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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 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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Maryland Man Convicted of Fentanyl Distribution

… are preying on our citizens illegally distributing fake pills containing lethal amounts of fentanyl with no regard … case. Arrests/Convictions - Major Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Synthetic drugs Fentanyl Opioids Synthetic Opioids On …
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Tucson Man Sentenced to Nine Years for Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl

… On the afternoon of July 1, 2020, Pantoja provided three pills to the victim. Approximately three hours later, the … Pantoja’s residence where they located over 5,500 fentanyl pills and approximately $21,000 in cash. The Drug …
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Drug Trafficker Who Created Fortified Compound at Bellingham Homeless Encampment Pleads Guilty

… Returning from Drug Run with More Than 65,000 Fentanyl Pills – Search Uncovered Guns and More Drugs SEATTLE, Wash. … law enforcement found over seven kilos of fentanyl pills – more than 65,000 pills in all. Vasquez-Martinez …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than …
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Leominster Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Offense

… to possessing large quantities of counterfeit Adderall pills containing methamphetamine intended for distribution. … distributing significant quantities of counterfeit Adderall pills containing methamphetamine in Rhode Island. On April …
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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 Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… 3,337 arrests and the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than …
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DEA warns of methamphetamine and fentanyl drug market built by aftermath of COVID-19 in New York

… heroin-fentanyl seized May 8, 2020.jpg Meth pills seized from pill processing mill in Bronx -June 19 …
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DEA Reminds Families to Discuss the Dangers of Drugs Before Students Return to School

… consequences of experimentation. Methamphetamine and fake pill seizures remain high in Nebraska and the DEA wants to … to target youth. “We’ve seen methamphetamine pressed into pills shaped like marshmallows from cereal and fake pills …
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DEA Hosts the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 25th

… we’re helping to keep our homes and communities safe. Every pill we collect represents one less opportunity for misuse, …
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to 130 Months in Prison for Selling the Fentanyl that Resulted in Death of Young Woman

… today to 130 months in prison for selling the fentanyl pills that resulted in the fatal overdose of 23-year-old … in October 2022, admitting that she sold Gil the fentanyl pills that caused her death. According to the government’s …
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Pasco Drug Dealer Who Attempted to Assault a Richland Police Officer Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

… BMW, RPD located an additional handgun, 10,179 fentanyl pills, $72,354 in cash, a small quantity of methamphetamine, … the Richland Police Department.  ### Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Synthetic drugs Fentanyl On On Press Release Image …
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San Antonio Drug Dealer Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Fatal Fentanyl Distribution

… had been selling the drug in the form of small round blue pills disguised as oxycodone. Render had been unconscious in … sent from his phone confirmed that he had been selling the pills to multiple individuals at the time of the Render’s …
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Head of black market synthetic drug trafficking ring sentenced to 23 years

… and Sams purchased equipment and materials – including pill presses/mechanical tableting machines, microcrystalline … – which they used to manufacture tens of thousands blue pills containing furanyl fentanyl and U-47700. The pills …
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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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Fentanyl Drug Dealing Results in 10 Years in Prison

… guilty plea hearing last year, Pulido admitted that he sold pills containing fentanyl to an individual in Cape Girardeau … to Pulido at the time, the individual purchasing the pills was working as an informant for the federal Drug …
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Third Ward Narcotics Dealer Heads to Prison

… a drug house in Third Ward. Jerry sold counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl and ecstasy pills containing meth.  During the operation, authorities …
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Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Causing Fentanyl Death

… today to 25 years in prison for giving a man a fentanyl pill which caused his death. According to court documents, … death. On July 31, 2019, Ralls gave Michael Marsalla, 35, a pill that Ralls knew was laced with fentanyl. Ralls admitted … Kansas, Police Department investigated the case. Fake Pills Overdose Fentanyl On On Press Release Image Layout …
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Miami Woman Arrested on Fentanyl Charge Following Traffic Stop in Jamestown

… of the driver’s side and officers found a plastic bag of pills secreted in battery of the car. Following a more … officers recovered approximately 9 lbs. 13 oz. of blue pills, which field tested positive for the presence of …
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Third Man 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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Kennewick WA Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison

… of liquid methamphetamine and 19,000 deadly fentanyl-laced pills, along with a loaded firearm. Zavala-Alvarez was also …
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Pharmaceutical distributor and executives, pharmacists charged with unlawfully distributing painkillers

… Wholesaler allegedly distributed 3.7 million hydrocodone pills to pharmacy in town of 400 people CINCINNATI – A … and pharmacists who are allowing opioid prescription pills to be illegally sold and dispensed from their … its officials allegedly continued to distribute millions of pills to Westside, Tug Valley and other pharmacies even …
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Former Gadsden Pharmacist and City School Board Member Sentenced for Drug Distribution Conspiracy and Tax Crimes

… Midtown Pharmacy ordered at least 80,000 more oxycodone pills than the pharmacy dispensed to patients. Carter diverted opioid pills from the pharmacy and sold those pills to other drug distributors. He regularly took …
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Ocean Beach Drug Dealer Sentenced to More Than 15 Years for His Role in Fatal Overdose

… agreement, Randise admitted providing four counterfeit M-30 pills laced with fentanyl, commonly referred to as “blues,” to Lustig on December 11, 2021. These pills caused Lustig to have a fatal overdose. Randise had been selling counterfeit M-30 pills laced with fentanyl to Lustig and others for at least …
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Former Mercer County Pharmacist Charged with Illegally Distributing Oxycodone and Other Opiates from Trenton Pharmacy

… of dosage units of oxycodone, including over 800,000 pills in 2014; over 900,000 pills in 2015; over 800,000 pills in 2016; and over 200,000 pills in 2017, until the DEA …
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Teacher Resources

July 01, 2026
… and resources below to get smart about fentanyl and fake pills, then share what you have learned with your students. …
July 01, 2026
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More Than a Dozen Individuals Indicted in Drug Trafficking Operation

… - (919) 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Fentanyl Pills Bag.jpg kilos of cocaine.jpeg Atlanta METH.png …
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Two Rhode Island Men Indicted in Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

… - (603) 628-7411 Vermont Burlington - (802) 951-2900 Two pill presses and more than 50,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills seized BOSTON – Two Rhode Island men have been …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. 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. …