UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan — An 83-year-old former Upper East Side family doctor already busted for allegedly writing illegal prescriptions for highly-addictive painkillers has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for prescribing unnecessary oxycodone and fentanyl to a Staten Island man who fatally overdosed. Between...
An Interpol-led operation intended to crack down on human trafficking in West Africa has resulted in the rescue of almost 220 suspected smuggling gang victims in Benin and Nigeria. Operation Epervier II, which involved some 100 officers in both countries carrying out raids and identity checks...
Below are five things you should know about the pending case at the Moakley Courthouse:■What did these pharma bosses allegedly do?Subsys, an addictive under-the-tongue spray, was approved by federal regulators in 2012 for severe cancer-related pain. But prosecutors say Insys founder John N. Kapoor and...
Every year, tens of thousands of people go to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on April 20. Though sometimes there are fights and (very often) the revelers leave lots of trash behind (as other partiers do in other parks every time the weather is nice),...
A former Hudson Valley firefighter and three others pleaded guilty to their roles in drug conspiracy cases.On Thursday, Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced Robert Dunham, 46, of Middletown pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance and conspiracy; Kenneth Nunez, 39,...
When officers collected unused and unwanted prescriptions on Saturday as part of the...
Beneath a flowering dogwood, Lisa Gillis stands by a cross bearing her son’s...
Courtesy Photo. A jury convicted a surfer April 18 of felony assault of a longtime El Cajon swim coach who was struck in the head with a paddle board, causing...
A West Kelowna drug dealer who allegedly spent several months on the lam after taking off before a drug-related sentencing hearing has been arrested in the Lower Mainland.Forty-year-old Leslie McCulloch, also known as Alexander Lester Kreed, was wanted on a Canada-wide...
A Detroit, Michigan, man was sentenced for knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl in Huntington, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua McCarver, 20, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the...