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Norwalk Man Sentenced To 70 Months In Federal Prison For Illegally Selling Prescription Narcotics

… conducted several undercover purchases of OxyContin pills from Sandalo at a cost of $40 to $45 for each … a search of Sandalo’s residence revealed 731 OxyContin pills, 683 Percocet (which contain oxycodone and …
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Hamden Man Sentenced To Prison For Distributing Oxycodone Involved In Weston Overdose

… January 3, 2016, a 20-year-old male purchased 30 oxycodone pills from Farid in exchange for $900.  He then consumed some of those pills, as well as other substances, including Xanax.  On … Ryan Looney, also of Hamden, supplied Farid with oxycodone pills.  Farid then distributed the pills to the victim.  …
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Man Pleads Guilty In Prescription Fraud Scheme

… others passed dozens of false prescriptions for OxyContin pills at pharmacies in the Manchester and Nashua areas. … at pharmacies. The runners would then provide the pills to McIntosh in exchange for pills or cash. McIntosh would then sell the pills or have …
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Two Hamden Men Admit Distributing Oxycodone Involved In Weston Overdose

… a 22-year-old male purchased 30 40-milligram oxycodone pills from Farid in exchange for $900.  He then consumed some of those pills, as well as other substances.  On January 5, 2016, the … the victim’s overdose, Looney supplied Farid with oxycodone pills.  Farid then distributed the pills to the victim.  …
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Man Sentenced For Participating In Prescription Fraud Scheme

… others passed dozens of false prescriptions for OxyContin pills at pharmacies in the Manchester and Nashua areas.  … at pharmacies.  The runners would then provide the pills to McIntosh in exchange for pills or cash.  McIntosh would then sell the pills or have …
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DEA To Doctor, “You’ve Been Served”

… The DEA and its state and local partners continue Operation Pill Nation enforcement and administrative actions today … work investigating the people involved in illegal, rogue pill mills is far from over. We have handcuffs and ISOs at …
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Pharmacist Sentenced For Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

… at least 2007, where he dispensed hundreds of Oxycodone pills.  The pills were dispensed to customers passing fraudulent … at one time. Starting in 2011, Barsoum sold thousands of pills to a confidential source working with the DEA.  …
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Florida Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Jail And 18 Months Home Confinement For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… and the ensuing search revealed approximately 345 oxycodone pills and a note addressed to the person in Harrison stating the pills would cost $4,000.  Law enforcement subsequently … mailed an additional 22 packages containing oxycodone pills to the person in Harrison, Maine. The person would …
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North County Woman Sentenced On Methamphetamine Related Charge

… January 2014 and July 2016, she purchased pseudoephedrine pills with an aggregate weight of 94 grams from different … often rotated the stores from which she bought the pills. Wujek purchased the pseudoephedrine knowing it would … used to illegally manufacture methamphetamine, and gave the pills she had purchased to others for that purpose.  In …
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Anesthesiologist Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Unlawfully Distributing Oxycodone

… prescriptions to an Everett pharmacy, pick up the oxycodone pills, and then sell the pills to people who he knew did not have a legitimate medical need for the pills.  Le knew that some of the people to whom he sold the …
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Twin Falls Woman Pleads Guilty To Controlled Substance Delivery

… Federer arranged for the sales by text message and then put pill bottles in her car glove box in the pharmacy parking … Federer illegally sold two bottles, each containing 100 pills of 20 mg oxycodone, and two bottles, each containing …
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Twin Falls Former Pharmacy Technician Sentenced For Diverting Controlled Substances

… Federer arranged for the sales by text message and then put pill bottles in her car glove box in the pharmacy parking … Federer illegally sold two bottles, each containing 100 pills of 20 mg oxycodone, and two bottles, each containing …
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Public Safety Alert From Drug Enforcement Administration Counterfeit Hydrocodone Tablets Containing Fentanyl

… Health and Law Enforcement officials believe that the pills containing Fentanyl were likely sold on the street … guise of being legitimate hydrocodone.  Additionally, the pills are marked to mimic the authentic hydrocodone product. … reports that test results show that some of the tested pills did not contain hydrocodone, but rather fentanyl.  The …
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Alaska Man Sentenced To 6a½ Years In Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone And Morphine

… made deposits into Mistler’s bank account to pay for the pills. In total, Mistler shipped approximately 9,600 pills to Connor. About two-thirds of the pills were oxycodone and one‑third of the tablets were …
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DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

… progress. DEA laboratory testing indicates 29% of fentanyl pills analyzed during fiscal year (FY) 2025 contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76% of pills tested just two years prior in FY 2023. Additionally, …
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DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

… progress. DEA laboratory testing indicates 29% of fentanyl pills analyzed during fiscal year (FY) 2025 contained a potentially lethal dose, a significant drop from 76% of pills tested just two years prior in FY 2023. Additionally, …
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DEA Encourages Conversations on Dangers of Drugs and Social Media as Students Return to School

… in Missouri have surpassed the total seized in 2024, while pills are still finding their ways into communities. Social …
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Cocaine and Fentanyl Trafficking Ring Dismantled in Western New York

… communities in Western New York with cocaine and fentanyl pills. As alleged in the 129-count indictment — unsealed in … than $250,000 worth of cocaine and thousands of fentanyl pills disguised as Oxycodone throughout Erie and Niagara … 1,440 counterfeit prescription “M-30” fentanyl pills, nearly one kilogram of cocaine, a loaded .45 caliber …
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Narcotics dealer charged with fentanyl overdose death

… - (315) 426-5300 Westchester - (914) 682-6256 Counterfeit pills tainted with fentanyl NEW YORK –   The United States … this month, DEA issued a national alert on counterfeit pills trafficking across America and how fatal overdoses … Raymond P. Donovan. “Reiterating the warning, counterfeit pills threaten New York because they mimic legitimate …
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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 …
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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 …