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By Bob Audette, Brattleboro Reformer KEENE, N.H. — A former Hinsdale, New Hampshire man is in federal custody, accused of selling fentanyl on a number of occasions to a confidential informant in Keene. According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of New...
HAZLETON, Luzerne County - The state attorney general's office announced today the takedown of a fentanyl distribution ring in Luzerne County, which they say has sold at least $1 Million worth of the drug this year alone.Search warrants were executed on three Hazleton homes Thursday, where...
Ontario Provincial Police File photo There have been at least five suspected overdoses in the Arnprior area in the past week with the OPP warning Friday that purple heroin known locally as “purp” typically contains fentanyl or even more powerful carfentanyl.The warning comes from the Renfrew detachment...
On Thursday, a Boston jury found that John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, as well as four high-ranking executives at the company guilty of racketeering on the grounds that they had conspired to boost sales of one of its fentanyl-based medications. After deliberating for 15 hours,...
MEDFORD (CBS)– Mike Overstreet of Medford has a new outlook on life after kicking an addiction that started with pain medication in high school. “I had an injury from wrestling,” he told WBZ-TV. “A bad back and hip and it got worse from there.” Buprenorphine, prescribed by...
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) 25 people are facing federal or state drug charges as the result of an extensive investigation into the sale of drugs in Washington and Hancock Counties. Authorities say most of the arrests were made Thursday at multiple locations in both counties. Those arrested face...
In a landmark ruling on May 1, a Boston federal jury found Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other Insys executives guilty of a racketeering conspiracy that helped fueled America’s opioid epidemic. They were accused of bribing doctors to prescribe patients with Insys’ opioid...
Buy PhotoThese were among the 70 people arrested in a Brevard County Sheriff's Office investigation into crystal meth and fentanyl trafficking. A news conference announcing the arrests was held Wednesday qat the Brevard County Jail that included as speakers Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, first lady...
(WBRE/WYOU-TV) It is being called one of the biggest drug busts in the history of Luzerne County a one million dollar fentanyl distribution ring is now history. The I-Team’s Andy Mehalshick has the...
Photo: Butler County Jail Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Photo: Butler County Jail DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) –...
PLATTSBURGH — Dangerous drugs arrive in the region "in a constant stream," says...
ELLSWORTH — Law enforcement on May 2 arrested more than two dozen suspects, seizing firearms and large quantities of crack and Fentanyl as part of a multi-agency investigation into the drug trade from New York City to Washington and Hancock counties. United States Attorney Halsey B....
German police have shut down one of the world’s largest illegal online markets in the so-called dark web and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said on Friday. The “Wall Street Market” (WSM) site enabled trade in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well...
From The Trussville Tribune staff reports BIRMINGHAM — A federal jury convicted a Birmingham man of possession with the intent to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl. Bob Cotchery III, 28, was arrested on...
A Binghamton man faces several felony charges after police found fentanyl and crack cocaine when they searched his West Side residence.Authorities say 34-year-old Sean Dingle of 98 Crestmont Road was arrested as a result of the Friday morning raid.Investigators say 117 individual packages of fentanyl...
European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids in three southern...
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) — A Binghamton man is facing several charges after police found more than 100 packages of fentanyl during a raid on the city’s west side. Authorities say the Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force seized the following items after executing a narcotics search...
CLOSE Alexis Pleus of Truth Pharm demonstrates how to administer Narcan to save a person from dying of a heroin, opioid overdose Kate Collins / Staff videoOne hundred and seventeen individual packages of Fentanyl and 35 packages of crack cocaine,...
Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy is sounding the alarm after a number of overdoses in the city. According to a post on its Twitter account, Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy (WGDS) says there has been a spike in the number...
Executives at a major opioid company, Insys Therapeutics, were found guilty by a federal jury on Thursday for, among other misdeeds, bribing doctors to prescribe their fentanyl-based painkiller — in another sign that the federal government and the public are increasingly ready to...
The founder and former CEO of drug company Insys Therapeutics just became the first Big Pharma exec to be convicted for his role in pushing opioids on patients, a crime that resulted in over 900 overdose deaths. Subsys, a fentanyl-based spray, was approved for...
For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government's fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former...
North Bay police have charged three people in unrelated fentanyl-related deaths in 2018.Jordan Drew, 25, is charged with one count of trafficking alprazolam and one count of trafficking fentanyl in the death of a 24-year-old man in June.Lisa Cormier, 41, and Stephanie Slack, 33, both...
North Bay police report a couple of arrests related to Fentanyl deaths in the community. The June 2018 death of a 24-year-old man from North Bay started one investigation. It resulted in the arrest of Jordan Drew, a 25-year-old North Bay man. Drew has...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill to repeal New Hampshire’s death penalty for a second time Friday, though lawmakers are likely to override his decision in the fall. Sununu, a Republican, vetoed the bill in Manchester, the state’s largest city, surrounded by...
Five senior execs at Insys Therapeutics (manufacturer of Subsys, a type of fentanyl), have been convicted of criminal racketeering and fraud charges stemming from the company's practice of bribing doctors to overprescribe their incredibly addictive and dangerous product, and for defrauding Medicare in the process. John...
A Sarnia, Ont., court case in which a drug dealer was charged with manslaughter in the death of a customer who died after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl is forcing questions about the legal and moral implications of such charges. And as the opioid crisis in Canada...
BOSTON — A federal jury on Thursday found the top executives of Insys Therapeutics, a company that sold a fentanyl-based painkiller, guilty of racketeering charges in a rare criminal prosecution that blamed corporate officials for contributing to the nation’s opioid epidemic.The jury, after deliberating for...
Three people face charges after police seized drugs, a weapon, and cash from a residence in Cobourg on Thursday.Members of the OPP Peterborough/Northumberland Detachment Community Street Crime Units in conjunction with the Cobourg Police Service and OPP’s Emergency Response Team executed...
The Friday Catchall: • WHISKEY – I admit I do not drink, but it is confounding when people complain about our community events – last weekend’s Whiskey Off-Road mountain biking...
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor was found guilty in a scheme to bribe doctors to boost sales of a highly addictive fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients with severe pain. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights...
May 2 (UPI) -- Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor was convicted Thursday of racketeering conspiracy involving bribes and kickbacks to physicians who prescribed large amounts of highly addictive fentanyl spray to patients. In federal court, a jury deliberated for 15 days before finding the Arizona-based...
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.John Kapoor, the 76-year-old...
A Fourth of July car crash in which he was seriously injured has...
OSSIPEE — A jury took a half-hour Wednesday to convict a Carroll County...
The feds brought down their fentanyl billionaire — make that former billionaire. John Kapoor, the founder, former chairman, and former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics, has been convicted of a racketeering conspiracy that involved bribing doctors and lying to insurance companies to boost sales of Subsys,...
No longer will pharmaceutical companies fear paying only a cost-of-doing business fine for illegally pushing their opioid medications onto an unsuspecting public. Now the executives may face serious prison time after Thursday's racketeering verdict against John Kapoor, the founder of a company who bribed doctors...
CLOSE Methamphetamine has devastating effects on drug users and can lead to memory loss, "meth mouth," overdose and death. WochitMuch attention has been on the opioid crisis in recent years, but according to local law enforcement, meth continues to claim the...
An Alberta forensic toxicologist says SzymonKalich died soon after taking a lethal dose of fentany more than three years ago.Dr. Craig Chatterton testified Thursday at the manslaughter trial of Jordan Yarmey, who is accused of trafficking in fentanyl and providing fentanyl to Kalich.Chatterton determined there was a lethal concentration of 12.9...
Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push highly addictive fentanyl spray Updated: 5:48 PM EDT May 2, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BEEN CRIMINALLY CONVICTED. BILLIONAIRE JOHN KAPOOR AND FOUR OTHER FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE PHARMACUETIAL COMPANY INSY FOUND GUILTY OF RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY IN FEDERAL COURT. JURORS FOUND...
Cocaine deaths have been rising in the U.S., health officials said Thursday in their latest report on the nation’s overdose epidemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Death...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — A twelfth co-conspirator in Operation Ghost, a multi-police agency operation designed to dismantle a fentanyl trafficking network in Greater New Bedford, was arrested Thursday, court officials said.David Luna, 37, of 124 Arlington St., Apartment 2 North, will...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.1. “That’s a crime.”That’s what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said about Attorney General William Barr’s testimony in April, when he said was unaware that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, had protested...
BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Insys executives are guilty of paying doctors to boost sales of a fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients – actions that may have caused some people to become addicted to opioids – a jury determined Thursday afternoon. John Kapoor of Insys Therapeutics Inc....
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A corrections officer at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center was taken to Alaska Regional Hospital after she was exposed to fentanyl, a high-concentration opioid. The officer was exposed during inmate intake, according to Sarah Gallagher, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections. "During an intake...