Five senior execs at Insys Therapeutics (manufacturer of Subsys, a type of fentanyl), have been convicted of criminal racketeering and fraud charges stemming from the company's practice of bribing doctors to overprescribe their incredibly addictive and dangerous product, and for defrauding Medicare in the process. John...
A Sarnia, Ont., court case in which a drug dealer was charged with manslaughter in the death of a customer who died after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl is forcing questions about the legal and moral implications of such charges. And as the opioid crisis in Canada...
Three people face charges after police seized drugs, a weapon, and cash from a residence in Cobourg on Thursday.Members of the OPP Peterborough/Northumberland Detachment Community Street Crime Units in conjunction with the Cobourg Police Service and OPP’s Emergency Response Team executed...
A Fourth of July car crash in which he was seriously injured has...
OSSIPEE — A jury took a half-hour Wednesday to convict a Carroll County...
CLOSE Methamphetamine has devastating effects on drug users and can lead to memory loss, "meth mouth," overdose and death. WochitMuch attention has been on the opioid crisis in recent years, but according to local law enforcement, meth continues to claim the...
An Alberta forensic toxicologist says SzymonKalich died soon after taking a lethal dose of fentany more than three years ago.Dr. Craig Chatterton testified Thursday at the manslaughter trial of Jordan Yarmey, who is accused of trafficking in fentanyl and providing fentanyl to Kalich.Chatterton determined there was a lethal concentration of 12.9...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — A twelfth co-conspirator in Operation Ghost, a multi-police agency operation designed to dismantle a fentanyl trafficking network in Greater New Bedford, was arrested Thursday, court officials said.David Luna, 37, of 124 Arlington St., Apartment 2 North, will...
Marvin Parker faces a state prison sentence in the death of Jason Paul Jones. A New York man who traveled to Corry to sell drugs faces time in state prison after pleading guilty Thursday in the fentanyl overdose of a man who died in Crawford County...
May 2, 2019 10:30 AM in News • Brandon police stumbled upon 80 grams of fentanyl during a traffic stop in the city on Wednesday.Police say the drugs have a street value of about $48,000. They also seized a quantity of cash.One of the...