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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat is introducing legislation to “hold China accountable” and sanction laboratories and other traffickers who export fentanyl to the United States. The bill, which will be introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer, of New York later this week, is likely to...
Massachusetts post offices confiscated a record number of marijuana bundles in 2018 — the same year recreational pot shops opened up in the state, CBS Boston reported. While it is legal to buy and sell marijuana in Massachusetts, it...
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SALEM — A review of lab results from seized drugs sent for testing shows that heroin is disappearing from the streets of Salem, Police Chief J.T. Panezott said during a recent interview.That’s good, right? Well, according to the chief, no, that’s not good at all. “All the...
Jeremy Davis reportedly got a second chance on life when police officers revived him from a near fatal drug overdose. Police say...
Carfentanil — the elephant tranquilizer that devastated Greater Akron in 2016 — has suddenly resurfaced in Ohio’s two largest counties.Both the Cuyahoga County medical examiner and Franklin County coroner warned in recent days that they’ve discovered an uptick in the deadly opioid.So far, Summit County hasn’t...
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Heroin and cocaine laced with fentanyl are killing drug users nationwide in staggering numbers, Saddle...
Under the influence of the CDC Opioid Foolaid, at least a dozen U.S. cities are toying with the ideaof opening “supervised” or “safe injection sites” (SIF), where drug addicts can shoot up illicit drugswatched over by medical professionals. The American Medical Association (AMA) voted in 2017...
Sidestepping pharmacists and persuading nurses to follow his orders are among the actions used by Dr. William Husel to prescribe lethal doses of pain medication for dozens of patients while working the night shift at Mount Carmel West hospital's intensive-care unit, sources told The Dispatch.Staff...
CLOSE When someone is arrested and charged with a crime in New Jersey, police departments observe a protocol that includes the reading of Miranda Rights. WochitTwo Mexican nationals have been indicted in a $3 million drug bust at a...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - The Ohio Board of Nursing has released the licensing and renewal applications for the nine nurses named so far in a growing...
A county grand jury indicted these people on these charges: Taylor A. Moore, 26, Nantucket Drive, Austintown, four counts of forgery. Nathaniel W. Byrd, 50,...
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine has seen a slight decrease in the number of drug-related deaths in 2018, as compared to 2017,...
Dennis Tuttle, 59, a deceased suspect in Monday's shooting of four Houston Police Department officers and the fatal shooting of two suspects, is seen in this police image from Houston, Texas, U.S., on January 29, 2019. Courtesy HPD/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters)...
BOSTON (CBS) — In the same year Massachusetts pot shops first opened their doors to customers for recreational use, WBZ’s I-Team finds local post offices set a record for stopping bundles of marijuana. “You can’t ship it,” says US Postal Service spokesperson Stephen Doherty. “It’s still...
MISSOURI -- One Missouri lawmaker wants those who traffick and possess Fentanyl to get stiffer penalties.That state representative is Nick Schroer. On Tuesday, in a house Judiciary Committee Hearing for his proposed bill,...
FARMINGTON — A Wilton man agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute 40 or more grams of fentanyl, according to a document filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday. Dennis Ayala’s daughter, Andrea Hoffman, 35, also of Wilton, pleaded guilty to the...
A Barnegat man has been arrested for allegedly providing the combination of heroin and fentanyl that killed a woman in Point Pleasant Borough, announced Ocean County Prosecutors Bradley Billhimer.On January 10, 2019, officers from the Point Pleasant Borough Police Department were dispatched to a local...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is set to formally launch her presidential campaign on Saturday -- and is doing so in a sanctuary city that made headlines last year over a drug bust that netted enough fentanyl to “kill half the state.”Warren will make her announcement in...
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The number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Maine likely decreased in 2018, but the number of deaths connected to cocaine and methamphetamine is expected to rise, the attorney general’s office announced Friday. The total number of fatalities due to drugs in the first three quarters of...
Livingston County jail officials are to blame for the fentanyl-induced overdose death of a Mount Morris man who told deputies of his drug addiction before he was jailed, a federal lawsuit claims.The family of Noel Colon filed the federal lawsuit, alleging that negligence at the...
Augusta, ME-- In the wake of figures released by his office and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Attorney General Aaron M. Frey says the latest drug overdose fatalities indicate that Maine's opioid crisis continues to claim lives at a distressing rate, even though...
As additional families file wrongful death lawsuits against Mount Carmel, Dr. William Husel, and other staff, a source tells ABC 6 another doctor at the hospital called at least one family affected by Husel's alleged actions to notify them and apologize. (WSYX/WTTE)COLUMBUS, Ohio — As additional...
An Oklahoma City woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder in a 2017 overdose death. Brenda June Merkel, 59, entered a negotiated plea of guilty...
Heathe YakinTimes Herald-Record GOSHEN — Police and prosecutors say the three firefighters and two former cops involved in Tuesday’s fentanyl and cocaine busts betrayed their oaths to protect the public.A six-month investigation led to more than 20 arrests in connection with a pair of conspiracies connected through...
Fincrime Daily Brief: The cost of dirty money, crypto scam central, record fentanyl haul, and more 1 hour ago (0 Comments) Posted by: Brian Monroe By Brian Monroebmonroe@acfcs.orgFebruary 7, 2019 In ACFCS’ latest Fincrime Daily Briefing, we highlight a great resource for financial crime compliance professionals, a visual, country-by-country roundup...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Tyrone woman who was a link in a drug-selling chain that led to a 31-year-old man’s fatal overdose in 2017 will be incarcerated for five to 15 years.Angela Michelle Miles, 24, apologized this week in Blair County Court for her role in...
The City Council of Nogales, Arizona, has voted unanimously on a resolution ordering Trump administration officials to rip out new “lethal” razor wire coiled on a border fence along the downtown shopping district. Such wire is “only found in a war, prison or battle setting” and is...
Last year, 1,489 people died from suspected illicit drug overdose deaths across British Columbia, an increase of 67 people from 2017's total of 1,422. In 2009, the illicit drug overdose death total in B.C. was 204.This health emergency continues to grow despite increased funding and efforts...
A woman eager to learn the pharma trade with an emerging startup called Insys Therapeutics testified Thursday she instead became swept up in a web of extravagant deceit and sexual treachery — the end goal of which was to dominate the pain-management market with a...
The opioid crisis continues, and now, drug manufacturers are facing more scrutiny than ever for their role in the epidemic. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is suing Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, and the family that owns the company, the Sacklers. But a new study...
CLOSE The overprescription of opioids is leveling off, but deaths continue rising, says Dr. Marc Fishman of the Maryland Treatment Centers. He talks about addiction, treatment and bootleg fentanyl with USA TODAY Editorial Page Editor Bill Sternberg. USA TODAYThe...
Dr. Hans Schweiger, an anesthesiologist at Tampa General Hospital, says fentanyl has been commonly used in hospital intensive care units for 25 years.Schweiger, hired as an...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WENY) – An Elmira man who was convicted for running a drug trafficking ring and selling at least 100 grams of fentanyl and other opioids was sentenced to serve 23 years in federal prison.Assistant US Attorney Brett Harvey, who handled the case, said...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In separate cases in different parts of the state, Carlique DeBerry and Marla Fenner sold fatal doses of fentanyl. One got a 20-year prison sentence. The other received 5-years of probation. "I think these two cases are not examples of anything...
Lacorious Fuller (DOB 01/03/1993) A joint investigation including Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Tactical Diversion Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and detectives with the...
TULSA — A Tulsa woman was arrested Thursday after officials said she received a FedEx package of fentanyl that was sent from Mexico.Agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office delivered the package to the woman while undercover after it...
A 27-year-old Neosho woman has been charged with reckless homicide for buying fentanyl-laced heroin for, and sharing it with her boyfriend, which ultimately killed him, according to a criminal complaint.Selena Leitzke was charged Feb. 4 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with first-degree reckless homicide. She...
The morning after a Hamburg man's mother found him dead of a fentanyl overdose in a chair of his home in Hamburg, a text message appeared on his phone. "Call me wen u get this bro," the text said. It was the drug dealer, Carlique DeBerry, 40,...
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Thursday Feb 7, 2019 at 1:19 PM Feb 7, 2019 at 1:19 PM An Akron man has been indicted for stamping pills containing fentanyl and other drugs to look like the painkiller Percocet.Donyea Nelson, 42, was indicted on nine charges that include possession of die used to manufacture a counterfeit substance, possession of equipment to manufacture...
CLEVELAND — An Akron man is facing federal charges for allegedly creating fake Percocet by stamping pills containing fentanyl with tools ordered from China.Denyea Nelson, 42, has been indicted on the following charges: Possession of die used to manufacture counterfeit substancePossession of equipment to manufacture...
A box of fentanyl marked "Know what this is???!!! It is evil." Photo: National Crime AgencyIn 2017, a spike in fentanyl-related deaths in the north of England and a series of police raids on suppliers led many to believe the super potent opioid had finally...
Attorneys on Wednesday said 82-year-old Melissa Penix, a great-grandmother and devoted Christian, was prescribed a lethal dose of fentanyl in November 2018 at Mount Carmel West, allegedly by Dr. William Husel.They said they plan to file a wrongful death suit soon.Lawyers claim she was given...
LEAD S.D. (KEVN TV) - Fentanyl is a narcotic that can treat severe pain. It is highly addictive. In 2016 over 60,000 people lost their lives to the drug. One of those, Grace Fitzgerald. Grace was once a talented baker and dedicated mother. "My sister...
(Photo: Arthur Debruyne/Filter)When it landed three years ago, some six guys died here in one week," says 51-year-old Roberto Prado, a homeless man who uses drugs and lives in a community of a few dozen beneath one of Tijuana's canal bridges.Until recently, people in Tijuana...