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TAVARES — The Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced a large-scale drug bust Friday after a two-day roundup resulting in 47 arrests, with 23 others still to come.Those arrested included people accused of being mid- and high-level suppliers and street-level drug dealers, Lake County Sheriff Peyton...
ALTON — A local resident charged with providing fentanyl to a man who...
Fentanyl seized by the Calgary Police Service drug unit is displayed in this 2015 file photo. Postmedia Archives Fentanyl deaths continue to drop in Alberta, with the number of fatal overdoses falling for the second straight reporting period.In the first three months of this year, 137 people...
Fentanyl pills photographed at Calgary Police headquarters. Gavin Young / Postmedia Drugs charges connected with trafficking fentanyl on the dark web were withdrawn Friday against a Calgary man who is serving time in the U.S. on similar charges.Defence lawyer Ian McKay told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice...
LAWRENCE — A Lawrence man arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old Amesbury...
A photograph of heroin and fentanyl is displayed during a news conference the U.S. Capitol March 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A photograph of heroin and fentanyl is displayed during a news conference the U.S. Capitol...
Opioid overdose deaths are on the rise across the country. Now health officials are seeing that same trend with synthetic opioids like fentanyl. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number has skyrocketed from 1,663 deaths in 2011 to 18,335 in 2016. ...
Everybody could see the deadly firepower on the table at Toronto Police Headquarters in full display Friday.What they couldn’t show — seized in a massive quantities during Project Kraken — was the 11,033 grams of deadly fentanyl.“It’s not here because of the risk factor of transporting...
Baltimore police and the city state's attorney's office said investigators seized cocaine, fentanyl and other drugs, while 14 alleged members of a notorious and violent gang are now under arrest.Police said the investigation started in February, and the 14 in custody are members of the...
Two month's worth of drug busts by the Greater Sudbury Police Services has kept approximately $250,000 worth of fentanyl off Sudbury streets.Police say the dangerous drug, often mixed with heroin in what is referred to as "purple" or "purp" was being transported from southern Ontario.Sudbury...
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – In less than a month, 30 people have overdosed in Elizabeth City. Six of those overdoses were fatal. Emergency Medical Service officials said the drug epidemic across the area has reached new levels. “I believe we’re on track to surpass all [of...
Niagara Regional Police (NRPS) say they’ve arrested three people connected to a drug trafficking incident in St. Catharines, on Thursday night.Two people are accused of selling narcotics after police officers seized fentanyl and cocaine, with an estimated street value of $6,000...
CLOSE If you see a crime being committed, leave anonymous tips with Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers. GINNY BEAGAN/TCPALM April 2019 Ginny Beagan, TCPALMPaul Richard Paradis, 56, 500 block of 53rd Square, Vero Beach; out-of-county warrant, St. Lucie County, grand...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Due to lack of enforcement in China concerning its illicit fentanyl producers, the Senate passed the first-ever fentanyl sanctions bill that would pressure the Chinese government to crackdown on the illegal production and shipment.At the urging of U.S. Sen. Charles...
Local drug agents raided a suspected heroin processing facility inside a Woodstock house...
Alec Wong was just 21 when he was charged with trafficking fentanyl in a downtown Vancouver dial-a-dope operation in 2017. Dylan Friesen was 36 when he was arrested in Maple Ridge in 2017 and also charged with selling fentanyl at the street level. Both...
Toronto police have made 73 arrests and have seized thousands of dollars’ worth of narcotics and firearms through an eight-month investigation into an illicit street gang. Dubbed Project Kraken, the months-long investigation has been trying to take down a street gang known as the Chester Le...
Just about anything can happen in Bushwick’s House of Yes, but this was a new one. With a seven-foot-tall polar bear (stuffed) looming a few feet away, the commissioner of the city’s Health Department (not stuffed) hit the anything-goes nightspot to launch a campaign warning Brooklyn...
CONCORD — A cross-border investigation into fentanyl trafficking netted six arrests Thursday in southern...
NEW BEDFORD — Members of the New Bedford Police Narcotics Division arrested three adults and one juvenile in two separate fentanyl trafficking cases Thursday, which resulted in close to 600 grams of fentanyl and over $4,600 in cash being confiscated.In the first case, detectives conducted...
CONCORD, N.H. (WHDH) - Six people have been arrested in Massachusetts and New Hampshire as the result of a multi-month, cross-border drug trafficking investigation, officials said. The arrests were the result of a multi-month investigation that led to the execution of search warrants Thursday in Haverhill...
Fentanyl pills that were seized by law enforcement, Photo supplied/ALERT A new report released Thursday says nearly one-third of accidental fentanyl-related poisoning deaths in the province during the first quarter of 2019 occurred in Edmonton.The province’s lastest opioid surveillance report said 36 people in Edmonton have died...
Following a promise to the U.S., China announced that it would treat all fentanyl as illegal in an effort to more tightly regulate how many variants of the drug are making their way out of the country. But Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-Utica),...
Waterville police said they were following up on a dog bite case Wednesday afternoon when they found more than three pounds of drugs in the dog owner's apartment.An officer said when he stopped by to speak to Ryan Schall, 27, he saw a powdered substance...
Posted: Jun 28, 2019 / 09:01 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 28, 2019 / 09:01 AM EDT Roman Garcia (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office) DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A Dayton man was arrested and charged after a “major narcotics seizure” was conducted in which a large amount of...
A recent scientific study evaluating the effectiveness of a new vaccine targeting fentanyl addiction has shown promising results. The study was published in the journal Neuropharmacology, and involved the use of a fentanyl antigen (a molecule that causes the production of specific antibodies) combined with...
Bruce Boise said "every day was different" even "exciting" to him as a pharmaceutical salesman at Cephalon. But that all changed in 2000 when he says he was ordered by his boss to promote drugs "off-label" to...
It's Friday, June 28, 2019. Let's start here. Interested in Start Here Morning Briefing ? Add Start Here Morning Briefing as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Start Here Morning Briefing news, video, and analysis from ABC News. 1. Round 2 Democrats were more eager...
Ecstasy and cocaine are just some of the party drugs you might find at a music festival. But Vancouver Island's chief medical officer is warning that the use of fentanyl and other opioids could intrude on this summer's festival scene.Dr. Richard Stanwick says "the potential for harm is probably greater"...
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CLOSE Each year FDLE collects the data from law enforcement agencies statewide on what it calls the seven major crime categories. Ginny Beagan, TCPALMINDIAN RIVER COUNTY — One of two accused drug dealers told authorities he made his connections through...
WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - Waterville Police were following up on a dog bite case Wednesday afternoon when, they say, they found a lot of drugs in the dog owner's apartment. An officer says when he stopped by to speak to 27-year-old Ryan Schall he saw a...
Two Dane County men face federal drug charges for drug crimes involving heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.The indictments against Cortez Jackson, 39, of Sun Prairie and Van Williamson, 42, of Madison were handed down Wednesday.The men were accused of conspiring to distribute the drugs from February...
COLUMBUS (WBNS) – A Franklin County Magistrate has denied a request by attorneys for Dr. William Husel and Mount Carmel Health System to put several wrongful death lawsuits on hold while Husel’s criminal case is still pending.Husel faces 25 murder charges, accused of ordering excessive...
The recent Arizona seizure of 73,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a microcosm of what is fueling the nationwide opioid crises. President Trump recently touted that 17 percent fewer opioid prescriptions were written this year compared to last...
The letter says a preliminary report from Dr. Dirk Huyer, the province’s chief coroner, cited 142 carfentanil-related deaths through April 29, 2019, compared to 95 for all of 2018. That represented a 50 per cent increase for the first four months of the year....
By Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — A North Pownal man has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in the drug overdose death of his girlfriend in December 2016. Two other defendants in the case have already been sentenced. Richard Muir, 42, pleaded guilty to the felony offense...
The city is expanding a nightlife-centric campaign to prevent overdoses by spreading the word about the presence of the deadly opioid fentanyl in cocaine and distributing overdose-reversal kits to club and...
A package of purple fentanyl. SunMedia Alec Wong was just 21 when he was charged with trafficking fentanyl in a downtown Vancouver dial-a-dope operation in 2017.Dylan Friesen was 36 when he was arrested in Maple Ridge in 2017 and also charged with selling fentanyl at the street...
CONCORD, N.H. – On Thursday, New Hampshire deputy attorney general Jane E. Young and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent-in-charge Brian D. Boyle announced that six individuals were arrested as a result of a multi-month, joint cross-border drug trafficking investigation. Search warrants were executed on Thursday...
It’s officially summer and that means music festivals are on the horizon. While everyone wants to have a good time, BC health officials are warning about deadly fentanyl overdoses at music festivals. Here’s what you should be cautious about. BC's Island Health wants everyone to enjoy...
A sobering new United Nations report shows that the opioid crisis has metastasized beyond U.S. borders and engulfed the globe, concluding that opioids were responsible for two-thirds of all drug deaths worldwide in 2017.In their annual World Drug Report, the United Nations (UN) Office...
Jessica Arp Jessica Arp More Crime Stories Two Dane County men face federal drug charges for drug crimes involving heroin, fentanyl and...
CLOSE A team of three journalists from the BBC World Service spent six weeks embedded in the Louisville newsroom. Courtesy BBC World Service, Louisville Courier JournalKentucky earned its spot on a list it probably doesn't want to be on:...
Toronto’s police chief says the force has dealt a significant blow to a gang he alleges has been selling fentanyl throughout Canada for some time.Mark Saunders says police began making arrests throughout the Greater Toronto Area today, taking 37 people into...
Toni Braxton's niece Lauren Braxton's cause of death was just revealed, according to E! News. Reports say Lauren died of a heroin overdose and fentanyl intoxicationLauren, nicknamed "LoLo" died in April at just 24 years old. Toni Braxton fans were devastated when news broke in...