Fentanyl

FARMINGTON — Judge Brent Davis sentenced a West Farmington woman Thursday to a fully suspended 18-month sentence for driving a friend twice to New Hampshire to get fentanyl to bring back to Franklin County. Amy L. Levasseur, 32, will serve two years of probation. Levasseur pleaded guilty to...

  Castro was the lead defendant of a 20-defendant drug conspiracy that began in 2013 and continued until all of them were arrested in 2017. A federal jury convicted Castro in October 2018.   Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker handed down the sentence. Birge said that the evidence...

A pharmaceutical company accused of racketeering made an in-house rap video that featured A$AP Rocky beats and a rhyming bottle of highly addictive narcotics spray. The jury in the Boston federal court trial of Insys founder John Kapoor viewed the five-minute video featuring company executive Alec...

A Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officer was taken to a hospital after being exposed to possible fentanyl while processing a suspect at the department's headquarters Wednesday night.The case began around 10:35 p.m. when officers responded to a report of someone urinating in public in...

SUNNYVALE — A Sunnyvale police officer was in stable condition after he was overcome by possible fentanyl exposure while handling a suspect’s drug package Wednesday night, authorities said. The accidental drug release prompted an overnight evacuation of Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety headquarters. Six other officers were...

SUNNYVALE — A Sunnyvale police officer was in stable condition after he was overcome by possible fentanyl exposure while handling a suspect’s drug package Wednesday night, authorities said. The accidental drug release prompted an overnight evacuation of Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety headquarters. Six other officers were...