Tag: Drug Trafficking
Delmargo Dushawn Bruce, Distributing Controlled Substances and Possessing a Firearm, Iowa 2024
⏱ 2 min read Delmargo Dushawn Bruce, a 35-year-old Chicago man, has been sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for distributing controlled substances and possessing a firearm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On July 1, 2024, and July 19, 2024, Bruce sold approximately 5.93 grams of heroin and 9.76 grams of fentanyl, respectively. A search…
Wilson Radhames Peguero Brea, Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read Wilson Radhames Peguero Brea, a 57-year-old Dominican national, has a long history of crime in the United States. He has been convicted of drug trafficking, aggravated identity theft, and wire fraud, and has been deported from the country three times. Despite this, he continued to illegally reenter the US, using numerous…
Shymetrus Datre Steele, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, North Carolina 2026
⏱ 2 min read Shymetrus Datre Steele, a 27-year-old from Mount Gilead, North Carolina, was on probation for attempted trafficking cocaine and possession with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance when he made a drastic mistake. On a probation visit, Steele ran from North Carolina Probation and Parole Officers while holding…
Carlo de los Santos Ruiz, Fentanyl Trafficking, New Hampshire 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Dominican national, Carlo de los Santos Ruiz, 29, also known as ‘Julio’, was the mastermind behind a massive drug trafficking operation that spanned New Hampshire and Massachusetts, peddling deadly fentanyl and crack cocaine to unsuspecting buyers. Between July 2024 and June 2025, Ruiz’s organization made a killing, literally, by distributing…
James Watts, Drug Trafficking, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read James Watts, aka Chubbs, led the Crown Royal Gang (CRG) in a large-scale drug trafficking operation in Northeast Philadelphia, peddling methamphetamine, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. From 2020 to 2021, the FBI and Philadelphia Police Department investigated the CRG, monitoring their activities around the Oxford Village Housing Project. Watts, 41,…
Cory Wilson, Methamphetamine Distribution, Georgia 2026
⏱ 2 min read A methamphetamine trafficking network that brought large quantities of the deadly drug from Atlanta to Milledgeville, Georgia, has been dismantled. The seventh and final defendant, Cory Wilson, 41, of Milledgeville, pleaded guilty on July 20 to one count of distribution of methamphetamine. The guilty plea is the result of an Operation…
Mandi Litzinger, Fentanyl Distribution, Pennsylvania 2021
⏱ 2 min read Mandi Litzinger, a 44-year-old resident of Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of distributing fentanyl that resulted in the death of another individual. The crime occurred on or about February 12, 2021, in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Litzinger was tried in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and the jury deliberated for only one…
David Ralph Webber, Misbranded Drug Introduction, Nevada 2026
⏱ 2 min read David Ralph Webber, a Henderson, Nevada man, pleaded guilty to smuggling misbranded erectile dysfunction drugs from India into the United States. Webber, who owned and operated Passion Plus Enterprises Inc. and Whole Science Health, imported hundreds of thousands of prescription drug capsules and tablets containing sildenafil and tadalafil, the active ingredients…
Maxfer Palma, Drug Trafficking, California 2026
⏱ 2 min read Maxfer Palma, a 30-year-old Honduran national, was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for running a drug trafficking operation in East Oakland and the Tenderloin. On April 11, 2023, Oakland police searched Palma’s residence, where they found over 2 kilograms of methamphetamine, more than 200 grams of fentanyl, and a…
Derek Rockette, Cocaine Trafficking, Missouri 2019
⏱ 2 min read Derek Rockette, a 53-year-old St. Louis felon, has been involved in a large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering operation from at least 2016 to 2021. Rockette, along with others, sold cocaine and laundered the proceeds, but lost over $1.5 million of it while gambling. He attempted to repay the money to…
