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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 …
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Bakersfield Resident Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl

… law enforcement officer counterfeit OxyContin/oxycodone pills containing fentanyl. Cardenas thereafter negotiated a second sale of pills to the undercover officer. On Jan. 19, 2021, … and sell to the undercover officer 1,000 fentanyl-laced pills for the negotiated price of $2,900. At least one of …
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Fentanyl Deaths Climbing, DEA Washington Continues the Fight

February 16, 2022
… as well as in the new surge of counterfeit prescription pills. “We are fighting this new crisis of fentanyl related … The DEA also provides information about counterfeit pills , manufactured in Mexico by drug cartels and contain …
February 16, 2022
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Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty for Attempting to Sell Fentanyl

… sell to a customer, 1,000 counterfeit OxyContin/oxycodone pills containing fentanyl for the negotiated price of … customer asked the vehicle occupants whether they had the pills, Rockmore motioned towards a bag on his lap and stated …
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DEA’s Strong Partnerships in South Dakota Result in Higher Drug Seizures for 2020

… entering the state. Fentanyl, most commonly found in pill form, but also available as a powder, is on the rise … equates to approximately 156,000 lethal doses. “Counterfeit pills are flooding the market,” SAC King said.  “This isn’t …
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Former Ohio Police Officer Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Extortion

… with marijuana, methamphetamine, bath salts and ecstasy pills to sell and split the profits. A portion of the drugs … informant who sold large quantities of oxycodone pills to Dailey approximately five days a week for seven … awareness was missing crack and powder cocaine and ecstasy pills. The inventory analysis also revealed that the …
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

… Day on Saturday, April 26th.  Americans can take their pills to one of over 5,600 collection sites across the … 2010, the public has surrendered over 3.4 million pounds of pills. Unused medications in homes create a public health …
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Operation Spring Cleaning Takes Down A Prescription Drug Trafficking Ring In Port St. Lucie

… also resulted in the seizure of 24 vehicles, 239 pills of (Dilaudid), 16 morphine pills, 126 oxycodone pills, 2.7 grams cocaine, 7 grams marijuana, $2,897.00 and …
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On Saturday April 26

… Day on Saturday, April 26th. Americans can take their pills to one of over 5,600 collection sites across the … 2010, the public has surrendered over 3.4 million pounds of pills. Unused medications in homes create a public health …
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Doctor, Physician Assistant Charged With Fraudulently Obtaining And Distributing Prescription Medicines

… would allegedly fill the prescriptions and then return the pills to the doctor. Other times, it is alleged, Dr. … provide them to Gary Menissian, who would then return the pills to Dr. Villarreall. Both are employed at Rhode Island … prescriptions for Percocet, Vicodin, Adderall, and Ativan pills at various pharmacies in the Providence area. Records …
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New Britain Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Distributing Fentanyl

… that Petersen was selling fentanyl powder, prescription pills and marijuana.  DEA Task Force Officers and the New … Casadei also obtained and distributed various prescription pills, including Xanax and oxycodone.  Casadei then supplied fentanyl and various prescription pills to Jared McBriarty, of Bristol, who in turn supplied …
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Five More Sentenced To Federal Prison In Operation Sooner Or Later

… Rodriguez-Padron and another supplier. The prices of the pills ranged from $6.70 to $8.00 each.  Cisneros then redistributed those pills to other Oxycodone dealers in Kentucky for between …
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Bristol Drug Trafficker, Career Offender Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison

… entering, resulted in the seizure of 54 grams of cocaine, a pill bottle containing 23, 40mg pills of oxycodone, and a variety of other pills including …
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Connecticut Man Sentenced To Over 22 Years For Oxycodone Conspiracy

… to Court documents, Diaz and others acquired oxycodone pills outside of Maine.  Some of these pills were obtained from people in Connecticut who diverted … were obtained in bulk from California and elsewhere. The pills were transported to Maine by Diaz or other …
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Man For Conspiracy To Distribute Methamphetamine In Fairbanks

… of (FBI) revealed that Flores was selling hundreds of pills of (oxycodone), along with methadone, each day from … drug sales. Flores was caught with hundreds of methadone pills, and Sherwood had hundreds of oxycodone pills in his …
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Williamsville Doctor Pleads Guilty To Prescription Drug Charge

… and gave her seven hydrocodone and seven clonazepam pills. Later that same day, the defendant drove the … to the car, Siddiqui asked her to return the hydrocodone pills that he had given her earlier in the day. The … patient’s daughter asked the defendant if he wanted more pills and he responded, “Yes” and took 30 hydrocodone pills. …
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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 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 …
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Congressional Affairs

January 22, 2026
… DEA seized more than 47 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and nearly 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. The 2025 …
January 22, 2026
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Providence Resident Admits to Trafficking Fentanyl

… found to be in possession of more than 1,500 fentanyl-laced pills and more than 400 grams of fentanyl powder has pleaded … 35, was found to be in possession of 1,503 fentanyl-laced pills designed to look like prescription drugs (weighing a …
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Mississippi Man Found Guilty of Drug Trafficking

… pounds of fentanyl, and 35 pounds of cocaine, 2 different pill press machines, 13 firearms, and 1 suppressor. From at … January of 2024, Mosley was utilizing an illegal automatic pill press machine to manufacture thousands of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills containing methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine. …
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Man Caught Three Times with Dealer Quantities of Fentanyl Indicted Federally

… last fall when he was found to have possession of fentanyl pills and/or powder, methamphetamine, cocaine and a firearm. … license plates were stolen. A second officer noticed blue pills in the car. Ultimately the car was impounded. A search …
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Doctor convicted on nine counts in connection with oxycodone and fentanyl diversion scheme

… Lopez wrote prescriptions for nearly one million oxycodone pills, with a street value of approximately $20 … spray to patients. Lopez also provided loose oxycodone pills, without a prescription, directly to at least one …
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Communities Nationwide Turn In Nearly 630,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications on DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… MD- TB Collections-OCT2024 MD- TB Collections-OCT2024 Pills- Take Back Oct 2024 Pills- Take Back Oct 2024 WASHINGTON – On Oct. 26, DEA and …
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Co-Conspirator in Idaho Drug Ring Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl

… in federal prison for distributing over 7,000 fentanyl pills in Idaho's Magic Valley. According to court records, … to have him distribute approximately 7,000 fentanyl pills to an individual who, unbeknownst to Lee or Dana at …
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Operation Cash Out Launched Across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana

… (DEA) seized nationally more than 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. Across … – the DEA seized a record of more than 3.6 million fentanyl pills. Through the first quarter of 2024, the DEA is on pace …
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Twelve People Charged Following Investigation of Drug Trafficking Ring

… 16 kilos of cocaine and about 50-thousand fentanyl tainted pills.  In one traffic stop in January 2021 on I-5 they … seized a pill press used for manufacturing fentanyl tainted pills, three pounds of methamphetamine and some heroin. …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Day Removes Almost 600,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications Across the Country

… TB- Bags Truck with TB collections Pills and Poster- Take Back The DEA will host its 29th … at  Take Back Day (dea.gov) . Diversion Division One Pill Can Kill Outreach/Drug Prevention Prescription Drugs …
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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 …