Inmates, Deputies Hospitalized After Possible Fentanyl ExposureThe Placer County Sheriff's Department said several inmates have been transported to local hospitals for suspected Fentanyl exposure. (5/13/19)2 minutes agoMother Recounts Terrifying Moments After Son With Autism DisappearedA Sacramento woman spent Mother’s Day surviving her worst nightmare. Her...
From the time of his arrest, Dr. Paul T. Biddle was upfront about his addiction to painkillers. In time, the Orchard Park pain management physician also admitted writing prescriptions to two dead people and diverting the drugs to himself. Biddle, 55, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District...
Valerie DeCaro-Garcia spent some of her Mother’s Day trying to bring attention to a law rarely used in Cook County. When her brother, Anthony DeCaro, died of fentanyl toxicity in 2016, she thought his death would be investigated as a homicide. After all, the Illinois Drug Induced...
As a result of the warrant being executed, police seized suspected cocaine, crystal meth, Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, heroin and purple Fentanyl during a Temiskaming Shores bust May 10. The estimated street value of the drugs seized is approximately...
Dunwoody Police have arrested and charged an alleged drug dealer with felony murder in the death of a 22-year-old man who police say overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl earlier this year at an apartment complex across from City Hall. It is the first known prosecution...
OTTAWA — In the small town of Arnprior, nestled into the Ottawa Valley, at least five suspected opioid overdoses in the span of week prompted police to issue a public warning.Access to extremely dangerous opioids is not limited to larger cities, said the Renfrew detachment...
Guelph police say most of the $80,000 worth of suspected fentanyl seized by officers in March was actually carfentanil. Police received the results of analysis by Health Canada and confirmed on Monday the drugs were 100 times more potent than fentanyl.READ MORE:...
Buy PhotoDeshawn Dowdell listens to the responses of prospective jurors during jury selection Tuesday afternoon in front of Judge Brent Robinson. (Photo: Jason J. Molyet/News Journal)MANSFIELD - Deshawn Dowdell is back for another jury trial.Dowdell, 24, is charged with murder, two counts of discharging a firearm...
Analysis of a massive opioid seizure earlier this year has returned some alarming results. Guelph police had seized what they believed to be blue and purple fentanyl back in mid-March. Three search warrants had...