Tag: Traffickers

LIVE NOW: Sen. Blackburn Holds Press Conference About Bill to Deal With Traffickers

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), joined by other legislators, holds a press conference at noon ET on Feb. 15 to talk about her newly introduced the “the Stop Taxpayer Funding of Traffickers Act” which would defund traffickers who continue to defraud the American taxpayer while they await prosecution and conviction. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and…


Sen. Blackburn Holds Press Conference About Bill to Deal With Traffickers

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), joined by other legislators, holds a press conference at noon ET on Feb. 15 to talk about her newly introduced the “the Stop Taxpayer Funding of Traffickers Act” which would defund traffickers who continue to defraud the American taxpayer while they await prosecution and conviction. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and…


150 Arrested in Operation Dark HunTor, Millions in Drugs, Weapons, and Trafficked Currency Seized

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to arrest 150 people worldwide in Operation Dark HunTor, an effort that seized weapons, drugs and more than $31 million in currencies. Operation Dark HunTor included arrests across three continents, taking into custody alleged perpetrators across the United…


3 Drug Traffickers Convicted for Selling Chinese Fentanyl in Fake Oxycodone Pills

A jury in Seattle on Aug. 4 convicted a trio of drug traffickers on charges stemming from their involvement in a drug ring that sold pills made to look like Oxycodone that contained deadly fentanyl imported from China. According to testimony at trial, the leader of the drug ring, Bradley Woolard, began to buy fentanyl and…