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A joint operation between Border Patrol and the Sheriff’s Department resulted in a 44-pound seizure of fentanyl, authorities said Thursday.Detectives with the sheriff’s Border Crime Suppression Team, along with agents, pulled over a 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday as it sped west on...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in northern Mexico said Thursday they raided a lab producing the synthetic opioid fentanyl, the second such lab detected in Mexico in the last four months. ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – For the first time in Broward County a suspect is being criminally charged with providing a fatal dose of fentanyl to a victim. On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced that Jean Jameson is accused of...
Eleven people were arrested following a major drug trafficking investigation in Worcester that led to the seizure of over 700 grams of heroin/fentanyl, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Thursday. The investigation by local, state and federal law enforcement authorities spanned from the Bronx to Worcester,...
$1.5 million in fentanyl, found stashed in a couple's SUV on the freeway in Otay Mesa (Photo: SDSO) $1.5 million in fentanyl, found stashed in a couple's SUV on the freeway in Otay Mesa (Photo: SDSO) SAN DIEGO — A woman...
Share This Article:Fentanyl found in 2004Mitsubishi Endeavor. Photo via Sheriff’s DepartmentA woman and her boyfriend were behind bars Thursday after allegedly being caught transporting more than 20 kilograms of powdered fentanyl — an illicit drug haul valued at $1.5 million — on an Otay Mesa...
One of the hottest pieces of propaganda to come spilling from jowls of law enforcement over the past few years is that illicit-market marijuana is being laced with a dangerous and destructive opioid called fentanyl. The idea that drug dealers are intentionally adding this potent drug...
A man from Trenton was charged and another from Pemberton Township was indicted on charges that they sold fentanyl-laced heroin that killed two people in Burlington County.Daquan Marshall, 28, of the Kingsbury Towers in Trenton, was charged with one count of strict liability for...
WORCESTER (WHDH) - Eleven people were arrested after a long-term investigation into a major opioid trafficking operation in Worcester, officials say. Investigators allege that the illegal drug operation spanned from the Bronx to Worcester and resulted in a seizure of over 700 grams of heroin and...
Eleven people were arrested and arraigned in connection with “a major opioid trafficking operation” in Worcester, state Attorney General Maura Healey announced Thursday.Investigators said they seized more than 700 grams of heroin/fentanyl from a drug operation that spanned from the Bronx, New York, to Worcester.The...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Onondaga County saw an 11 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths last year fueled largely by the powerful drug fentanyl.There were 101 unintended opioid deaths in 2018, up from 91 in 2017, according to the Onondaga County Health Department. The county’s...
Handout Chatham-Kent police Chief Gary Conn, left, and Insp. Trevor Crane are shown with the largest drug seizure in the municipality's history. Chatham-Kent police have made the largest drug bust in the municipality’s history, seizing more than $2.6 million worth of opioids and other illegal drugs.On...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — More than $1.5 million in fentanyl was seized during a traffic stop in the South Bay this week.A 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor was stopped for a speeding violation on Wednesday at about 2:30 p.m. heading westbound on State route 905, according to...
BRENTWOOD -- A Salem couple is facing new charges after their infant allegedly...
Looking for a quality used fire truck? Selling one? Visit our sponsor Command Fire ApparatusA Columbia Journalism Review article today (Thursday) blames the news media and others for pushing a myth about the threat of fentanyl to firefighters, EMS, police and bystanders. Despite medical experts...
RED LAKE, Minn. (Valley News Live)- Over 50 grams of a controlled substance testing positive for fentanyl, $10,000 in cash, a hunting rifle, and a child were all found in the Red Lake community in the Littlerock District on Monday. This is the 2nd...
Treating America's Pain: Unintended Victims of the Opioid Crackdown, Part 1 – The SuicidesThe national opioid crisis propelled a crackdown on prescription painkillers, causing hundreds of doctors to abruptly reduce or completely cut off their patients’ prescriptions, leaving many among the estimated 20 million Americans...
Amit Anthony Singh, 26, of Monrovia, Md.: charged with the possession, possession with the intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine, fentanyl mixed with heroin, possession and possession with the intent to distribute Suboxone/buprenorphine and heroin and the possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, fentanyl mixed...
Staff Sgt. Pierre Blais poses for a photo with a drug shipment from BC containing 60 kg of marijuana, drug manufacturing equipment and 2,000 fentanyl pills during a press conference at ALERT Edmonton in Edmonton, Alta., on Tuesday June 14, 2016. Ian Kucerak / Ian Kucerak/Postmedia A...
Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff is warning the public that marijuana laced with the powerful narcotic drug fentanyl has made it's way to Sullivan County.On Monday evening, a sheriff's deputy was patrolling the parking lot of the Walmart in Monticello he observed a car parked, facing...
Email to a friend Permalink Thursday, April 11, 2019 GoLocalWorcester News Team PHOTO: MA State Police A Fitchburg woman was arrested by Massachusetts State Police for trafficking heroin and fentanyl. Rosemary Delossantos, 29, was charged with three counts of trafficking fentanyl, two counts of trafficking heroin, possession of cocaine with intent...
https://wskg.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/WEB-1.mp3BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) – Broome County executive, Jason Garnar declared a state of emergency March 27 after 10 overdose deaths related to fentanyl occurred in 10 days. Over the last two weeks, Garnar has conducted a meeting every morning at 11 o’clock with representatives from all...
Two Florida Republicans are leading the charge on Capitol Hill to crack down on fentanyl being brought in to the U.S. from China, Mexico and other nations. Last week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined other senators--including Arkansas Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton and New York...
WESTERLY — Local police seized homemade pills that they said tested positive for fentanyl,...
WARREN — Trumbull County health officials are once again seeing a rise in drug overdose deaths. The latest statistics released Wednesday the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office show there were 27 cases through March 13. Kathleen Meszaros, chief forensics investigator with the coroner’s office, said there are five...
PHOENIX — A woman and man are facing charges after a Navajo County Sherriff’s Office K-9 sniffed out 30,000 fentanyl pill...
WASHINGTON—Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan and Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton on Wednesday introduced the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, a bipartisan measure intended “to force China to stem the flow of deadly, synthetic opioids being trafficked into the United States.” Fentanyl, which is similar chemically to heroin but...
A Senate bill that would place limits on medical marijuana and create new...
An officer with the Ontario Provincial Police holds bags containing containing fentanyl during a news conference in Vaughan, Ont., on Feb. 23, 2017. Chris Young/The Canadian Press More than 10,300 Canadians have died of opioid-related overdoses in less than three years,...
An officer with the Ontario Provincial Police holds bags containing containing fentanyl during a news conference in Vaughan, Ont., on Feb. 23, 2017. Chris Young/The Canadian Press More than 10,300 Canadians have died of opioid-related overdoses in less than three years,...
Xanaxis is a brand of medication prescribed for anxiety and panic disorder, and news that fake Xanax has turned up on the streets of Halifax is reason for concern. Of greater concern? Some...
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed screen-printed sensors that could offer a faster, convenient and low-cost method to detect the drug fentanyl. The sensors can detect micromolar concentrations of fentanyl in just one minute. They are easy to produce, cost only...
In an article published by U.S. News & World Report, we're shown again how government can make almost anything worse.According to the article, in the wake of the opioid crackdown, the federal Centers for Disease Control says the painkillers should be a last resort for...
Two men accused of running a massive fentanyl trafficking operation have had all their charges dropped after a judge found their rights were violated by Vancouver police.In his decision posted Tuesday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams said Dennis Alexander Halstead...
A Halifax-based harm reduction group is striving to raise awareness about reports of fake Xanax pills in Halifax containing the deadly opioid fentanyl.“We were given an anonymous tip that some Xanax, or what looks like Xanax around the Halifax area, is...
Improbable that China is sincerely motivated to crack down on opioid trade, says criminal lawyer NEWS ANALYSIS A heavy human cost from Canada’s inability to contain money laundering is the fentanyl opioid crisis, which resulted in 2,400 deaths in the first nine months of 2018 alone, based...
Pot prices climb Canadian cannabis users are paying more since legalization. The average cost has gone up over 17-percent for legal weed, while the price of illegal cannabis has dropped. Stats Can says smokers who buy from legal brick and mortar shops are paying the most...
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Broome County leaders held an update at the George Harvey Justice Building on Wednesday about the ongoing State of emergency in Broome County. Broome County Executive Jason Garnar stating that the fentanyl outbreak has claimed...
JEFFERSON CITY - Despite being one of the most commonly abused opioids nationwide, there is currently no law in Missouri that allows for the prosecution of those who deal fentanyl. A bill by Rep. Nick Schroer, R-O'Fallon would change that and create stricter penalties for those...
Massachusetts State Police Some of the drugs authorities seized as part of the investigation. Authorities arrested an alleged Fitchburg heroin and fentanyl trafficker Tuesday afternoon and seized more than 300 grams of a heroin/fentanyl mixture, officials said.Rosemary de los Santos, 29, of Fitchburg is facing multiple charges....
A California truck driver was arrested Wednesday in Middlesex County after authorities found him hauling about 116 pounds of fentanyl and cocaine as part of a coast-to-coast drug trafficking network, officials said.Jose Santos Garcia Guzman is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess...
OTTAWA - More than 10,000 Canadians have died of opioid-related overdoses since a public health crisis erupted in 2016, according to new data released Wednesday.The latest figures — 3,200 deaths in the first nine months of 2018 — show that the powerful painkiller fentanyl remains...
