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Heroin, Fentanyl found in Sky Harbor luggage during explosive search
PHOENIX — Heroin and Fentanyl were found in an airport passenger's computer bag during a search for explosives at Sky Harbor Airport, according to court paperwork.Phoenix police report that on June 4, a Delta Airlines passenger heading to Seattle checked in his luggage at Sky...
12 June, 2019
Pompeo Monitoring Drug War in China, Latin America
Mike Pompeo / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehman June 11, 2019 5:00 pmSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the United States is making progress in an increasingly global drug war, although Chinese drug gangs and the "Maduro mafia" are posing major barriers to...
12 June, 2019
Washington man gets 10 years for drug-induced homicide – News – Journal Star
Michael Smothers GateHouse Media Illinois Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 3:44 PM Jun 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM A Washington man will serve a 10-year prison term for supplying heroin laced with a deadly additive that combined to kill a Pekin man two years ago.Tayrod Fields, 25, accepted that sentence when he pleaded guilty Monday to drug-induced homicide,...
12 June, 2019
Man faces multiple charges after OPP seize $21K of fentanyl in Exeter
Huron County OPP say they have put a “significant dent” in the local drug supply after a traffic stop netted nearly $21,000 worth of fentanyl.A 38-year-old South Huron man faces a raft of charges, including two counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking.Just after...
11 June, 2019
Two charged in Brookfield man’s fentanyl-related death
CLOSEA man and woman from Milwaukee have been charged with giving the controlled substance fentanyl to a Brookfield man, causing his death in 2018. Kenyon Q. Pugh, 32, and Simona L. Ramirez, 43, were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on June 10 with first-degree reckless homicide. If...
11 June, 2019
Opioid overdoses, deaths in Peterborough prompt calls for more help from province
A spike in opioid overdoses and deaths in Peterborough, Ont., is prompting a call for the Ford government to do more to tackle the crisis. Over the first weekend in June, police responded to 19 drug overdoses, which resulted in two deaths over a 72-hour period. A veteran of...
11 June, 2019
‘We Are Not Winning This War:’ Senator Hosts Summit on Connecticut’s Deadly Fentanyl Crisis
The numbers are stark - year to date there have been 45 fentanyl-related drug overdose deaths in Hartford.Police say that’s almost double the number from a year ago. And now fentanyl has been found in cocaine and crack cocaine, in addition to heroin.This has local,...
11 June, 2019
‘He’s not going to be forgotten’
The family of the Woodstock teen who’s become the local face of the deadly opioid epidemic is pushing for harsher penalties for dealers.The Mackay family launched an online petition late last week urging government leaders to pass legislation that would sharply increase prison sentences for...
11 June, 2019