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Authorities in Arizona announced on Friday the seizure of two massive truckloads of marijuana and methamphetamine worth $2 million and the arrests of three suspects in the case. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday night detectives saw two trucks avoid a U.S. Border Patrol...
Read More COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Two more patients who attorneys say were given fatal doses of fentanyl at Mount Carmel West Hospital were identified Friday.According to attorneys, 55-year-old Timothy...
ANNAPOLIS, MD — A Glen Burnie man is being sent to prison for running a gang that distributed heroin and fentanyl throughout Maryland. Vincent Todd Clark, 27, of Glen Burnie, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for supervising the gang...
The number of people dying of fentanyl-related overdoses continues to rise in Alberta, according to a new report released Friday.Between Jan. 1 and Nov. 11, 2018, 582 Albertans died of fentanyl-related overdoses, according to Alberta Health. That’s compared to 463 people...
Law enforcement leaders are warning about the dangers of fentanyl after a string of overdose deaths in Montana. Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton said Friday that the state crime lab reported three deaths from fentanyl in the Billings area, within one week. There was...
COLUMBUS (WCMH) -- The ability of Mount Carmel West and St. Ann's to continue receiving Medicare payments is in danger as a result of the scandal...
The synthetic opioid, fentanyl, currently tops the list of drugs with the greatest likelihood of causing a fatal overdose; more than 18,000 people died from fentanyl-related overdoses in 2017, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. Fentanyl's lethal potential has been...
NEW BEDFORD — Davaun Oswald swore to New Bedford narcotics detectives he did not have any fentanyl in his apartment, according to court documents.He said several times he did not have any."No, the only thing I have is a little bit of weed," the 22-year-old...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEFeb. 2, 2019, 1:51 AM GMTBy Dennis RomeroWhen President Trump argues that the United States needs a wall along the southern border, he likes to point to San...
It's being called the largest fentanyl bust in US history; a massive shipment of fentanyl and meth has been stopped at the southern border. Now, authorities are revealing how they found it.Nearly 254...
More Albertans died of fentanyl-related overdoses in 2018 than any previous year, says a recent report from Alberta Health.The quarterly Alberta Opioid Response Surveillance Report released Friday states that 582 Albertans died of fentanyl-related overdoses between Jan. 1 and Nov. 11, 2018.Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's new...
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty)Fentanyl recently became the deadliest drug in America, according to a CDC report in December. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is sometimes mixed into other illicit drugs, but it’s far more potent than what it’s usually mixed with. This means that a...
File photo of fentanyl pills seized by Calgary police in 2015. Gavin Young / Postmedia Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 11, 2018, 63 people in the province died from an accidental overdose related to fentanyl, new information released by Alberta Health shows.In the previous six weeks, between...
The Trump admin is patting itself on the back right now for their massive fentanyl bust, but the real criminals in the opioid story are walking around without a care in the world. The Sackler family –...
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The truck was transporting cucumbers, but something much more dangerous was hidden inside: fentanyl, the extremely potent narcotic that has contributed to the epidemic of overdose deaths in the United States in recent years. The stash,...
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BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) — Three men were charged Thursday for selling fentanyl-laced drugs in Butte County, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.Guillermo Jose Leon Ramirez, 41, of Oroville; Justin James Garcia, 44, of Oroville; and William Lee Vollendroff, 43, of Palermo, were indicted by a...
Officials in the US have seized 114kg (254lbs) of fentanyl, in what is being described as the biggest haul they have ever detected.The synthetic drug has been fuelling a...
The US Customs and Border Patrol announced Thursday they had seized 115 kilograms (254 pounds) of deadly fentanyl, one of the largest-ever seizures of a drug blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually in the country.The fentanyl, along with 179 kgs of methamphetamine,...
Two men ran a heroin mill from one of the upper floors of a...
CBP officers with the seized fentanyl and methamphetamine at the Nogales port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: CBP) (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers searching a cucumber-laden tractor trailer at the Nogales crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border at the weekend found and...
More than 3,000 active duty troops are headed to the U.S. southern border. They will join the 2,300 already there. Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan asked the Department of Homeland Security for more assistance earlier this month. The troops will be working in surveillance and detection. President Trump confirmed...
A Saturday drug bust by agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was announced as the largest capture of fentanyl ever made in the United States.Officials from the government agency announced the news on Thursday, stating that 254 pounds of the synthetic opioid were confiscated...
Kellyanne Conway inadvertently made a strong case for not building President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall on Thursday, according to dozens of Twitter users.The apparent self-own came as Conway, a White House counselor to the president, celebrated the largest seizure of fentanyl in the history...
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Phoenix — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. The drug was found hidden Saturday...
SACRAMENTO — Three men from the Oroville and Palermo areas have been indicted on federal charges alleging they conspired to sell and sold hundreds of counterfeit oxycodone tablets laced with fentanyl. U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott and Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced that a grand jury...
NOGALES, Ariz. — US Customs and Border Protection made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the agency’s history on Saturday at the Nogales port of entry on the US-Mexico border, Port Director Michael Humphries announced Thursday. Officers uncovered...
A disgraced Michigan neurologist who pocketed $138,000 as reward for being Insys Therapeutics’ reigning prescriber of Subsys said he dispensed the cancer drug to the elderly, mentally ill and even a drug abuser despite knowing it might kill them because it meant “easy money.” “I really...
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US Customs and Border Protection officers announced their biggest fentanyl bust in history Thursday — seizing more than 250 pounds of the dangerous synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. Meanwhile, in New York, authorities announced the arrest...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Every day, those on the front lines of the opioid crisis work to prevent deaths by stopping sales of the deadly drugs. Even in extreme cold, the DEA task force braved subzero temperatures Wednesday and executed a search warrant. They said they...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - US border agents have seized 254 pounds (115 kg) of fentanyl that was stashed in a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, marking the largest single bust of the powerful opioid ever made at an American border checkpoint, officials said on...
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Border Patrol Agents in Arizona confiscated 250-pounds of deadly fentanyl Thursday afternoon, making it the largest bust in history. The drugs were seized from a Mexican national crossing through the port of entry in Nogales. "CBP Officers discovered more than 400 packages of drugs concealed within...
Officials said that given the potency of the drugs found at the Nogales port of entry, officers working that day took additional precautions to handle and avoid exposure to them, including using protective gear and securing the drugs in multiple containers. (Photo: Rafael Carranza/The Republic)America...
NOGALES, Ariz. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials intercepted nearly 254 pounds of fentanyl at the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday in what the agency called its largest fentanyl bust ever.Valued at approximately $3.5 million, the fentanyl was found in a secret compartment inside a load...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Thursday that they made the largest fentanyl bust in U.S. history over the weekend, seizing hundreds of pounds of the drug along the U.S.-Mexico border. Officers at the Port of Nogales in Arizona arrested Juan Antonio Torres-Barraza and charged him...
By David Schwartz | Reuters PHOENIX – U.S. border agents have seized 254 pounds of fentanyl that was stashed in a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, marking the largest single bust of the powerful opioid ever made at an American border checkpoint, officials said on...
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. border agents have seized 254 pounds (115 kg) of fentanyl that was stashed in a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, marking the largest single bust of the powerful opioid ever made at an American border checkpoint, officials said on Thursday....
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds (114 kilograms) of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. The drug was found hidden Saturday morning...
Federal law enforcement agents stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., made the largest-ever seizure of fentanyl Saturday after stopping a truck that was purportedly trying to bring cucumbers into the country, according...
Border agents in Arizona made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the agency’s history, officials said Thursday. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery on Saturday when they stopped a 26-year-old man at the Nogales border checkpoint. More than 250 pounds of the deadly drug...
Border officers made the largest fentanyl seizure ever on Saturday, stopping 254 pounds of the drug from entering the United States, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday. The drugs were seized from an 18-wheeler truck crossing into the United States from Mexico at a port of entry...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 31, 2019, 6:52 PM GMTBy Pete WilliamsThe sensitive nose of a drug-sniffing dog has led to what federal officials say is the largest seizure in US history...