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CHICAGO (CBS)– Officials charged 35 people after a federal and state investigation into a heroin and fentanyl drug-trafficking ring in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood revealed a drug delivery service accessed by a “heroin hotline.” According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, law enforcement agents from the...
A West Baltimore drug dealer was sentenced to 24 years in prison for conspiring to distribute enough fentanyl to...
A man is incarcerated at the St. Francois County Jail awaiting charges after...
A Buffalo man allegedly found in possession of fentanyl after having sold the drug to an undercover officer on four occasions was arraigned on felony drug charges Monday in Buffalo City Court, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office. Willie Loyd. (Photo courtesy of the...
By Joe Difazio The Patriot Ledger WEYMOUTH — Police say they found a safe full of around $5,000 worth of suspected fentanyl and $10,000 in cash in the back seat of a car that led officers on a chase through a half dozen South Shore towns...
The crates said dried fruit from Colombia. There was no indication that they were holding tens of millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine but that is what federal agents said they discovered in the biggest coke bust in New York in a quarter century. After what...
It's another busy Thursday at Ottawa Inner City Health's supervised injection site on the edge of the ByWard Market. Clean needles, alcohol wipes and other supplies hang in stainless steel tins inside the cramped trailer, tucked behind the Shepherds of Good Hope shelter on Murray...
Six alleged Mesa members of a drug trafficking organization were arrested, along with...
A woman from Tampa, Florida, was arrested and charged with distributing drugs causing the death of an individual. Investigators caught the 28-year-old woman with the help of an undercover officer who posed as the dead customer.Joamary Rosario was caught after she allegedly sold 10 bags...
Chalmette, LA—Detectives searching for a laptop stolen from New Orleans found a stolen gun, marijuana, fentanyl, cocaine, and a dog who had starved to death at a Chalmette home. A child was also in the residence at the time the home was searched. After receiving a tip...
The number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in 2017 hit the highest level since the collection of federal mortality data started in 1999, according to an analysis by two public health nonprofits, the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust. To...
FALL RIVER — A 53-year-old city man was arrested Tuesday on charges including fentanyl trafficking after police learned he was allegedly selling heroin out of Modern Snack Bar on Alden Street, according to court documents.Luis Pavao, of Fall River, was arraigned in District Court Wednesday on...
In 2017, a Winnipeg postal worker stumbled upon an unconscious woman in an apartment vestibule, called 911 and suddenly had a difficult decision to make. The 911 operator was encouraging him to perform CPR, but the postal worker suspected the woman was overdosing on fentanyl. Rather...
CLOSE From the California Department of Public Health and its Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard, here are some numbers on the state's opioid problem. Steve ByerlyMethamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin were found Friday while arresting a suspected Ventura drug dealer, authorities...
Henry Marrero-Rodriguez, 47, was arrested and charged after a 7-year-old boy found a bag of drugs in a Subway shop, police said. (East Haven Police Department)A...
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- All month long, Arizona’s Family is committed to educating...
Hazmat being called to more police calls over fentanyl exposure Updated: 5:53 PM EST Mar 8, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript RESPONDERS. MARY: POTENTIAL EXPOSURE HAS BECOMES A BIG PROBLEM IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. AND, A THIRD -- IN FACT, A THIRD OF ALL STATE HAZMAT CALLS...
A Clinton Township couple has been ordered to stand trial on homicide, child...
Six people in Hagerstown, Maryland, conspired to distribute enough fentanyl to kill 1 million people, or 25 times the population of Hagerstown, federal prosecutors say. Citing a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown reports that law enforcement seized more than 2 kilograms of fentanyl during...
More than a dozen narcotics dealers, including a former NYPD cop, were busted Thursday after authorities launched an investigation into an Upper East Side man’s overdose death. “The conspiracy stretched from the South Bronx to the Upper East Side and involved widespread distribution of narcotics at...
A Massachusetts State Police Department Trooper was taken to a hospital following a fentanyl exposure scare in Norwell.At about 1:40 a.m. Friday, a trooper from the department's Norwell Barracks had a woman under arrest for possession of a class A drug and took her to...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — An accused drug dealer with a long criminal record has been charged with providing the fentanyl that killed...
CBS 5 INVESTIGATES (CBS 5) - It took less than 30 seconds to find...
Attorney General Maura Healey is touting her Fentanyl Strike Force in connection with a drug trafficking bust in Lawrence that authorities say led to four arrests and the seizure of 770 grams of fentanyl. Three men, Alex Martinez, 32; Jean Marte-Velazquez, 27; and Severino Perez-Guzman, 29;...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video DES MOINES, Iowa --For decades, fentanyl has been used in hospitals to treat extreme pain either following surgery or during cancer treatments. “It's usually in a pill form, in some cases it might...
Thursday March 7 marks the six-month anniversary of rapper Mac Miller’s death. Before his accidental overdose, Miller was active on Instagram and he was set to start touring in October 2018. Things seemed okay for Miller—normal, even. And that’s the terrifying reality of drug abuse and...
A Lockport man who was previously charged for possessing fentanyl is facing more...
Police said they busted a fentanyl trafficking operation in Lawrence on Wednesday, resulting in four arrests and the seizure of approximately 770 grams of dangerous drugs. Three men, Alex Martinez, 32; Jean Carlos Marte-Velasquez, 27; and Servino Perez-Guzman, 29; and a woman, Genesis Fernandez, 26, all...
An Iowa police officer was carrying out a traffic stop over the weekend when he was exposed to an unknown substance suspected of being fentanyl, authorities said Monday.The situation unfolded after the Fort Dodge police officer pulled over a woman Sunday evening, the department said...
Boxes start to pile up at Canada Post’s Gateway Plant at Eglington and Dixie (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star/Getty Images) Once or twice a week, a 24-year-old man in London, Ont., opens up his laptop for a little online shopping—fentanyl, heroin and other recreational drugs. The man, who...
BALTIMORE — A federal grand jury has indicted six people for conspiracy to distribute...
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Do you ever get the feeling that news stories come and go faster than they used to? Ask anyone in the news business. It's real. The O.J. Simpson story lasted about a year. Now, it feels like there is an O.J. a week.Maybe it's the...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- In the past week, the Riley County Police Department said they've come across three cases believed to be related to Fentanyl in heroin, one of which resulted in death. Police said that the Fentanyl laced heroin is relatively new to Riley County,...
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT DARTMOUTH — A Dartmouth man was arrested Wednesday on fentanyl trafficking charges after a motor vehicle stop, according to court records.Steven E. Medeiros, 51, of 28 College Lane, Apartment 2, Dartmouth, is charged with trafficking fentanyl more than 10 grams...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A federal grand jury has indicted six individuals for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. According to the indictment, from Sept. through Dec. 2018, the defendants conspired to distribute fentanyl in Hagerstown and the surrounding area. During the investigation, police seized $127,241.25 in cash, 12 luxury watches...
SUBIACO, Ark. - Authorities make a dangerous discovery during a routine traffic stop outside of Subiaco in Logan County. Deputies found the drug fentanyl in the car. Also in the vehicle, was a baby within...
SUBIACO, Ark. - Authorities make a dangerous discovery during a routine traffic stop outside of Subiaco in Logan County. Deputies found the drug fentanyl in the car. Also in the vehicle, was a baby within...
Apparent Overdose takes the life of Bagdad resident – Pills containing Fentanyl possibly involved PRELIMINARY INFORMATION - On March 5, 2019, around 4 PM, deputies received a report of a medical emergency at a home on Lawler Terrace in Bagdad,...
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