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News Military personnel seize drugs on Sonora beach. Marijuana, methamphetamines and fentanyl found on three boats Saturday, February 16, 2019 The Mexican navy seized nine tonnes of marijuana, methamphetamines and fentanyl off the coast of Sonora after a chase on the high seas earlier...
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Screenshot: YouTubeIf you’ve kept an eye on the looming opioid crisis in recent years, it’s more-or-less guaranteed that you’ve heard about fentanyl by now. Last year, the extremely potent medication—which is generally prescribed to help end-stage cancer patients cope with pain—surpassed heroin to be...
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An Uber driver nearly became an unwitting courier for a drug delivery after he was asked to drive a box of sneakers with a stash of suspected fentanyl from San Francisco to Tiburon, authorities said Saturday. The driver was notified the...
Burnaby city council has agreed to spend $700,000 to upgrade a space local Mounties use to process deadly street drugs. Before the fentanyl crisis began a few years ago, local officers weighed, logged, tested and packaged seized drugs on tables and benches in...
CLOSE Dr. Samson Orusa was indicted on charges of drug trafficking and healthcare fraud last year. Brett Kelman, The TennesseanCLARKESVILLE, Tenn. – It was October 2017 when the undercover federal agent slipped into the Tennessee pain clinic for the third...
An opiod-making company has come under fire after a corporate music video used to increase sales of their drugs emerged.The bizarre rap video came to light earlier this week during the trial of Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and four other former executives of...
LOWELL -- Three Lowell residents arrested Thursday on fentanyl-trafficking charges were held following their arraignments in Lowell District Court Friday. Glenn Burns, 46, Glenn Vigeant, 53, and Tracy Vigeant, 47, were arrested after police searched their apartment at 225 Branch St. on the...
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Several former executives for the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics are currently on trial in Boston on charges of racketeering, fraud, and conspiracy, in connection to an alleged nationwide scheme to pay doctors bribes and kickbacks in exchange for prescribing the company’s fentanyl-based pain medication Subsys to patients who would not...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video EDMUNDSON, Mo. – Drugs do not discriminate. There’s no denying the nationwide epidemic, even here in St. Louis. The DEA and local law enforcement are warning about a dangerous drug that's 10,000 times...
CONCORD – Victor Soto, 38, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was sentenced to serve 46 months in prison for fentanyl trafficking, U.S. Attorney Scott Murray said. According to court documents and statements made in court, Manchester police officers acquired reliable information that the defendant would deliver 300 to...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEFeb. 16, 2019, 5:02 AM GMTBy Phil Helsel and Tom WinterHouston's police chief said Friday that there appear to be "some material untruths or lies" in an affidavit...
The arrest of two led to the arrest of five of an on-going drug trafficking investigation in Prince George. According to a news release, the RCMP’s Street Crew Unit arrested an adult male and an adult female near the intersection of 4th Avenue and...
Bethlehem police seized the deadly painkiller fentanyl and made two arrests while serving a search warrant before sunrise Friday on South Side, the department said in a news release.One of the suspects, 38-year-old Christian Figueroa, fled out...
Screenshot: Insys Theraputics/U.S. Attorney’s OfficeThat drug companies have fueled the opioid crisis by flooding the market with deceptively advertised, highly addictive painkillers is no secret. But the antics of Insys Therapeutics, now being revealed in an ongoing federal court battle, seem especially evil. Well,...
Bethlehem police said they have arrested a man and woman after finding fentanyl inside a South Side home, the...
On October 22, 2018, authorities pulled over a Dominican national identifying himself as Angel Javier Morell-Oneill as he drove in Methuen, Massachusetts. They had been investigating him since June 2018, according to a Justice Department press release. They searched...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEFeb. 15, 2019, 7:25 PM GMT / Source: Associated PressEmployees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a person dressed as a bottle...
BOSTON — Employees at a drug company, accused of bribing doctors, rapped and danced around a life-size bottle of the highly addictive fentanyl spray in...
You may have already figured out that Donald Trump’s speech on Friday declaring a national emergency at the southern U.S. border contained a lot of false information about the current situation. The president also made a comment about Chinese President Xi Jinping that many Twitter users believe...
BOSTON (CBS) — The Massachusetts Congressional delegation is slamming President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump announced Friday that he’s declaring an emergency to free up billions of dollars in wall funding. Democrats...
This still image from a 2015 video presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in federal court in Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. (Insys Therapeutics/U.S. Attorney's Office via AP) BOSTON — Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around...
FARMINGTON — Judge Brent Davis sentenced a West Farmington woman Thursday to a fully suspended 18-month sentence for driving a friend twice to New Hampshire to get fentanyl to bring back to Franklin County. Amy L. Levasseur, 32, will serve two years of probation. Levasseur pleaded guilty to...
Court documents filed by the lawyer of a former Mount Carmel Health System doctor accused of overdosing dozens of near-death patients give a grim picture of the circumstances faced by three of those people before their deaths.Mount Carmel has said Dr. William Husel, 43, of...
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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A major drug bust in the Kensington section of Philadelphia shuts down an operation that authorities say had a stronghold on the neighborhood for years and consistently put heroin and fentanyl back into the streets.On Thursday morning, authorities arrested 11 alleged drug...
FARMINGTON — Judge Brent Davis sentenced a West Farmington woman Thursday to a fully suspended 18-month sentence for driving a friend twice to New Hampshire to get fentanyl to bring back to Franklin County. Amy L. Levasseur, 32, will serve two years of probation. Levasseur pleaded guilty to...
Antonella Barba, 32, made it to the last 16 on the sixth season of the singing contest hosted by Simon Cowell in 2007.She was indicted last week after authorities in Virginia arrested her last October with two pounds of fentanyl, a powerful opioid.The...
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Castro was the lead defendant of a 20-defendant drug conspiracy that began in 2013 and continued until all of them were arrested in 2017. A federal jury convicted Castro in October 2018. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker handed down the sentence. Birge said that the evidence...
A pharmaceutical company accused of racketeering made an in-house rap video that featured A$AP Rocky beats and a rhyming bottle of highly addictive narcotics spray. The jury in the Boston federal court trial of Insys founder John Kapoor viewed the five-minute video featuring company executive Alec...
A Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officer was taken to a hospital after being exposed to possible fentanyl while processing a suspect at the department's headquarters Wednesday night.The case began around 10:35 p.m. when officers responded to a report of someone urinating in public in...
SUNNYVALE — A Sunnyvale police officer was in stable condition after he was overcome by possible fentanyl exposure while handling a suspect’s drug package Wednesday night, authorities said. The accidental drug release prompted an overnight evacuation of Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety headquarters. Six other officers were...
SUNNYVALE — A Sunnyvale police officer was in stable condition after he was overcome by possible fentanyl exposure while handling a suspect’s drug package Wednesday night, authorities said. The accidental drug release prompted an overnight evacuation of Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety headquarters. Six other officers were...
SUNNYVALE (CBS SF) – A Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officer was taken to a hospital after being exposed to possible fentanyl while processing a suspect at the department’s headquarters Wednesday night. The case began around 10:35 p.m. when officers responded to a report of someone...
Health officials in Oxford County are warning about yellow fentanyl.A new batch has arrived in the region and this time it’s bright yellow in colour and people tend to “drop” right after they take it, officials said. READ MORE: Overdose prevention site...
Billionaire John Kapoor dangled lavish bonuses and used a music video parody featuring a rapping fentanyl nebulizer to motivate his young sales force to talk doctors into prescribing potentially deadly doses of his company’s opioid pain reliever, the pharma founder’s disgraced CEO testified Wednesday. “The majority...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Loen Beasley knows firsthand just how dangerous Fentanyl can be, and he’s lived to tell about it. “This is my second go around, I was here last year from August of...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Fentanyl problem confronting North Alabama and the rest of the United States has roots thousands of miles away, according to federal law enforcement officials. Fentanyl is an American-made drug, used...