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Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — A city woman, one of two people charged last week with trafficking fentanyl, was found dangerous, but not held without bail, court documents say.Judge Douglas J. Darnbrough found Jillian E. Temple, 33, of 33 Sherman St., Apartment 1,...
A Vancouver father of four who began transporting large quantities of fentanyl and cocaine after work dried up in Alberta’s oilsands will spend more than five years in a federal prison. Pedro Dwayne Kematch, 35, was sentenced on Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court...
CLOSE U.S. Authorities seized $4.3 million worth of hard drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and suspected fentanyl at the Arizona/Mexico border in three separate incidents in one day. Veuer's Mercer Morrison has the story. Buzz60While fentanyl and other opioids...
CONCORD — A Laconia man has been sentenced to nearly four years in...
Carfentanil in granular form. A synthetic opioid intended for use on large animals, carfentanil has 100 times the potency of fentanyl. The amount pictured is much more than enough to fatally overdose a human. Courtesy of Sudbury & District Health Unit / Windsor Star The organizations...
Drug dealers are increasingly supplying their crack cocaine and ecstasy users with drugs tainted with fentanyl. According to the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition Task Force, that is causing a rash of overdose deaths. The task force has investigated at least six suspected...
CONCORD — A Goffstown man pleaded guilty to taking part in a fentanyl...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Potential drug deals were foiled when three suspects were arrested, then indicted by a South Carolina grand jury...
My father was a pioneer in the cable and VHS tape piracy racket, so I watched bootlegged copies of movies ad nauseam during my formative years. One of my favorite genres is the ’80s cop movie. BearYour average 1980s movie cop savagely abuses people’s civil rights,...
A 51-year-old drug dealer is believed to have been selling fentanyl — a highly addictive opioid substance — to his clients in return for Bitcoin and other digital assets. As per a statement released by the US I.C.E yesterday, one of the dealers’ clients overdosed on...
At least four people were sent to the hospital early Thursday morning following possible exposure to fentanyl brought in by a...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In an Aug. 24, 2018, story about a lawsuit against a doctor who prescribed...
CINCINNATI — Crack cocaine tainted with fentanyl is behind a recent "significant increase" in suspected overdose deaths, according to an alert from the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition Task Force.Officials said they have investigated at least six suspected crack cocaine overdose deaths in 10 days. In...
Six people were treated at Mercy Health Lorain hospital May 29 after suspected...
Prince's former bodyguard answered questions from attorneys for seven hours as part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of the late rock star. Kirk Johnson's attorney told KSTP-TV that Wednesday's deposition at the Carver County Courthouse was difficult for his client, who...
The Hamilton County Heroin Task Force is warning residents about tainted drugs leading to a significant increase the number of overdose deaths.The task force said crack cocaine being sold in the area has been tainted with fentanyl and, as a result, officers are seeing a...
An investigation by Port Hope police led to the seizure of fentanyl, and the arrest of a man and woman on Wednesday. READ MORE: Fentanyl seized during arrest of Cobourg man wanted on warrant: police As part of their investigation, police say around...
Cody Shepard The Enterprise @cshepard_ENT Thursday May 30, 2019 at 9:38 AM Police say they seized 4.4 grams of fentanyl during a drug raid Thursday morning. BROCKTON — A man and a woman are facing charges of selling drugs out of a house that is located only a few hundred feet from an...
In 2017, there were 39 overdose fatalities related to opioid use in St. Johns County, according to the most recent statistics available by the Centers for Disease Control. At least some of those deaths might have been preventable if Narcan, the opioid reversal treatment, was administered...
The death rate for young people due to opioid poisoning nearly tripled from 1999 to 2016, and the crisis continues to devastate a wide range of people from different backgrounds. News on the epidemic also focuses on the former president of Purdue Pharma, a physician...
CLEVELAND — Cuyahoga County health officials are encouraging drug users to pick up free test strips that can detect the presence...
LORAIN, Ohio — Six people were rushed to Mercy Medical Center in Lorain just before 1 a.m. on Thursday after they were exposed to the dangerous and powerful drug fentanyl, according to the Lorain Fire Department. Assistant Fire Chief Matt Homolya said the fire department...
Tom Petty’s widow has issued legal threats against his eldest daughter, Adria, accusing her of planning to create a Paul Newman-style range of salad dressings using her father’s image.The new allegations are part of a broader feud between Dana and Petty’s daughters by his first...
A California court charged nearly four dozen people last week for violating US drug and money laundering laws as part of a multi-state methamphetamine distribution ring. The drug traffickers, however, didn’t use any sophisticated techniques to get the drugs over the border. They simply mailed...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video LORAIN, Ohio -- Six people were taken to the hospital for fentanyl exposure inside the Lorain City Jail early Thursday morning. According to LifeCare Ambulance in Lorain, three Lorain police officers, two EMS...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx woman is being accused of killing her...
Dr. Sunit Ranade, medical officer of health in Sarnia, says a recent rash of overdoses at the Sarnia jail could force public health to address opioids as an occupational hazard. (Tyler Kula/Sarnia Observer) The region’s top public health official says it’s bad news if the drug...
CLOSE Here are some facts about heroin and other opioids. WochitA federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Montgomery nurse practitioner to 10 years in prison, calling her a "drug dealer" who prescribed "outrageous quantities of narcotics" to vulnerable...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — Gang Unit detectives intervened in a suspected drug deal Tuesday and arrested two men, but not before one of them swallowed a bag of drugs, court documents say.Timothy Mello, 27, of 1224 Old Fall River Road, Dartmouth,...
Two days after Christmas, Darwin Santana-Gonzalez, a curly-haired 1-year-old, was toddling around a Bronx apartment where, the police said, a potent mixture of heroin and fentanyl was being prepared, stamped and packed for sale.The powerful opioids had been placed in packages, the authorities said, along...
By Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — Two Northshire residents were arrested Sunday after police reported finding heroin and fentanyl in their vehicle during a traffic stop in Bennington. Derek Bushee, of Arlington, and Joshua Bushee, of Sunderland, both 37 years old, are facing state charges...
Two days after Christmas, Darwin Santana-Gonzalez, a curly-haired 1-year-old, was toddling around a Bronx apartment where, the police said, a potent mixture of heroin and fentanyl was being prepared, stamped and packed for sale.The powerful opioids had been placed in packages, the authorities said, along...
DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury had indicted a Weymouth man after police said a safe full of drugs and cash was stolen from his apartment.Christopher A. Fontes, 27, was indicted on trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, trafficking more than 36 grams...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. PREVIOUS COVERAGE Fentanyl is the powerful synthetic opioid that is killing people faster...
Another suspected dark web drug dealer is about to stand trail because he wrongly believed Bitcoin transactions were entirely anonymous. This has prompted the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Erin Nealy Cox, to issue a warning for all those attempting to deal...
ENFIELD, CT — An Enfield resident was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling heroin and fentanyl to an Enfield overdose victim.Christopher Feliciano, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport ,...
ThinkstockAnother spike in overdose deaths hit Hamilton County over the past few days, killing 11 people between Friday and today.Those deaths may be the result of additives in cocaine, officials say, though toxicology tests will present a...
Ion scanners are used to detect traces of drugs in some federal penitentiaries but a professor has questioned their reliability. (Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press/file) ...
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DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury had indicted a Weymouth man after police said a safe full of drugs and cash was stolen from his apartment.Christopher A. Fontes, 27, was indicted on trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, trafficking more than 36 grams...
A 29-year old Hermon woman was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison and three years of supervised release on drug charges.Erica Oliveira was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock for conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Public health officials are urging drug users to pick up free fentanyl test strips amid a wave of fatal overdoses linked to a mixture of the opioid and crack-cocaine.Officials believe the drugs contributed to 18 drug overdose deaths over a recent...
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. -- Detectives served a search warrant at a Charlotte County hotel Tuesday, uncovering numerous drugs and firearms, with some even found hidden in a bible.According to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office, two suspects with outstanding warrants out of Lee County were tracked...
By MELINDA WILLIAMS melinda@southwesttimes.com CHRISTIANSBURG — Christiansburg police suspect a 27-year-old man who died Friday night may have overdosed on a narcotic that is more potent than what he thought he was using. After responding to three accidental overdose calls in a 24-hour period Friday and Saturday, Christiansburg...
Published: 5/29/2019 12:48:58 PM A former Pembroke Academy dean convicted of felony drug charges in early 2018 violated her probation...
CLOSE This is a six-month review of the most-read crime stories in Lee County on news-press.com from September 2018 to February 2019. Vonna Keomanyvong, vonna.keomanyvong@naplesnews.com; 239-213-5380Detectives tracked two Lee County residents to a Charlotte County hotel Tuesday and arrested...
CLOSE Naloxone is a medication more prescribed now than ever before. Here's why. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comThe weekend brought 11 new overdose deaths in Hamilton County and another eight in Cuyahoga County. The spike has alarmed coroners, who suspect cocaine...
DALLAS — An indictment against an accused darknet drug dealer, unsealed Friday, charges him with leveraging bitcoin’s apparent anonymity to sell fentanyl online.This indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration...