon renom du port d’Anvers ne soit pas altéré. La vitesse du dédouanement primait donc la recherche de la fraude.
Les échanges internationaux de renseignements sur la fraude ne s’en développèrent pas moins en 1989. Le nombre des dossiers traités augmenta de 14% par rapport à 1988 et de 67% par rapport à 1985. Compte tenu des facilités que j’avais obtenues pour envoyer des agents en mission à l’étranger, le nombre des missionnaires passa de 26 en 1987 à 51 en 1989. Certaines de ces missions donnèrent d’excellents résultats sur le plan contentieux. Pour la première fois, une permanence H 24 fut instituée dans le secteur de l’assistance mutuelle avec l’étranger, en raison du développement de celle-ci et de la nécessité, dans certains cas, de réagir très vite. En 1989 également un système international de surveillance des navires suspects a été mis sur pied – Mar-Info – et une partie de la gestion du système fut confiée à la D.R.D. par nos collègues étrangers, Pour la première fois, un pays gérait en temps réel un fichier douanier et le mettait à la disposition des autres.
La D.R.D. commençait à être victime de son succès, car si les besoins en informatique pouvaient à peu près être satisfaits, il n’en allait pas de même pour ce qui concerne le renfort en personnel. Cette mème pénurie nous empêchait de nous lancer dans l’élaboration d’une structure apte à traiter l’information en matière de blanchiment.
A partir de septembre, la D.R.D. eut un nouveau patron. En remplacement de Pla, j’avais pu, en insistant beaucoup, faire nommer sur ce poste de directeur le chef d’échelon de Lille, Jacques Bardu. Tout son passé, y compris lorsqu’il était chef de subdivision dans l’Est, montrait qu’il savait recueillir l’information, développer des réseaux d’informateurs et faire des affaires sur renseignements. Son efficacité était même dérangeante pour certains, d’autant qu’il agissait et rendait compte après, chaque fois qu’il pressentait que la diffusion préalable de I’information était susceptible de retarder ou d’arrêter l’action. De plus, sa notoriété auprès de ses collègues chefs d’échelon était de nature à donner une crédibilité accrue à la jeune D.R.D.. Dès son arrivée, il mit sur pied un nouveau système de diffusion mensuel de l’information sur la fraude qui incitait les services destinataires à faire du retour d’information et créait 1’émulation entre ces services en publiant leurs résultats. Ce bulletin était en outre présenté sous une forme attractive, relevant plus de la bande dessinée que de la note administrative. Yvon Pelafigue, directeur interrégional à Lille, nous donna un très sérieux coup de main en mettant pendant plusieurs mois à notre disposition le dessinateur-douanier qui illustrait si bien notre document mensuel.
La D.E.D. quant à elle, si elle avait achevé sa reconversion du Change vers la Douane, n’en avait pas moins deux problèmes à résoudre pour s’adapter aux évolutions en cours. Alors qu’elle fonctionnait auparavant en circuit fermé concernant le renseignement qu’elle recueillait et exploitait directement, il lui fallait maintenant, non seulement admettre l’existence de la D.R.D., mais aussi participer à son fonctionnement en la pourvoyant en informations. Des progrès restaient à faire, spécialement pour les recherches, car le changement des habitudes mentales ne se réalise pas immédiatement à la suite d’une injonction, même forte. Le deuxième problème pour la D.E.D. était que ses unités apprennent à travailler entre elles compte tenu des dimensions nationales et internationales prises par la fraude, qu’il s’agisse de stupéfiants ou de fraudes commerciales communautaires. Devant la complexité ou la difficulté des dossiers à traiter, les agents se rendaient compte que la matière était en train de changer de nature et de dimension et que, pour mener à bien les enquêtes, il fallait mettre en jeu des moyens juridiques, techniques et matériels dont certains faisaient encore défaut (écoutes légales, coopération judiciaire internationale, mesures conservatoires sur les biens situés à l’étranger, etc.).
Jean Henri Hoguet
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Un peu d’histoire aussi !
Pour rejeter ma demande d’indemnisation, c’est Erwan Guilmin qui a été chargé de pondre un document mensonger.
Marc Fievet avec Gérard Estavoyer à Nice
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Marc Fievet avec Jean Henri Hoguet à Saintes
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C’est dans ARABNEWS que nous trouvons les déclarations d’Erwan Guilmin devant les juges du Tribunal correctionnel de Paris
Comment Erwan Guilmin a-t-il pu modifier un document classé secret-défense, masquant ainsi que les douanes travaillaient avec un indic jugé dangereux, inscrit sur liste noire ?
Jugé à Paris mercredi, le haut fonctionnaire Erwan Guilmin a contesté tout caviardage
« Je n’ai à aucun moment fait ou produit un faux« , a juré devant le tribunal correctionnel, Erwan Guilmin, l’ancien patron de la puissante Direction des opérations douanières (DOD), bras armé de la Direction nationale du renseignement douanier (DNRED).
«Erreur scripturale»
En 2016, le juge d’instruction enquêtant sur cette affaire de stups adresse une réquisition concernant certains informateurs des douanes. Le secrétariat général de l’institution rédige alors une note mentionnant expressément que Petrovic figure sur « liste noire ».
Mais avant l’envoi du document, Erwan Guilmin, à la tête de la DOD depuis 2014, rédige un deuxième exemplaire quasiment identique, avec le même numéro secret défense, faisant disparaître cette mention.
Face au tribunal, le haut fonctionnaire a soutenu, comme son prédécesseur M. Sauvalère qui a dirigé la DOD entre 2008 et 2014, que « Z » n’avait en réalité jamais été « blacklisté ». Certes une demande a été faite par un service parisien en 2009, mais elle n’aurait jamais été suivie d’effet et l’informateur aurait poursuivi sa collaboration, malgré cette « erreur scripturale » jamais corrigée.
Le document transmis à la justice est « un envoi, dans l’état de mes connaissances », a-t-il argué.
Mais si un doute existait sur le statut de cet informateur, pourquoi ne pas avoir attendu pour être certain de transmettre des informations correctes ?
Au moment de l’envoi, « il est hors de question d’attendre le lendemain », a expliqué M. Guilmin, en racontant la pression de la direction générale pour avoir une réponse la plus rapide possible.
L’inscription sur liste noire de Petrovic devait d’ailleurs être abordée ultérieurement lors d’une réunion entre la DOD, la DNRED et la direction générale des douanes, a-t-il rappelé. Une rencontre qui n’a finalement jamais eu lieu.
« J’aurais dû ne pas répondre », a-t-il concédé, au terme d’un échange houleux avec la présidente.
« C’est incompréhensible qu’au poste qui est le vôtre, vous recopiiez une note secret-défense avec son numéro, en omettant la mention liste noire, alors qu’il y avait déjà eu une première alerte », lui a-t-elle fait remarquer. Quelques mois plus tôt, un mail avait été transmis à la DOD, signalant qu’elle s’apprêtait un payer un aviseur inscrit sur liste noire.
Pour Erwan Guilmin, ce paiement, validé par la direction générale, était au contraire la preuve que Petrovic n’était pas blacklisté.
« Je ne vois pas comment un informateur sur liste noire peut faire l’objet d’une proposition de rémunération, ou alors ça veut dire qu’il y a un groupe massif de fraudeurs », au-delà de la seule DNRED, a-t-il plaidé.
« C’est le serpent qui se mord la queue », s’est agacé la présidente.
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Pour mémoire, Erwan Guilmin, a produit de fausses informations sur Marc Fievet sans jamais avoir cherché à se renseigner auprès des douaniers qui travaillaient au quotidien avec NS 55.
Fausses informations pour empêcher l’ indemnisation des 3888 jours de détention, non-stop, subis par Marc Fievet en Espagne, Angleterre, Canada et France.
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Le procès de six anciens hauts responsables des douanes dont Vincent Sauvalère et Erwan Guilmin dit « le caviardeur » soupçonnés de largesses envers un de leurs informateurs pour gonfler les chiffres des saisies, s’est ouvert lundi 9 mai à Paris par une demande de huis clos de plusieurs avocats, rejetée par le tribunal.
Un huis clos n’est «pas juridiquement fondé», a rétorqué la procureure, en rappelant notamment que «tous les documents qui étaient classifiés dans ce dossier ont été déclassifiés». Après en avoir délibéré, les juges ont refusé le huis clos. «Ce procès aura lieu en audience publique, comme c’est la règle et chacun aura à cœur d’être responsable de ses déclarations», a expliqué la présidente.
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Alors que la demande de huis clos avait été acceptée par le tribunal de Bobigny pour adapter la peine canadienne à perpétuité que Marc Fievet, l’agent infiltré NS 55, avait dû encaisser au Nouveau Brunswick. Il est vrai que le dossier de Fievet était classé ‘secret défense’
Malgré les demandes de la juge Sophie Clément, le dossier de Marc Fievet, classé secret défense, n’a pas été déclassifié…
Une morale pour les aigles, une autre pour les pigeons
J’ai toujours en mémoire la répartie de Sonya Djemni-Wagner lorsque ma condamnation canadienne a été adaptée au droit français en aggravant cette dernière.
La jeune substitut du procureur de Bobigny qu’elle était m’a envoyé à la tête cette phrase de véritable Ponce Pilate: « Je réclame 20 ans, vous n’aurez qu’à demander la ‘grâce présidentielle‘! »
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20 kg de esta droga se han incautado en Burgos y 240 kg en Amsterdam, en una operación que ha contado con la participación de la DEA.
Agentes de la Policía Nacional han intervenido en la ciudad de Burgos más de 20 kilogramos de una sustancia estupefaciente desconocida en España hasta ahora. Se ha identificado como 4-CMC, y por la que han sido detenidas tres personas. La operación ha contado también a la vez con la incautación de más de 240 kilogramos de 3MMC en Ámsterdam en una operación internacional.
La incautación de este alijo se ha llevado a cabo durante una operación policial que ha contado con la colaboración de la Administración de Control de Drogas de Estados Unidos (DEA) y la Policía Nacional de Países Bajos, informan desde la Dirección General de la Policía.
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La 4-MEC (4-methylethcathinone) est une drogue de synthèse de la famille des cathinones. C’est un stimulant dont les effets sont proches de ceux de la MDMA/ecstasy.
La 4-MEC est principalement vendue sur internet.
Elle se présente sous forme d’une poudre blanche cristalline. Elle peut être vendue seule, ou en association à d’autres cathinones dans des mélanges appelés NRG-1 et NRG-2.
Appellations : 4-MEC, ecstasy légale, 4-methylethcathinone, 4-methyl-N-ethylcathinone, p-methyl-N-ethcathinone, 2-(ethylamino)-1-(p-tolyl)propan-1-one, Energy-1, Energy-2, Energy-3, NRG-1, NRG-2, NRG-3, Nutrition Rapid Growth…
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C’est le Journal du Mali qui nous rapporte que l’Office des Nations Unies contre la drogue et le crime (ONUDC) dans un rapport d’évaluation de la réduction de la demande de drogues publié en 2017 précisait que :« Le phénomène a connu une expansion rapide au milieu des années 2000, comme conséquence directe des mesures répressives drastiques prises par les États-Unis. Désormais, les cartels des drogues latino-américains vont élire l’Europe comme marché de remplacement du marché américain et l’Afrique de l’Ouest comme plateforme d’acheminement vers ce marché » .
La nouveauté est que le pays de transition est devenu un consommateur considérable des stupéfiants.
Deux facteurs coexistants sont en cause, note l’ONUDC : l’immigration des Maliens en Europe et l’essor du tourisme européen au Mali. Un premier groupe de dealers d’héroïne est découvert dans les années 80 dans le quartier huppé de l’époque, l’Hippodrome. « Ces deux groupes ont importé les produits au pays et ont initié des personnes proches aux modalités de leur consommation. Quelques années auraient suffi pour faire émerger une génération d’usagers autochtones qui n’a jamais immigré en Europe ni été contact avec des touristes européens », indique-t-il.
Itinéraires divers
La drogue au Mali transite principalement, selon l’OSC, par l’axe Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) – Yorosso (Mali). Du cercle de Yorosso, une quantité est propagée à Ségou, qui ravitaille des villes du centre et du nord. Le reste s’achemine vers Koutiala, qui approvisionne Sikasso et Bamako par la route en contournant les points de contrôle des forces de sécurité. Souvent camouflés et dispersés dans des sacs de céréales ou de légumes, les stupéfiants traversent des localités de la région avant d’être stockés dans des fermes agricoles près de Bamako puis versés discrètement dans les marchés.
Au nord, « les psychotropes quittent le Niger, passent par Labbezanga et Ansongo et se retrouvent à Gao. Quant à la cocaïne, elle transite par la frontière algérienne », assure un notable de la localité. Selon ce dernier, de la ville, les drogues sont souvent acheminées par bateaux dans les localités, sur l’axe fluvial Gao – Tombouctou – Mopti.
« Quant au réseau de la cocaïne, il opère par voie aérienne et sur l’axe Guinée – Kourémalé – Bamako. La route transahélienne, communément appelée autoroute A-10, qui passe par le nord du Mali, est à présent peu pratiquée en raison de la forte présence militaire et de la montée en puissance des FAMa », explique M. Keïta. Mais en 2009 un avion cargo, renommé par la suite « Air Cocaïne » s’est posé en plein désert à Tarkint, à une centaine de kilomètres de Gao. L’avion, qui venait du Venezuela, a été déchargé de son contenu puis incendié. D’autres réseaux du cannabis – haschich pratiquent « l’axe Ghana – Burkina Faso – Mali, celui Maroc – Mauritanie – Mali et l’axe Côte d’Ivoire – Mali ».
Nombreux acteurs
Autant les routes sont diverses, autant le sont les acteurs et les ramifications vont souvent loin. L’affaire Air Cocaïne et les récentes saisies et arrestations de personnes transportant de la drogue à l’aéroport international Modibo Keita de Sénou le prouvent. Certaines de ces personnes « sont issues des importantes diasporas ouest-africaines d’Europe et d’Amérique du nord et latine. Elles servent à la fois à établir des liens avec les cartels, les producteurs, les revendeurs et les intermédiaires sur le terrain, qui peuvent les aider et les soutenir en cas de problème, mais aussi à rapatrier les bénéfices vers l’Afrique sous diverses formes », explique la Commission ouest-africaine sur les Drogues (WACD). Selon elle, un baron de la drogue ouest-africain peut aussi bien être avocat, cadre supérieur ou homme politique que jeune déscolarisé ou passeur de diamants.
Dans le Septentrion malien, traditionnellement, ce sont les tribus Arabes lamhar du Tilemsi (région de Gao) et Bérabiche (principalement à Tombouctou et à Taoudénit) qui détiennent le quasi-monopole le trafic de drogue, indique une enquête d’International Crisis Group de 2018. Depuis, la sociologie des acteurs s’est complexifiée, à cause « des revenus générés par la drogue ». Selon notre source à Gao, « les groupes terroristes, sous couvert du djihad, et certains groupes d’ex-rebelles » s’adonnent également à la pratique. Ce qui est attesté par plusieurs rapports, dont celui très détaillé d’International Crisis Group. Ces groupes profitent de la déstabilisation de l’État et de plusieurs « No go zone » pour leurs trafics. De fait, le petit vendeur de la Tour de l’Afrique n’est que la partie immergée de l’iceberg.
Narcotrafic : le Mali en a plein le nez
par Aly Asmane Ascofaré
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