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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...
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...
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...
The opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it illegally marketed a highly addictive fentanyl painkiller to doctors, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.As part of the deal, a subsidiary of Insys will plead guilty to...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitA Vestal man was jailed after a drug raid...
The opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it illegally marketed a highly addictive fentanyl painkiller to doctors, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.As part of the deal, a subsidiary of Insys will plead guilty to...
In one of the largest ever murder cases against a health care professional, a former doctor in Ohio is accused in the overdose killings of more than two dozen patients. William Husel pleaded not guilty on Wednesday...
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PHOENIX — Three men in northern Arizona, including a father and his teenage son, are facing drug charges after they were...
PRESCOTT, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- Two Chino Valley men were arrested on suspicion of...
William Husel -- who used to work at Mount Carmel Health System -- pleaded not guilty and is being held on a $20,000 recognizance bond and a $1 million surety or appearance bond according to CNN affiliate WBNS. He is also required to surrender his...
More than 200 Fentanyl pills recovered following PANT investigation – Suspects In-Custody Based on information developed by the Chino Valley Police Department and shared with Partner’s Against Narcotics Trafficking detectives, an investigation into the transportation of fentanyl pills was initiated....
A critical care doctor in Ohio has been charged with murdering 25 patients by allegedly ordering fatal doses of pain medication. William Husel, 43, formerly a physician at Mount Carmel Health in Columbus,...
PRESCOTT, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- Two Chino Valley men were arrested on suspicion of...
An Ohio doctor has been charged with 25 counts of murder for allegedly ordering fatal doses of pain medication for patients while working as a critical-care physician. William Husel, 43, a former doctor at Mount Carmel Health in Columbus, turned himself in to police on Wednesday...
An Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who, authorities say, were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.In one of the biggest cases of its kind ever...
Insys Therapeutics Inc. agreed to pay $225 million and an operating unit will plead guilty to fraud to settle probes into their payment of kickbacks to induce doctors to prescribe highly addictive opioids, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. Prosecutors said Insys used kickbacks and...
A Pennsylvania jury found a mother guilty on two counts relate to the death of her 17-month-old daughter last year. According to the New York Post, 23-year-old Jhenea Pratt was convicted on Tuesday of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a...
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Investigators in the Bronx scored a major victory against drug traffickers, dismantling an operation stretching from Mexico to the northeast. The packages were already stamped “paid.” The deadly drugs were on their way to be delivered when investigators made a lifesaving interception. “Today’s fentanyl...
MORE FROM NEWS 2: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - A warning tonight from law enforcement and health officials after 21 people around Middle Tennessee have died of fatal overdoses from what could be a bad batch...
An Ohio doctor accused of ordering excessive and potentially fatal doses of opioids to dozens of near-death patients is facing multiple counts of murder, prosecutors announced Wednesday.William Husel voluntarily surrendered to authorities in Columbus and was charged in 25 deaths following a six-month investigation by...
Jhenea Pratt is pictured in a booking photo after being arrested and charged in the 2018 death of her 17-month-old daughter. (Photo credit: Pittsburgh Police) Jhenea Pratt is pictured...
CLOSEFormer critical care doctor William Husel, center, pleads not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of 25 hospital patients while appearing with defense attorney Richard Blake, right, in Franklin County Court on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. Husel denies allegations that he...
CLOSE Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is quickly becoming the most dangerous drug in America. Here are the basics. Brett Kelman, The TennesseanA spike in recent fatal overdoses could be tied to fentanyl-laced drugs in Davidson County, public safety officials have warnedSince...
Correctional Service Canada says officials at Warkworth Institution seized a package of drugs, including carfentanil and fentanyl, late last month.Officials say that around 10:30 p.m. on May 26, staff at the medium-security federal institution, located 60 kilometres south of Peterborough, seized...
Nearly two dozen drug traffickers with ties to El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel allegedly smuggled heroin and fentanyl from Mexico to the Bronx — drugs that ended up being sold on the streets in $10 packets, authorities said Wednesday. A 20-month multi-agency investigation recovered a more than...
Note to readers: This story contains interactive charts. Please mouse over the charts to see the raw data numbers. While governments warn of the threat of drugs contaminated with fentanyl, the harsh fact is that the synthetic opioid is increasingly the drug of...
An alleged Mexican drug trafficker tied to the Sinaloa cartel is among 22 people indicted Wednesday on charges they distributed heroin and fentanyl along a supply route from Mexico to New York. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up to date...
A woman found guilty of spiking her baby's sippy cup with a fatal dose of fentanyl committed...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WBNS) – A grand jury has indicted Dr. William Husel on charges stemming from the deaths of 25 patients in an overdose scandal that has rocked the Mount Carmel Health System and the families of nearly three dozen patients.Both the Franklin County Prosecutor’s...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (SHELBY COUNTY D.A. NEWS RELEASE) - A six-month-long investigation by...
(Reuters) - An Ohio doctor was charged with 25 counts of murder for administering high and sometimes fatal doses of opioid painkillers to dozens of very sick patients, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The doctor, William Husel, turned himself in to Columbus police following a six-month...
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested a Steuben man, after seizing 228 grams of fentanyl from his premises.Wayne Smeal, 65, was arrested while MDEA agents and members of the Washington County Sheriff's Office were conducting surveillance on a wooded area in Steuben. Officials say...
An Ohio doctor accused of ordering excessive and potentially fatal doses of opioids to dozens of near-death patients is facing multiple counts of murder, prosecutors announced Wednesday.William Husel voluntarily surrendered to authorities and was charged in 25 deaths following a six-month investigation by the Franklin...
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A prosecutor said a Pittsburgh mother killed her baby by placing fentanyl in the child’s sippy cup so she could “relax and smoke marijuana,” it was reported. A Pennsylvania jury on June 4 cleared Jhenea Pratt, 23, of first-degree murder and third-degree murder, reported the Pittsburgh...
A Pa. mom whose 17-month-old died after drinking from a fentanyl-laced sippy cup tried to blame her boyfriend, but the quick lethality of the heroin-like drug undercut her defense.As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports, the defense team for the mother, Jhenea Pratt, 23, of Pittsburgh,...
STEUBEN — Maine Drug Enforcement agents and area law enforcement have seized more than a pound of the powerful narcotic fentanyl valued at over $100,000 and made two arrests this past week, MDEA Northern Division Commander Darrell Crandall announced on Tuesday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency...
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A report of a man slumped behind the wheel of a vehicle in the parking lot of a closed business on Hammond Street in Bangor led to the man's arrest and the seizure of 300 grams of Fentanyl.Victor Arroyo, 50, of Tampa, Fla., and New...
MAINE, USA — With the help of local law enforcement partners, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency has seized more than a...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Hartford police said Tuesday that five people died from overdoses...
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CONCORD, N.H. — A former physician assistant has been sentenced to four years in prison for receiving more than $49,000 from a drug manufacturer in exchange for writing more than 700 fentanyl spray prescriptions. Christopher Clough, of Dover, New Hampshire, was convicted in December on charges...
THEY DID REACH THEIR DECISION. THE JURY FOUND 23-YEAR-OLD PRATT OF PITTSBURGH’S EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF HER CHILD. HER DAUGHTER DIED AFTER DRINKING FENTANYL THAT WAS IN HER SIPPY CUP. JURORS SAW A VIDEO EVIDENCE OF WHEN...