Federal officials made a massive cocaine bust in Philadelphia Tuesday, seizing an estimated 16.5 tons of the drug from a ship there -- with a street value of over $1 billion, officials said.The historic bust -- the largest in the history of the Eastern...
Federal officials made a massive cocaine bust in Philadelphia Tuesday, seizing an estimated 33,000 pounds of the drug from a ship there, an official said. The bust comes amid a series of large seizures of the drug in the Northeast, including a record seizure of $18...
UNION SQUARE, NY — A drug dealer set up a heroin, fentanyl and cocaine-selling operation in big name Union Square stores including Chipotle, Food Emporium and McDonalds, the city's Special Narcotics Prosecutor said Tuesday. Anthony Morales, 49, was indicted on charges that he sold more...
Published: 6/17/2019 10:26:12 PM After three years of modest declines, the region saw an increase in opioid-related overdose deaths in...
Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton, Opinion contributors Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 18, 2019 CLOSESynthetic opioids have devastated our home states and many others. We need to...
CLOSE Three people died when an out-of-control SUV careened off Route 23 and into a Delta gas station where pumps are less than 25 feet from the road. Sean Oates, NorthJerseyPATERSON — Jason Vanderee, the Vernon man accused of...
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, along the eastern borders of Kentucky and Ohio, sits Huntington, West Virginia, a place so consumed by the opioid epidemic it has been crowned "the Overdose Capital of America." At its worst, people here were dying from drug abuse at...
At a press conference in Beijing Monday, Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, said that the number of cannabis users in China had grown by more than 25% in 2018, rising to about 24,000 people."In two years, we have found...
Simultaneous raids on two homes in Bridgewater and Brockton on Friday led to the seizure of 157 grams of heroin, $54,000 in suspected drug money, three illegal handguns and two suspects, according to police.The W.E.B. Major Crimes and Drug Task Force executed search warrants...