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Nassau Doctor Sentenced to Up to 15 Years in Prison for Overprescription of Opioids that Led to Five Deaths

… medications and the defendant prescribed thousands of pills for drugs like oxycodone, morphine, clonazepam, … Sabatasso was given 35 prescriptions for more than 4,000 pills. Sabatasso died on March 22, 2016, of acute oxycodone … less than six months and was provided with more than 1,000 pills during that time. He was hospitalized for an overdose …
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Boston Man Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

… nearly three kilograms of fentanyl including 7,000 fentanyl pills BOSTON – A Boston man was sentenced today in … of fentanyl, including thousands of counterfeit fentanyl pills, to a cooperating source. Luis Sonier Bautista Moreta, …
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North Highlands Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Distribution

… to court documents, in March 2016, Tkachuk obtained 40 pills bearing the mark “M367,” which indicated that the pill was a Lortab 10 or Norco. The pills were in fact counterfeit versions and contained …
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Thurston County Man Caught Twice with Drugs and Firearms Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

… on Graves’ home and car.  In the home they found fentanyl pills, two firearms (one of them loaded) and nearly $5,000 … car they found a third loaded firearm as well as fentanyl pills, methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin.  In the car was … On September 20, 2023, Graves was arrested with fentanyl pills, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine in his car. A …
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Leader of Prolific Fentanyl Trafficking Ring Sentenced

… of multiple federal felonies for distributing fentanyl pills in Snohomish, Skagit, and Whatcom Counties, were …
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DEA Implements E-commerce Outreach Program to Combat Counterfeit Drug Production

… Get Smart About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Counterfeit Pill Press Die 1.JPG Pill Press 2.JPG Counterfeit Oxycodone … used in the production of illicit and deadly counterfeit pills. Online retailers frequently offer items commonly used …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications

… DEA issued a Public Safety Alert and launched the One Pill Can Kill public awareness campaign to warn Americans of a surge in deadly, fake prescription pills driven by drug traffickers seeking to exploit the U.S. …
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El Paso Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Dealing Fentanyl

… documents, Victor Arellano, 40, delivered 1,000 fentanyl pills to an undercover agent in exchange for $1,500 on or … case. ### Arrests/Convictions - Major Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Seizures (Drugs/Property) Synthetic drugs Fentanyl …
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DEA Releases 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment

… (mg) of fentanyl is considered a potentially fatal dose. Pills tested in DEA laboratories average 2.4 mg of fentanyl, …
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Federal Jury Returns Guilty Verdict in Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Case

… Springfield of selling Brendan James Gallagher fentanyl pills that resulted in Gallagher’s fatal overdose on … break his addiction, he began taking counterfeit OxyContin pills in late 2018. On the afternoon of February 5, 2019, …
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Ocean Beach Drug Dealer Sentenced to 12.5 Years for His Role in Fatal Overdose

… plea agreement, Souza admitted that he provided four fake pills laced with fentanyl, commonly referred to as “blues,” to Stevens, on November 21, 2019. These pills caused Stevens to have a near-fatal overdose. Then approximately six months later, Souza again sold fake pills to Stevens – this time with fatal results. According …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… of opioid addictions in America start with prescription pills found in medicine cabinets at home. What’s worse, …
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DEA to Hold 21st Take Back Event on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021

… of opioid addictions in America start with prescription pills found in medicine cabinets at home. What’s worse, …
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Fentanyl Distribution Nets West Texas Man 12 Years in Federal Prison

… which undercover agents made multiple purchases of blue M30 pills containing fentanyl from Arevalo. While executing a … 2022, investigators seized approximately 517 grams of M30 pills containing fentanyl, a loaded handgun and a large …
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DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

… approximately 23% of fentanyl powder and 7% of fentanyl pills seized by the DEA contained xylazine.” Xylazine and … 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 dose of fentanyl.     DEA …
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Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to More than 47 Combined Years in Federal Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking

… organization responsible for distributing fentanyl pills in the Western District of Arkansas from November 2022 … Arkansas for their respective roles in the offense. The pills distributed by this group contained fentanyl made or pressed to look like M-30 Oxycontin prescription pills.  “This case is an example of the outstanding results …
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Orlando Man Found Guilty of Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl that Resulted in Death

… at trial, Fonseca Flores and Parady sold fake “M30” pills laced with fentanyl to the victim, N.K. Between April … to be oxycodone. After some time, N.K. realized that the pills she was buying from them contained fentanyl. … again on March 31, 2022, within days of purchasing “M30” pills from Fonseca Flores, N.K. sent a text message to …
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Fairbanks Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

… - (509) 454-4407 For distributing counterfeit fentanyl pills resulting in a death FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Fairbanks … years of supervised release for distributing counterfeit pills containing fentanyl resulting in the death of another …
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Fifth Defendant in Multi-Kilogram Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced

… from various sources of supply. The group would then use a pill press to manufacture thousands of counterfeit prescription pills resembling legitimate pain medications, such as …
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Arizona Man Sentenced to 10 Years on Fentanyl Charges

… a federal search warrant on the parcel and found 1,000 blue pills inside. The pills were monogrammed with an “M” on one side and a “30” on the other side and appeared to be legitimate oxycodone pills. However, the pills were sent to a laboratory and …
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Washington Jury Finds Mexican National with Ties to the Jalisco Cartel Guilty of Trafficking in Hundreds of Pounds of Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine in Eastern Washington and Montana

… investigators seized approximately 161,000 fentanyl-laced pills (to include Mexi-blues and rainbow-colored pills), approximately 80 pounds of methamphetamine, … in the District of Montana.   ## Drug Trafficking Fake Pills OCDETF/Task Force Synthetic drugs Fentanyl …
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Former Angels Communications Director Eric Kay Convicted in Tyler Skaggs Overdose Case

… to evidence presented at trial, Mr. Kay distributed the pills that killed Mr. Skaggs. The investigation began on …
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El Paso Man to Spend 15 Years in Federal Prison for Dealing Deadly Fentanyl

… Michael Joseph Cuccaro, 22, sold counterfeit M-30 oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a purchaser on Dec. 11, 2022. The purchaser consumed the pills and died from fentanyl poisoning. A federal grand jury …
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DEA Safely Disposes 620,000 Pounds of Unused Medication on 28th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… collected 28,063 pounds between 305 locations Disposed pills- DEA Take Back More than 30,000 pounds of medications …
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Providence Man Who Sold Oxycodone to Undercover Officer Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

… 951-2900 Defendant possessed approximately 1,500 oxycodone pills at time of arrest BOSTON – A Providence man was … today in federal court in Worcester for selling oxycodone pills on multiple occasions to an undercover officer.    … met with undercover law enforcement to distribute oxycodone pills in controlled purchases. In February 2023, the rental …
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Monmouth County Man Sentenced to 188 Months in Prison

… to distribute and possess with intent to distribute pills containing cyclopropyl fentanyl, an analogue of …
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San Diego Drug Dealer Sentenced to Eight Years in Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

… to 97 months in prison for his role in selling fentanyl pills to a 27-year-old woman who fatally overdosed on May 9, … going through a drug relapse when he sold her the deadly pills. According to sentencing memo, this was not the first …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… of opioid addictions in America start with prescription pills found in medicine cabinets at home. What’s worse, …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… of opioid addictions in America start with prescription pills found in medicine cabinets at home. What’s worse, …