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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

April 27, 2021
… and 100 times more potent that morphine.    Of counterfeit pills tested in DEA laboratories, one in four pills made with fentanyl contained a potentially lethal … potentially lethal doses).   The seizure of fentanyl-laced pills along the Southwest border increased more than 89 …
April 27, 2021
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DEA To Hold Its Third Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Month

October 19, 2011
… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the country free of charge, no … Drug Take-Back Day events turned in more than 309 tons of pills at more than 5,300 sites manned by over 3,800 federal, …
October 19, 2011
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DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Meet A Growing Need For Americans

May 08, 2014
… Take-Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever this past Saturday.  After seven previous … spread over almost four years, 780,158 - ( 390 - tons) of pills were brought to the 6,072 - collection sites that DEA …
May 08, 2014
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Kenner Woman Guilty of Federal Controlled Substances Act Violations

June 12, 2025
… possessed with intent to distribute, quantities of fentanyl pills, 220 pills with a net weight of 30.7 grams, and 500 pills with a weight of 67 grams, within the Eastern District …
June 12, 2025
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Awareness Day on April 29

April 28, 2025
… lethal dose. The DEA continues to see fentanyl in fake pills made to look like prescription medications including …
April 28, 2025
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Queens Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud and Narcotics Distribution

May 27, 2021
… he was a pharmacist and distributed over 10,000 oxycodone pills BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in … in harm’s way and introduced thousands of Oxycodone pills into the community during an opioid epidemic,” said … “After inappropriately and dangerously dispensing opioid pills and stealing from Medicare and Medicaid, Hussnain has …
May 27, 2021
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 08, 2023
… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than … resulted in 81 arrests and the seizure of 147,041 fentanyl pills, more than 63 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than 318 …
May 08, 2023
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Several Million Dollars’ Worth of Narcotics Including Fentanyl Seized in Mount Vernon

April 26, 2021
… 720-431-8836 38 Kilograms of Fentanyl, 25,000 Fentanyl Pills, and $35,000 of Drug Proceeds 26,000 fentanyl pill, 48 …
April 26, 2021
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Drug Trafficker Who Assisted Stepson with Trafficking Ring Tied to Aryan Prison Gangs Sentenced to Over Six Years in Prison

December 12, 2024
… of pounds of methamphetamine and thousands of fentanyl pills.  Griffin acted as a redistributor and confidant for …
December 12, 2024
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Vero Beach Resident Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl

June 12, 2024
… in the first six months of 2023 alone. Just one fentanyl pill can kill, as noted in DEA’s  One Pill Can Kill   … fatal dose and laboratory testing indicates seven out of 10 pills seized by the DEA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl. …
June 12, 2024
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Bellingham, Washington, Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Dealing Fentanyl While Carrying Firearms

April 03, 2024
… Wisniewski was later arrested with more than 1,000 fentanyl pills, fentanyl powder and a firearm. Wisniewski was … time in June 2022 with two firearms and more fentanyl pills.  In the course of the investigation law enforcement …
April 03, 2024
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Drug Dealer Involved in Large-Scale Drug Trafficking Conspiracy and Violent Spokane-Area Shooting Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison

March 12, 2024
… $125,000 worth of heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl pills into the community per month.   Riggs became a … of methamphetamine and approximately 50,000 fentanyl-laced pills to a man named Brady Baughman in the Spokane area. …
March 12, 2024
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DEA & MPD Issue Public Safety Alert on Mass Overdose Events Across D.C. Metro Area

April 14, 2022
… Fentanyl Lab Testing Counterfeit Percocet Pill Washington, D.C., -- Today, the Drug Enforcement … – often sold as street drugs like cocaine or counterfeit pills – are causing a number of mass overdose events, along …
April 14, 2022
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight Against Opioid Epidemic

November 01, 2021
… 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. …
November 01, 2021
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Hazlehurst Pharmacy, Pharmacist to pay up to $2.1 million for dispensing thousands of illegitimate prescriptions

March 24, 2020
… of pharmacies or pharmacists affiliated with convicted pill-mill doctor BRUNSWICK, GA - A South Georgia pharmacy … two years, despite obvious evidence Bynes was operating a “pill mill,” including: Most patients traveled between four … not account for more than 9,000 oxycodone and hydrocodone pills supplied to the pharmacy as required by the Controlled …
March 24, 2020
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Fall River Man Pleads Guilty To Oxycodone Conspiracy

February 29, 2024
… role in a drug distribution conspiracy involving oxycodone pills. Austin Gonsalves, 37, pleaded guilty in federal court … a drug trafficking organization that distributed oxycodone pills across Southeastern Massachusetts. The defendants were … February 2023 and May 2023, Gonsalves obtained oxycodone pills, allegedly from co-defendant Kenneth Veiga, which he …
February 29, 2024
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San Diego Drug Dealer Sentenced to Eight Years in Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

February 05, 2024
… 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 …
February 05, 2024
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Pierce County Based Drug Trafficking Organization Indicted for Distributing Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Marijuana

December 06, 2023
… nearly 52 kilos of cocaine, more than 23 kilos of fentanyl pills, and 131 kilos of marijuana. One drug shipment seized … 37 kilos of cocaine and more than a kilo of fentanyl pills. In June 2023, a traffic stop on Interstate 5 resulted …
December 06, 2023
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Over 110 Pounds of Fentanyl and Methamphetamine with a Street Value Worth Up to $10 Million Uncovered in the Bronx

November 16, 2023
… of suspected fentanyl, including thousands of fentanyl pills, and more than 29 kilograms (over 45 pounds) of …
November 16, 2023
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Two Key Players in Arlington, Washington, Drug Ring Sentenced to Prison

July 06, 2023
… of methamphetamine, 15 pounds of heroin, 35,000 fentanyl pills, 24 firearms, and $778,000. Drug ring leader Cesar … close to one kilogram of heroin, thousands of fentanyl pills, $115,000 in cash drug proceeds, and 19 firearms. That …
July 06, 2023
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Selling the Fentanyl that Resulted in Death of Young Woman

April 25, 2023
… court to 120 months in prison for selling the fentanyl pills that resulted in the fatal overdose of 23-year-old … Gil’s cell phone, and “blues,” or fake oxycodone pills containing fentanyl. The Medical Examiner’s Office …
April 25, 2023
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San Diego Resident Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl that Resulted in 15-Year-Old’s Death

January 26, 2023
… 156 months in prison for distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that resulted in the death of …
January 26, 2023
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Renton, Washington Resident Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking

January 10, 2023
… drug deal, Flores-Rivera was arrested with 500 fentanyl pills and a loaded stolen Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun …
January 10, 2023
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Seven Members Of Las Cruces-Based Prescription Drug Trafficking Ring Facing Federal Charges

December 14, 2012
… the defendants fraudulently obtained an aggregate of 2,691 pills of (30 mg), 120 pills of (15 mg), and 390 pills of (30 mg), with the intention of unlawfully …
December 14, 2012
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CVS To Pay $3.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That Pharmacists Filled Fake Prescriptions

June 30, 2016
… Boston.  The DEA estimated the street value of the diverted pills to be over $1 million. The forged prescriptions traced … in just six months.  Those 29 prescriptions totaled 1,290 pills of hydrocodone, or seven pills a day.  At a different …
June 30, 2016
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Grand Jury Indicts New Defendants And Brings Additional Charges Against L.A.-Based OxyContin Ring That Allegedly Bilked Medicare

October 16, 2012
… obtained and distributed more than 900,000 OxyContin pills obtained in part through fraud against public … The indictment alleges that more than 900,000 OxyContin pills were diverted to the street, where they were sold for …
October 16, 2012
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Second Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 97 Months’ Imprisonment For Distributing Fentanyl In Which A Young Mother Died After Ingesting

December 14, 2017
… death of a woman in West Virginia after ingesting fentanyl pills distributed by defendant Johnnie Monroe did not deter … him from shortly thereafter shipping another package of pills containing fentanyl to West Virginia,” stated Acting … co-conspirators believed they killed with their fentanyl pills. Upon learning of the young mother’s death, Monroe was …
December 14, 2017
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Operation Lockport Led To The Arrest Of 25 People And Dismantled A Major Drug Trafficking Ring In Western New York

January 28, 2014
… in cocaine along with large quantities of prescription pills and cash. One of the investigations also led to the … pain pill distribution network. She obtained hydrocodone pills from some of her co-defendants and resold them to …
January 28, 2014
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Defendants Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone From Pharmacy In Yonkers

October 02, 2014
… to unlawfully distribute hundreds of thousands of pills of oxycodone at Stanley Pharmacy.  Hi Jong Lee was … into an illegal drug spot where thousands of oxycodone pills were sold for cash to drug addicts and other drug … over $1,000, in cash, for 180 30-milligram oxycodone pills, which was well in excess of the average price for a …
October 02, 2014
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Seven Arrested In Major New York City Prescription Forgery Ring

January 23, 2017
… for addictive opioid painkillers and illegally obtain pills from pharmacies for resale on the black market. … oxycodone, leading to the dispensing of more than 160,000 pills with a street value of nearly $3 million. The ring … month. In general, each prescription was written for 180 pills of 30 mg oxycodone. However, in 2013 the number of …
January 23, 2017