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DEA Cracks Down on Illegal Web Sales of Narcotics

NPR | By Ari Shapiro

Published June 23, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

The Drug Enforcement Administration is increasing its scrutiny of illegal online pharmacies that sell narcotics without prescriptions. In April, the DEA announced the arrests of more than 20 people in Operation Cyber Chase, which shut down a drug ring that reached from India to the United States and a string of other countries.

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