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DEA Columbia Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

… 815-4513 Making communities safer by disposing unneeded Rx Meds to reduce opioid addiction take Back day.png Take Back …
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Global investigation of Dark Web drug network leads to arrest of 3 German Nationals

… allegedly acting as a moderator who, among other things, mediated disputes between vendors and their customers.  Annibale, who used the online monikers “MED3LIN,” also acted as a public relations representative …
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Drug dealer who sold out of his home sentenced to 72 months

… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant during the second buy tested positive for heroin. On March 10, 2015, a New …
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Lockport Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl

… the Niagara County Drug Task Force conducted a controlled buy at Thompson’s residence on Elmwood Avenue. The drug sold … March 4, 2015, the task force conducted a second controlled buy at Thompson’s residence. The drug sold by the defendant during the second buy tested positive for heroin. On March 10, 2015, a New …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Bitcoin Exchangers, Including CEO Of Bitcoin Exchange Company, For Scheme To Sell And Launder Over $1 Million In Bitcoins Related To Silk Road Drug Trafficking

… - (914) 682-6256 Defendants sold Bitcoins to be used to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously on the Silk Road drug … Road," the underground website that enabled its users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously and beyond the reach … form of payment accepted on Silk Road - to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site. Upon receiving orders for …
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Operation Blues Brothers

November 22, 2023
… pill—and died almost immediately. That pill looked like a Percocet but it was not; it was fentanyl. Diamond Lynch was …
November 22, 2023
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DEA & MPD Issue Public Safety Alert on Mass Overdose Events Across D.C. Metro Area

… - (540) 662-5879 Fentanyl Lab Testing Counterfeit Percocet Pill Washington, D.C., -- Today, the Drug …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… opioid crisis, counterfeit prescription pills like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin, continue to be abused at … identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax®, and other medicines. …
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Fentanyl Distributors Charged Following Fourth Fatal Juvenile Overdose

… cell phone. Inside her room, agents found ten counterfeit Percocet pills inscribed M/30, which later tested positive … similar to legitimate prescription pills like Oxycontin or Percocet but can pose significantly more danger. On the …
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Supplier in Juvenile Fentanyl Overdoses Case Charged with Drug Conspiracy

… a licensed medical provider, that pill your child thinks is Percocet, or OxyContin, or Xanax, or Adderall, may actually … similar to legitimate prescription pills like Oxycontin or Percocet, but can pose significantly more danger. On the …
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Federal Grand Jury Has Indicted 13 Defendants With Drug Trafficking, Health Care Fraud And Possession Of Firearms

… used fraudulent prescriptions to obtain Oxycontin, Percocet and other prescription medications from Maryland … would then turn the prescription drugs such as Oxycontin, Percocet, Endocet, Xanax and other drugs over to Fulton, …
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Six arrested after DEA Task Force investigation into fentanyl trafficking ring

… of Brooklyn, New York   Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the …
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Niagara Falls man going to prison for more than 11 years on cocaine conspiracy and gun charges

… December 2016, co-conspirator John L. Maye arranged for the delivery of a U.S. Postal Service parcel to a residence on … Stewart and Maye offered to pay another individual to take delivery and safeguard the parcel. Unbeknownst to Stewart, … for it, and brought it inside the residence. During the delivery, Stewart and Maye conducted counter-surveillance, …
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Drugs of Concern

Fake Prescription Pills

February 25, 2025
Many fake pills are made to look like prescription opioids – such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, Percocet®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), and alprazolam (Xanax®); or stimulants like amphetamines (Adderall®) – but contain fentanyl or methamphetamine. Criminal drug networks are mass-producing fake pills and falsely marketing them as legitimate prescription pills to deceive the...
February 25, 2025
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DEA Laboratory Testing Reveals that 6 out of 10 Fentanyl-Laced Fake Prescription Pills Now Contain a Potentially Lethal Dose of Fentanyl

… to real prescription medications, including OxyContin®, Percocet®, and Xanax®, and they are often deadly. In 2021, …
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Caribbean News 2009

July 15, 2021
… Arrests Doctor for Illegally Distributing and Dispensing Percocet and Xanax May 8, 2009 30 Arrested in Joint …
July 15, 2021
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Mexican National Who Supervised a Drug Trafficking Organization Operating in Orville, Washington, Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

… law enforcement conducted a series of controlled drug buys from Medrano and others selling drugs on his behalf. On … “Drug traffickers like Mr. Medrano profit from the pain they cause selling poison to our neighbors,” said David …
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Doctor indicted on Manslaughter and Reckless Endangerment Charges in Three Overdose Deaths

… narcotics. Choy, 65, allegedly prescribed addictive painkillers and other controlled substances in potentially … prescriptions for oxycodone (an addictive opioid painkiller) and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam (a … oxycodone-acetaminophen (commonly known by the trade name Percocet). A corresponding pill bottle was later found at …
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Cocaine trafficker sentenced in Western District of New York

… areas.  Sometime in December 2016, Hoover agreed to receive delivery of a U.S. Postal Service parcel, which contained a … a monetary payment in exchange for her role in taking the delivery and safeguarding the parcel. Prior to delivery, the parcel was intercepted by the U.S. Postal …
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Leader Of Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced To 22.5 Years In Prison

… Millions of Fentanyl Pills Made to Look like Oxycodone and Percocet BOSTON – A Rhode Island man was sentenced in … designed to look like pharmaceutical grade Oxycodone or Percocet pills and sold these pills across multiple states. …
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Pakistani Father and Son Convicted in International Heroin Trafficking Scheme

… a McDonald’s restaurant in Beltsville, Maryland. During the delivery, the courier telephoned the Afridis at their … village a few kilometers outside of Peshawar. Following the delivery, the CW began negotiating directly with the Afridis … packages of heroin buried in the struts. At the time of the delivery, the Afridis sent a series of faxes to the CW, …
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DEA Washington Division Calls on the Community to Have Important Conversations on Dangers of Drugs and Fake Pills in Back-To-School Routines

… fake pills so closely resemble legitimate prescription meds that it is almost impossible to tell the difference …
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Five Indicted In International Narcotics And Kidnapping Conspiracy: Mexican Source Of Supply

… organization remained in New York City following the drug delivery. Pagan was required to keep this individual in his … customer in Pennsylvania. Approximately 16 kilograms of (a pain reliever classified as a controlled substance) had also …
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Doctor and Office Manager Indicted in Scheme to Defraud Medicare, Manufacture and Distribute Fentanyl

… Ysidro - (619) 671-4500 SAN DIEGO - Dr. David J. Smith, a pain management physician, and his office manager, Julia Ann … in the installation and maintenance of intrathecal pain pumps which are surgically placed in a patient’s …
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Two "Pill Mill" Owners Convicted

… laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Votrobek had previously been acquitted in … of similar charges stemming from his ownership of a Florida pain clinic. Harry S. Sommers, Special Agent in Charge of …
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Two ‘Pill Mill’ Owners Sentenced

… laundering charges for owning and operating a ‘pill mill’ pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge …