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A 27-year-old Neosho woman has been charged with reckless homicide for buying fentanyl-laced heroin for, and sharing it with her boyfriend, which ultimately killed him, according to a criminal complaint.Selena Leitzke was charged Feb. 4 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with first-degree reckless homicide. She...

Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Thursday Feb 7, 2019 at 1:19 PM Feb 7, 2019 at 1:19 PM An Akron man has been indicted for stamping pills containing fentanyl and other drugs to look like the painkiller Percocet.Donyea Nelson, 42, was indicted on nine charges that include possession of die used to manufacture a counterfeit substance, possession of equipment to manufacture...

A box of fentanyl marked "Know what this is???!!! It is evil." Photo: National Crime AgencyIn 2017, a spike in fentanyl-related deaths in the north of England and a series of police raids on suppliers led many to believe the super potent opioid had finally...

(Photo: Arthur Debruyne/Filter)When it landed three years ago, some six guys died here in one week," says 51-year-old Roberto Prado, a homeless man who uses drugs and lives in a community of a few dozen beneath one of Tijuana's canal bridges.Until recently, people in Tijuana...

BRIDGEPORT — A traffic stop and subsequent investigation of a residence Tuesday resulted in the arrest of a Cleveland man on drug trafficking charges.Belmont County Sheriff David Lucas said that at about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Deputy Jason Schwarck of the Criminal Interdiction Unit made a...