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...
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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...