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DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

… the search window, or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the … combined.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household … firearms.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
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DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… collected nationwide. That’s more than a quarter pound of pills for each of the 25 million children aged 12 to 17 in America, pills that won’t result in abuse or overdose.   The public … their zip code .  Or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

… have been collected. That’s more than a quarter pound of pills for each of the 25 million children aged 12 to 17 in America, pills that won’t result in abuse or overdose.  DEA San Diego … service is free of charge, with no questions asked. Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the …
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Visalia Doctor Sentenced For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

… for abuse, and users will often crush and snort the pills or dissolve and inject them to get an immediate high. … cards. After obtaining the oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, the defendants shipped the pills to other states. Eight defendants in that case pleaded …
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Long Beach Man Sentenced To 6 Years & 4 Months In Prison For Trafficking Oxycodone And Hydrocodone

… for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and hydrocodone pills. According to court documents, in April 11, 2013, Chim … pharmacies in Modesto, and then transported and mailed the pills to others involved in the conspiracy in Washington … on the black market. After illegally selling the pills, the defendants deposited the cash proceeds of the …
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Hobbs Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

… possessing three firearms and approximately 3,800 fentanyl pills. Less than a month later, on November 9, 2023, agents … backpack and vehicle search approximately 10,000 fentanyl pills, over 827 grams of pure methamphetamine, and four …
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DEA and Local "Trifecta" Partnership Announce 70% Reduction in Fentanyl Deaths, Proving Blueprint for 'Fentanyl Free America'

… and Justice The "Trifecta" model stands on three pillars: 1. Transnational Disruption: Focused on breaking … (LA, AL, AR, & MS) seized nearly 1.25 million fentanyl pills (187 kilograms), contributing to the national total of …
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Bristol, Tennessee, Man Sentenced to Over 24 Years for Fentanyl Distribution Related to an Overdose Death

… sales of fentanyl-laced, counterfeit Roxicodone 30mg pills to a confidential informant.   On April 1, 2024, … quantity of fentanyl-laced, counterfeit Roxicodone 30mg pills and $13,754 in cash, as well as more than 130 …
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Wilson Man Sentenced to 10 Years on Fentanyl and Firearm Charges

… - (910) 815-4513 Fentanyl 2.jpg Bag of seized fentanyl pills. NEW BERN, N.C. – A Wilson man was sentenced Wednesday … conducted a search of Freeman’s house and located fentanyl pills and firearms. One of the firearms seized was equipped …
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Three More Indicted in Drug-trafficking Conspiracy

… marijuana, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, purported ecstasy pills, purported Percocet pills (believed to be counterfeit pills made with fentanyl), and purported OxyContin pills. …
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First of Six-Member Drug Trafficking Ring Bringing Hundreds of Pounds of Narcotics to Western Washington Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison

… transport massive quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl pills, cocaine and heroin was sentenced today in U.S. … kilograms of heroin, more than five kilograms of fentanyl pills and more than six kilograms of cocaine. There were two …
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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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Coordinated Law Enforcement Operations Lead to Takedown of Portland-Area Transnational Drug Trafficking Cells

… - (509) 454-4407 Seized 200,000 Counterfeit Oxycodone Pills Suspected to Contain Fentanyl PORTLAND, Ore .—In … the seizure of approximately 200,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills suspected to contain fentanyl, two pounds of fentanyl …
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Atlanta News 2010

July 15, 2021
… Fifty Defendants Charged in Large-Scale Claiborne County "Pill Mill" Conspiracy December 21, 2010 Operators and … and Accomplice Charged with Illegally Distributing Pain Pills in Atlanta November 1, 2010 More Than One Pound …
July 15, 2021
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Multi-Agency Law Enforcement Operation Tackles Gun Violence In Miami-Dade County

… --1,728 grams cocaine --634 grams heroin --2473 MDMA pills --2874 Oxycodone pills --15,208 grams of marijuana --5 bullet proof vests --576 Percocet pills --10 Morphine pills      DEA Special Agent in Charge …
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Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

… estimates, Florida prescribes ten times more oxycodone pills than all other states combined. Each day, individuals … our efforts on those pharmacies who are churning out pills that are fraudulently prescribed at area pain clinics. …
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Grand Jury Returns 77-Count Indictment Against Nassau Cardiologist For Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Rival Doctor

… but we see criminal organizations selling diverted pills on the street; an increase in Medicaid fraud; and … police investigation involving the purchase of Oxycodone pills led to the additional undercover purchases of two … that the assault weapons and prescriptions for the pills were originally acquired and transferred to the seller …
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Michigan Man Sentenced to 22 1/2 Years for Controlled Substance Offenses

… Perry. The group worked together to distribute fentanyl pills throughout Michigan City over a period of … City, and Melvin would transport tens of thousands of pills from the Detroit area to Michigan City for further … enforcement seized approximately 10,000 of these fentanyl pills during its investigation.    Last year, the other …
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Teacher Resources

January 30, 2026
… and resources below to get smart about fentanyl and fake pills, then share what you have learned with your students. …
January 30, 2026
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Mexican National Who Supervised a Drug Trafficking Organization Operating in Orville, Washington, Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

… Rainbow fentanyl seized by investigators Seized fentanyl pills, fake M-30s. Download Original Image Seized fentanyl pills, fake M-30s. Drugs and firearms seized during the …
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International law enforcement operation targeting opioid traffickers on the Darknet results in over 170 arrests worldwide and the seizure of weapons, drugs and over $6.5 million

… 11 pounds of methamphetamine and 14 pounds of pills pressed with methamphetamine. Andres Bermudez, 37, of … of more than one million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and laundered approximately $2.8 million over the …
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Hobbs Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Chase that led to Fentanyl and Meth Bust

… vehicle traveling in Hobbs, New Mexico, contained fentanyl pills and methamphetamine. Agents located the vehicle and … was executed, revealing approximately 425 grams of fentanyl pills, 98 net grams of pure methamphetamine and three …
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Asylum Grantee Sent to Prison for Role in Fentanyl Conspiracy

… 987 grams of fentanyl powder and 4,568 fentanyl pills, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) … later seized 987 grams of fentanyl powder and 4,568 pills weighing 450.9 grams, which also contained fentanyl.   …
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Fresno County Resident Charged with Federal Gun and Drug Crimes

… baggies, vials containing fentanyl, more than 200 fentanyl pills, and more than 100 alprazolam pills. A search of Yama’s residence on the same day revealed … of the car resulted in the seizure of more alprazolam pills, ammunition, and a ghost gun. Prior to September 2020, …
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Remove Unneeded Prescriptions, Prevent Addiction

… Wyoming Casper - (307) 261-6200 Cheyenne - (307) 778-1500 Pills and Poster- Take Back DENVER  – The Drug Enforcement …
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Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl That Caused Fatal Overdose

… guilty today, Carder admitted that he distributed four blue pills that appeared to be oxycodone, but which were … early hours of June 20, 2021, C.L. used one of the fentanyl pills he obtained from Carder. Later that morning, C.L.’s …
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Jamestown Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy

… in U.S. currency, fentanyl, methamphetamine, morphine pills, hydrocodone pills, buprenorphine pills, psilocybin mushrooms, cellphones, suboxone strips, …
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Reno Resident Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

… of methamphetamine and 1,000 counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills out of the vehicle. He then crashed the vehicle into a … to the seizure of several hundred counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills and approximately four pounds of methamphetamine. In …
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California Couple Sentenced to Prison for Mail Order Drug Trafficking

… behalf. The drugs included Schedule II opioids and pills (appearing to be Adderall) containing methamphetamine. … months, the Kaisers possessed or mailed more than 169,000 pills and funneled more than $500,000 from customers to the …
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Venezuelan National Arrested With Large Load of Drugs

… as a possible controlled substance; five bags of fentanyl pills – approximately 5,000 pills in all; and two bags of black tar substance appearing …