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DEA Houston Field Division Partners with Houston Area School Districts to alert parents on the dangers of fentanyl

January 25, 2023
… drug trafficking of fentanyl in the form of fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills. These pills are made to look … to a sharp nationwide increase in the lethality of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills.  DEA laboratory testing in 2022 revealed that six out of ten fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills contained a potentially …
January 25, 2023
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Large-scale, Spokane based fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine trafficker sentenced to 180 months in federal prison

February 08, 2021
… as a distributor of methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl-laced pills in the Spokane, Washington area. On June 11, 2020, a controlled buy of fentanyl-laced pills was conducted from Bridges. A search warrant was … Bridges was staying at, and a large quantity of fentanyl-laced pills were located. Bridges was not present at the …
February 08, 2021
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The Dallas Field Division Announces the Seizure of Over 11.4 million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl and over 7,000 Pounds of Methamphetamine in 2022

January 03, 2023
… 7,000 pounds of methamphetamine and over 1 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills during the 2022 calendar … to a sharp nationwide increase in the lethality of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills.  DEA laboratory testing in 2022 revealed that 6 out of 10 fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills contained a potentially …
January 03, 2023
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DEA Houston Field Division Announces the Seizure of Over 7 million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

December 28, 2022
… Division is announcing the seizure of over 670,000 fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 230 pounds of … drug trafficking of fentanyl in the form of fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills. These pills are made to look … to a sharp nationwide increase in the lethality of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills. DEA laboratory testing in …
December 28, 2022
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Narcotics Dealer Arrested in Connection with Multiple Overdose Deaths

March 31, 2022
… Peloqin, a/k/a “Ace,” with distributing fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the death of a woman in … in a narcotics conspiracy that distributed fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the deaths of Victims-2 and -4 … “As alleged, the defendant and others distributed heroin laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl and caused …
March 31, 2022
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DEA El Paso Division Announces the Seizure of Over 9 Million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

January 04, 2023
… announced the seizure of over 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds … drug trafficking of fentanyl in the form of fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills. These pills are made to look … to a sharp nationwide increase in the lethality of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills.  DEA laboratory testing in …
January 04, 2023
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Southern Indiana Fentanyl Dealers Sentenced to a Combined Decade for Manufacturing Counterfeit Drugs Using a Pill Press

February 19, 2025
… manufacture and distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl laced pills to individuals in and around the city of … in February and March of 2022, Harvey sold fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills in Evansville, Indiana, and … messaging application, agreed to sell Harvey 100 fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills for $350. On April 4, 2022, Harvey …
February 19, 2025
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Three indicted for conspiring to traffic 20,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of methamphetamine

February 21, 2020
… distribute approximately 20,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and approximately 20 pounds of … Kern County, Garcia-Valdez sold approximately 300 fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills. Garcia-Carranza drove … On Jan. 30, Garcia-Valdez sold approximately 2,000 fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills. Garcia-Carranza drove …
February 21, 2020
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Fourteen members of a Washington Heights drug trafficking organization charged with distributing heroin

November 08, 2018
… dose.” “These individuals allegedly distributed fentanyl laced heroin out of a building on 167th street, with a total … vicinity.  As a means of marketing its heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin, and to ensure that the only heroin sold in the DTO’s drug territory belonged to the DTO, the DTO placed stamps on the glassines of heroin and fentanyl-laced …
November 08, 2018
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Two Stockton Men Plead Guilty in a Fentanyl and Meth Pill Trafficking Criminal Enterprise

July 31, 2024
… multiple counts of manufacturing and distributing pills laced with fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other drugs, … operation that regularly made and sold thousands of drug-laced pills. Barnes and his subordinates made the pills … law enforcement seized thousands of methamphetamine-laced pills. On May 16, 2019, during search warrants …
July 31, 2024
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

December 16, 2021
… groups are harnessing social media platforms to bring drugs laced with fentanyl and fake prescription pills into … in Mexico are mass-producing deadly fentanyl and fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced … DEA has determined that four out of ten DEA-tested fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills contain at least two …
December 16, 2021
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DEA Reports Nearly 4.7 million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Seized in Five State Omaha Division

December 30, 2022
… drug trafficking of fentanyl in the form of fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills. These pills are made to look … to a sharp nationwide increase in the lethality of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills last month.  DEA laboratory … testing in 2022 revealed that six out of 10 fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills contained a potentially …
December 30, 2022
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Kennewick WA Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison

April 11, 2022
… ounces of liquid methamphetamine and 19,000 deadly fentanyl-laced pills, along with a loaded firearm. Zavala-Alvarez was … stash of narcotics, which included over 19,000 fentanyl-laced pills. Hernandez and Mendoza were later arrested and found to be in possession of more than 20,000 fentanyl-laced pills, approximately 5 pounds of methamphetamine, and …
April 11, 2022
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

December 17, 2021
… groups are harnessing social media platforms to bring drugs laced with fentanyl and fake prescription pills into … in Mexico are mass-producing deadly fentanyl and fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced … DEA has determined that four out of ten DEA-tested fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills contain at least two …
December 17, 2021
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35 defendants charged in joint federal and state investigation into heroin and fentanyl delivery service in Chicago area

March 12, 2019
… of the defendants allegedly distributed heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin to customers in the Chicago area, with drivers dispatched to make deliveries after customers placed orders on a telephone hotline.   The investigation was … Customers intending to purchase heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin called a designated telephone number operated …
March 12, 2019
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DEA Washington Division Announces the Seizure of Over 8 Million of Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

January 26, 2023
… pencil, is considered a potentially deadly dose. Fake pills laced with fentanyl are readily available on social media. … majority of the methamphetamine, fentanyl, and fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills killing Americans. These … pencil, is considered a potentially deadly dose. Fake pills laced with fentanyl are readily available on social media. …
January 26, 2023
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Alarming spike in fentanyl-related overdose deaths leads officials to issue public warning

August 06, 2020
… the average age being 37. The joint warning about fentanyl-laced drugs comes from the DEA, San Diego County District … pharmacists and illicit drugs like methamphetamine, can be laced with fentanyl and could result in your death.” “This … likely more product on the street in San Diego that may be laced with deadly fentanyl. I’m urging you to share this …
August 06, 2020
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Fentanyl Pill Press Operator Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison

February 10, 2023
… including 45 grams worth of counterfeit blue M-30 pills laced with fentanyl, 100 grams counterfeit hydrocodone pills laced with fentanyl, 174 grams of counterfeit Xanax bars laced with fentanyl, 576 grams of counterfeit MDMA (ecstasy) …
February 10, 2023
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Bryan County Man Convicted on Federal Drug Charges for Trafficking Fentanyl

March 14, 2023
… - (919) 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Fake pills laced with fentanyl.jpg Fake pills laced with fentanyl SAVANNAH, GA:   A Bryan County man could …
March 14, 2023
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Two Charged with Fentanyl Distribution in Fresno County

January 19, 2023
… that are flooding the United States with deadly, fentanyl-laced pills,” said U.S. Attorney Talbert. “We remain … said Bob P. Beris. “The substantial amount of fentanyl-laced pills and powder seized in these investigations has … of fentanyl, offered to sell 5,000 counterfeit M30 pills laced with fentanyl to a confidential source working with …
January 19, 2023
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Repeat drug distributor sentenced to more than six years in prison, rearrested in midst of drug deal involving fentanyl pills

January 31, 2020
… just last week to 78 months in prison for dealing fentanyl-laced pills and cocaine is back behind bars tonight after … Scott continued to set up drug deals for fentanyl-laced pills.  Scott is now charged with possession of … this third arrest for trafficking dangerous fentanyl-laced pills, his lifestyle will be limited to a federal …
January 31, 2020
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Drug trafficker with ties to Sinaloa cartel sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison

November 18, 2019
… approximately 40,000 counterfeit pharmaceutical pills laced with fentanyl (known on the street as “fake oxys” … leadership in Sinaloa, Mexico.   The quantity of fentanyl-laced pills seized during this investigation represented one … have on the community. “Counterfeit pharmaceutical pills laced with fentanyl that are intentionally made by drug …
November 18, 2019
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DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

March 20, 2023
… increases in the lethality and availability of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills. The DEA updated that alert in November 2022 warning that six out of ten fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills contain a potentially lethal …
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Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin and Fentanyl Trafficking

January 28, 2022
… Foley. “Today, the defendant admitted to trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a … passed from an overdose of those drugs which were laced with deadly fentanyl. The multi-agency investigation … on the night of September 13, 2020, Riddick sold fentanyl-laced heroin to the victim, who suffered a fatal overdose at …
January 28, 2022
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Two drug traffickers linked to fatal overdose in Bellingham arrested in Skagit County

December 04, 2019
… with a drug distribution ring selling fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl in Whatcom and Skagit Counties.  The … remain in custody. “Ingesting any part of these fentanyl-laced pills can be life ending,” warned DEA Special Agent in … pills, which matched the appearance of the fentanyl-laced pills linked to the fatal overdose. “Getting these …
December 04, 2019
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Narcotics Dealer Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Overdose Death

February 10, 2017
… charging Victor Peterson, 54, with selling fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the death of a 39-year-old … on or about October 20, 2016, Peterson distributed heroin laced with fentanyl that resulted in the death of Kevin … added.  “As alleged, Victor Peterson sold the fentanyl-laced heroin that tragically killed Kevin Coombs.  Thanks to …
February 10, 2017
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Rhode Island Man Sentenced to Twenty Years in Federal Prison in One of Rhode Island’s Largest Fentanyl Seizures

May 29, 2025
… and a stash house in Pawtucket from which 19,315 fentanyl-laced pills made to resemble pharmaceutical grade Percocet … of a combined total of over sixteen kilograms of fentanyl-laced pills and fentanyl powder, an industrial grade … the potential production of more than 633,000 fentanyl-laced pills. Court documents detail that Pimentel was …
May 29, 2025
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San Fernando Valley Man Who Sold Counterfeit Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl Admits Causing Overdose Death of U.S. Marine

April 15, 2022
… a 2020 transaction in which he sold bogus oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused a U.S. Marine stationed at … papers as “L.M.” died after consuming some of the fentanyl-laced pills. Solis also admitted in his plea agreement … who provided LSD, ecstasy, cocaine and oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl to co-conspirators; •  Anthony Ruben …
April 15, 2022
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Bulk Fentanyl Trafficker is Convicted of Drug and Gun Charges

February 27, 2023
… - (919) 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Fake pills laced with fentanyl.jpg Fake pills laced with fentanyl Drugs and guns_2_0.jpg STATESVILLE, N.C. …
February 27, 2023
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Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to Eight Years in Overdose Death

April 06, 2022
… is our priority.” “M30 pills sold on the street are often laced with fentanyl, a cheap and deadly substitute,” said … that in mid-April 2020, Robledo sold counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pills known as “M30” pills.  M30 pills are light blue … “30” on the other.  He arranged the sale of three fentanyl-laced M30 pills via cell phone messages to a customer to …
April 06, 2022