Court documents filed by the lawyer of a former Mount Carmel Health System doctor accused of overdosing dozens of near-death patients give a grim picture of the circumstances faced by three of those people before their deaths.Mount Carmel has said Dr. William Husel, 43, of...
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A major drug bust in the Kensington section of Philadelphia shuts down an operation that authorities say had a stronghold on the neighborhood for years and consistently put heroin and fentanyl back into the streets.On Thursday morning, authorities arrested 11 alleged drug...
FARMINGTON — Judge Brent Davis sentenced a West Farmington woman Thursday to a fully suspended 18-month sentence for driving a friend twice to New Hampshire to get fentanyl to bring back to Franklin County. Amy L. Levasseur, 32, will serve two years of probation. Levasseur pleaded guilty to...
Antonella Barba, 32, made it to the last 16 on the sixth season of the singing contest hosted by Simon Cowell in 2007.She was indicted last week after authorities in Virginia arrested her last October with two pounds of fentanyl, a powerful opioid.The...
Castro was the lead defendant of a 20-defendant drug conspiracy that began in 2013 and continued until all of them were arrested in 2017. A federal jury convicted Castro in October 2018. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker handed down the sentence. Birge said that the evidence...
A pharmaceutical company accused of racketeering made an in-house rap video that featured A$AP Rocky beats and a rhyming bottle of highly addictive narcotics spray. The jury in the Boston federal court trial of Insys founder John Kapoor viewed the five-minute video featuring company executive Alec...