4 died in Montana due to fentanyl disguised as less-dangerous drugs | Crime & Courts
...
[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1539105106917{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”817″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
...
Border Patrol Agents in Arizona confiscated 250-pounds of deadly fentanyl Thursday afternoon, making it the largest bust in history. The drugs were seized from a Mexican national crossing through the port of entry in Nogales. "CBP Officers discovered more than 400 packages of drugs concealed within...
Officials said that given the potency of the drugs found at the Nogales port of entry, officers working that day took additional precautions to handle and avoid exposure to them, including using protective gear and securing the drugs in multiple containers. (Photo: Rafael Carranza/The Republic)America...
NOGALES, Ariz. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials intercepted nearly 254 pounds of fentanyl at the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday in what the agency called its largest fentanyl bust ever.Valued at approximately $3.5 million, the fentanyl was found in a secret compartment inside a load...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Thursday that they made the largest fentanyl bust in U.S. history over the weekend, seizing hundreds of pounds of the drug along the U.S.-Mexico border. Officers at the Port of Nogales in Arizona arrested Juan Antonio Torres-Barraza and charged him...
By David Schwartz | Reuters PHOENIX – U.S. border agents have seized 254 pounds of fentanyl that was stashed in a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, marking the largest single bust of the powerful opioid ever made at an American border checkpoint, officials said on...
...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. border agents have seized 254 pounds (115 kg) of fentanyl that was stashed in a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, marking the largest single bust of the powerful opioid ever made at an American border checkpoint, officials said on Thursday....
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds (114 kilograms) of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. The drug was found hidden Saturday morning...
Federal law enforcement agents stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., made the largest-ever seizure of fentanyl Saturday after stopping a truck that was purportedly trying to bring cucumbers into the country, according...
Border agents in Arizona made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the agency’s history, officials said Thursday. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery on Saturday when they stopped a 26-year-old man at the Nogales border checkpoint. More than 250 pounds of the deadly drug...
Border officers made the largest fentanyl seizure ever on Saturday, stopping 254 pounds of the drug from entering the United States, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday. The drugs were seized from an 18-wheeler truck crossing into the United States from Mexico at a port of entry...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 31, 2019, 6:52 PM GMTBy Pete WilliamsThe sensitive nose of a drug-sniffing dog has led to what federal officials say is the largest seizure in US history...
CLOSE Fentanyl is way more potent than an equivalent dose of morphine. It's designed that way. Video provided by Newsy NewslookNOGALES — Customs officers stationed at the commercial border crossing in Nogales made the largest fentanyl seizure ever recorded at...
An uncle gave his 11-year-old grand-niece fentanyl and raped her before she died, police say. Miguel Rivera, 58, was arrested last month after Precious Wallaces allegedly overdosed on fentanyl while Rivera babysat her on December 15, but he was charged with rape on Tuesday after new...
Brett Szymanski knew what he was doing was wrong.As a sales representative for Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics, Szymanski was setting up paid speaker programs for a doctor who had written dozens of prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl spray that cost about $19,000 for a month’s dose.Often,...
...
Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison term of up to 14 years for a Lynn drug dealer who supplied fentanyl to a 34-year-old mother the day after she got out of rehab, leading to her fatal overdose, records show. The government also wants the dealer,...
A Manitoba mother who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose in 2014 has penned an open letter to Premier Brian Pallister, asking his government to stop politicking and start tackling the province’s meth crisis.Arlene Last-Kolb’s 24-year-old son Jessie died on July 18, 2014. Since...
Allan Doxtator knew full well he was going to jail.On Feb. 8, 2018, he was before Ontario Court Justice George Orsini to be sentenced for assault. The judge, following a joint submission from Crown and defence, sent Doxtator to jail.He was taken to Elgin-Middlesex Detention...
Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out...
Many of you have read news headlines regarding fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that has become a growing public health crisis in cities across the United States. In California, two recent reports of fentanyl overdoses in Fresno and Chico, collectively led to two deaths and 14...
CHICO, Calif. - The Chico Police Department has confirmed that the death in a mass-overdose in Chico on Jan. 12 was fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine poisoning. Aris Turner, 34, of Chico, died due to the mass overdose incident and 14 others were sent to the hospital. Chico Police...
CHICO — Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien on Wednesday released the cause of the death of the man who died in the apparent mass overdose earlier this month at a Chico home. The man, 34-year-old Aris Turner of Chico, died Jan. 12 from acute fentanyl, methamphetamine and...
A longtime pharmaceutical sales rep for Insys Therapeutics testified Wednesday that he broke the law for the company that made him a rich man with its alleged scheme to bribe medical practitioners to hook patients on Subsys, its potentially fatal fentanyl pain reliever. “Did you agree...
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill over 50 million people from a truck that was trying to cross the southern border into the United States, according to an investigation by “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” WATCH: “Well, the U.S. border patrol...
By CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR. ...
A possible fentanyl lab has been dismantled in Calgary, according to the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams.On Jan. 18, ALERT’s Calgary organized crime team dismantled the lab and reportedly found a pill press, dies, various chemical powders and fentanyl in both...
Charges have been laid against four Calgarians in connection with sting on a fentanyl lab that took place earlier this month in Forest Lawn. Members of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team’s Calgary...
"You wouldn't focus," says Demaline. On Jan. 11, a Wednesday eight days into his trial, Klaric was brought to the John Sopinka Courthouse from the jail without having his suboxone. His lawyer, Jordana Goldlist, hoped the situation...
Organized crime in Calgary was dealt a significant blow earlier this month after police shut down a suspected fentanyl lab, seizing roughly $75,000 worth of potentially lethal drugs.The lab was operating inside a detached garage at a home in the southeast community of Forest Lawn,...
...
ADAIRSVILLE, GA — A Gordon County man was charged with drug possession after police in Adairsville conducted a traffic stop on the driver's vehicle. An officer patrolling a neighborhood on Monday spotted a vehicle that had its registration suspended. A traffic...
A 27-year-old Lynn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he trafficked heroin and fentanyl in a criminal operation that resulted in the fatal overdose of a 34-year-old Melrose mother, the day after she got out of a drug rehab program, authorities said.The defendant, Yeffry...
A former employee testified that Sunrise Lee, a former Insys Therapeutics Inc regional sales director, gave a lap dance to a doctor who was being paid to push the company's powerful fentanyl spray. ...
AN URGENT drug warning has been issued after a drug containing a deadly combination of heroin and the even stronger fentanyl has hit Brit streets. Fentanyl, a drug 50 times more potent than heroin, is worryingly on the rise in Britain.The drug, made...
Organized crime investigators say a tip from the public has led them to a fentanyl lab in detached garage in southeast Calgary.Three men and one woman now face drug-related charges.The investigation began in November 2018 thanks to a tip from the public, Alberta Law Enforcement...
Police seized over half a kilo of meth, along with heroin and fentanyl, and arrested two people after a drug bust in Saskatoon’s Buena Vista neighbourhood last week. The charges stem from an investigation by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU). READ...
A Buffalo man who sold a mixture of heroin and fentanyl to an undercover New York state trooper was sentenced Tuesday by State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to six years in prison, followed by three years of post-release supervision, according to the Erie...
Members of the New Bedford Police Narcotics Unit have arrested three men during the past week, who were operating what police say were three separate fentanyl distribution services.The latest arrest happened Monday when detectives seized more than 80 grams of fentanyl at 200 State Street...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 29, 2019, 9:38 PM GMTBy Corky SiemaszkoThe two suspected drug dealers who were killed in a gun battle Monday night that left five Houston police officers injured...
Boston -- A former pharmaceutical executive accused of joining in a scheme to bribe doctors into prescribing a powerful painkiller once gave a lap dance to a doctor the company was pressuring to get his patients on the drug, her onetime colleague said Tuesday. Jurors heard...
Drug overdose deaths have declined in many parts of the state, but Gov. Mike DeWine cautions that an addiction crisis persists in Ohio."We're certainly encouraged by seeing the number of deaths down," DeWine said Tuesday."The only reason deaths have remained high the last several years is...
The operation resulted in 111 felony charges being issued against 43 people, these 16 are wanted. HENRY Co., Va. (WSET) -- The Henry County Sheriff's Office said they have arrested 24 people on 65 felony drug charges.The sheriff's office said it concluded an undercover narcotics...
Ex-stripper Insys exec gave a doctor a LAP DANCE while persuading him to prescribe addictive fentanyl spray, court hearsSunrise Lee, a former stripper who became an Insys sales director, is accused of bribing...
(Reuters) - One of several undercover police officers injured during a drug raid at a Houston home was shot for the third time in his career as he tried to rescue wounded colleagues, city police chief Art Acevedo said on Tuesday. The 54-year-old officer was...