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Dr. Marjorie Van der Linden said she spoke with Eurchuk in November 2016 about the risks of overdose associated with using street drugs after his mother found a bag containing marijuana and sedation-type pills in his room but he defiantly denied using drugs. “He was denying he...
HOISINGTON — A 40-year-old woman who went into cardiac arrest last Thursday at a Hoisington residence apparently ingested fake Oxycodone being distributed in Kansas. The incident led law enforcement to Great Bend and resulted in a drug arrest. Police officers from Hoisington, Great Bend and...
VISTA, Calif. - Two years after a Navy man died from an overdose...
A 49-year-old Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty Friday to unlawful possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.Roman Castro entered a guilty plea to manufacturing and delivery of 100 to 400 grams of heroin/analog, according to court...
A 29-year-old man has admitted selling heroin to an area resident who died of...
CLOSE See what fentanyl is and how it's been tainting other drugs, causing overdose and death in unprecedented numbers. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comAn unusual number of fatal overdoses, combined with a dozen people hospitalized for possible overdose in a 24-hour...
Steve Cody doesn't want to see it happen to another family. His son Nick was 17 in 2013 when he passed away after taking the popular party drug MDMA, a pill later determined to be laced with fentanyl. This weekend's...
One year ago, Republicans and Democrats put partisan labels aside to confront a killer claiming more than 130 lives a day in the United States: the opioid crisis. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act...
Listen Story audio 4min 17sec In emotional testimony, the surviving relatives of Spencer Johnson and Nicholas Petrick described their loss as a result of opioid overdoses, as a convicted drug dealer faced sentencing in a Hennepin County courtroom Friday. Both men died...
BALTIMORE, Md. – A Salisbury man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison followed by three years supervised release for charges relating to a multi-state fentanyl distribution operation. Back in late fall 2017, officials began an investigation into a drug trafficking organization that was operating...
York Regional Police have charged four people, including three Misissauga residents, following a fatal drug-related incident. Around 6:50 p.m. on February 2, 2019, officers responded to a residence in the area of Hoover Park Drive and Ninth Line in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.They located a deceased 28 year old woman.“York...
An Oregon man was charged Friday with first-degree reckless homicide after police said...
While the death of a child from a drug overdose is shockingly tragic, it is not as rare as you may think. Experts say the number of children overdosing on drugs is increasing, right along with the opioid crisis. On April 13, Las Vegas police...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An Eastern Shore man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for drug-related charges. Narada Walls, 38, of Salisbury, was sentenced for conspiracy to possess and distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. The judge also ordered that Walls must forfeit anything of value seized...
City of Powell River Council recently received a letter urging councillors to promote naloxone training to raise awareness and fight stigma with regard to the fentanyl crisis. The community, however, is already actively engaged in trying to stem the crisis and is taking...
Police in Stoughton, Massachusetts, arrested a New Jersey man Thursday night shortly after they said he rammed a police cruiser outside a storage facility.Authorities said they found about $500,000 worth of fentanyl in two storage units at Extra Space Storage on Washington Street. They began...
NEWS RELEASE ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE *********************** SIMCOE COUNTY, ON - On June 20, 2019, in a collaborative effort between the Nottawasaga Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Barrie Police Service (BPS) a drug trafficking investigation was initiated focusing on fentanyl, heroin and...
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez (contact) Friday, June 21, 2019 | 4:56 p.m. Months before her second birthday, a Las Vegas girl became a fatal victim of heroin and fentanyl, the potent opioid that is increasingly contributed to a U.S. epidemic, according to the Clark County...
PHOENIX — Two men were arrested in northern Arizona on Thursday after deputies allegedly about 30,000 fentanyl pills believed to be...
Police in Stoughton, Massachusetts, arrested a New Jersey man Thursday night shortly after they said he rammed a police cruiser outside a storage facility.Authorities said they found about $500,000 worth of fentanyl in two storage units at Extra Space Storage on Washington Street. They began...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Families question whether a notorious drug dealer’s punishment fits the crime. Beverly Burrell is already behind bars for killing three men with heroin. The relatives of two more victims just learned that she won’t be locked up any longer for their losses. “Nick was such...
BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Narada Walls, age 38, of Salisbury, Maryland, today to 12 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess and to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. Fentanyl analogues are...
FROM STAFF REPORTS Published 4:34 p.m. ET June 21, 2019 CLOSE While there's no way to 100 percent deter car break-ins, there are some...
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Routine maintenance on a South Carolina convenience store's ice cream freezer reportedly turned up a hidden stash of what authorities believe is the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.(Above: $1M in fentanyl, heroin, cocaine seized in sweep)Authorities say a maintenance worker found aluminum...
Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones reported Friday that among the many drugs seized by Deputies and agents from multiple law enforcement groups were significant amounts of Fentanyl.Fentanyl produces morphine-like reactions, but is 80-100 times more powerful. That's why it's often 'misused' and causes a lot...
(The above video was published Thursday by our sister station in Boston, WVBC.)Routine maintenance on a South Carolina convenience store's ice cream freezer reportedly turned up a hidden stash of what authorities believe is the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.Authorities said a maintenance worker found aluminum...
STOUGHTON, MA — A New Jersey man was arrested after a Stoughton police raid uncovered 3,0000 grams of fentanyl inside his storage unit, police said. Carlos Concepcion, 28, of Newark, N.J., was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, trafficking fentanyl, possession with...
Three other people suffered bodily harm from fentanyl-laced cocaine allegedly trafficked by three men in Saskatoon last year, according to a signed indictment filed in court Wednesday.That's in addition to four people who are said to have died from ingesting the tainted drugs — bringing...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In May alone 37 people died in overdoses related to fentanyl in Cuyahoga County. The majority of those were fentanyl mixed with cocaine. Law enforcement and advocates say until...
BOSTON — Authorities arrested 14 people and seized more than 24 kilograms, or 53 pounds, of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine as a result of a two-year drug trafficking investigation, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Thursday. It’s the biggest takedown of a major opioid trafficking operation...
BOSTON — Law enforcement officials have broken up a Merrimack Valley-based narcotics ring,...
A second person has agreed to plead guilty in connection with what authorities...
Share This Article:Federal courthouse in downtown San Diego. Photo by Chris StoneA Riverside man pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Thursday to distributing thousands of fentanyl pills throughout Southern California.Support Times of San Diego's growthwith a small monthly contribution Marcell Travon...
BELLVUE, Ky. (FOX19) -- Police in Bellevue are looking for the person who spray painted “Legalize Fentanyl” on a private fence. It happened near Foote and Washington avenues, and no one in the neighborhood is happy about it. There is a misspelling, but the message is...
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Attorney General Maura Healey, standing adjacent to a table lined with guns, drugs and cash, called a bust seizing over 24 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine across Lawrence and Methuen the largest in her office’s history. “This haul represents potentially millions of dollars worth of...
Regina Police Service. Don Healy / Regina Leader-Post Three people have been charged after a police investigation into illegal drug trafficking in Regina turned up handguns and a large quantity of drugs, including meth and fentanyl.According to information from the Regina Police Service, the drug unit’s...
The provincial Crown confirmed a direct indictment was filed on Wednesday in Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench against Japmanjot Grewal, Azam Kabani and Shervin Dass Beeharry. Alex Schmidt / Getty Images Three out-of-province men have been sent straight to trial on manslaughter and criminal negligence charges in...
The state attorney general's office made history Wednesday with what officials described as the largest drug takedown in the office's history, in Methuen and Lawrence."As a result of this operation we dismantled a major drug trafficking operation in the Northeast region of this country," said...
Police in Summerville were called by a vendor who was hired to clean...
$1M in fentanyl, heroin, cocaine seized in sweep Updated: 5:02 PM EDT Jun 20, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript >> THE SUSPECT THIS CASE WERE ARRAIGNED HERE IN LAWRENCE DISTRICT COURT. THE DAGS STARTED TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO WITH BUYS ARING AGENTS. THIS MASSIVE HAUL WAS SEIZED...
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A series of raids in Lawrence and Methuen by a team of law enforcement officers led to the seizure of 24 kilograms of deadly fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine — worth millions of dollars — $100,000 in cash, and four guns, Attorney General Maura Healey said...
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20 arrested in large NKY drug bust; fentanyl, meth, heroin seized Updated: 3:27 PM EDT Jun 20, 2019 Twenty people have been arrested in a monthslong drug investigation in Northern Kentucky, officials with the Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force announced Thursday.An investigation that began in January resulted...
ANTOINETTE: ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY SAYS POLICE HAVE -- INVESTIGATORS SEIZED 24 KILOS OF FENTANYL, HEROIN AND $100,000 IN CASH. >> WE WILL CONTINUE TO COME HARD AT THIS, AGGRESSIVE AND DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC AND KEEP PEOPLE SAFE AND TAKE...
June 20, 2019 June 20, 2019 BOSTON (WHDH) - A major joint drug operation led to the arrest of 12 people in Massachusetts on Wednesday and the seizure of millions of dollars worth of drugs from a narcotics ring that stretched from the Bay State to New...