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Fall River Man Arrested For Selling Drugs And Machine Guns On Telegram App

… controlled substances, including counterfeit pharmaceutical pills containing fentanyl and other drugs. It is alleged … allegedly used Telegram to sell 100 and 500 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, respectively, to undercover law …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… year 2023, DEA seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. This is … we see today is even deadlier than before. Fentanyl pills today are more potent. DEA laboratory testing in 2023 showed that 7 out of 10 pills tested contain a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. …
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Texas health care fraud and opioid takedown results in charges against 58

… involved in Medicare fraud schemes and networks of “pill mill” clinics resulting in $66 million in loss and 6.2 million pills. Of those charged, 16 were doctors or medical …
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Joint Investigation Leads To Arrest Of Doctor For Selling Assault Weapons & Drugs During Course Of Murder-for-Hire Plot

… commits arson and distributes diverted prescription pain pills out of his medical office. Through an intensive … police investigation involving the purchase of Oxycodone pills led to the additional undercover purchases of heroin …
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Fentanyl Awareness

August 20, 2025
… on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs. National Fentanyl Awareness … young lives from deadly fentanyl and fake prescription pills.   Learn More National Fentanyl Prevention and …
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Salem Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

… arranged a controlled buy of counterfeit oxycodone pills from Rigutto. Investigators observed him arrive and … vehicle and seized approximately 3,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and a firearm with a machine gun …
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Former Long Island Doctor Sentenced for Conspiring to Illegally Distribute Oxycodone

… prescribed thousands of highly addictive oxycodone pills to two individuals identified in the indictment as … of legitimate medical need. Ammar prescribed oxycodone pills to John Doe 1, knowing that he intended to sell the pills to others. In addition, Ammar continued to prescribe …
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Doctor Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone From Brooklyn Clinic

… the law by peddling more than half a million oxycodone pills to ‘patients’ he knew had no medical need for them. … illicitly prescribed over 500,000 oxycodone 30-milligram pills to individuals he knew had no legitimate medical need for the pills.  DONSKY often performed little or no physical …
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Man Indicted for Meth, Fentanyl, Illegal Firearm

… Arrested with 2,300 Fentanyl Pills in KC, Meth & Firearm KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Columbia, … in Kansas City, Mo., with approximately 2,300 fentanyl pills. Walter Antwine Moore, 42, was charged in a four-count …
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Bates City Man Sentenced for Meth Trafficking, Illegal Firearm

… 436.5 grams of marijuana, and 207 prescription pills that were identified to be either Xanax, Alprazolam, … Clonazepam, or Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine pills, which were in unlabeled prescription pill bottles. …
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Staten Island man sentenced to 12 years for illegally distributing oxycodone

…   “Vito Gallicchio sold hundreds of thousands of oxycodone pills on the streets of New York, and masterminded a ring of purported ‘patients’ who faked injuries to get pills,” said U.S. Attorney Berman. “As Gallicchio’s sentence … prescriptions. Gallicchio subsequently sold the oxycodone pills for millions of dollars in profit, which he used to …
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Law Enforcement Cooperation Between United States and Mexico Leads to Mexican Takedown of Significant Fentanyl Trafficker

… two firearms currency, a large number of fentanyl pills, and other controlled substances.     Six U.S. based … and distribution of a foreign pill press to fabricate fake pills.  Garcia-Ibarra and Vega-Ochoa remain fugitives. …
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Arizona Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Conspiracy Charges

… with cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, and fentanyl pills. The police learned of his operation while … that Eaddy was supplying him with cocaine and fentanyl pills. Eaddy was shipping the drugs through the postal … five grams of crack cocaine and 344 gross grams of fentanyl pills that was set to be delivered to another co-conspirator …
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New Haven Resident Sentenced to 42 Months in Federal Prison for Role in Narcotics Distribution Ring

… of West Haven, coordinated the manufacture of counterfeit pills, which he distributed to others for further … grams of cocaine, and plastic bags full of hundreds of blue pills that tested positive for fentanyl. Fausel was arrested …
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One Conversation Spins into Multiple Presentations for Omaha Community Outreach Specialist

… 571-387-4625 NE-SD.Diversion.registration@dea.gov OPPD - Papillion #1.jpg In 2024, the DEA Omaha Division has reached nearly 600,000 people with messages such as One Pill Can Kill during community outreach events. OMAHA, Neb   … (OPPD), who employs nearly 2,000 people throughout Omaha, Papillion and Elkhorn. The first of three presentations to …
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DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Recognizes National Fentanyl Awareness Day

… and awareness to the threats from fentanyl and fake pills – and the lives lost to poisonings and overdoses. … In 2023, DEA seized more than 77 million fake fentanyl pills. More than 70-thousand Americans died just last year …
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Bellingham, Washington, Drug Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl While Possessing Firearms

… Oregon 1-888-219-4261 Had More Than 3,200 Fentanyl Pills, Cocaine, Meth, and Four Firearms When His RV was … late December 2022, he was carrying thousands of fentanyl pills, and drug proceeds,” said U.S. Attorney Gorman. “But …
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Idaho Man Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute 10 Pounds of Fentanyl

… Watson locally sold approximately $15,000 worth of fentanyl pills and powder on a weekly basis. When he was arrested on …
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Drug Trafficker Who Created Fortified Compound at Bellingham Homeless Encampment Pleads Guilty

… Returning from Drug Run with More Than 65,000 Fentanyl Pills – Search Uncovered Guns and More Drugs SEATTLE, Wash. … law enforcement found over seven kilos of fentanyl pills – more than 65,000 pills in all. Vasquez-Martinez …
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Darknet Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty to Distributing Illicit Prescription Drugs

… Cullen Roberts, 23, of Duluth, Georgia, used the moniker “Pillpusher” to sell prescription opioids and other scheduled … drugs via the Darknet. Roberts promoted the quality of the pills that he advertised for sale on his Darknet vendor … page. For example, in September 2020, he listed oxymorphone pills, a powerful opiate used to treat severe pain, for sale …
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Five Defendants Charged in Drug Conspiracy Operating in Pawley’s Island

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 250,000 fake M-30 pills containing fentanyl 250,000 fake M-30 pills containing fentanyl, seized by DEA and our state and …
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Ringleader in Prescription Drug Conspiracy Sentenced to Federal Prison

… There is no parole in the federal system. “Although these pills came from legitimate pharmacies, the prescriptions … business filling prescriptions for these highly soughtafter pills. After this sentencing, other criminals have been put … unlawful acquisition and distribution of more than 4,000 pills. The case originated in December 2019 with the U.S. …
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Five indicted on federal charges for drug manufacturing, trafficking conspiracy

… alleges production of thousands of methamphetamine pills SAVANNAH, Ga -   Five Savannah-area residents are … in the case, seizing thousands of methamphetamine-laced pills and their raw materials, along with industrial pill …
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Former Gadsden Pharmacist and City School Board Member Sentenced for Drug Distribution Conspiracy and Tax Crimes

… Midtown Pharmacy ordered at least 80,000 more oxycodone pills than the pharmacy dispensed to patients. Carter diverted opioid pills from the pharmacy and sold those pills to other drug distributors. He regularly took …
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DEA Washington Division Encourages Back to School Drug Awareness and Education

… Administration (DEA) seized more than 58 million fake pills containing fentanyl and more than 13,000 pounds of … Maryland and Virginia confiscated nearly 160,000 fake pills containing fentanyl and more than 250 pounds of …
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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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Snohomish Man Pleads Guilty to Drug, Gun, and Murder-for-Hire Related Charges

… 2020 to 78 months in prison for dealing fentanyl-laced pills and cocaine. One week later, before he was to report … 30, 2020, he was arrested as he arrived to sell fentanyl pills to a person in Whatcom County. That person was working …
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Armed Drug Dealer at Seattle's Third and Pike Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

… for federal crimes related to his distribution of fentanyl pills in downtown Seattle and his armed shoplifting in … a loaded handgun while dealing potentially deadly fentanyl pills in downtown Seattle,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. …
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Bremerton Couple Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Significant Amounts of Fentanyl and Meth

… eight pounds of methamphetamine and two pounds of fentanyl pills in the rental car they were using to transport the …
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Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Overdose Death

… his hand.  The officer also observed on the dresser seven pills, four drug capsules, and a small white plastic …