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Tenderloin Drug Dealer Sentenced to 46 Months for Fentanyl Sales

June 09, 2022
… a lower cost than genuine Oxycodone.  Counterfeit fentanyl-laced pills are commonly shaped and colored to resemble …
June 09, 2022
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Investigation by Tucson Strike Force Leads to Indictment of 13 Involved in Drug Distribution Conspiracy

May 23, 2022
… methamphetamine, cocaine, counterfeit M-30 OxyContin pills laced with fentanyl, and heroin. The investigation leading …
May 23, 2022
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Fairbanks Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

April 11, 2022
… John E. Kuhn, Jr., District of Alaska. “When the pills are laced with fentanyl – as most are – the predictable outcome …
April 11, 2022
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Indianapolis Felon Serving Community Correction Sentence Indicted for New Federal Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

March 02, 2022
… partners to make our communities safer.” “Dealing drugs laced with lethal fentanyl is unacceptable and is a large …
March 02, 2022
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DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

November 04, 2019
… pills that contain fentanyl and fentanyl-laced heroin are responsible for thousands of opioid-related …
November 04, 2019
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Roswell Woman Indicted On Federal Charges For Counterfeit Oxycodone Pills Containing Fentanyl & Synthetic Opioids

July 19, 2017
… look like normal Roxicodone tablets when they were actually laced with fentanyl and two synthetic opioids,” said U. S. …
July 19, 2017
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Three Additional Members of Heroin Drug Trafficking Organization Plead Guilty

May 30, 2018
… home in Kissimmee and seized 2.8 kilograms of heroin laced with fentanyl, along with a brick/kilogram press; a …
May 30, 2018
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Drug Seizures Surge in 2020, Fentanyl Remains a Threat in Nebraska

February 23, 2021
… of fentanyl last year with an additional 1,000 fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills also collected by agents. Fentanyl …
February 23, 2021
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July 15, 2021
… People of Syracuse, New York NOV 30, 2005 DEA Seizes Heroin-Laced Artwork NOV 28, 2005 Russian Federation Director of …
July 15, 2021
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Mt. Vernon Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl

June 29, 2021
… oxycodone pills that matched the appearance of the fentanyl-laced pills linked to the fatal overdose.  Co-conspirator …
June 29, 2021
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

April 27, 2021
… potentially lethal doses).   The seizure of fentanyl-laced pills along the Southwest border increased more than …
April 27, 2021
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More Than Three Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Seized in Minnesota Last Year

March 18, 2021
… 6.2 kilograms are more than 55,000 counterfeit pills, many laced with potentially lethal doses of fentanyl. Counterfeit …
March 18, 2021
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Mount Vernon, Washington, woman pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl-tainted pills

January 12, 2021
… oxycodone pills that matched the appearance of the fentanyl-laced pills linked to the fatal overdose.  Lopez-Rodriguez …
January 12, 2021
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Four Michigan Men Charged With Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl And Vicodin, That Resulted In Three Overdose Deaths

May 29, 2015
… had supplied the man with a tenth of a gram of heroin laced with fentanyl. Brownlee was charged in a separate but …
May 29, 2015
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Glastonbury Man Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Distributing Heroin To A Minor

January 19, 2016
… investigation has focused on the distribution of Fentanyl-laced heroin that contributed to several heroin overdoses in …
January 19, 2016
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Arlington Career Criminal Sentenced For Heroin Distribution

January 22, 2016
… and firearm offenses on several occasions.  “Heroin laced with fentanyl is literally killing members of our …
January 22, 2016
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California Man Convicted Of Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin In Operation Goldy Locks

June 24, 2016
… as oxycodone. This type of heroin, as well as heroin laced with fentanyl, is growing in popularity across the …
June 24, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Three Sentenced In Alabama For Trafficking Heroin And Fentanyl

April 25, 2017
… Alabama,” Hamilton said. “Overdoses from heroin and heroin laced with fentanyl have increased dramatically and are …
April 25, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA ALERT: Fake Oxy Pills Killing Arizonans

March 21, 2017
… citizens to drug overdose deaths tied to counterfeit pills laced with powerful opioid fentanyl.  Manufactured by …
March 21, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Two Charged with Connection with Scheme to Operate Industrial-Scale Illegal Narcotics Pill Pressing Operations Throughout New York City

April 08, 2024
… pill mill located near a school in the Bronx.  Fake pills, laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine, like the ones … does to remove the threat of lethal amounts of fentanyl-laced counterfeit prescription pills that are wreaking havoc … it.  As PERALTA BAUTISTA exited the Storage Room, he was placed under arrest. Law enforcement officers then searched …
April 08, 2024
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

June 30, 2025
… warrant at Contreras’s residence and seized 992 fentanyl-laced pills that were made to look like oxycodone “M-30” …
June 30, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Port Arthur Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

May 13, 2025
… the investigation, officers were able to obtain fentanyl-laced pills which Hardy had distributed.  Hardy admitted to …
May 13, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Ocean Beach Drug Dealer Sentenced to 12.5 Years for His Role in Fatal Overdose

September 23, 2022
… agreement, Souza admitted that he provided four fake pills laced with fentanyl, commonly referred to as “blues,” to …
September 23, 2022
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San Diego Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Distribution Resulting in Death

March 07, 2022
… the others knew the cocaine they were using was, in fact, laced with fentanyl. Casper explained that the case “should …
March 07, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Pacific Beach Resident Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl that Caused Two Overdoses

June 25, 2021
… about money.  As this case tragically shows, illegal drugs laced with fentanyl are deadly.”    In July 2018, the Drug …
June 25, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Online drug dealer sentenced to 15 years for distributing counterfeit pills containing fentanyl that caused overdose death

October 16, 2019
… years in prison for selling the counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a La …
October 16, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Online drug dealer pleads guilty in fentanyl overdose death

April 24, 2019
… and Lucas indicated that Lucas sold the counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose. Three …
April 24, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

20 defendants charged in drug indictments; One alleged trafficker charged in death of carfentanil user

March 29, 2019
… prescription opioids and counterfeit prescription opioids laced with carfentanil.   Additionally, several of the …
March 29, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Three brothers charged in conspiracy to distribute more than 20,000 pills of fentanyl

September 18, 2018
… dining room, it is in your arm. They are all potentially laced with a profit-induced additive called fentanyl. No one …
September 18, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

November 04, 2019
… pills that contain fentanyl and fentanyl-laced heroin are responsible for thousands of opioid-related …
November 04, 2019

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