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Since I took office five years ago, I have sought to improve Orange County’s criminal justice system. I have created and supported numerous programs that promote fairness in the system by preventing substance abuse, hate speech and truancy, to name a few; and that connect...
FREDERICA — A 30-year-old Frederica man was arrested Friday on drug and weapon charges, Delaware State Police spokeswoman Master Cpl. Melissa Jaffe said. At 6:15 a.m., authorities said, DSP units conducted a traffic stop on Northeast Front Street in Milford. Driver Joseph Whaley was known to...
MANASSAS, Va. — The bill has passed the House and Senate and is sitting on the governor's desk awaiting a signature.It's...
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COTTONWOOD -- The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors approved an Intergovernmental Agreement between county law enforcement and the state in an effort to mitigate border-related crimes such as human trafficking. The agreement would assign four full-time deputies to...
Augusta — In the wake of figures released by his office and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Attorney General Aaron M. Frey says the latest drug overdose fatalities indicate that Maine's opioid crisis continues to claim lives at a distressing rate, even though the...
(CNN) – While there’s early evidence that the explosive rate of opioid deaths has started to slow, opioids killed more than 49,000 people in the United States in 2017, according to preliminary data. A new study reveals which part of the country has been affected...
From staff and wire reports San Mateo County has joined more than 1,300 cities, counties and groups in suing opi- oid prescription drug makers for allegedly fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic. In the lawsuit filed Thursday (Feb. 21) in U.S. District Court, County Counsel John Beiers says...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The case of a man accused of giving a Beadle County woman a deadly dose of fentanyl and then leaving her on her bathroom floor to be discovered by her two children has moved to federal court. In June of 2018, Marc Henrisse...
Fentanyl Alkaloid Market Report renders in-depth analysis of geographical regions and conditions, product/service types, applications, consumption, revenue, and sales of Fentanyl Alkaloid Market. The report firstly introduced the Fentanyl Alkaloid basics: definitions, classifications, applications, and market overview; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures, raw materials...
(Getty Images) OWEN SOUNDAn Owen Sound man was handed a six-year prison sentence for drug trafficking after police made what’s believed to be the largest fentanyl seizure in Grey-Bruce.Michael Bemister, 40, of 1372 3rd Ave. E., Apt. 2, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking,...
1959 Belgian physician Dr. Paul Janssen develops and produces a new anesthetic, fentanyl, that is 100 times more powerful than morphine. Through his company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, he also develops drugs used to treat diarrhea in the developing world and HIV/AIDS. Janssen died in 2003.1960sFentanyl comes into...
As fentanyl continues to ravage communities, it is important that those on the frontlines get the resources they need to gain ground in the battle. As the Herald’s Lisa Kashinsky reports, in the Merrimack Valley, police chiefs are calling for assistance from the federal government. “We...
For the first time in Saskatchewan’s history, police have charged alleged drug dealers with manslaughter in connection to fatal overdoses.On Friday, all three accused in this case made their first court appearance at Saskatoon provincial court. Each faces four counts of...
Fentanyl overdose deaths on the rise in Yakima County over the last two years.YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash.- The Yakima Valley and the rest of the country has been trying to figure out the best way to handle the opioid crisis over the last few years.But now,...
YORK, Maine — One hundred two grams of fentanyl that were coming into Maine were stopped when police pulled over a...
Federal agents searched the man's Lovell Place apartment Friday and found evidence of a drug operation, according to court documents. The FBI charges that an Erie man acting as a "large-scale narcotics trafficker" was running a drug processing operation out of his Lovell Place apartment in...
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Mateo County on Thursday joined more than 1,300 cities, counties and groups in suing opioid prescription drug makers for allegedly fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic. The county’s lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco, but is expected to be...
In this week’s FOIA round-up, public records requests reveal pollution from U.S. mining sites is contaminating American water supplies without being treated, researchers use FOIA documents to reveal mishandling of fentanyl distribution by the Federal Drug Administration, and new records raise ethical concerns over travel...
Talk about losing your appetite.One Ohio restaurant is in hot water for advertising a bag of fentanyl as a “new brunch special” in jest on social media — though many both within and beyond the local community don’t find the supposed joke to be so funny.Last...
More than 500 grams of fentanyl were seized during the arrest of a Massachusetts man.Thirty-six-year-old Rosario Lara of Lawrence has been charged with trafficking a class A narcotic over 200 grams.Federal, state and local investigators developed information that Lara was trafficking fentanyl, according to state police.On...
A former Ohio doctor is under investigation for allegedly prescribing “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of a highly potent drug, fentanyl, to dozens of patients who later died. Dr. William Husel was fired in December, and...
A former Ohio doctor is under investigation for allegedly prescribing "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of a highly potent drug, fentanyl, to dozens of patients who later died. Dr. William Husel was fired in December, and Mount Carmel Hospital reported at least 27 of...
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) - A new video from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office paints a picture of the overdose epidemic in Florida.The video shows three people suffering from symptoms of drug overdose at the...
Could a legal heroin supply help combat the province’s opioid crisis?It’s an idea being floated in a new report released Thursday by the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.The centre suggests that providing legal heroin to users — through the establishment...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A traffic stop on Interstate 91 on Tuesday in Hartland resulted in three arrests and what a prosecutor calls the largest bust involving fentanyl that he’s seen in Windsor County.“For fentanyl, the threshold for a trafficking charge is 70 milligrams,” Windsor...
Schuylkill County Law Enforcement seized thousands of dollars worth of drugs during a bust in Gordon on Thursday. According to the Schuylkill County District Attorney's Office, on February 21, 2019, members of the Pennsylvania State Police Troop L – Vice/ Narcotics Unit, Schuylkill County District Attorney’s...
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man is facing charges after investigators said he distributed a fatal dose of fentanyl last...
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How many deaths does it take to wake up America? Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than traffic accidents. America knows we’re in...
A national report has been released this week that accused health authorities and manufactures of being too lenient with overseeing the...
File photo of suspected purple fentanyl. Picture supplied by London police. ...
A mother is warning over the dangers of drugs by releasing an image of her identifying her son’s body following a fatal overdose. Nora Sheehan, 56, lost her son Andrew Jugler, 29, after he took a deadly dose of xylazine and fentanyl, following an eight year...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR News) - A nurse who worked in...
Nora Sheehan, pictured with her son Andrew before his October death, is hoping that sharing the heartbreaking image of her identifying his body will force others to recognize the reality of the nation's drug epidemic. ...
Local law enforcement agencies are hoping Congress passes legislation that would allow funding for some cutting edge technology that identifies lethal illicit drugs like fentanyl. The so called POWER Act would provide small and medium police forces with a chemical detection tool...
**WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW** Andrew Jugler, 29, lost his eight-year battle with addiction in October last year after taking a deadly cocktail of xylazine and fentanyl. Wrapping her arms around on his lifeless body, his heartbroken mum Nora Sheehan, 56, was pictured identifying him two...
Prosecutors say a bag of drugs recovered from a toilet at a Massachusetts jail contained fentanyl and not heroin as initially thought.The Salem News reports that 43-year-old William Cruz, of Lynn, is now facing a charge of trafficking fentanyl-based on the state crime lab results.Cruz...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. BAKERSFIELD, CA - His body was found buried in a...
UNION COUNTY, N.C. — Authorities have arrested two people accused of trafficking a new and powerful drug cocktail.Officials say parents need...
MIAMI, FL -- Two men were indicted Wednesday in connection with the fentanyl-related death of a 22-year-old man under a recent change in Florida law, according to the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office. Twenty-one-year-old Karl Schmidt and 52-year-old David Cash were both...
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Randall Green (left), John Barbera (top right), and Shannon Barry have been charged with trafficking fentanyl. Vermont State Police photosWHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A traffic stop on Interstate 91 in Hartland has resulted in three arrests and what a prosecutor calls the largest bust involving...
]]> February 20, 2019 at 9:55p.m. WARREN Martin E. Higinbotham, 48, of Newton Falls, who kicked fentanyl into the faces of Trumbull County...
Two illegal immigrants — including one caught in a fentanyl sting dubbed “Operation Dead End” — face deportation after officials said they were dealing “deadly poisons” in Boston and around the South Shore. Both men are being held on high bail in the Suffolk County House...