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Frank Fagone sentenced to 7-9 years in prison. BARNSTABLE — A 35-year-old Buzzards Bay man was sentenced to seven to nine years in prison Friday after pleading guilty in Barnstable Superior Court in two drug trafficking cases, one of which stemmed from his arrest while out...
Police praised an elementary school pupil for turning in his parents for drug possession after he delivered a suspect package to school last week. The boy told his elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, that he was afraid to return home, worried about possible consequences, KEPR...
Jon Devereaux was drunk when he crashed his friend’s SUV in West St. Paul during a 2013 alcohol-fueled joyride that took the life of a passenger. Now he is linked to the mass South St. Paul overdose case from this past weekend. Police found five men —...
In case it was too much, Hogan was ready with a vial of naloxone, the overdose-reversal drug.Grim drug scenes like this play out every day on the streets surrounding San Francisco’s Civic Center—an area that spans the hard-luck sidewalks of the Tenderloin district and the...
North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP seized fentanyl, methamphetamine and other illicit drugs in two drug investigations in Duncan. In the first case, police arrested a 29-year-old woman for drug dealing in a crime “hot spot” Friday morning. Mounties were patrolling around a business in the 300-block of the...
Just four days after deputies in Mendocino County were trained in April to carry the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, or Narcan, they were dispatched to a scene where two men had reportedly overdosed on a cocktail of drugs. Both were administered multiple doses of...
When Barberton paramedics noticed a sudden spike in opioid overdoses on Wednesday, the city moved quickly.Hours after the first of what a fire department spokesman called a “rash” of cases, Barberton sent a cellphone alert to residents enrolled in its notification system.The notification warned that...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered nearly $3.1 million worth of drugs — including a massive 23-pound load of the ultra-deadly drug fentanyl — hidden inside the gas tank of a commercial bus Monday afternoon at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. The enormous...
CLOSEFrom left to right are Edwin Feliz-Flores, Roberto Yescas and Ines Acosta. (Photo: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)Three people were arrested this week after the Maricopa County Sherriff’s Office along with U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers busted an operation attempting to sell 14,000 fentanyl pills at the Arizona...
PREVIOUS COVERAGE The U.S. Postal Service is failing to deliver on the STOP Act to prevent the illegal flow of dangerous drugs like fentanyl through the mail. ...
An Albertville man is now being considered one of the biggest fentanyl traffickers in North Alabama. James Evans is in the Marshall County Jail after his arrest near downtown Guntersville. Police say he had enough fentanyl to kill 2,500 people. The arrest happened Wednesday at a Marathon gas station...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts woman will become the first known person to win approval from the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to receive ongoing methadone treatment for her heroin addiction while she serves a sentence in federal prison. The decision by the...
Pittsburgh, PA – A Pennsylvania mother accused of putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in her toddler’s sippy cup showed no emotion as she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday. Seventeen-month-old Charlette Napper-Talley died on April 5, 2018, after she consumed what her mother called...
PHOENIX — Three people were arrested at a Phoenix-area mall this week for allegedly possessing thousands of fentanyl pills believed to...
Journal Staff Friday Jun 7, 2019 at 5:26 PM Jun 7, 2019 at 5:26 PM Three Providence men have been arrested and face charges resulting from an investigation of a large-scale fentanyl-distribution ring, according to the East Providence police.The investigation involved the East Providence police vice unit and the Providence police intelligence and organized crime bureau, according to the...
Elizabeth Dinan Friday Jun 7, 2019 at 11:45 AM Jun 7, 2019 at 11:45 AM CONCORD — Four days after he was sentenced to a 4-year prison sentence, a former physician assistant, who illicitly prescribed an addictive fentanyl spray for cash kickbacks, filed notice with the U. S. District Court that he intends to appeal.Christopher Clough, 45,...
Elizabeth Dinan edinan@seacoastonline.com @DinanElizabeth Friday Jun 7, 2019 at 11:45 AM Jun 7, 2019 at 11:45 AM CONCORD Four days after he was sentenced to a 4-year prison sentence, a former physician assistant, who illicitly prescribed an addictive fentanyl spray for cash kickbacks, filed notice with the U. S. District Court that he intends to appeal.Christopher...
I’m a sucker for a good court case. I used to cover a lot of them in my Richmond days. Over the years, I heard and wrote stories about drug dealers, people smugglers, kidnappers, killers and many other bad people. Even had to...
Though a wealth of information has been made public about the relatively low risk presented by accidental exposure to the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, lawmakers, law enforcement and media outlets continue to issue warnings and even propose legislation to provide safeguards to prevent overdose. A recent article in Reason cited...
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An amount of fentanyl deadly enough to kill two horses was found in a sippy cup that led to the death of a 17-month-old baby in Pittsburgh. The 23-year-old mother of the child has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.Officials said the baby,...
The man, formerly from Seminole, manufactured and distributed hundreds of thousands of counterfeit oxycodone pills that were made with fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney said. TAMPA – A federal jury has found a Seminole man guilty of multiple crimes related to the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of an $225 million deal with the U.S. Justice Department resolving claims that the drugmaker bribed doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication. FILE PHOTO: John Kapoor,...
China is the main producer of the drug introduced into other countries as a legal medicine. The partnership between Chinese mafias and organized crime in Latin...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (KYMA/CNN) – Police in San Luis, Arizona arrested three students at summer school on Wednesday. They say the teens had more than 3,000 potentially-deadly pills. The deadly drug fentanyl has claimed the lives of teens across the country. It’s no exception in San...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc is set to plead guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of an $225 million deal with the U.S. Justice Department resolving claims that the drugmaker bribed doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication. FILE...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Three summer school students in Arizona were arrested Wednesday morning after they were allegedly found in possession of more than 3,200 pills of fentanyl, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid. The students at San Luis High School were jailed and charged...
Fentanyl is almost unthinkably strong. The synthetic opioid is 50 times more potent than heroin and has contributed to a wave of fatal overdoses in LA County. But the risks are especially high in the LGBTQ community. One reason: it’s turning up as a hidden...
Police said Hernandez-Madrigal was possessing three baggies containing the thousands of “M30” pills. Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in the U.S.A random sampling of the pills tested positive for fentanyl, a highly addictive painkiller that can be deadly. Cardenas-Hernandez was arrested on charges of possessing drug...
Fentanyl pills are shown in an undated police handout photo. In a public warning about the potentially lethal consequences of illegal drugs, the Regina Police Service says it is “particularly urgent in the case of opioids, including fentanyl.”In a news release sent Thursday, police say Regina...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Three summer school students in Arizona were arrested Wednesday morning after they were allegedly found in possession of more than 3,200 pills of fentanyl, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid. The students at San Luis High School were jailed and charged...
CLOSECrime (Photo: The Republic)Three students at a southwest Arizona high school were arrested on suspicion of drug possession, including more than 3,000 fentanyl pills found with one teen, according to police in San Luis.Around 9:24 a.m. Wednesday morning, school resource officers at San Luis High School arrested...
FARMINGTON — A Wilton woman was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland for her part in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, a highly addictive opioid, according to court documents. Andrea Hoffman, 35,...
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in a small city on the U.S.-Mexico border say three students were arrested Wednesday for possessing fentanyl pills on campus, including one who had over 3,000 pills with her. San Luis, Arizona, police say 18-year-old Noemi Hernandez-Madrigal had three plastic bags with...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Three summer school students in Arizona were arrested Wednesday morning after they were allegedly found in possession of more than 3,200 pills of fentanyl, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid. The students at San Luis High School were jailed and charged...
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- An Oswego County jury found a 43-year-old man guilty of possessing more than $1.2 million worth of drugs -- including a large stash of fentanyl.Jeremy Acosta, of Oswego, was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree and second-degree criminal possession of a controlled...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Three summer school students in Arizona were arrested Wednesday morning after they were allegedly found in possession of more than 3,200 pills of fentanyl, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid. The students at San Luis High School were jailed and charged...
Police in San Luis, Arizona, say three students were arrested Wednesday for possessing...
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Phoenix Division shows a closeup of fentanyl-laced sky blue pills. Police in small city on the U.S.-Mexico border say three students have...
VALPARAISO — When a nurse at Porter Regional Hospital was confronted last fall...
Teen shows off assault rifle, ammunition and bag full of fentanyl in shocking video Updated: 1:27 PM MDT Jun 6, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript THAT’S IN 10 MINUTES. SHELLY: IT’S VIDEO YOU’LL SEE ONLY HERE. A TEENAGER WAS ARRESTED FOR HAVING AN ASSAULT RIFLE AMMUNITION AND A LARGE...
A European drug agency has warned the synthetic drugs fuelling the opioid crisis in the United States are becoming “a growing concern”.A report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) suggests 11 new synthetic opioids were detected in Europe including six...
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in a small city on the U.S.-Mexico border say three students were arrested Wednesday for possessing fentanyl pills on campus, including one who had over 3,000 pills with her. ...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Three summer school students in Arizona were arrested Wednesday morning after they were allegedly found in possession of more than 3,200 pills of fentanyl, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid. The students at San Luis High School were jailed and charged...
Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics has agreed to pay a $225 million settlement to resolve the federal government's criminal and civil investigations into the company's illegal marketing of a powerful but highly-addictive painkiller, prosecutors said Wednesday. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay...
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Three summer school students in Arizona were arrested Wednesday morning after they were allegedly found in possession of more than 3,200 pills of fentanyl, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid. The students at San Luis High School were jailed and charged...