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A man accused of possessing 27,500 fentanyl pills has been acquitted after a B.C. Justice said his charter rights were violated.The man, Sandor Rigo, was driving on a highway in Chilliwack on April 4, 2017, when he was pulled over for...
(Reuters) - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by death row inmates who said their punishments became void when the state legislature repealed capital punishment in 2015, before voters restored the penalty the following year. In a 7-0 decision, the court agreed...
RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) Police say nearly a dozen drug dealers are off the streets in Rutland County after multiple state and federal drug investigations. Vermont State Police say there are five federal defendants and six state defendants. Investigators say all 11 face charges related to the...
ROCKFORD — Three people have been charged with drug-induced homicide in two separate drug cases, authorities announced Thursday. Karen E. Hernandez, 53, is charged in connection with the deaths of two people, Brock Palchik and Justine Wentz. Both victims overdosed on March 16, 2018. Wentz...
Three Boston men were arrested Wednesday for allegedly pushing large amounts of fentanyl in a drug ring that spanned from Dorchester to Plymouth County, and apparent efforts to flush some of the contraband down the toilet failed miserably, according to authorities.In a statement, Plymouth District...
COLUMBUS – Mount Carmel officials announced Thursday that the number of patients who received potentially fatal doses of fentanyl from a former doctor has now climbed to 34.Of the 34, 28 are suspected of receiving lethal doses. Six are believed to have received amounts that...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — The body of a 38-year-old city man was found deceased Wednesday, the death apparently the result of a drug overdose.The death is at least the ninth suspected fatal overdose this January in New Bedford. It is also at...
The question for the judge in the end was simple — did Doods, a German Shepherd police dog, sit or not?If she did then police had grounds for searching a minivan for drugs — in which they found 27,500 pills of deadly fentanyl. But if...
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ACTON Man shot several times is expected to survive A man who was shot multiple times in Acton on Wednesday night is expected to survive and as of Thursday morning, no arrests had been made, authorities said. The shooting occurred shortly before 9 p.m. at a...
The Columbus hospital said the three people died "after receiving excessive and potentially fatal doses of medication" ordered by a doctor who has since been fired.The president and CEO of the hospital, Ed Lamb, said in a statement that "at least" 34 patients were affected...
]]> Vindicator Editorial: January 25, 2019 at 12:00a.m. Mike DeWine, Ohio’s new Republican governor, wasted no time last week in...
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — A man from Lockport is charged with manslaughter in a deadly overdose from almost two years ago.Police in...
Standing side-by-side with members of his cabinet, from health to labor to law enforcement, Gov. Murphy announced his administration’s effort in the battle against the opioid abuse epidemic specifically, but against substance abuse disorder, more generally. The strategy begins with getting all hands on deck,...
NANAIMO — A notorious Lower Mainland gang was tied to a notable drug bust at a high-end north Nanaimo neighbourhood. Nanaimo RCMP announced Wednesday four men were arrested in Nanaimo as part a 10-month long investigation, which spawned from a police raid last April at a...
Attorney David Shroyer said Wednesday that the family of Jan Thomas is still reeling. The family just filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Mt. Carmel, Dr. William Husel, nurses and pharmacists, claiming she was given a lethal dose of pain medication."They are not doing well,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nurses and physicians at Mount Carmel West Hospital now cannot administer medications during the removal of a ventilator without prior approval from the pharmacy, a hospital spokesman confirms to 10 Investigates.That confirmation comes among other policy changes at Mount Carmel Health System...
By Bob Audette, Brattleboro Reformer BURLINGTON — A Rockingham man arrested in March 2018 on charges of selling fentanyl in Windham and Windsor counties was sentenced in federal court to four-and-a-half years in prison.On March 22, 2018, Randy L. Holmes, then 27, was arrested with Ashley...
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(CBS News) — Only on “CBS This Morning,” we’re hearing from the Massachusetts attorney general, who blames the founding family of a pharmaceutical company for helping create the opioid drug crisis. Almost 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC. In...
COLUMBUS (WCMH) - A doctor who says he reviewed the medical records of a patient at the center of one of the wrongful death lawsuits against...
Only on "CBS This Morning," we're hearing from the Massachusetts attorney general, who blames the founding family of a pharmaceutical company for helping create the opioid drug crisis. Almost 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC. In a lawsuit,...
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The debate over supervised use sites in Denver is heating up, with both advocates and opponents of such facilities — which would legally allow people to use drugs including heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine under medical supervision — throwing out all sorts of facts and figures to support their respective...
A man caught with 27,500 fentanyl pills in a van at a traffic stop in Chilliwack is free and clear after a B.C. Supreme Court justice dismissed charges due to Charter violations. Sandor Rigo was driving a mini-van...
A fourth lawsuit has been filed against Mount Carmel Health System and Dr. William Husel. The latest suit was filed behalf of Jan Thomas, who died March 1, 2015 at Mount Carmel Hospital. The suit was submitted on January 22 in the Franklin County...
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SPRINGFIELD — A Hampden Superior Court jury on Wednesday found Gilka Rolon-Arroyo and Daryn Sampson guilty of involuntary manslaughter for supplying heroin to a Westfield woman who died of an overdose.The two Westfield residents were also found...
Jose Charles, 24, of Elgin, was charged with heroin possession while in the Kane County jailA Kane County jail pod during a recent shakedown seeking contraband and drugs. A shakedown is an extensive search during which all contents of cells are removed and replaced with...
Several families have filed wrongful death lawsuits against a Mount Carmel physician who has been accused of ordering fatal doses of fentanyl for 27 patients.The latest lawsuit, which was filed last Wednesday, names Dr. William Husel, the Mount Carmel Health System, an unnamed nurse and...
BENTON, Ark. — The number of deaths related to heroin and fentanyl continues to climb in Arkansas.Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge...
BARRIE – A low-level drug dealer poised to be sentenced Wednesday for the fentanyl death of his friend has moved to retract his guilty plea after learning the judge in the case planned to impose a longer-than-expected prison term. Ryan Walker pleaded guilty last December to...
In an unexpected twist, the sentencing in a landmark fentanyl case is on hold. “There is no justice.” The mother of Shawn Kelly, Denise Lane, tells CTV News outside the Barrie courthouse that...
SEATTLE — King County Health Officer for Public Health Jeffery Duchin joins New Day Northwest to talk about the increasing, and...
MARIN COUNTY, CA – A recent surge in fentanyl overdoses in Marin County has prompted a local initiative to make the antidote drug, naloxone, often marketed under the brand "Narcan," more available to the public through pharmacies, area health officials said...
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By Cammie Bellamy StarNews Staff Wednesday Jan 23, 2019 at 4:33 PM Police estimate pair had enough material for 8,500 bags of fentanyl WILMINGTON -- A New Jersey man and Wilmington woman face drug trafficking charges stemming from a months-long investigation in Wilmington.Jamie Baker, 43, of New Jersey, and Cherelle Autry, 29, were in...
UPDATE - 4:30 p.m. - Jurors will resume deliberations Wednesday morning.SPRINGFIELD — Hampden Superior Court jurors began deliberations at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the manslaughter case against two Westfield residents in connection with the overdose death...
LOS ANGELES – Members of a federal task force have arrested an attorney on narcotics distribution charges that allege she illegally sold oxycodone pills after offering drugs for sale on Craigslist. Jackie Ferrari, 36, a resident of Downey, who investigators believe recently started a new job...
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Abijah Williams PORTLAND — A Bridgeport, Connecticut, driver whom authorities say was bringing fentanyl and cocaine into Maine to sell when he was stopped on the Maine Turnpike in Wells in 2017 is scheduled to change his plea to guilty in federal court on Friday. Abijah Williams,...
Precious Wallaces, the 11-year-old Haverhill girl who suddenly died last month, tested positive for having fentanyl in her system after sleeping at her great uncle’s apartment in Lawrence, according to a police report.Authorities began to investigate Wallaces'...
Antoun Moore pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver fentanyl in the case. An Erie County judge declined to issue a lengthier sentence Tuesday for a convicted fentanyl dealer who was made eligible for parole at his sentencing earlier this month.Judge Daniel Brabender rejected a...