After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 meeting earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump praised China for considering imposing the death penalty on illicit producers of fentanyl – an opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine with a lethal...
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A Nelson musician popular around town for her street performances died of a fentanyl overdose last summer.Sarah Valiunas was 26 years old when she passed away last August, according to an obituary that was originally published in the Toronto Star.“Free spirit, traveller, wit, fearless adventurer,...
A Las Vegas doctor with ties to a Henderson judge who died of a drug overdose pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to distribution of a controlled substance. Steven Holper, who initially faced 29 counts, pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl, a charge that carries up to...
]]> December 11, 2018 at 12:05a.m. By Ed Runyan runyan@vindy.com WARREN Warren police had a busy weekend of arresting people for having crack...
A 26-year-old Mexican national was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison after he was busted transporting 24 pounds of opioids, including 11 pounds of fentanyl, in Texas this year. Jesus Florencio Chaparro-Sanchez was arrested in late May after being stopped by a Texas State Trooper...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 23-year-old woman on Monday became the latest defendant to admit guilt stemming from the takedown last year of a wide-ranging operation that peddled drugs in several North Shore communities.Beatrice Adegbenro pleaded guilty...
The community is invited to attend a Fentanyl Epidemic Forum at Prescott High School's Ruth Street Theater from 6 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10. The forum, hosted by...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Hollywood man who allegedly dealt drugs over Craigslist has been indicted on charges of selling the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a customer who died of an overdose.A federal grand jury charged 25-year-old Andrew Madi with one count of distribution...
A Brant County mother of four who sold illegal drugs out of her house and a Norfolk County motel room earlier this year was reminded of how fentanyl devastates families by an Ontario Court judge.Jennifer Ann Melhuish, 39, was sentenced to seven years, less one...