A Red Scorpion gangster has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking and possession of an illegal firearm.A number of other charges that Khaadim Kwame Coddett was facing were stayed Friday at both the provincial and B.C. Supreme...
Tom Jackman Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally July 3 at 6:00 AM Patrick J. Thomas was a longtime heroin user who helped pay for...
Sudbury police seize $250,000 in fentanyl. (Supplied by Greater Sudbury Police Service) North Bay Detective Constable Brad Reaume isn’t exaggerating when he says as bad as the opioid crisis is in North Bay, it’s far worse in Sudbury. In the span of two months, Sudbury police...
Drug-related deaths have continued to climb in King County, with fatal overdoses involving methamphetamine and fentanyl on the rise, according to Public Health — Seattle & King County. Last year, 415 King County residents died from drug or alcohol use — up from...
Staff reports The Bulletin Wednesday Jul 3, 2019 at 6:47 AM Jul 3, 2019 at 6:52 AM KILLINGLY - A Killingly woman, who was arrested twice last week on narcotics charges, was arrested a third time Tuesday afternoon after police said she was in possession of 55 bags of Fentanyl at a traffic stop in Brooklyn.At 5:08 p.m., police...
CAPE CORAL The Cape Coral firefighters who were exposed to fentanyl on Tuesday were cleared to return to work. The incident happened on Tuesday, when four Cape Coral firefighters were exposed to lethal opioid, fentanyl, while responding to a call Tuesday morning. It happened after a fire...
CLOSEBuy PhotoFentanyl test strip package purchased in Canada. Individual strips cost $1 apiece. (Photo: Enquirer file photo)Hamilton County Public Health is now offering opioid users a way to test their drugs for the deadly synthetic opiate fentanyl.The health department's mobile syringe exchange program, The Exchange Project,...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is warning of legal chaos and lost drug trafficking cases if Congress doesn’t pass a law banning deadly fentanyl lookalikes within the next few months. A temporary ban on fentanyl copycats is set to expire in February, reopening a loophole...