via Edward Kimmel on Flickr Dec. 21, 2018 By Laura Hanrahan Two Glendale men were arrested yesterday for their involvement in a nine-month-long opioid distribution operation in Queens, the New York Eastern District Attorney announced yesterday. Douglas “Dougie” Marra and Joseph “Max B” McClean, both 34, were charged...
A more than $58,000 pilot grant will help local health officials determine if the distribution of fentanyl test strips can reduce drug overdoses and deaths.Since July, more than 2,800 test strips have been distributed via a National...
The inmate who died at St. Louis' Medium Security Institution (MSI) in August died of an accidental fentanyl overdose, the autopsy report shows. Louis L. Payton, 48, was the latest inmate to die at the facility known as the Workhouse this year. He was the...
Sponsored by First Line Technology By Sarah Calams, PoliceOne BrandFocus StaffOn average, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 115 Americans die every day from opioid overdose. As a result, the risk of synthetic opioid exposure to law enforcement and other first responders is...
In 2018, the eyes of the nation were again fixed on President Donald Trump, whose second year in office was no less remarkable than his first. It was a year that saw the president open up...
TOMS RIVER, NJ — Four people have been and a fifth is still being sought following a three-month investigation into heroin and fentanyl distribution in Ocean County, Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced. Arrested were Xavier Nelson, 29, of Toms River;...
Mounties in Kelowna believe they have cut off a conduit of drugs to the Okanagan Valley after raiding a gang member's home like the Grinch who stole Christmas. Handout / RCMP Seizure of a stash of what is believed to be fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, shatter, oxycontin, methamphetamine,...
Brock Haney loved the yearly canoe trips in the Adirondacks with his family. "He was very active, good in sports, a great singer, [and] he actually tried out for American Idol in Philadelphia. He played the guitar, he sang, so he was kind of an all-American...