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May 2 (UPI) -- Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor was convicted Thursday of racketeering conspiracy involving bribes and kickbacks to physicians who prescribed large amounts of highly addictive fentanyl spray to patients. In federal court, a jury deliberated for 15 days before finding the Arizona-based...
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.John Kapoor, the 76-year-old...
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OSSIPEE — A jury took a half-hour Wednesday to convict a Carroll County...
The feds brought down their fentanyl billionaire — make that former billionaire. John Kapoor, the founder, former chairman, and former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics, has been convicted of a racketeering conspiracy that involved bribing doctors and lying to insurance companies to boost sales of Subsys,...
No longer will pharmaceutical companies fear paying only a cost-of-doing business fine for illegally pushing their opioid medications onto an unsuspecting public. Now the executives may face serious prison time after Thursday's racketeering verdict against John Kapoor, the founder of a company who bribed doctors...
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...
Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push highly addictive fentanyl spray Updated: 5:48 PM EDT May 2, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BEEN CRIMINALLY CONVICTED. BILLIONAIRE JOHN KAPOOR AND FOUR OTHER FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE PHARMACUETIAL COMPANY INSY FOUND GUILTY OF RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY IN FEDERAL COURT. JURORS FOUND...
Cocaine deaths have been rising in the U.S., health officials said Thursday in their latest report on the nation’s overdose epidemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Death...
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...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.1. “That’s a crime.”That’s what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said about Attorney General William Barr’s testimony in April, when he said was unaware that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, had protested...
BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Insys executives are guilty of paying doctors to boost sales of a fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients – actions that may have caused some people to become addicted to opioids – a jury determined Thursday afternoon. John Kapoor of Insys Therapeutics Inc....
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A corrections officer at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center was taken to Alaska Regional Hospital after she was exposed to fentanyl, a high-concentration opioid. The officer was exposed during inmate intake, according to Sarah Gallagher, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections. "During an intake...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In light of the dramatic rise in devastating fentanyl overdose...
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...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc on Thursday became the highest-ranking drugmaker executive convicted in a case tied to the U.S. opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive painkiller, helping drive the...
John N. Kapoor, left, a defendant in the Insys trial, departs the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Jan. 29, 2019.Craig F. Walker | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesA Boston jury convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and several other executives of...
BOSTON — A federal jury on Thursday found the top executives of Insys Therapeutics, a company that sold a fentanyl-based painkiller, guilty of criminal racketeering charges involving bribing doctors to prescribe dangerous opioids to patients who didn’t need them.The jury, after deliberating for 15 days,...
FILE PHOTO: John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc, arrives at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., January 28, 2019. REUTERS/Brian SnyderBOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc and four colleagues were found guilty on Thursday of bribing...
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston on Jan. 30. (Photo: Steven Senne, AP)BOSTON — The billionaire founder of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics and four other top executives were found guilty on Thursday of racketeering in a scheme that involved giving bribes and kickbacks to physicians to...
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...
The biggest drug bust ever in Brevard County, Florida has taken three pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl off of the streets. Brandon Huff, 35 (pictured), has been identified by authorities as one of the leader of the...
Lewiston police officer Nick Meserve, center, and other police officers cross Ash Street in Lewiston as they walk down Howe Street searching for a man that shot at a vehicle at the corner of Sabattus Street and College Streets in 2016. Sun Journal file photo...
A Lewiston police officer who was found dead in his Webster Street home on Feb. 8 died from a fentanyl overdose, police said Thursday. The Maine medical examiner’s office determined that Officer Nicholas Meserve, 34, died as a result of an accidental fentanyl overdose, Lewiston police...
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Chief Brian T. O’Malley announced today that the cause of death of Officer Nicholas Meserve was acute fentanyl intoxication and the manner of death accidental. Officer Meserve, 34, died at home in Lewiston on February 8th. Chief O’Malley said that an investigation by...
Lewiston Police say an officer who died earlier this year passed away from an accidental fentanyl overdose.In a media release on the department's Facebook page, Chief Brian O'Malley announced that Officer Nicholas Meserve died as a result of acute fentanyl intoxication and that it was...
By GateHouse Florida Content Team Thursday May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM After a monthslong, multi-agency drug investigation, police in Brevard County arrested 100 people connected to a criminal organization responsible for distributing heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine.“The investigation was aimed at disrupting the sources of dangerous opiate drugs that are critically impacting our...
SARNIA – A Sarnia drug dealer who sold cocaine laced with deadly fentanyl to an unsuspecting buyer pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal negligence causing death.Karen Ebel-Savage, 59, also pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in the 38-year-old man’s death in August 2017.The man, identified in court...
Every six months over the past two decades, Pedro García has planted a small crop of opium poppies alongside the maize and beans in his hillside field. The modest profits from the flowers’ sticky sap – known in Spanish as goma – paid for his...
BOSTON — A man from East Bridgewater has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to multiple charges in connection to a drug-dealing conspiracy.Joshua Siereveld, 38, of East Bridgewater, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 400 grams or...
May 2 (UPI) -- Florida police issued arrest warrants for over 100 members of a suspected criminal drug origination and seized 75 firearms and over 500,000 lethal doses of fentanyl, authorities said. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said officials issued over 104 arrest warrants Wednesday in...
Florida police identified more than 100 suspects accused of dealing fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine yesterday, bringing a months-long probe to a close.Officials released footage yesterday showing suspects being paraded from a police building, taking the opportunity to issue a warning to potential drug dealers. The...
May 2 (UPI) -- Florida police issued arrest warrants for over 100 members of a suspected criminal drug origination and seized 75 firearms and over 500,000 lethal doses of fentanyl, authorities said. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said it issued over 104 arrest warrants Wednesday in...
Police in Florida issued arrest warrants for over 100 members of a suspected drug gang on Wednesday and seized enough fentanyl to wipe out a large county. Dozens of them were taken into custody and bused to prison, including the six alleged ringleaders. The...
Police in Florida issued arrest warrants for over 100 members of a suspected drug gang on Wednesday and seized enough fentanyl to wipe out a large county. Dozens of them were taken into custody and bused to prison, including the six alleged ringleaders. The 104 arrest...
"That's what I want," Trump said, scrawling "you have to help us with this" onto the printed story and telling his staff to send it to Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a senior White House official familiar with the incident. Days later, Trump pressed...
In a Chapters outlet, Aaron James snapped a photo of a self-help book and texted it to his friend."You doing OK?" he asked.Jordan Yarmey's reply shocked him."Nope," the text read. "I think I moved a dead body and I'll be getting charged. I think someone...
By Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON - Two New York men pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy. Each apparently pointed to the other for carrying illegal drugs that police found in their vehicle. Samuel McCants, 34, and Richard Rivera Jr., 47, are...
A vaccine that combines a fentanyl antigen with a tetanus toxoid has been shown to reduce fentanyl choices and increase food choices with effects lasting several months in rats. These results suggest that the vaccine may not only decrease dangerous drug-taking behavior, but can also...
Scientists have developed a vaccine against fentanyl that may prevent addiction to the powerful opioid and may even prevent overdoses, a new study suggests. Fentanyl is now found in the bloodstreams of 90 percent of people that die of drug overdoses. The synthetic opioid is far more...
In April Governor DeSantis announced the commission of a statewide opioid taskforce that would identify best practices for addressing the state's opioid epidemic. He also reinstated the Office of Drug Control. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons The comments came during the announcement of a drug...
Police in Brevard County, Fla., arrested 100 people in a monthslong drug investigation involving the seizure of enough fentanyl to kill every person in the county.The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that arrest warrants for 100 people connected to a criminal organization were issued Wednesday as a part...
A vaccine against fentanyl—a drug contributing to the opioid crisis gripping the U.S.—appears to have put rats off the substance in a study. Between 2010 and 2016, there was a 493 percent spike in people being diagnosed with opioid addiction, in what the National Institute of...
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, September 23, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ...
A tip from the public to the Surrey RCMP resulted in the seizure of $27,440 in cash and a package of suspected fentanyl in South Surrey Monday evening. Surrey RCMP issued a news release Wednesday saying that officers...