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Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEMay 23, 2019, 7:08 PM UTCBy ReutersJPMorgan Chase has cut ties with Purdue Pharma over the OxyContin maker's alleged role in the U.S. opioid crisis, forcing it to...
Chris Mackie, the top public health official for London and Middlesex County, held a Friday press conference with London police chief John Pare to discuss the rash of recent drug overdoses that have killed five London men in the past six days. (MIKE HENSEN, The...
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — A Delaware County man is facing manslaughter and drug-related charges after allegedly selling a deadly dose of fentanyl-laced cocaine to a Collingdale man earlier this year, authorities said. District Attorney Katayoun M. Copeland and Chief Kenneth Felker of the Collingdale Police...
OLD SAYBROOK, CT — An Old Saybrook police officer was hospitalized after being exposed to Fentanyl while searching a suspect's vehicle on Tuesday. The officer, who instantly became ill after the exposure, has been released from the hospital and is back at work, police said...
A Washington Post investigation finds the Ohio Valley is suffering the most from the surge in overdose deaths due to synthetic opioids, even as deaths from other substances are falling. The Post analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and found the region has...
Gary V. Murray Telegram & Gazette Staff @GaryMurrayTG Thursday May 23, 2019 at 11:46 AM May 23, 2019 at 11:46 AM WORCESTER - A grand jury has indicted a Providence man who was arrested in December on drug-trafficking and child endangerment charges after being stopped for speeding.A Worcester County grand jury handed up a five-count indictment Wednesday in...
CLEVELAND — Seven overdose deaths were reported within Cuyahoga County within two days, the medical examiner reports.Toxicology reports remain pending on...
Ricky Latimer, 32, of Glenolden, was arrested and charged with dealing fentanyl-laced cocaine...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — He hadn’t technically been released from prison, but federal agents said a Cleveland man figured out a way to have pills laced with fentanyl shipped to Ohio.Rayshawn Ligon, 38, faces charges of attempted possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and escape....
A Shartlesville couple was arrested after state police and Berks...
The Trump administration struggles to make headway against the fentanyl-driven opioid epidemic, with public health experts pointing to the need for more resources and an investment that matches the sheer scale of the crisis. President Donald Trump inherited the thorny issue from President Barack Obama...
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2017. (Andrew Harnik/AP) Josh Rogin Columnist covering foreign policy and national security ...
The invention of the hypodermic needle and synthesis of heroin in the 19th...
NEW BEDFORD — A New Bedford man has been arrested after police say they found drugs in his home that were kept just feet from where his children were sleeping.Massachusetts State Police, New Bedford Police, and a deputy from the Bristol County Sheriff's Department executed...
MARTINSBURG — A Harpers Ferry woman has admitted in federal court her role...
MARTINSBURG — A Martinsburg man has admitted to distributing fentanyl in 2018 in...
A man who allegedly used the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their children in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain as his base for selling fentanyl was ordered held without bail pending a detention hearing in US District Court in Boston today. Anthony...
QUINCY, MA — A drug deal was thwarted Tuesday in the Stop & Shop parking lot, leading to the arrest of seven people and the seizure of cocaine, heroin or fentanyl, and Suboxone strips, according to police. Around 3:10 p.m., police were on patrol near...
A Buffalo man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and the distribution of 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to serve 235 months in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said that between...
Top prosecutors warned the City Council on Wednesday that soft-on-crime bail-reform laws will endanger witnesses and make it easier for foreign cartels to smuggle drugs into the state and money out. The city’s five district attorneys — and Bridget Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor — also...
New Bedford and State Police on Tuesday arrested an alleged repeat drug offender on fentanyl trafficking charges, and troopers seized a bag of the suspected opioid near a mattress where the man’s two young children were sleeping, authorities said.Troopers identified the suspect as Oscar Ramos-Torres,...
By Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — A local woman has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory in a fatal Bennington drug overdose in January. Rikki Vallee, 35, is charged with being an accessory to a fellow Bennington woman accused of providing Dawn Bossong, 51, with...
YAKIMA, Wash. — Prosecutors filed a controlled-substance homicide charge against a Yakima man...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Two Eastern Panhandle residents pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -- A 31-year-old Wausau woman is expected to be formally charged Thursday with providing drugs to a man resulting his overdose death. Ashley Szarkowitz is expected to be charged with first degree reckless homicide and delivering narcotics. According to court documents Wausau Police responded...
Homicides in Guerrero declined by 44% in April compared to the same month last year, statistics show, continuing a downward trend that began more than six months ago. There were 111 intentional homicides in the southern state last month, according to the National Public Security System...
NEW BEDFORD -- Police investigating fentanyl sales raided a home, arrested a 30-year-old suspect and found more than 85 grams of the drug, some it next to a mattress where young children were sleeping.Oscar Ramos-Torres, 30, was charged with trafficking in fentanyl over 80...
FALL RIVER — Over the past three months, five city residents who reported they did not consume opioids were revived with Naloxone and tested positive for fentanyl after using what they believed was marijuana, according to a city official.The substance those residents consumed was “laced” with...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — Law enforcement officials found fentanyl within two feet of a mattress where children were sleeping in a McGurk Street apartment Tuesday and arrested a city man on drug and ammunition charges, state police said.Due to the proximity...
Jeff Stein on what an IRS draft memo means for the fight over President Trump’s taxes. Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham on the Trump administration’s response to the fentanyl crisis. And Carol Leonnig on the meticulous lawyer subpoenaed by Congress. Confidential draft memo...
Judge Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser went below the sentencing guidelines when punishing Drew Reed, saying there are inherent inequities in the statute. ...
NEW BEDFORD, MA — A New Bedford man was arrested Tuesday after State Police raided his apartment and said they found a bag of fentanyl next to his sleeping children, along with another 77 grams of fentanyl in the other room. Oscar Ramos-Torres, 30, was...
WAREHAM – Wareham Police arrested a 23-year-old man Tuesday for selling fentanyl after responding to resident complaints from the Indian Mound Beach area.“Wareham Police Dept. detectives continue to keep up their aggressive enforcement of drug laws in the town of Wareham,” police stated in a...
WATERLOO REGION — Waterloo Regional Police have issued a warning about a product that looks like cannabis but isn't. The product contains the deadly drug carfentanil, said Staff Sgt. Brenna Bonn, head of drugs for Waterloo Regional Police. ...
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio - In a dungeon-like jail in the center of this depressed farming town, 18 women in orange-and-white-striped prison uniforms are crammed into a two-story cellblock. Many of them are withdrawing from fentanyl. The jail, built in 1884 to hold 24, now houses...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Wednesday May 22, 2019 at 11:34 AM QUINCY — Seven people were arrested in Quincy Tuesday after police said they were involved in a drug deal. Members of the South Shore Drug Task Force including Quincy detectives were conducting surveillance on Southern Artery just after 3...
In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing [NY Times]Heroin is "fading"—but fentanyl, a more potent opioid, is replacing it. "At the dealer level right now, fentanyl is like a magic dust—it's a moneymaker...
LEBANON — Staff at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center told police they suspected that...
Purple fentanyl (Supplied photo) Police have confirmed what was suspected — the three overdose deaths that occurred within two days at the end of February were the result of opioid use.The publicity surrounding the deaths of three Timmins residents in two separate tragedies sparked sudden public...
FILE PHOTO: Vancouver police and doctors raise awareness of a new drug, fentanyl, during a press conference at VPD headquarters in Vancouver, B.C., March 2, 2015. Arlen Redekop / PNG After four years out on bail, a Vancouver fentanyl dealer has been hit with a seven-year jail...
BUFFALO – A federal grand jury has indicted a City of Niagara Falls...
Thomas Markowski (Photo: Submitted)Shrewsbury Walmart robber Thomas Markowski claimed that he didn't intend to shoot a state trooper as he left the store with a sawed-off shotgun in his left hand and four boxes of fentanyl patches in his right.The 60-year-old Markowski testified in his own defense at the...
A cross country initiative that launched in Vancouver is underway to encourage people who use drugs to do so with best safety practices in mind as part of harm reduction measures.One of which includes having substances be tested before use to...
A man who has been working as a cook at a Chinese restaurant in Aldergrove was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for running a cocaine and fentanyl dealing operation out of an East Vancouver stash...
