US border agency makes biggest-ever multi-million-dollar fentanyl bust based on an agent’s ‘hunch’
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01 February, 2019
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U.S. border agency says it’s made biggest-ever fentanyl bust
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...
01 February, 2019
Federal fentanyl distribution charges brought against Butte County residents – Chico Enterprise-Record
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...
01 February, 2019
Historic fentanyl bust at US border contained millions of lethal doses
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...
01 February, 2019
Prison-bound doc prescribed fentanyl drug to patients he knew it could kill
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...
01 February, 2019
Drug kingpin busted in heroin, fentanyl trafficking ring
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...
01 February, 2019
‘Ticking Time Bomb’: The Threat Opioid Distribution Sites Pose To The Public – WCCO
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...
01 February, 2019
Officials announce largest-ever US border seizure of fentanyl
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...
01 February, 2019