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Federal Tipoffs Involving Arizona Newsletter for Saturday September 07, 2024 ( 4 items )  

DEA-Seattle: 'Drug Kingpin' Gets 28 Years for Trafficking Drugs From Mexico to Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Seattle Division issued the following news release: The leader of an extensive transnational drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 28 years in prison for running a conspiracy that trafficked vast amounts of dangerous drugs to Alaska. According to court documents, Miguel Baez Guevara, a.k.a. "Javi," 41, a U.S. citizen who was living in Mexico, was the leader of a transnational criminal drug tr  more

Litigation: SEC Vs. Raskob Kambourian Financial Advisors
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 4:24-cv-00442-MSA; D. Ariz. filed Sept. 5, 2024) involving Raskob Kambourian Financial Advisors Ltd.: * * * SEC Charges Investment Adviser for Failing to Disclose Fee Increases to Clients * * * On September 5, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Raskob Kambourian Financial Advisors, Ltd. ("Raskob Kambourian"), a formerly SEC registered investment adviser based in Tucson  more

Pa. U.S. Attorney: Arizona Man Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison for Role in Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: A resident of Peoria, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court to 102 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Senior United States District Judge Kim R. Gib  more

Tenn. U.S. Attorney: Arizona Man Arrested at Nashville International Airport and Charged With Possession of Over 50 Pounds of Fentanyl-Laced Pills
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: A criminal complaint obtained today charges Yusef Ibn Abdul Jabbar Hunter, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona, with possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Henry C. Leventis. According to the complaint, on September 5, 2024, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents i  more