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Trafficker Taken Down During Largest Heroin Bust In DC History Heading To Prison: Feds Trafficker Taken Down During Largest Heroin Bust In DC History Heading To Prison: Feds
Trafficker Taken Down During Largest Heroin Bust In DC History Heading To Prison: Feds A convicted drug trafficker from DC will spend decades in prison for trafficking nearly 150 pounds of heroin, fentanyl, and marijuana, federal authorities announced. Washington, DC resident Linwood Douglas Thorne, 51, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in a massive drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in one of the largest seizures of heroin in the District of Columbia’s history. Today was a MAJOR win for the community 👏🙌👏 @MayorBowser, MPD, @FBIWFO, and @ATFHQ announced an arrest in reference to the largest heroin seizure in the D.C. areaLinwood Douglas Thorne, 46, o…

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Gang Leader Gets 22 Years Without Parole For Smuggling Heroin, Fentanyl Into NJ Prison Gang Leader Gets 22 Years Without Parole For Smuggling Heroin, Fentanyl Into NJ Prison
Gang Leader Gets 22 Years Without Parole For Smuggling Heroin, Fentanyl Into NJ Prison A Hudson County gang leader must spend the next 22 years in a federal penitentiary for trafficking heroin and fentanyl into a New Jersey state prison. Noel "Kuko" Salgado, 41, was serving time when he had associates on the outside sneak the drugs into Bayside State Prison in Leesburg (Cumberland County), federal authorities said. One inmate who used the smuggled drugs suffered an overdose and was revived with Narcan after remaining senseless for nearly 20 minutes before having to be hospitalized, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Salgado -- who headed the "Loyal Hoody Gang," a l…

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Murderous East Coast MS-13 Leader From NJ Sentenced In MD To Life Murderous East Coast MS-13 Leader From NJ Sentenced In MD To Life
Murderous East Coast MS-13 Leader From NJ Sentenced In MD To Life A Jersey Shore MS-13 overlord who ran the gang’s East Coast operation was sentenced in Maryland to life in federal prison on Friday, April 1 for a “reign of terror” across several states, the U.S. Justice Department announced. Miguel Angel “Reaper” Corea Diaz, 41, of Long Branch, NJ will have to serve out the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The capture of Corea Diaz was “one of the biggest takedowns of a high-ranking MS-13 leader in the United States," a district attorney in Nassau County said after he was indicted on Long Island in December 2018. Corea Dia…

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by David Cifarelli & Jerry DeMarco