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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A Detroit, Michigan man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Octavius Ellis, 23, previously pled guilty in December 2018 to knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl. The Huntington Police Department handled the investigation. “Another...
A former Ohio State wide receiver was arrested in the Linden neighborhood Saturday after neighbors say he fired gunshots.Corey D. Smith Jr., 26, had told Columbus police earlier he knew nothing about gunshots detected by the ShotSpotter system.Police had responded to the 1700 block of...
HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY (WOLF) -- Two Monroe County women are facing serious drug charges, including drug delivery resulting in death, after police say the fentanyl-laced heroin they gave another woman caused her overdose death.29-year-old Lindsay Daddio and 25-year-old Alexondra Devivo are facing a maximum of...
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1:46 PM 03/18/2019 | USJason Hopkins | Energy Investigator Law enforcement officials are confiscating substantially larger amounts of methamphetamine as Mexican drug cartels increasingly push the drug into U.S. markets. A drug-tracking system from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) indicates that a total of 347,807 law...
A Braddock Police officer has been charged with driving under the influence while on duty in January.According to police, Officer Renee Jones went to UPMC McKeesport early in the morning of Jan. 24 after Braddock police were called there for reports of a man suffering...
We’ve all heard about the opioid crisis sweeping the country, but what are Durham police doing about it? DRPS drug enforcement officer Detective Constable Scot Green says they’re focusing on stopping the drugs from coming into the community in the first place. “One of the things the...
Transdermal Drug Patches Market Report provides an analytical calculation of the prime challenges faced by this Market currently and in the coming years, which helps Market participants in understanding the problems they may face while operating in this Market over a longer period. Various Transdermal Drug...
Ferguson activist Daren Seals, top center, awaits the decision by a grand jury on whether to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in front of the police station in Ferguson , Mo....
That said, seizures of fentanyl on Mexico’s south west border with the United States have been spiking -- pointing to Mexico’s growing importance in the market and the growing amount of fentanyl moving north. During 2016 and 2017, three quarters of the total amount of fentanyl...
Beth Bailey Published 10:50 p.m. ET March 17, 2019 Fentanyl and meth seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown at the Nogales Port of Entry...
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) — A deputy who was exposed to a powerful synthetic opioid during a traffic stop last week is expected to be okay, according to Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson. The deputy stopped a vehicle last Tuesday for an expired registration. The driver of the...
A Putnam couple was arrested after police seized drugs and firearms from their home.Daniel Carroll, 33, is facing charges including multiple counts of criminal possession of a firearm. He was arrested Friday when he appeared in court and was held on a $75,000 bail.Melissa Carroll,...
ADRIAN — At the beginning of every year, Sarah Palmani, the office manager of the Lenawee County Medical Examiner’s office, collects the statistics that she has fastidiously kept over the previous year of all the unexpected deaths in the county. In 2018, the office responded to...
There is no doubt that opioid abuse is a crisis in our community.It’s...
In nearly every community across the United States, the footprint of addiction has left its mark. The overdose-related death rate in Guernsey Country has increased astronomically over the past eight years. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), drug poisoning is now considered...
On Thursday, the Senate took up a House resolution to disapprove of the...
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The Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market report firstly announced the Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Industry fundamentals: definitions, classifications, applications and market overview; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures, raw materials and so on. Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market report provides key statistics on the market status of the Fentanyl...
A Fremont man admitted Friday he trafficked cocaine, Fentanyl and methamphetamine. Arlando C. Crowe, 40, had been charged with four counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs, fourth-degree felonies, and two counts of trafficking in cocaine, fifth-degree felonies, according to his indictment. He pleaded guilty to two counts...
In a very real sense, history was made again March 11 when two men were arraigned on manslaughter charges for allegedly supplying heroin cut with fentanyl to a Riverhead man who died after using this deadly mix. In the nightmare that is America’s opioid crisis, responsible...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland police got a cold-blooded surprise when they raided the home of a suspected drug dealer Friday morning. This cuddly alligator is about 3 ½ feet long and is currently residing at the Cleveland City Kennel. This was just one of...
CLARION - Arrests of six people in connection with a fentanyl and heroin...
PHOENIX, AZ — It is now termed the deadliest drug in the United States. Fentanyl is listed as the cause of death on thousands of death certificates and it's also behind multiple overdose calls. Those who have taken fentanyl recreationally, and live to tell,...
A federal judge has ruled that Nebraska must turn over documents about how...
A Windsor man faces fentanyl and cocaine charges after Windsor police executed drug search warrants Thursday night at a home in the 1300 block of Jessop Street and a commercial property in the 6500 block of Tecumseh Road East.Michael Bernard, 39, has been charged with...
Three separate articles published on March 13 show, unfortunately, that Baltimore has no realistic plan to reduce the number...
Enlarge / If approved, Purdue's new drug would compete with opioid overdose antidote, naloxone. Notorious OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma—which has been widely criticized for deceptively marketing its highly addictive painkiller...
A Kelowna man has been sentenced to just over two years in jail...
PHOENIX — The Valley's top drug enforcement officials are calling this the "most dangerous drug epidemic this country has ever faced."Doug Coleman, the special agent in charge for the Phoenix division of the Drug Enforcement Agency, says fentanyl is such a deadly drug, it's putting...
MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island couple was arrested earlier this week, accused of running a drug operation right across the street from a school. The husband and wife, who live in a quiet North Merrick neighborhood, were hit with multiple drug charges. As CBS2’s...
A judge already threw out the charges against Reo Adkins once. He is asking another judge to do so again. An Erie man who has been charged for a second time with having heroin and fentanyl in a downtown hotel room in 2017 is again asking...
Thursday, March 14, 2019 View Larger + Fentanyl & DEA Photo A comprehensive series published by The Washington Post about the failures of the administrations of President Barack Obama and Donald Trump on combating America’s greatest public health crisis -- drug overdoses -- claim that the Fentanyl epidemic...
Staff reports The Bulletin Thursday Mar 14, 2019 at 10:28 AM Mar 14, 2019 at 10:28 AM PUTNAM - A Putnam man was arrested a second time in less than a week after police said he was in possession of Fentanyl and crack cocaine Tuesday near Owen Tarr Park.Police said they received reports Tuesday from residents regarding suspicious activity...
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CONCORD – Leonardo Aybar, 35, formerly of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy and illegally reentering the country, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray said. According to court documents and statements made in court, from December 2016 through February...
TUCSON, Ariz. — Officers of Federal Operations found $153K worth of methamphetamine and fentanyl at the Port of Nogales on on Tuesday.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers ...
Purdue Pharma’s chief executive said the company is considering bankruptcy as it faces a cascade of lawsuits alleging that the drugmaker played a key role in driving the nation’s opioid crisis, including aggressively and deceptively marketing the powerful painkiller OxyContin.Purdue’s president and chief executive, Craig...
The Opioid Crisis is no...
House Judiciary CommitteeA story in today's Washington Post makes the case that the Obama administration failed to take the proliferation of fentanyl as a heroin booster and substitute seriously enough, resulting in drug-related deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. The story is formatted in...
BUFFALO – Dontrell Wise will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced the convicted drug dealer to life in prison for selling a fatal dose of drugs that killed a Cheektowaga woman in 2017.The 32-year-old from Buffalo sold approximately 10...
The Harford County Health Department has applied to the state for 2,000 kits that will test for fentanyl in...
Of the six people arrested and charged with selling fentanyl in Yavapai County since February 2018, none have been sentenced to serve time in prison. There are various reasons...
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 15-year-old Sickles High School student for felony possession of a controlled substance after the teen allegedly let two classmates inhale a THC liquid from a vape device. The two girls, both 14, suffered severe side effects after inhaling...
Nearly three dozen people were arrested by local and federal authorities as part of an investigation into the use...
They're about the size of a band aid, and they can help save the lives of drug addicts.Tiny "test strips" are being used by addicts to test the heroin or methamphetamine they have, to see if it's laced with fentanyl.Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid...