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Southampton Town Councilman Sentenced To 24 Months In Prison For Conspiring To Illegally Distribute Oxycodone

June 24, 2016
… A. Gregovich 720-431-8836 Defendant exchanged oxycodone pills for cash and steroids CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - Earlier … those prescriptions and illegally exchanged the oxycodone pills for cash and steroids with another co-conspirator. The oxycodone pills were then re-sold to drug abusers. Troyan was arrested …
June 24, 2016
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

October 24, 2017
… 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 …
October 24, 2017
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Visalia Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

July 08, 2014
… 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 have …
July 08, 2014
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Surgeon Receives 78 Months In Prison For Distributing Oxycodone

January 25, 2016
… the distribution of tens of thousands of oxycodone pills. The announcement was made by Special Agent in Charge … filled the prescriptions and sold the oxycodone pills on the black market.  On several occasions, Gundel … with tens of thousands of deadly, addictive oxycodone pills.  Those who misuse their privilege to prescribe and …
January 25, 2016
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DEA To Hold Its Third Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Month

October 19, 2011
… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the country free of charge, no … Drug Take-Back Day events turned in more than 309 tons of pills at more than 5,300 sites manned by over 3,800 federal, …
October 19, 2011
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DEA’s Third Annual National Family Summit on Fentanyl Highlights Progress in Fight to Save Lives

November 15, 2024
… 2021, DEA has seen a decrease in the potency of fentanyl pills.The latest DEA laboratory testing indicates 5 out of 10 pills tested in 2024 contain a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. This is down from 7 out of ten pills in 2023 and 6 out of ten pills in 2022. “Decreases in …
November 15, 2024
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Prolific Drug Distributor with Lengthy Criminal Record Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Role in Drug Ring Tied to Aryan Prison Gang

August 27, 2025
… quantities of methamphetamine and thousands of fentanyl pills for distribution to his drug customers. Following one … than ten kilos of methamphetamine, 11 kilos of fentanyl pills and more than a kilo of fentanyl powder, three kilos …
August 27, 2025
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Law Enforcement Operation Results in 25 Arrests for Drug-trafficking Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

March 10, 2022
… marijuana, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, purported ecstasy pills, purported Percocet pills (believed to be counterfeit pills made with fentanyl), purported OxyContin pills, carry …
March 10, 2022
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Orlando Man Found Guilty of Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl that Resulted in Death

July 02, 2024
… at trial, Fonseca Flores and Parady sold fake “M30” pills laced with fentanyl to the victim, N.K. Between April … to be oxycodone. After some time, N.K. realized that the pills she was buying from them contained fentanyl. … again on March 31, 2022, within days of purchasing “M30” pills from Fonseca Flores, N.K. sent a text message to …
July 02, 2024
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U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak issues progress report

November 13, 2018
… Defendants were charged with distributing fake Roxicodone pills that actually contained fentanyl. The distribution of … favors, Dr. Burton supplied opioids to women who sold the pills. Dr. Burton was sentenced to eight years in federal …
November 13, 2018
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Department of Justice Announces Results of Operation Dark HunTor

October 26, 2021
… fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methamphetamine pills, and counterfeit medicine ; and 45 firearms. Darknet … are flooding the United States with deadly, fake pills, driving the U.S. overdose crisis, spurring violence, …
October 26, 2021
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Liberty County Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Methamphetamine in School Zone

April 17, 2025
… marijuana, numerous clear baggies containing red/orange pills marked “AD-30”, two pill bottles labeled as Adderall, and numerous bottles of Xanax pills. Additionally, deputies found a digital scale and …
April 17, 2025
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Port Arthur Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

May 13, 2025
… investigation, officers were able to obtain fentanyl-laced pills which Hardy had distributed.  Hardy admitted to being …
May 13, 2025
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DEA Recognizes 2025 National Fentanyl Awareness Day with Debut of Faces of Fentanyl Online Exhibit

April 25, 2025
… The Sinaloa and CJNG cartels are hiding fentanyl in fake pills that look like prescription medications, such as … applications and encrypted communications platforms to sell pills and powders that are advertised as legitimate …
April 25, 2025
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Drug Supplier From New Hampshire Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

April 06, 2025
… trafficking organization distributing fentanyl, fentanyl pills, cocaine base and methamphetamine, including counterfeit pills containing fentanyl in the Merrimack Valley areas of …
April 06, 2025
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New Orleans-area defendants plead guilty to fraudulent possession and black market distribution of oxycodone

October 22, 2018
… conspiracy resulted in approximately 10,000 oxycodone pills NEW ORLEANS – Eight New Orleans-area defendants have … resulted in the diversion of approximately 10,000 oxycodone pills on the black market.  In pleading guilty, Cabrera, … then filled at area pharmacies, and a portion of oxycodone pills obtained with those prescriptions were subsequently …
October 22, 2018
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Leader of Lawrence Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Prison

January 27, 2023
… and the courier brought the requested suspected fentanyl pills. For two of these transactions, the pills distributed by the DTO tested positive for fentanyl. For the third transaction, the pills distributed by Rodriguez Then’s DTO tested positive …
January 27, 2023
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

April 27, 2021
… than a billion potentially lethal doses).   Of counterfeit pills tested in DEA laboratories, one in four pills made with fentanyl contained a potentially lethal … more potent that morphine.    The seizure of fentanyl-laced pills along the Southwest border increased more than 89 …
April 27, 2021
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Long Island Doctor Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone

May 25, 2023
… provided prescriptions for oxycodone and hydrocodone pills to 18 of his patients without a legitimate medical … individuals who he had been warned were not taking their pills as prescribed and, in some instances, possibly … prescribed over 1.5 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, making him one of the top prescribers of those …
May 25, 2023
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Santa Clarita Man Charged with Distributing Opioid More Powerful than Fentanyl and Causing Victim’s Overdose Death

November 22, 2024
… than heroin. Collins allegedly sold the 22-year-old victim pills containing protonitazene and arranged to sell the victim a bulk supply of these pills in the future. The victim, a resident of Stevenson Ranch, consumed the pills soon afterward in the front seat of his car and …
November 22, 2024
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Thurston County Man Caught Twice with Drugs and Firearms Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

November 18, 2024
… on Graves’ home and car.  In the home they found fentanyl pills, two firearms (one of them loaded) and nearly $5,000 … car they found a third loaded firearm as well as fentanyl pills, methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin.  In the car was … On September 20, 2023, Graves was arrested with fentanyl pills, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine in his car. A …
November 18, 2024
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More Than a Dozen Individuals Indicted in Drug Trafficking Operation

July 31, 2024
… - (919) 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 Fentanyl Pills Bag.jpg kilos of cocaine.jpeg Atlanta METH.png …
July 31, 2024
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Man Who Attempted to Shoot and Kill a Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug and Firearm Charges

July 09, 2024
… pack that contained once ounce of heroin and fentanyl laced pills. The second incident occurred on June 26, 2022, when … in the shooting, detectives located thousands of fentanyl pills, a small quantity of heroin, and other drug related …
July 09, 2024
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Vermont Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute Opioids

June 14, 2024
… at their residences in Vermont. These substances included pills containing opioids Tapentadol and Tramadol, as well as … coconspirators in Bethel, Vermont and seized about 14,449 pills containing Schedule II and IV drugs. Also in June … shipping material and approximately 15,000 Zolpidem pills concealed in packages of baked goods. United States …
June 14, 2024
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DEA Releases 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment

May 09, 2024
… (mg) of fentanyl is considered a potentially fatal dose. Pills tested in DEA laboratories average 2.4 mg of fentanyl, …
May 09, 2024
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Central Oregon Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Federal Prison

April 24, 2024
… containing approximately 30,000 counterfeit Oxycodone pills that later tested positive for fentanyl. Further … 519 grams of methamphetamine, more than 1,000 fentanyl pills, 41 grams of cocaine, and nine firearms from the …
April 24, 2024
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Monroe, Washington, Resident Convicted for Role in Wide-Ranging Drug Trafficking Ring

April 23, 2024
… the car authorities found approximately 10,000 pills that contained fentanyl, more than eight kilograms of … law enforcement seized 16,000 suspected fentanyl pills, 30 pounds of suspected methamphetamine, and six …
April 23, 2024
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Final Defendant in Large Western Washington Drug Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison

April 16, 2024
… of methamphetamine, 15 pounds of heroin, 35,000 fentanyl pills, 24 firearms, and $778,000. Drug ring leader  Cesar … 1.8 kilograms of heroin, and 162.4 grams of blue fentanyl pills. Investigators also found a loaded Walther PPQ 9mm …
April 16, 2024
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Member of Skagit and Whatcom Drug Distribution Ring Sentenced to Prison

March 27, 2024
… of Witteveen’s home and car turned up turned up fentanyl pills, meth, multiple cell phones, firearms parts, and … in this case law enforcement seized: 11.5 kilos of fentanyl pills, 2.8 kilos of fentanyl powder, 5.7 kilos of cocaine, …
March 27, 2024
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Virginia Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth on the Darknet

July 12, 2022
… for conspiring to distribute between 15 and 45 kilograms of pills containing methamphetamine via the darknet. According … $482,572.10 in sales for an approximate 44,872 pills sold. As of Nov. 7, 2019, “addy4cheap” had fulfilled …
July 12, 2022