European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids in three southern...
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) — A Binghamton man is facing several charges after police found more than 100 packages of fentanyl during a raid on the city’s west side. Authorities say the Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force seized the following items after executing a narcotics search...
CLOSE Alexis Pleus of Truth Pharm demonstrates how to administer Narcan to save a person from dying of a heroin, opioid overdose Kate Collins / Staff videoOne hundred and seventeen individual packages of Fentanyl and 35 packages of crack cocaine,...
Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy is sounding the alarm after a number of overdoses in the city. According to a post on its Twitter account, Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy (WGDS) says there has been a spike in the number...
Executives at a major opioid company, Insys Therapeutics, were found guilty by a federal jury on Thursday for, among other misdeeds, bribing doctors to prescribe their fentanyl-based painkiller — in another sign that the federal government and the public are increasingly ready to...
The founder and former CEO of drug company Insys Therapeutics just became the first Big Pharma exec to be convicted for his role in pushing opioids on patients, a crime that resulted in over 900 overdose deaths. Subsys, a fentanyl-based spray, was approved for...
For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government's fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former...
North Bay police have charged three people in unrelated fentanyl-related deaths in 2018.Jordan Drew, 25, is charged with one count of trafficking alprazolam and one count of trafficking fentanyl in the death of a 24-year-old man in June.Lisa Cormier, 41, and Stephanie Slack, 33, both...
North Bay police report a couple of arrests related to Fentanyl deaths in the community. The June 2018 death of a 24-year-old man from North Bay started one investigation. It resulted in the arrest of Jordan Drew, a 25-year-old North Bay man. Drew has...