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Seven men were arrested in a Bushwick drug bust Wednesday — including one man who allegedly sold heroin near a public elementary school, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The other six men were selling heroin laced with fentanyl and crack cocaine inside the Bushwick Houses, a public...
Posted: Jun 27, 2019 / 03:02 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 27, 2019 / 03:02 PM EDT RUSSELL COUNTY, Ala. (WRBL) – As the Opioid crisis sweeps the nation, Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor sits down for an exclusive interview to speak about a grown...
More than 80 people have been arrested across the Greater Toronto Area, as police executed search warrants aimed at dismantling a street gang operating in Scarborough’s Chester Le neighbourhood. Speaking at a news...
By REP. SAL SANTORO Last summer, a Laurel Sheriff's Office deputy noticed a white substance in the back seat of his cruiser. He had busted a drug peddler and transported the criminal to jail. Within minutes of exposure to the powder, the deputy became lightheaded and...
Six years ago, I undertook a detailed assessment of the largest free trade zones (FTZs) around the globe. There was some legal and more illicit production of pharmaceuticals occurring in many zones, but more importantly there was extensive trade, some of it opaque, most run...
TAUNTON — Police say a city man who resisted arrest and stuck a bag of what appeared to be fentanyl in his mouth is lucky to be alive -- thanks to an officer who was driving him to police headquarters.The 40-year-old man, identified as James Ben...
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ROANE CO, Tenn. (WVLT) A woman in Roane County is being charged with second-degree murder after a man died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Roane County Sheriff's Office. According to reports, Autumn Adkisson, 29, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts...
NEW BEDFORD — Three city women, including one who had been arrested the day before, were charged Tuesday after police observed a suspected drug deal, court records say.Jessica J. Williams, 48, of 960 County St., Apartment 3, is charged with distribution of fentanyl, possession with intent...
Approximately eighty people are facing charges in a months-long probe targeting a Toronto street gang that TPS Chief Mark Saunders alleges dealt fentanyl and engaged in gunplay in Toronto and across the...
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ELKINS, W.Va. (WHSV) — Five people from Grant and Hardy counties have been charged as part of a group accused of distributing methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl. According to United States Attorney Bill Powell, indictments were handed down by a federal grand jury in Elkins on June...
ELKINS — Five people were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in...
Ray Csincsa walked to his room and opened the package he had just signed for. It was a cardboard envelope about a foot long, covered in Chinese lettering and addressed to his alias, Thomas Greene. Csincsa was a little surprised he had to sign for...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is facing 13 different charges in connection to a drug trafficking operation, and police had been trying to chase him down for weeks. Tevias Jackson, 23, faces a...
Beth Treffeisen @BTreffeisenCCT Wednesday Jun 26, 2019 at 7:28 PM Jun 26, 2019 at 7:28 PM FALMOUTH — A Yarmouth Port woman pleaded not guilty in Falmouth District Court on Tuesday to trafficking approximately 77 grams of heroin and fentanyl.Alisha Jackson, 31, was arraigned on charges of driving under the influence of drugs, negligent operation of a...
A doctor who ran a pain management medical practice has been charged with allegedly taking bribes and kickbacks to prescribe fentanyl to patients. Kenneth Sun, M.D., 58, of Easton, Pennsylvania, who operated clinics in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was charged with taking more than $140,000 in...
Two people will serve prison time for giving fentanyl, a potent painkiller, to...
BURLINGTON — Three Rutland County residents are facing felony drug charges in federal...
MONTAGUE — A handful of local residents gathered in a women’s center Tuesday evening to learn how to administer the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone, amid a crisis only growing worse as fentanyl tightens its grip on the region.To help address the problem, Tapestry, a regional...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Fort Wayne’s NBC) —FBI agents took the lead Wednesday, in a series of drug raids in the city, netting more than 20 arrests. Most of the raids came early in the morning, catching the suspects and their neighbors off guard. But late in the...
ELKINS – Five people were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Elkins on June 18, 2019 for fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine distribution, according to United States Attorney Bill Powell. ELKINS – Five people were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Elkins on...
Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutIowa man convicted of providing drugs that killed another manAn Iowa man has been found guilty of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and faces a mandatory sentence of life...
KENNEWICK, Wash. - A 24-year-old Kennewick man was sent to federal prison for dealing fentanyl-laced pills meant to look like oxycodone.U.S....
Drug-overdose deaths may be declining in the U.S. for the first time in decades, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Opioid Epidemic news, video,...
Sentencing moved for drug dealer involved in fentanyl overdose death of La Jolla man The sentencing for an online drug dealer who sold fentanyl-laced pills to a La Jolla man who fatally overdosed has been moved from July to...
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Fentanyl technically has been around since the 1960s, but experts now are labeling the synthetic drug as “emerging,” largely because users are dying in greater numbers and it has become more readily available for legal...
ATHENS BOROUGH — An Athens man is facing numerous charges after he allegedly...
Life expectancy has declined three straight years for the first time in 100 years in this country. Americans are dying sooner than their parents’ generation, and you can blame the opioid epidemic.Since the mid-1990s, we’ve seen opioids invade and destroy families and communities across America....
Prosecutors say one customer died after using painkiller By Charlie Wright | Published: 2019-06-26 08:49 Leandro Acevedo Lozada was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison. File photo A Gaithersburg man who sold drugs that were later tied to one death was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison,...
A Lynn man has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison and four years probation on drug distribution charges connected to the overdose death of a Melrose woman. He was also ordered to pay her funeral expenses.Federal prosecutors asked for a significantly longer prison sentence...
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - The fate of thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic hinges in part on a thorny legal question: Can a company use a bankruptcy to stop lawsuits from cities and states? FILE...
It's Wednesday, June 26, 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. Must-see Mueller TV Special counsel Robert...
ACCESS Drug User Health Program, in conjunction with the cities of Somerville and Everett, held a discussion forum last week focusing reducing drug overdoses. ~Photos by Melissa Rosales By Melissa Rosales ACCESS Drug User Health Program partnered with the City of Somerville and Everett to discuss overdose...
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A 35-year-old nurse from Arapahoe County pleaded guilty Monday to stealing Fentanyl meant for Parker Adventist Hospital...
CLOSE Cassandra Nygren and Shawn Gray are charged with selling fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Green Bay Press-GazetteGREEN BAY — A man accused of helping supply Fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a pregnant woman will...
By George Woolston gwoolston@thebct.com@gcwoolston Tuesday Jun 25, 2019 at 5:42 PM Jun 25, 2019 at 5:42 PM According to the Burlington County Prosecutor's office, Daquan Marshall sold fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the fatal overdose of 22-year-old Alexandra Kohfeldt last year. MOUNT HOLLY — A man who authorities describe as a Trenton drug dealer was indicted in the death of...
Although marijuana remains the most widely used drug in Rutherford County, according to...
Sixteen people have been charged in what authorities say was a multi-state drug-trafficking ring in which opioids were shipped from California to Pennsylvania concealed in stuffed animals. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said today that in this multi-jurisdictional investigation, 13 people have been...
OLD BROOKLYN, Ohio — It's a cause dear to his heart."It's important to me because my community is dying," said Waverly Willis. Waverly Willis owns both Urban Kutz Barbershop locations and a salon, but not too long ago he was homeless and addicted to drugs."I...
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019 at 7:52 PM Jun 25, 2019 at 7:52 PM The following statement was issued by the United States Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts.A Lynn man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for multiple drug convictions associated with his distribution of heroin and fentanyl that led to the 2017 overdose death of a...
SAN FRANCISO (KTVU) - Health officials are sounding the alarm in San Francisco. They say fentanyl is now the leading cause of...
Fentanyl (Stock Photo) Credit: Getty Images Fentanyl (Stock Photo) Credit: Getty Images DENVER — An Arapahoe County woman pleaded guilty Monday to stealing fentanyl meant for patients at Parker Adventist Hospital, where she worked as a nurse. Jessica Sharman, 35, pleaded guilty...
BOSTON — A Lynn drug dealer was sentenced to 12½ years in prison on Tuesday for selling the heroin mixed with fentanyl to a 34-year-old Melrose woman that led to her fatal overdose in 2017. Yeffry Reynoso, also known as Chris, 27, pleaded guilty in January...
Precinct 12 Dundalk Officers Play Ball With Underprivileged, At-Risk Youth In 4th Annual CampThe weeklong camp focuses on underprivileged and at-risk youth from eight to 14-years-old.4 hours agoThe Baltimore Book Festival And Light City 2019 To Feature 20 Light Art Installations, Bestselling Authors & MoreIt...
A former Parker Adventist Hospital nurse has pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl meant for patients in the intensive care unit where she worked. Jessica Sharman, 35, pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. U.S. District Court Judge...
FRAMINGHAM – A Boston woman had both fentanyl and cocaine in her car on Monday when police arrested her following a several-weeks-long investigation, authorities said.Police arrested Solenny Gonzalez, 30, at 4:19 p.m. after they said they saw her sell drugs to a man on Water...