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Bellingham, Washington, Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Dealing Fentanyl While Carrying Firearms

… 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 …
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Drug Dealer Involved in Large-Scale Drug Trafficking Conspiracy and Violent Spokane-Area Shooting Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison

… $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. …
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DEA & MPD Issue Public Safety Alert on Mass Overdose Events Across D.C. Metro Area

… 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 …
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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

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

… 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 …
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Fall River Man Pleads Guilty To Oxycodone Conspiracy

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

… 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 …
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Over 110 Pounds of Fentanyl and Methamphetamine with a Street Value Worth Up to $10 Million Uncovered in the Bronx

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

… 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 …
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Selling the Fentanyl that Resulted in Death of Young Woman

… 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 …
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San Diego Resident Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl that Resulted in 15-Year-Old’s Death

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

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

… 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 …
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CVS To Pay $3.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That Pharmacists Filled Fake Prescriptions

… 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 …
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Grand Jury Indicts New Defendants And Brings Additional Charges Against L.A.-Based OxyContin Ring That Allegedly Bilked Medicare

… 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 …
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Second Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 97 Months’ Imprisonment For Distributing Fentanyl In Which A Young Mother Died After Ingesting

… 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 …
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Operation Lockport Led To The Arrest Of 25 People And Dismantled A Major Drug Trafficking Ring In Western New York

… 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 …
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Defendants Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone From Pharmacy In Yonkers

… 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 …
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Seven Arrested In Major New York City Prescription Forgery Ring

… 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 …
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May 09, 2023
May 09, 2023

Lunch & Learn: Facts About Fentanyl

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EDT)
Overland Park, KS
Learn about the changing drug landscape and how illicit fentanyl in fake prescription pills is the driving force behind hardships and loss among the Kansas City community. Obtain the latest facts about fentanyl, how to identify an opioid overdose, and what you can do for a loved one at risk...
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DEA Executes Operation Profit Over Patients to Dismantle Health Care Fraud Networks

July 03, 2025
… Murphy. “We’re targeting the entire ecosystem of fraud—from pill mills in Texas to kickback clinics exploiting Native … opioids onto the black market. The case is connected to a pill mill that allegedly sold oxycodone and hydrocodone … engaged in a scheme to illegally dispense more than 335,000 pills of oxycodone 30mg, which is highly addictive and …
July 03, 2025
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Remove Unneeded Prescriptions, Prevent Addiction

… Prevention Get Smart About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Pills and Poster- Take Back WASHINGTON, DC – The Drug …
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Fresno man sentenced to 3 years in prison for selling fentanyl to a minor

… 2020, Garcia-Palacio distributed counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl to a juvenile student at Bullard High School. That juvenile used one of the pills, overdosed, but survived after receiving life-saving … Garcia-Palacio’s residence and found additional fentanyl pills. He was charged with distributing fentanyl to a person …
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Oswego County man sentenced for methamphetamine related charge

… October 2015 and January 2017, he purchased pseudoephedrine pills from different drug stores in and around Oswego … Arthur LaDuke manufactured methamphetamine with the pills he himself purchased, as well as utilizing additional pills provided to him by others, for which he provided …
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Trial scheduled for Champaign man charged for allegedly trafficking

… on charges that he allegedly trafficked quantities of pills containing alprazolam, marked as ‘Xanax,’ and … March 2017 to May 2018, Caamano trafficked quantities of pills containing alprazolam, marked as ‘Xanax,’ knowing it …
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DEA Houston Serves ISO on Woodfield Pharmaceuticals & Distribution

… an estimated 700 million dosage units of controlled pills.  The suspension was, in part, due to Woodfield illegally importing more than 200 million opioid pills and failure to accurately account for over 5 million controlled substance pills. “The immediate suspension of registrations served on …
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Pennsylvania Man Going to Prison for 10 Years on Meth Charges

… the seizure of $10,210 in U.S. currency, suspected ecstasy pills, packaging materials, a digital scale, drug paraphernalia, Xanax pills, MDMA pills, Suboxone strips, and two hypodermic needles. The …
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… 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 …
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Ten indicted for fentanyl trafficking

… of thousands of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone (M-30) pills, as well as cocaine and methamphetamine. Law enforcement seized more than 20,000 of these pills during the investigation. Wiretapped calls show … by at least some co-conspirators that these fentanyl pills had been responsible for multiple overdoses and …