Phoenix — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. The drug was found hidden Saturday...
SACRAMENTO — Three men from the Oroville and Palermo areas have been indicted on federal charges alleging they conspired to sell and sold hundreds of counterfeit oxycodone tablets laced with fentanyl. U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott and Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced that a grand jury...
NOGALES, Ariz. — US Customs and Border Protection made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the agency’s history on Saturday at the Nogales port of entry on the US-Mexico border, Port Director Michael Humphries announced Thursday. Officers uncovered...
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NOGALES, Ariz. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials intercepted nearly 254 pounds of fentanyl at the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday in what the agency called its largest fentanyl bust ever.Valued at approximately $3.5 million, the fentanyl was found in a secret compartment inside a load...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds (114 kilograms) of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. The drug was found hidden Saturday morning...
An uncle gave his 11-year-old grand-niece fentanyl and raped her before she died, police say. Miguel Rivera, 58, was arrested last month after Precious Wallaces allegedly overdosed on fentanyl while Rivera babysat her on December 15, but he was charged with rape on Tuesday after new...
Brett Szymanski knew what he was doing was wrong.As a sales representative for Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics, Szymanski was setting up paid speaker programs for a doctor who had written dozens of prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl spray that cost about $19,000 for a month’s dose.Often,...