Alabama man sentenced for fentanyl conspiracy, shipments from California

"...James Walker, 35, of Enterprise, will serve the next three and a half years in federal prison without parole followed by three years of supervised release.

Court records and Walker’s plea agreement say the investigation began in March 2023 when the FBI and the United States Postal Inspection Service began investigating a drug-trafficking network moving fentanyl from California to Alabama. Investigators determined that Walker conspired with Shanarion Lee, 33, of La Mesa, California, and Hillary Lewis, 32, of Lemon Grove, California, to ship controlled substances to multiple addresses in the Middle District of Alabama. ..."    

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ICE busts Mexican drug trafficking scheme using postal service, taco trucks

"...They also seized large quantities of drugs destined for the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico at ports in Long Beach, Calif., and Houston.

A 29-count indictment was unsealed charging 15, including three women, on drug trafficking and weapons charges. Three charged, Mexican and Guatemalan nationals, remain at large and are considered dangerous. ...“As alleged, this drug trafficking organization imported methamphetamine directly from Mexico and used the U.S. mail, a taco truck, and homes in different Houston neighborhoods to distribute and sell methamphetamine and other dangerous drugs"    

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Postal manager stole drugs from mail, let coworker snort cocaine off his desk, feds say

Postal manager stole drugs from mail, let coworker snort cocaine off his desk, feds say

"...The man took advantage of his management position at the Greece, New York, post office to take packages containing drugs, including marijuana, out of the mail stream between May 2018 and May 2022, prosecutors said. While in the privacy of his office, he emptied the packages of the drugs, then placed the parcels back into the mail stream and brought the substances to his home in Rochester, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York. He’s accused of distributing marijuana and cocaine from the mail throughout Rochester with the help of his former girlfriend Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article287981540.html#storylink=cpy..."    Read our latest posts!

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Trafficking operation that uses Pokémon art cases to ship in cocaine busted in New Bedford

"...A trafficking operation that used Pokémon art cases to ship in cocaine from Puerto Rico was busted in New Bedford, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Two New Bedford men were arrested Tuesday after a United States Postal Service inspector and New Bedford police detectives coordinated a controlled delivery of a package to an apartment on Viall Street. An undercover postal inspector posing a mail carrier brought the package to the porch. ..."    

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Massachusetts postal worker sentenced for attempting to bribe boss to participate in trafficking cocaine

"John Noviello, 61, of Nashua N.H. was sentenced to one day in prison and three years of supervised release for offering to pay his boss $1,750 per kilogram of successfully delivered cocaine, according to the United States Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts. ..."    

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Man who picked up parcel with drugs planned to distribute

"...arrested after he was seen picking up a mailed parcel containing methamphetamine said he had planned to smoke the drug and “make a little bit of money,” a police officer testified Friday. In a statement to police two days after he was arrested Nov. 3, Peter Kamalii said a friend had told him the box would be arriving..."    

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Meth Mail: Kentucky police seize air fryer containing 20 pounds of meth

"...a package with about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of meth that was shipped through the mail inside of an air fryer. Narcotics officers were able to intercept the parcel containing about $100,000 worth of drugs..."    

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Meth Mail: Anchorage man indicted for shipping meth through US Postal Service

"...An Anchorage man was indicted after prosecutors say he shipped 8.4 pounds of methamphetamine through the US Postal Service for distribution..."    

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How fentanyl flowed through the U.S. Postal Service and across the southern border

"...packages of synthetic opioids to the United States. "The most common distribution medium is via the U.S. Postal Service," the Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the sanctions. Trump weighed in on the issue Friday, tweeting that he was "ordering all carriers," including the Postal Service, "to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!)..."    

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Postal workers noticed suspicious packages: Man sentenced for ordering 42 pounds of pot-infused chocolate

"...pled guilty to possession of more than 5,000 grams of cannabis, a felony that carries a prison term of four to 15 years and a fine of up to $25,000, according to court records. In February 2014, postal workers noticed a pattern of suspicious packages being delivered to Franzen's home in Montgomery, Illinois..."    

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Postal worker allegedly used mail to traffic K2 from China to US

"...A Massachusetts postal worker allegedly used the mail to traffic the powerful synthetic marijuana K2 from China to the US for five years ..."    

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Alabama postal workers accused of stealing mail, trafficking marijuana

"...indicted the four Mobile workers on federal charges in November. Thirty-three-year-old Unterria J. Rogers, 26-year-old Devon Donald, 26-year-old Sade Martin and 25-year-old Shambria Hill were each indicted on charges including stealing mail ..."    

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Birmingham brothers sentenced to federal prison in Mexican cartel drug distribution case

"...The investigation began when U.S. Postal inspectors and SBI agents began investigating mailings of dozens of packages from Phoenix, Arizona to the Birmingham area in December 2016, according to court documents. The investigation began after postal inspectors in Arizona contacted inspectors in Alabama about a package they had intercepted and found to contain more than three pounds of methamphetamine. The package was addressed to a Birmingham-area home...the person who mailed that package as Deron Lee Green, a former Alabama resident with family in Birmingham..."    

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Steroids by Mail: Steroids shipment results in Wyoming charges

Steroids shipment results in Wyoming charges

"...According to charging documents filed with the Circuit Court in Riverton, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) International Mail Facility at LAX Airport in Los Angeles, California intercepted a mail parcel declared as “beauty products” on December 23, 2017. A “more intrusive examination” was then performed and resulted in the discovery of bottles marked as Proviron, Dianabol, and 16 vials marked as Tren-Mix 200. All items are known to be Anabolic Steroids..."    

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