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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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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 …
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El Paso Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Dealing Fentanyl, Causing Death

… Adrian David Perez Jr., 21, sold counterfeit M-30 pills laced with fentanyl to an individual on Oct. 13, 2021. The individual consumed the pills and his mother found him deceased the following day. …
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El Paso Man to Spend 15 Years in Federal Prison for Dealing Deadly Fentanyl

… Michael Joseph Cuccaro, 22, sold counterfeit M-30 oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a purchaser on Dec. 11, 2022. The purchaser consumed the pills and died from fentanyl poisoning. A federal grand jury …
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Stratford Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Meth and Oxycodone

… seized approximately 967 grams of methamphetamine in both pill form and powder form, approximately 13 grams of oxycodone pills; other prescription pills, more than six pounds of …
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Man Sentenced for Sale of Fentanyl and Illegal Possession of Firearms

… 142 months in prison for selling counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl in addition to illegally … 2020 through June of 2021, Perez sold nearly 1,000 pills containing fentanyl to an undercover law enforcement …
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Alexandria Man Convicted of Armed Fentanyl Trafficking

… conspired with others to distribute counterfeit, pressed pills containing fentanyl, as well as Eutylone, which is a designer drug similar in character to MDMA. Pills distributed by the conspiracy twice on December 20, …
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Eastern Washington Fentanyl Trafficker Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Prison

… trailer. Law enforcement sized approximately 5,000 fentanyl pills, several ounces of methamphetamine, digital scales, 2 … to be stolen, .45 caliber ammunition, 50 fentanyl-laced pills, two plastic bags containing methamphetamine, and a …
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Repeat Offender Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison

… engaged in the distribution of deadly fentanyl-laced pills and methamphetamine in the Eastern District of … and law enforcement seized thousands of fentanyl-laced pills, methamphetamine, and several loaded firearms. “This …
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Providence Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Firearm and Drug Trafficking Charges

… and arranged to sell the gun buyer methamphetamine pills. Subsequently, she made at least two deliveries of pills to the buyer, totaling more than 244 grams. The person …
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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 … today, flooding our communities with fentanyl and fake pills and killing our friends and loved ones in record …
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Idaho Woman Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute 15 Pounds of Fentanyl

… between 12 and 15 pounds of fentanyl (approximately 60,000 pills) on a weekly basis for local distribution. In return … was arrested on June 7, 2022, she had over 30,000 fentanyl pills (approximately seven pounds), nearly eight pounds of …
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Arizona Woman Charged for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin on I-5 in Oregon

… trafficking approximately 45,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and several additional pounds of … and found more than 10 pounds of counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and five and half pounds of bulk …
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Oklahoma Couple Charged with Second-Degree Murder in Child’s Fentanyl Overdose Death

… detectives reported finding three blue tablets in a plastic pill bottle labeled for Brooks, the victim’s mother, hidden … young and innocent as well. Simply put, these counterfeit pills kill people and destroy families. I appreciate the …
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Two Malden Men Indicted For Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

… MDMA crystals, cocaine, doses of LSD and nearly 10,000 pills suspected to include thousands of methamphetamine pills pressed to resemble Adderall or Xanax; thousands of fentanyl pills pressed to resemble oxycodone; thousands of MDMA …
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Florencia 13 Gang Member Sentenced to 160 Months in Federal Prison

… responsible for the distribution of thousands of deadly pills containing fentanyl in early 2019.  A partner of Leon, … s apartment was searched in March of 2019 where 5000 pills containing fentanyl, one pound of heroin, over $20,000 … conduct to include the distribution of large quantities of pills containing fentanyl and heroin.  Even after his …
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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 …