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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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Community Event
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 …
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Vidor woman sentenced to 15 years in federal prison following opioid overdose deaths

… poly-drug toxicity resulting from the use of hydromorphone pills, also referred to as Dilaudid.  As part of the factual … for the plea, Ardis admitted to selling the hydromorphone pills that resulted in the death of the three victims. … reminder that the abuse of opioids and other prescription pills is just as deadly as illicit narcotics, and those who …
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Two men indicted for conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and fentanyl in Tulare County

… (571) 387-3956 160 pounds of methamphetamine, 300 fentanyl pills seized FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned … pounds of methamphetamine and approximately 300 fentanyl pills, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement … 200 pounds of liquid methamphetamine, and approximately 300 pills containing fentanyl. Inside both residences law …
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Two men indicted for trafficking heroin and fentanyl in San Joaquin County

… the fourth meeting, Guzman sold the agent approximately 500 pills containing fentanyl. Surveillance units saw Guzman … enforcement bought over a pound of heroin and 500 fentanyl pills from Guzman. When agents searched Guzman’s and … over 9.7 pounds of heroin and approximately 10,000 fentanyl pills in Guzman’s home, and another 10.9 pounds of heroin in …
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Alameda resident sentenced for selling prescription drugs without a license and related charges

… 10, 2017, the defendant posted a photograph of alprazolam pills on his social media account as a means of adverting … admitted that on Aug. 11, 2017, he possessed both the pills and a 9 mm pistol. He admitted he possessed the pills with the intent to distribute them, and he possessed …
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Physician Practicing In Grass Valley, Yuba City Sentenced To More Than Four Years In Prison For Illegal Prescription Practice

… agreement, Capos prescribed 2,640 APAP/Hydrocodone 325/10 pills in 28 days for one (325 mg acetaminophen and 10 mg … At that rate, the patient would have to take 94 pills per day. And for another patient, he prescribed 2,100 … oxycodone (30 mg) over 50 days, which would have been 42 pills per day. This case was the product of an investigation …
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Kentucky Woman Sentenced To 27 Years Federal Prison For Illegally Providing Rx Drugs

… 2010, a 19 year-old woman received a quantity of Oxycodone pills from 48-year-old Judy McIntosh, consumed the pills, and later died at McIntosh’s home. The medical … following the woman’s death, McIntosh continued trafficking pills and used two minors to facilitate her drug …
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Kentucky Man Convicted Of Pharmacy Robbery And Intent To Distribute Hydrocodone

… and possession with intent to distribute Hydrocodone pills. The jury returned the verdict after a 3-day trial. … armed with a handgun, stole approximately 4,000 Hydrocodone pills. Hydrocodone is a Schedule II controlled substance. … after the robbery Ayala possessed the stolen Hydrocodone pills with intent to distribute them. Carlton S. Shier, IV, …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

… the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … and unwanted prescription drugs. Individuals can take pills and other solid forms of medication to one of almost …
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Essex County, New Jersey, Woman Admits Leadership Role In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… to various doctors’ offices and obtained prescriptions for pills containing oxycodone, had the prescriptions filled by various pharmacies, and sold the pills to members of the conspiracy and others. Horvath also … getting the prescriptions filled, and helped them sell the pills. Oxycodone is a Schedule II controlled substance - …
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Five North Shore Individuals Charged With Oxycodone Distribution

… week.  David Turner, Sr. and Ashley Turner were oxycodone pill customers of Romano who also redistributed oxycodone pills supplied by Romano or one of Ramon’s suppliers, such …