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Brothers In DMV Region Admit To Operating Open-Air Drug Market At DC Shell Station Brothers In DMV Region Admit To Operating Open-Air Drug Market At DC Shell Station
Brothers In DMV Region Admit To Operating Open-Air Drug Market At DC Shell Station Two brothers from the DMV region may have seen “The Wire” too many times and are the latest to cop to their connection to an open-air drug market operating in and around a gas station in Southeast DC. It was a family affair for District Heights, resident Douglas Campbell and Southeast DC native Delonte Campbell, who admitted this week to felony charges in connection to their roles in selling drugs in the District, federal officials announced. The two are among six facing charges for the drug distribution conspiracy at the Shell gas station in the 4700 block of South Capitol Street SE. Pros…

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by Zak Failla
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Breaking Bad: Drug Trafficker Sentenced For Importing 200 Pounds Of Meth Into Region: Feds Breaking Bad: Drug Trafficker Sentenced For Importing 200 Pounds Of Meth Into Region: Feds
Breaking Bad: Drug Trafficker Sentenced For Importing 200 Pounds Of Meth Into Region: Feds A California man who relocated to Virginia has been sentenced to decades behind bars for his role in a massive federal drug distribution ring involving hundreds of pounds of crystal in the region. Authorities say that Guy Benjamin Bowman, 57, who recently moved east to Meadowview, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for participating in a cross-country drug conspiracy that brought hundreds of pounds of crystal ice methamphetamine into Virginia, the US State’s Attorney announced. Specifically, Bowman was found guilty by a trial in July of: Conspiracy to possess with the inten…

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by Zak Failla
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Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole
Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole A man who authorities said imported almost a ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic was sentenced in federal court in Newark to a plea-bargained federal prison term of nearly 15 years, authorities said. Edwin “Tortuga” Nieves-Rosado, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in the Dominican Republic, must serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Nieves-Rosado "played a managerial role" in conspiring to smuggle the cocaine from with at least five other people from 2016 through January, 20…

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by Jerry DeMarco