Authorities busted a couple in San Diego County earlier this week with a hefty haul of drugs stashed inside their car: $1.5 million-worth of powdered fentanyl.On Wednesday, at around 2:30 p.m., U.S. Border Patrol agents and detectives with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Border Crime...
A nonprofit group in Philadelphia is fighting in court to be allowed to open the first facility in the country for people to use illegal opioids under medical supervision. The group, called Safehouse, has the backing of local government, yet faces a legal challenge...
In addition to cracking down on narcotics in America’s biggest drug bazaar, Ray Donovan, the new boss of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York City division, fights other battles. Mostly it’s with fellow law enforcers who constantly remind him of “Ray Donovan,” the Showtime crime-series...
Less than a year after B.C. skipper John ‘Phil’ Stirling was released from a U.S. prison where he served seven years for cocaine smuggling, the controversial sea captain is back behind bars. Stirling, 65, was arrested off the Oregon coast April 9 on a...
The use of heroin and fentanyl spiked with etizolam, an analog of benzodiazepine is causing some unusual reactions in overdose victims. Etizolam is a drug regulated by Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act because of its potential for abuse. The drug has been showing up...
The number of overdoses in Summit County this year was on the decline until last weekend.From Friday, April 5, through Sunday, April 7, 23 residents sought ER help after overdosing — 13 on Saturday alone.“It caused us to raise an eyebrow,” said Jerry Craig, executive director...
BUFFALO — A Falls man, convicted in federal court in a heroin conspiracy case,...
Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol has releasted a statement advising the public that marijuana laced with fentanyl has made its way into New York State. According to Sheriff Maciol, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office arrested an individual for possessing marihuana that was mixed with fentanyl....
WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Kisco doctor was indicted by a federal grand jury on 16 counts of distributing oxycodone, fentanyl and other controlled substances to a patient, including one count of distributing fentanyl that caused the patient’s death. ...
File photo. Undercover Kelowna op nets fentanyl trafficker ...