SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The case of a man accused of giving a Beadle County woman a deadly dose of fentanyl and then leaving her on her bathroom floor to be discovered by her two children has moved to federal court. In June of 2018, Marc Henrisse...
(Getty Images) OWEN SOUNDAn Owen Sound man was handed a six-year prison sentence for drug trafficking after police made what’s believed to be the largest fentanyl seizure in Grey-Bruce.Michael Bemister, 40, of 1372 3rd Ave. E., Apt. 2, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking,...
1959 Belgian physician Dr. Paul Janssen develops and produces a new anesthetic, fentanyl, that is 100 times more powerful than morphine. Through his company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, he also develops drugs used to treat diarrhea in the developing world and HIV/AIDS. Janssen died in 2003.1960sFentanyl comes into...
As fentanyl continues to ravage communities, it is important that those on the frontlines get the resources they need to gain ground in the battle. As the Herald’s Lisa Kashinsky reports, in the Merrimack Valley, police chiefs are calling for assistance from the federal government. “We...
For the first time in Saskatchewan’s history, police have charged alleged drug dealers with manslaughter in connection to fatal overdoses.On Friday, all three accused in this case made their first court appearance at Saskatoon provincial court. Each faces four counts of...
YORK, Maine — One hundred two grams of fentanyl that were coming into Maine were stopped when police pulled over a...
Federal agents searched the man's Lovell Place apartment Friday and found evidence of a drug operation, according to court documents. The FBI charges that an Erie man acting as a "large-scale narcotics trafficker" was running a drug processing operation out of his Lovell Place apartment in...
More than 500 grams of fentanyl were seized during the arrest of a Massachusetts man.Thirty-six-year-old Rosario Lara of Lawrence has been charged with trafficking a class A narcotic over 200 grams.Federal, state and local investigators developed information that Lara was trafficking fentanyl, according to state police.On...
Could a legal heroin supply help combat the province’s opioid crisis?It’s an idea being floated in a new report released Thursday by the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.The centre suggests that providing legal heroin to users — through the establishment...