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A Toledo man was indicted for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl on Friday. According to the...
When it comes to drug overdoses in the state’s two largest cities, April saw several areas of progress but one major setback.The total number of overdoses was down, but in Manchester the number of overdose deaths was up.“While the overdoses are going down, we're seeing...
History will record our China policy as a bigger disaster than the second Iraq war: The number of Americans killed by overdoses of Chinese fentanyl and other drugs in just one year – 70,000 – far outstrips all deaths from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Chinese communist...
United States Customs and Border Protection announced earlier this week that since Thursday, April 26 authorities in Nogales, Arizona have confiscated $3.8 million worth of hard drugs including 268 pounds of heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine combined. With these arrests, authorities have stopped nearly $8 million...
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Thousands of bars hope to catch on big with new drink inventions, but one Ohio establishment thinks they've found their way to stand out. The bar is getting notoriety for their latest cocktail served with a tampon inside reported WJW. ...
BUFFALO — A Buffalo man caught with a large amount of fentanyl in...
OTTAWA - Donna May says she'll no longer tolerate a nod or weepy...
An elderly Australian couple Wednesday signed for a package containing 10 million Australian dollars’ ($7 million) worth of methamphetamine, which had accidentally been shipped to their house, police said. The couple, who live outside Melbourne, called police after opening the parcel and discovering it contained bags...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitThree brothers have been charged after running a drug...
Federal prosecutors and state police announced charges against more than two dozen people from Maine and New York City in a sweeping drug trafficking case. Court documents show the charges resulted in an investigation into drugs – crack, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl – obtained in New...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — One of the co-conspirators in Operation Ghost, a massive police investigation into a Greater New Bedford fentanyl trafficking network, was ordered held without bail on Friday, court records say.Heather Cabral, 38, of 152 Bluefield St., New Bedford, was...
By Bob Audette, Brattleboro Reformer KEENE, N.H. — A former Hinsdale, New Hampshire man is in federal custody, accused of selling fentanyl on a number of occasions to a confidential informant in Keene. According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of New...
HAZLETON, Luzerne County - The state attorney general's office announced today the takedown of a fentanyl distribution ring in Luzerne County, which they say has sold at least $1 Million worth of the drug this year alone.Search warrants were executed on three Hazleton homes Thursday, where...
Ontario Provincial Police File photo There have been at least five suspected overdoses in the Arnprior area in the past week with the OPP warning Friday that purple heroin known locally as “purp” typically contains fentanyl or even more powerful carfentanyl.The warning comes from the Renfrew detachment...
On Thursday, a Boston jury found that John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, as well as four high-ranking executives at the company guilty of racketeering on the grounds that they had conspired to boost sales of one of its fentanyl-based medications. After deliberating for 15 hours,...
MEDFORD (CBS)– Mike Overstreet of Medford has a new outlook on life after kicking an addiction that started with pain medication in high school. “I had an injury from wrestling,” he told WBZ-TV. “A bad back and hip and it got worse from there.” Buprenorphine, prescribed by...
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) 25 people are facing federal or state drug charges as the result of an extensive investigation into the sale of drugs in Washington and Hancock Counties. Authorities say most of the arrests were made Thursday at multiple locations in both counties. Those arrested face...
In a landmark ruling on May 1, a Boston federal jury found Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other Insys executives guilty of a racketeering conspiracy that helped fueled America’s opioid epidemic. They were accused of bribing doctors to prescribe patients with Insys’ opioid...
Buy PhotoThese were among the 70 people arrested in a Brevard County Sheriff's Office investigation into crystal meth and fentanyl trafficking. A news conference announcing the arrests was held Wednesday qat the Brevard County Jail that included as speakers Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, first lady...
(WBRE/WYOU-TV) It is being called one of the biggest drug busts in the history of Luzerne County a one million dollar fentanyl distribution ring is now history. The I-Team’s Andy Mehalshick has the...
Photo: Butler County Jail Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Photo: Butler County Jail DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) –...
PLATTSBURGH — Dangerous drugs arrive in the region "in a constant stream," says...
ELLSWORTH — Law enforcement on May 2 arrested more than two dozen suspects, seizing firearms and large quantities of crack and Fentanyl as part of a multi-agency investigation into the drug trade from New York City to Washington and Hancock counties. United States Attorney Halsey B....
German police have shut down one of the world’s largest illegal online markets in the so-called dark web and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said on Friday. The “Wall Street Market” (WSM) site enabled trade in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well...
From The Trussville Tribune staff reports BIRMINGHAM — A federal jury convicted a Birmingham man of possession with the intent to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl. Bob Cotchery III, 28, was arrested on...
A Binghamton man faces several felony charges after police found fentanyl and crack cocaine when they searched his West Side residence.Authorities say 34-year-old Sean Dingle of 98 Crestmont Road was arrested as a result of the Friday morning raid.Investigators say 117 individual packages of fentanyl...
European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids in three southern...
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) — A Binghamton man is facing several charges after police found more than 100 packages of fentanyl during a raid on the city’s west side. Authorities say the Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force seized the following items after executing a narcotics search...
CLOSE Alexis Pleus of Truth Pharm demonstrates how to administer Narcan to save a person from dying of a heroin, opioid overdose Kate Collins / Staff videoOne hundred and seventeen individual packages of Fentanyl and 35 packages of crack cocaine,...
Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy is sounding the alarm after a number of overdoses in the city. According to a post on its Twitter account, Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy (WGDS) says there has been a spike in the number...
Executives at a major opioid company, Insys Therapeutics, were found guilty by a federal jury on Thursday for, among other misdeeds, bribing doctors to prescribe their fentanyl-based painkiller — in another sign that the federal government and the public are increasingly ready to...
The founder and former CEO of drug company Insys Therapeutics just became the first Big Pharma exec to be convicted for his role in pushing opioids on patients, a crime that resulted in over 900 overdose deaths. Subsys, a fentanyl-based spray, was approved for...
For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government's fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former...
North Bay police have charged three people in unrelated fentanyl-related deaths in 2018.Jordan Drew, 25, is charged with one count of trafficking alprazolam and one count of trafficking fentanyl in the death of a 24-year-old man in June.Lisa Cormier, 41, and Stephanie Slack, 33, both...
North Bay police report a couple of arrests related to Fentanyl deaths in the community. The June 2018 death of a 24-year-old man from North Bay started one investigation. It resulted in the arrest of Jordan Drew, a 25-year-old North Bay man. Drew has...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill to repeal New Hampshire’s death penalty for a second time Friday, though lawmakers are likely to override his decision in the fall. Sununu, a Republican, vetoed the bill in Manchester, the state’s largest city, surrounded by...
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...
BOSTON — A federal jury on Thursday found the top executives of Insys Therapeutics, a company that sold a fentanyl-based painkiller, guilty of racketeering charges in a rare criminal prosecution that blamed corporate officials for contributing to the nation’s opioid epidemic.The jury, after deliberating for...
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...
The Friday Catchall: • WHISKEY – I admit I do not drink, but it is confounding when people complain about our community events – last weekend’s Whiskey Off-Road mountain biking...
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor was found guilty in a scheme to bribe doctors to boost sales of a highly addictive fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients with severe pain. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights...