Border agents in Arizona made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the agency’s history, officials said Thursday. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery on Saturday when they stopped a 26-year-old man at the Nogales border checkpoint. More than 250 pounds of the deadly drug...
Border officers made the largest fentanyl seizure ever on Saturday, stopping 254 pounds of the drug from entering the United States, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday. The drugs were seized from an 18-wheeler truck crossing into the United States from Mexico at a port of entry...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 31, 2019, 6:52 PM GMTBy Pete WilliamsThe sensitive nose of a drug-sniffing dog has led to what federal officials say is the largest seizure in US history...
CLOSE Fentanyl is way more potent than an equivalent dose of morphine. It's designed that way. Video provided by Newsy NewslookNOGALES — Customs officers stationed at the commercial border crossing in Nogales made the largest fentanyl seizure ever recorded at...
An uncle gave his 11-year-old grand-niece fentanyl and raped her before she died, police say. Miguel Rivera, 58, was arrested last month after Precious Wallaces allegedly overdosed on fentanyl while Rivera babysat her on December 15, but he was charged with rape on Tuesday after new...
Brett Szymanski knew what he was doing was wrong.As a sales representative for Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics, Szymanski was setting up paid speaker programs for a doctor who had written dozens of prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl spray that cost about $19,000 for a month’s dose.Often,...
Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison term of up to 14 years for a Lynn drug dealer who supplied fentanyl to a 34-year-old mother the day after she got out of rehab, leading to her fatal overdose, records show. The government also wants the dealer,...