Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a stunning statistic. Seventy-two thousand people, it estimates, died of drug overdoses in 2017. The huge increase in deaths is largely...
NORWELL — A Norwell woman facing a fentanyl trafficking charge was held on a $30,000 cash bail Monday after she was arraigned at South Shore Hospital. Police have accused a Brianna St. Peter, 39, of selling drugs out of her home on Arrowhead Drive after...
Ten people died from suspected drug overdoses in five days, according to the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition.Health and law enforcement officials painted a much clearer picture Monday of the overdose activity that ...
BY EILEEN MCCLORY Reporter Monday Jun 24, 2019 at 2:40 PM Jun 24, 2019 at 3:11 PM A woman who was stopped in Streetsboro with more than 100 grams of fentanyl was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday. Natalie D. Esparza, 28, of Fremont in Northwest Ohio, pleaded guilty in May to the first-degree felony. "I am...
CVS Pharmacy officials kicked off a statewide program at one of its stores...
Story courtesy of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, by Public Affairs Officer Brittany Kershaw. On Friday, June 21,...
From Friday to Sunday, 60 people reportedly overdosed in Hamilton County.As of Monday, at least 10 people died from suspected overdoses. "It's extremely important that we get the call as soon as possible when that person overdoses," Newtown Police Chief Tom Synan said. Synan said...
GULFPORT, Miss. (WTOK) - An illegal alien who was arrested with enough fentanyl to kill a million people has pleaded guilty in Mississippi to heroin trafficking. Pablo Vega-Ontanon, 53, of Mexico, who had been living in Georgia, pleaded guilty Friday in Gulfport to possession with intent...
Savings Lives Task Force: Spotlight on John WindleyBy Brenda Thacker on June 24, 2019By Brenda ThackerThis month the Saving Lives Task Force features an interview between Brenda Thacker and businessman and Kill Devil Hills Commissioner John WindleyHow did you get started with the Saving Lives...
“Then and there, I went to sell it, because I needed the money,” sing Los Armadillos, a band from La Sierra in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The popular song, “Cosecha Nocturna” (“Night Harvest”), is about growing and selling opium poppies, a crop that campesinos,...