Just four days after deputies in Mendocino County were trained in April to carry the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, or Narcan, they were dispatched to a scene where two men had reportedly overdosed on a cocktail of drugs. Both were administered multiple doses of...
When Barberton paramedics noticed a sudden spike in opioid overdoses on Wednesday, the city moved quickly.Hours after the first of what a fire department spokesman called a “rash” of cases, Barberton sent a cellphone alert to residents enrolled in its notification system.The notification warned that...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered nearly $3.1 million worth of drugs — including a massive 23-pound load of the ultra-deadly drug fentanyl — hidden inside the gas tank of a commercial bus Monday afternoon at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. The enormous...
CLOSEFrom left to right are Edwin Feliz-Flores, Roberto Yescas and Ines Acosta. (Photo: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)Three people were arrested this week after the Maricopa County Sherriff’s Office along with U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers busted an operation attempting to sell 14,000 fentanyl pills at the Arizona...
PREVIOUS COVERAGE The U.S. Postal Service is failing to deliver on the STOP Act to prevent the illegal flow of dangerous drugs like fentanyl through the mail. ...
An Albertville man is now being considered one of the biggest fentanyl traffickers in North Alabama. James Evans is in the Marshall County Jail after his arrest near downtown Guntersville. Police say he had enough fentanyl to kill 2,500 people. The arrest happened Wednesday at a Marathon gas station...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts woman will become the first known person to win approval from the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to receive ongoing methadone treatment for her heroin addiction while she serves a sentence in federal prison. The decision by the...
Pittsburgh, PA – A Pennsylvania mother accused of putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in her toddler’s sippy cup showed no emotion as she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday. Seventeen-month-old Charlette Napper-Talley died on April 5, 2018, after she consumed what her mother called...
PHOENIX — Three people were arrested at a Phoenix-area mall this week for allegedly possessing thousands of fentanyl pills believed to...