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Two Hamden Men Charged With Distributing Oxycodone Involved In Weston Overdose

… 3, 2015, the victim purchased 30 40-milligram oxycodone pills from Farid in exchange for $900.  He then consumed some of those pills, as well as other substances, which led to his … the victim’s overdose, Looney supplied Farid with oxycodone pills.  The charge of possession with intent to distribute, …
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Rocky Hill Man Sentenced To 3 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone

… New York to pick up oxycodone from Fields and transport the pills to Dyber in Connecticut.  Dyber distributed the pills he received from Fields and Garcia to customers and … to possess with intent to distribute 10,000 oxycodone pills.  Fields, Garcia and Vanderpool also pleaded guilty.  …
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Haverhill Resident Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy Charge

… participated in the distribution of cocaine and oxycodone pills in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.  During a … customers and recovered approximately 100 oxycodone pills.  The customer later admitted that he had obtained hundreds of pills from Medina. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled …
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Physician And His Patient Indicted In Scheme To Fraudulently Prescribe And Dispense Oxycodone And Adderall

… prescribe and dispense thousands of Oxycodone and Adderall pills, authorities announced today. From approximately … attention to such a high number of prescriptions and pills, the indictment alleges. In all, Stelmachowski used these prescriptions to obtain approximately 37,000 pills or tablets of Oxycodone and Adderall, according to the …
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Members Of Upstate Oxycontin Ring Plead Guilty

… prescription was valid. The recruits would receive a few pills for their efforts and the remainder would be sold by … to the pharmacy and bring the leaders of the conspiracy the pills obtained. Huckeba and Sarquist recruited individuals … the conspiracy earned at least $240,000 from the sale of pills. Mr. Nettles said that the maxim sentence Clark, …
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South Shore Drug Traffickers Charged In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… from Fitzgibbons, Roberts was arrested and 274 Oxycodone pills were seized. Dunn purchased wholesale quantities of … from Roberts, Kilday and others, and then distributed the pills to “street level” customers through Henriques. Silva … arrested while returning from New York and 1,744 Oxycodone pills were seized. “These arrests demonstrate the commitment …
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South Florida Man Sentenced For Oxycodone Distribution And Identity Theft

… distribution conspiracy involving thousands of oxycodone pills and stolen identities of Puerto Rican residents. … January 2013, Perez sold large quantities of oxycodone pills to co-conspirators in Massachusetts and Rhode Island who distributed the oxycodone pills in Massachusetts. Beginning in November 2011, Perez …
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New Hampshire Woman Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… regularly ordered significant quantities of oxycodone pills from two members of the conspiracy, Samuel Garcia and … the other individual ordered in excess of 2,000 oxycodone pills from the Samuel Garcia and Jennifer Nunez. Mailhot … 4 month period, she purchased quantities of 30 mg oxycodone pills from the two co-conspirators which she and another …
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Danbury Woman Sentenced To 57 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone

… occasions to pick up hundreds of 30-milligram oxycodone pills from her supplier. Also, in February 2012, Papadakos … arranging the purchase of 2,000 15-milligram oxycodone pills. Over a three-month period, Papadakos facilitated the distribution of 8,000 pills with a total street value that exceeded $100,000. …
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New York Man Stopped On I-95 With Crack, Oxycodone Sentenced To Six Years In Prison

… release, for trafficking crack cocaine and oxycodone pills. According to court documents and statements made in … the bag of crack, as well as two bags containing oxycodone pills, onto the highway.  Although the narcotics were … to recover nearly 190 grams of crack, 147 30-mg oxycodone pills, and an additional amount of crushed oxycodone …
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Three Holyoke Residents Plead Guilty To Oxycodone Conspiracy

… in Springfield for their role in distributing oxycodone pills shipped from Florida. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent … were part of a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills which they received in large quantities from Florida via Express Mail.  The pills were then sold in western Massachusetts and the drug …
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Former Marlborough Resident Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Robbing 5 Connecticut Pharmacies

… a firearm that was in his waistband and demanded oxycodone pills.  The pharmacist gave Haney more than 2000 oxycodone pills of different strengths and Haney exited the store. On … 9, 2013. Haney has admitted that he used most of the pills to fuel his own addiction to pain medication and sold …
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New York Man Sentenced To More Than 5 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone

… New York to pick up oxycodone from Fields and transport the pills to Dyber in Connecticut.  Dyber distributed the pills he received from Fields and Garcia to customers and … to possess with intent to distribute 5,000 oxycodone pills. Dyber, Garcia and Vanderpool have also pleaded …
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Two Defendants Plead Guilty To Conspiring To Sell Prescription Drugs Unlawfully

… N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell OxyContin pills. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in … both admitted that they had purchased and sold OxyContin pills and that Justin Doyle, one of the 33 defendants, was … station in Cheektowaga and is accused of actively selling pills while at work to a broad network of other distributors …
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San Diego Neighborhood Pharmacist Pays $150,000 Penalty For Mishandling Drugs

… that Ms. Loechler was unable to account for nearly 16,000 pills over a two-year span. The unaccounted-for pills were the powerful and highly addictive drug oxycodone, … for services, dispensing expired drugs, and “advancing” pills to customers. In addition to paying $147,500 in …
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West Charlton Woman Sentenced On Narcotics Conviction

… for possessing and intending to sell hundreds of Oxycodone pills that she stole from the Ballston Spa pharmacy that … 10, 2016 plea to possessing and intending to distribute 400 pills of Oxycodone, a controlled substance.  In her plea, Burgess admitted that she stole the pills from a Ballston Spa pharmacy where she worked.  This …
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Sacramento Woman Sentenced To 38 Months In Prison For Role In Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Conspiracy

… trips from California to Juneau carrying the oxycodone pills on her person. McGrath distributed the pills to local dealers and collected the drug proceeds. … of the conspiracy, McGrath transported approximately 1500 pills of oxycodone and laundered over $14,000 in drug …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs On 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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Sacramento And Bay Area Drug Traffickers Given Lengthy Sentences

… December of 2008, agents purchased approximately 9,000 MDMA pills from Johnson. During the investigation, … 8, 2008, the California Highway Patrol seized 11,000 MDMA pills from a vehicle driven by Robert Ly after he was … Highway 80 near West Sacramento. Approximately 39,000 MDMA pills were seized during this investigation. This case is …
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Fentanyl Supply Chain

February 07, 2025
… - DEA Issues Letter to E-Commerce Companies on the Sale of Pill Presses Used to Make Fentanyl Pills “Drug traffickers are killing Americans by selling …
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Statement from DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on the Increase in DEA Fentanyl Seizures Containing Xylazine

April 26, 2024
… xylazine, up from 25% in 2022.  The percentage of fentanyl pills testing positive for xylazine decreased slightly from … 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder and 79.5 million fentanyl pills in 2023. In April 2023, the White House Office of …
April 26, 2024
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Dominican National Indicted for Fentanyl Distribution While On Supervised Release For Drug Trafficking Conviction

… jury in Boston for allegedly distributing 1,000 fentanyl pills while on federal supervised release for a prior drug … identified as a drug supplier who provided fentanyl pills to a distributor and was also observed engaging in …
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San Antonio Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Smuggling Meth and Fentanyl from Mexico

… that contained a white substance and other white and blue pills.   Approximately 39 packages were removed from the … be 34.9 kgs of methamphetamine and that there were 95,417 pills containing fentanyl. Martinez stated that he had …
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Four Defendants Charged in Federal Court for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

… a package delivered via U.S. Mail containing fentanyl pills.  On July 17, 2024, Fletcher received 10,000 pills from an individual and on August 28, 2024, he received over 29,000 fentanyl pills from Garcia-Ruiz. The indictment also alleges that …
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Four Defendants Arrested on Charges They Conspired to Illegally Obtain and Distribute Oxycodone Out of a Pharmacy in Warren County

… that more than 30,000 high-dose 30 milligram oxycodone pills – known as “blues” – were illegally diverted from the … professionals and other criminals who divert these opioid pills into our communities and cause so much addiction, …
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DEA Heroin Enforcement Team, Long Island Heroin Task Force, ATF, Nassau County Police Department and Suffolk County DA team up to arrest 19 members of drug ring

… York City and sold heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, opioid pills and other controlled substances. “They also … distribution, including cooking crack cocaine and pressing pills, which are counterfeit opioids made of dangerous and … crafted to look like pharmaceutically manufactured pills,” District Attorney Sini said. Several of the …
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Rocky Mountain Field Division Removes Almost 900,000 Potentially Deadly Doses of Fentanyl from its Communities During Operation Last Mile

… in 3,337 arrests, the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than … Mountain Field Division removed more than 375,000 fentanyl pills and 25 pounds of fentanyl powder from its communities. …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… in 3,337 arrests; the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills; more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder; more than …
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Indictment Charges Alleged Darknet Marketplace Fentanyl Dealer

… fentanyl and methamphetamine. The counterfeit oxycodone pills Blair sold contained fentanyl and metonitazene; the counterfeit Adderall pills contained methamphetamine. Blair only accepted …
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Sixteen indicted in multi-state drug distribution ring

… Takedowns and seizures yield tens of thousands of fentanyl pills, firearms, and more than 150 pounds of methamphetamine … 2021, and 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 20,000 fentanyl pills were seized in a traffic stop on September 28, 2021.  …