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Heroin Dealer Sentenced To 144 Months

… purchased from Coleman. The heroin Coleman sold them was laced with fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid used by drug …
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Leader of Multistate Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison

… overdose deaths in the United States. Counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pills are usually shaped and colored to resemble pills …
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Guilty Verdict In Major Drug Trafficking Case

… of the vehicle contained approximately 1 kilogram of heroin laced with fentanyl packaged in a “brick.”  As a result of …
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Carfentanil-Related Overdose Death Indictments

… Cincinnati residents, alleging that they distributed heroin laced with carfentanil, a substance 10,000 times more …
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Alleged Dealer Indicted For Manslaughter In Fatal Overdose Case; Six Suspects Charged As Operating As A Major Trafficker

… investigators learned Headley was known to sell fentanyl-laced heroin bearing the “Aleve” stamp.  At a series of …
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DEA Makes Three More “Fake Pot” Drugs Temporarily Illegal Today

… These products consist of plant material that has been laced with these cannabinoids. These substances have not …
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Nearly 40 Pounds of Heroin and Fentanyl Seized in the Bronx: Three Indicted

… that remove bulk shipments of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin from the drug market before they hit the …
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DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

… pills that contain fentanyl and fentanyl-laced heroin are responsible for thousands of opioid-related …
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Two Day Stretch in Omaha Nets 32,000 Fake Fentanyl Pills

… seized approximately 32,000 fake pills in Omaha, some laced with lethal doses of fentanyl, in a two-day span …
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DEA Washington Division Issues Warning: “One Pill Can Kill”

… - (540) 662-5879 Counterfeit pills being ordered online, laced with fentanyl, causing deadly overdoses Washington, …
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Mt. Vernon Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl

… oxycodone pills that matched the appearance of the fentanyl-laced pills linked to the fatal overdose.  Co-conspirator …
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Virginia woman causes fatal, fentanyl-related overdose, admits guilt

… of distributing a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. “Heroin laced with fentanyl is driving the opioid epidemic that has …
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Dutchess County Man Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Distributing Heroin And Fentanyl That Caused The Deaths Of Three People

… Bad.” At least some of the heroin distributed by Sica was laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is …
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High-ranking member of violent drug trafficking ring sentenced to nine years in prison

… in large amounts of meth and heroin as well as fentanyl-laced pills and cocaine.  The distribution ring operated in …
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Savannah residents plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin

… cash and more than 170 grams of heroin, with much of it laced with the synthetic opioid fentanyl.  DEA Special Agent …
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Drug Seizures Surge in 2020, Fentanyl Remains a Threat in Nebraska

… of fentanyl last year with an additional 1,000 fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills also collected by agents. Fentanyl …
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Sentencing of two men for their roles in one of the largest fentanyl seizures in U.S. history

… 10 kilograms of pure fentanyl, 20 kilograms of fentanyl laced with heroin and more than half a million dollars in …
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Mount Vernon, Washington, woman pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl-tainted pills

… oxycodone pills that matched the appearance of the fentanyl-laced pills linked to the fatal overdose.  Lopez-Rodriguez …
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Repeat Offender Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Distributing Drugs for a Transnational Drug Trafficking Ring

… pill spill copy.jpg DEA file photo: Fake pills laced with fentanyl  Methamphetamine Stock photo.jpg DEA …
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Spokane Man Sentenced for Involvement in Shooting Death of Idaho Teen

… years fixed followed by seven years indeterminate and was placed on probation after completing a rider. Creech was … officers learned that Holmberg had been selling fentanyl-laced pills for several months via social media websites, …
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Two Indicted In Investigation Involving Smuggling Heroin Into Attica Correctional Facility; Two Others Facing Heroin Charges

… heroin overdose deaths have been attributed to heroin laced with fentanyl throughout the northeast and in this …
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Eugene Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Overdose Death of University of Oregon Student

… for supplying a University of Oregon student with fentanyl-laced counterfeit Oxycodone pills that caused the student’s …
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International law enforcement operation targeting opioid traffickers on the Darknet results in over 170 arrests worldwide and the seizure of weapons, drugs and over $6.5 million

… and distribution of more than one million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and laundered approximately $2.8 …
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U.S. Attorney's Office Prosecuted 85 Firearm Offenders in Eastern Washington with Cases from DEA and Federal Partners

… Shooting A Person and Conspiring To Distribute Fentanyl-Laced Pills in Tri-Cities Jonathan Scott Ard was sentenced …
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OCDETF Operation Zombie Island Shuts Down Major Heroin And Fentanyl Distribution Organization On Staten Island

… distributing large quantities of heroin, including heroin laced with fentanyl, in New York City and other locations. …
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DEA And IRS Present Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies With More Than $1.2 Million In Cash

… marijuana grows, hundreds of marijuana plants, marijuana laced cookies, brownies, popcorn, pies, candy, two inert …
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Takedown of Drug Trafficking Operation in the Capital Region

… trafficking ring for their roles in distributing heroin laced with fentanyl, powder and crack cocaine, and …
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$1 Million Worth Of Methamphetamine Secreted In Candles Seized And Five People Arrested

… conspired to distribute over 1,300 pounds of wax candles laced with methamphetamine.  The defendants were arrested … Carrillo, Alcantara, and Gonzalez-Solis were subsequently placed under arrest.  Minjarez was arrested later at the NJ …
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Mt. Vernon, Washington man sentenced to 8+ years in prison for dealing deadly fentanyl

… oxycodone pills that matched the appearance of the fentanyl-laced pills linked to the fatal overdose.  Co-conspirator …