Victoria should withdraw its support for a downtown casino, given recent revelations about money laundering in the B.C. gaming industry and possible gang links to fentanyl trafficking, says Mayor Lisa Helps. In a motion going to councillors Thursday, Helps is recommending the city write to...
President Trump left dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping confident thousands of American lives could be saved: the president announced Xi would introduce the death penalty for illegally dealing fentanyl, a synthetic and deadly...
]]> December 11, 2018 at 12:05a.m. By Ed Runyan runyan@vindy.com WARREN Warren police had a busy weekend of arresting people for having crack...
NEWS RELEASE SOUTH SIMCOE POLICE SERVICE ************************ INNISFIL - A 29-year-old Innisfil man is facing 12 charges after a RIDE stop resulted in a foot chase and the seizure of a large quantity of drugs. On Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 around 9...
A 26-year-old Mexican national was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison after he was busted transporting 24 pounds of opioids, including 11 pounds of fentanyl, in Texas this year. Jesus Florencio Chaparro-Sanchez was arrested in late May after being stopped by a Texas State Trooper...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 23-year-old woman on Monday became the latest defendant to admit guilt stemming from the takedown last year of a wide-ranging operation that peddled drugs in several North Shore communities.Beatrice Adegbenro pleaded guilty...
The community is invited to attend a Fentanyl Epidemic Forum at Prescott High School's Ruth Street Theater from 6 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10. The forum, hosted by...
Staff Report Monday Dec 10, 2018 at 3:58 PM Dec 10, 2018 at 4:58 PM Portage County Sheriff’s deputies have opened an investigation into possible drug smuggling into the county jail after an inmate and a nurse were taken to the hospital Sunday following suspected fentanyl overdoses. According to a release from the sheriff’s office, the male inmate was transported...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Hollywood man who allegedly dealt drugs over Craigslist has been indicted on charges of selling the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a customer who died of an overdose.A federal grand jury charged 25-year-old Andrew Madi with one count of distribution...