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Federal Authorities Announce 11 Cases Charging Alleged Drug Dealers with Providing Opioids that Led to Fatal Overdoses

… Bill Bodner. “Drug dealers who market and sell counterfeit pills via online marketplace and social media platforms may … being indicted on Tuesday on one count of distributing pills containing fentanyl that led to the death of a … Wednesday. Boukhanian allegedly sold counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl on August 27, 2020 to a Woodland …
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Medical Professionals Performed Perfunctory Exams On Longshoremen And Filled Scripts For Narcotics In Elaborate Scheme To Rip Off Insurance Companies

… longshoremen abusing painkillers prescribed to them by a pill peddling doctor and a crooked chiropractor who … companies in a complex fraud scam. The number of oxycodone pills prescribed by the doctor in this case is a staggering …
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DEA Omaha Division encourages awareness of prescription medication abuse

March 01, 2019
… Salter said.  “More often than not, these counterfeit pills, which are made to look identical to legitimate pharmaceutical pills, are manufactured by drug cartels in Mexico and … traffickers in the United States.  These counterfeit pills often contain various forms of fentanyl which is …
March 01, 2019
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Fentanyl and Meth Trafficking

… of thousands of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone “M-30” pills from Mexico and distributing them in northern … 2020, Zamora Rojo supplied thousands of fentanyl-laced M-30 pills to the organization and also gave the organization …
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Armed Drug Trafficker Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Federal Prison

… - (910) 815-4513 Fentanyl 2.jpg Bag of seized fentanyl pills. NEW BERN, N.C. – A Rocky Mount man was sentenced … enforcement made three controlled purchases of “Perc 30” pills from Alwan. The pills contained fentanyl.  On April 6, 2023, law enforcement …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than …
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Southern California Man Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison for Involvement in a Fentanyl Overdose Death

… Facebook Messages Captured Conversation to Purchase Pills Fentanyl pills, DEA stock photo. Download Original Image Fentanyl …
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Midland Fentanyl Trafficker Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison

… Jake Childers, 39, trafficked counterfeit M-30 Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that led to the deaths of two West … and Childers had communicated about the sale of fentanyl pills. In May 2023, Midland Police Department officers …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Brings Together Families Who Lost Loved Ones to Fentanyl

… DEA laboratory testing indicates that 7 out of every 10 pills seized by DEA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl, an …
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Green Bay Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Dealing Fentanyl Resulting in Death and Possessing a Firearm

… repeatedly distributed counterfeit Percocet® “M30” pills containing fentanyl, resulting in the overdose deaths … made controlled buys during which Denruyter sold fentanyl pills to an informant. BCDTF arrested Denruyter, finding …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than …
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Leader of Multi-State Drug Trafficking Group Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl, Meth, and Heroin

… learned someone had died from his fentanyl laced pills, he wasn’t worried about selling deadly pills, instead he only complained that the death would cause …
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Defendants Face Charges in High School Drug Advertising and Distribution Cases

… inhaling the smoke from a pulverized, counterfeit “M30” pill. Subsequent investigation resulted in the complaints … and sell fentanyl-based counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax pills to high school students in the Monterey area.  In …
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Three in Albuquerque Charged with Possessing, Trafficking Methamphetamine and Fentanyl

… allegedly sold “blues,” which are counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, as well as fentanyl pills manufactured in Albuquerque using a pill press …
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Columbia Man Admits To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… and money laundering charges for owning and operating a ‘pill mill’ pain clinic which served as a front for the mass … drugs” stated Special Agent in Charge, Veronica F. Hyman-Pillot. “We are committed to ‘following the money trail’ to … clinic, located in Cartersville, Ga., was prescribing pain pills outside the bounds of legitimate medical practice. …
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Long Island Doctor Convicted Of Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Distribution Of Oxycodone

… Stambler provided prescriptions for hundreds of oxycodone pills to two of his patients without a legitimate medical … with those patients and assisted them in the sale of pills that he prescribed. On November 21, 2011, … to meet with a third individual where some of the oxycodone pills were exchanged for cash. Investigators stopped …
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Two KC Men Plead Guilty To $1.2 Million Oxycodone Conspiracy

… area and elsewhere. They commonly sold the oxycodone 30mg pills for between $15 to $25 per pill. Following several … driving a stolen truck and in possession of 65 Oxycodone pills, 6.5 grams of cocaine and .85 grams of …
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Physician Pleads Guilty To $1 Million Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… filled the prescriptions and gave some or all of the pills to Cummings, who illegally distributed them. Womboldt, … compensation for writing the prescriptions, Baker received pills from Cummings or Womboldt and was often paid $100 per … by health care benefit programs. The estimated sales of the pills totaled $952,520. Health Care Fraud - Baker admitted …
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Major Illegal Narcotics Ring Dismantled In Elmira, Four Defendants Arrested

… A. Gregovich 720-431-8836 Manufactured and Sold Fentanyl Pills ROCHESTER, N.Y. -   - Robert Ian Thatcher, 29, …
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Mexican National With Ties to the Jalisco Cartel Sentenced to 19 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking in Hundreds of Pounds of Fentanyl, Heroin, Meth, and Cocaine in Eastern Washington and Montana

… Drug evidence seized during investigation. Seized fentanyl pills. Download Original Image Seized fentanyl pills. Seized fentanyl pills in various colors. Download …
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Final Two Men Sentenced for Conspiracy that Seized 29 Kilos of Fentanyl

… - (910) 815-4513 Fentanyl 2.jpg Bag of seized fentanyl pills. Heroin.jpeg COLUMBIA, S.C.  — Javaris Latrey Johnson, … that in August 2022, a codefendant sold approximately 5,000 pills to a confidential informant. Following the purchase …
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12 Members of Drug Trafficking Organization Indicted

… Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Distributing Counterfeit Oxycodone Pills Containing Fentanyl and Laundering Proceeds … charges for conspiring to distribute counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl in the Pacific Northwest, and …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day with Extended Museum Hours

… this year, DEA has seized more than 30 million fentanyl pills and 6,000 pounds of fentanyl powder.  In 2024, DEA seized more than 60 million fentanyl pills and nearly 8,000 pounds of fentanyl powder, which …
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DEA Reminds Parents to Speak to Their Children About the Dangers of Drug Use

… Another significant concern is the increase in counterfeit pills flooding the illegal drug market. The drug cartels are … manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl and sending them to the United …
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Worcester Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

… 20 and Nov. 26, 2019, Torres-Rojas distributed fentanyl pills to a confidential source at a Goodwill Store in … Later, on Jan. 13, 2020, Torres-Rojas distributed pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine to the … total, Torres-Rojas distributed approximately 835 grams of pills containing methamphetamine and 102 grams of pills …
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Worcester Man Sentenced in Heroin and Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

… was identified by investigators selling purported oxycodone pills, which were later determined to be counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, at Albino’s Market in Worcester. … was the supply source and that Garcia was distributing pills through Robles and Torres. The investigation also …
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Idaho Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison After Causing A Death

… According to court records, Walsh distributed six fentanyl pills to an individual on April 29, 2023. Walsh drove from Caldwell to Boise to provide the fentanyl pills to the victim, placing them in her mailbox. The victim …
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San Antonio Drug Dealer Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Fatal Fentanyl Distribution

… had been selling the drug in the form of small round blue pills disguised as oxycodone. Render had been unconscious in … sent from his phone confirmed that he had been selling the pills to multiple individuals at the time of the Render’s …
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DEA working hard to tackle rising drug threat in Johnson City area

… last fall, DEA agents in eastern Tennessee seized three pill presses and 240 grams of butyrfentanyl during joint … that is lethal in extremely small amounts. Counterfeit pills provide an elevated danger to those who abuse illicit …
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Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl and Fentanyl-Related Substance

… negotiated for the sale of 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and one kilogram of “Chinese … the agent a large clear plastic bag containing 10,004 blue pills marked “M-30” containing fentanyl and another clear …