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Federal Authorities Announce 11 Cases Charging Alleged Drug Dealers with Providing Opioids that Led to Fatal Overdoses

… Bill Bodner. “Drug dealers who market and sell counterfeit pills via online marketplace and social media platforms may … being indicted on Tuesday on one count of distributing pills containing fentanyl that led to the death of a … Wednesday. Boukhanian allegedly sold counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl on August 27, 2020 to a Woodland …
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Sweeping DEA Operation Targets Pharmacy Burglaries and the Illegal Sale of Addictive Prescription Medications

… “Diversion of Adderall and other prescription stimulants pills to persons who have no medical need only exacerbates … have a legal obligation to account for every dose and every pill to protect the safety and health of the American …
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Hospice Nurse Pleads Guilty To Prescription Opioid Conspiracy Charges

… report suspicions that Ulibarri was engaged in prescription pill diversion.  The employer became suspicious because … and because Ulibarri was picking up patients’ prescription pills at Federal Express instead of having the medication …
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DEA Seizures of Heroin and Fentanyl Increase Across North Dakota in 2020

… in North Dakota since 2016.  Found primarily in counterfeit pills, but on occasion in powder form, just two milligrams … a lethal dose.  “The people making these counterfeit pills are by no means careful in their measurements,” DEA …
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Two Plead Guilty In Heroin And Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

… of which disguised as pharmaceutical-grade prescription pills, into the Worcester community and profit off of … was identified by investigators selling purported oxycodone pills, which were later determined to be counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, at Albino’s Market in Worcester. …
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Central Oregon Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Federal Prison

… 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 …
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Two Key Players in Arlington, Washington, Drug Ring Sentenced to Prison

… of methamphetamine, 15 pounds of heroin, 35,000 fentanyl pills, 24 firearms, and $778,000. Drug ring leader Cesar … close to one kilogram of heroin, thousands of fentanyl pills, $115,000 in cash drug proceeds, and 19 firearms. That …
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Four Charged In Large Scale Heroin/Fentanyl Trafficking Ring

… operation in Boston and on Cape Cod. Hundreds of fentanyl pills designed to look like oxycodone pills were allegedly trafficked by the defendants. Alex … to Cape Cod and removed suspected deadly fentanyl-laced pills from the streets. Those pills would have put lives at …
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Monroe, Washington, Resident Convicted for Role in Wide-Ranging Drug Trafficking Ring

… 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 …
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Prolific Snohomish County fentanyl dealer sentenced to 15 years in prison

… on December 12, 2019, of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl pills, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and … dozens of individuals dealing thousands of fentanyl pills onto the streets of the north sound communities that …
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Lone American Living in Tukwila Indicted in International Drug Trafficking Investigation Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

… the investigation, law enforcement seized 84,000 fentanyl pills, more than a kilogram of fentanyl powder, 32 kilograms … against criminal networks. ###   Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons OCDETF/Task Force Seizures …
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Three Plead Guilty to Conspiracy Involving 15 Kilograms of Cocaine

… pleaded guilty to distributing thousands of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. Linette Davila, 42, of Methuen, … Pena Arias sold more than 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to an undercover officer. The same …
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Final Defendant in Large Western Washington Drug Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison

… 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 …
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Digital Health Company Cofounder/CEO and Clinical President Convicted in $100M Adderall Distribution and Health Care Fraud Scheme

… from investors by providing easy access to over 40 million pills of Adderall and other stimulants in exchange for …
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Gang Leader Sentenced To 50 Years For Prescription Drug Trafficking

… illegally obtained large quantities oxycodone prescription pills in Los Angeles and utilized female couriers to transport the pills to Spokane for distribution on the street. At the …
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Online drug dealer pleads guilty in fentanyl overdose death

… guilty in federal court yesterday, admitting that he sold pills containing fentanyl to a La Jolla man, causing his … online advertisements for the illegal sale of prescription pills. The victim responded to one of Lucas’ posts in 2017 and began purchasing various prescription pills from him.   According to his plea agreement, on the …
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Community Event
June 28, 2022
June 28, 2022

Town Hall Meeting

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (EDT)
Kansas City, KS
Join DEA and the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department on June 28 to learn how counterfeit pills and fentanyl are threatening our community. In addition to DEA and KCKPD explaining how this dangerous drug is infiltrating the region, you will hear from Libby Davis, who lost her 16 year old...
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DEA, HIDTA, and 18th Judicial District Announce Takedown of Colorado Based Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Drug Trafficking Organization

… of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, has … corroborates the alarming trend in counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl flooding our streets, as well as …
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Kentucky Man Receives 20 Year Prison Sentence For Distributing Powerful Opiate Fentanyl That Resulted In Overdose Death

… Dewayne Garrett sold fentanyl that was disguised as a pain pill LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Versailles, Kentucky, man, who … to distributing fentanyl, that was disguised as a pain pill and caused the overdose death of a Woodford County … a deadly drug, that killed a woman who was seeking a pain pill,” said Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern …
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Cape Cod Brothers Convicted In Oxycodone Trafficking Scheme

… involving hundreds of thousands of 30-milligram oxycodone pills which were distributed on Cape Cod and generated over … to New England, first by plane and later by car. Once the pills were brought to numerous area hotels or conspirators’ …
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Virginia dentist running elaborate prescription scheme, reported to DEA tip line, sentenced

… patients, wrote illegal prescriptions for over 40,000 oxy pills NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Beach dentist was sentenced … to distribute prescription opioids and muscle relaxant pills without a legitimate medical purpose. According to … to prescribe opioids such as hydrocodone and oxycodone pills for his personal use and the use of his …
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Three in Albuquerque Charged with Possessing, Trafficking Methamphetamine and Fentanyl

… allegedly sold “blues,” which are counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, as well as fentanyl pills manufactured in Albuquerque using a pill press …
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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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U.S. Attorney's Office and DEA Announce Federal Charges Against Albuquerque Based Drug Trafficking Organization

… with the DTO. Agents seized approximately 715,000 fentanyl pills, over seven kilograms of cocaine, and multiple … Rubalcaba alone, agents allegedly found 660,000 fentanyl pills, three kilograms of cocaine, and five firearms, two of …
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Member of Skagit and Whatcom Drug Distribution Ring Sentenced to Prison

… 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, …
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“Operation Bread, White and Blues” shuts down drug distribution ring in Orange and Rockland Counties

… which was sold, and “blues” to represent the blue colored pills which were being trafficked MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. – … cocaine, and another of which involves the sale of narcotic pills which were represented to contain oxycodone, but which … which was sold, and “blues” to represent the blue colored pills which were being trafficked. Most of the defendants …
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‘Avengers’ actor Jeremy Renner joins forces with 750 students for purposeful Northern Nevada Opioid Youth Summit

… with multiple partners, is part of the DEA’s ‘One Pill Can Kill’ campaign. This national outreach effort and … they may make in the future. Information about counterfeit pills, overdoses, and community resources were provided in … by a total of 46 sponsors. ### Fentanyl Awareness One Pill Can Kill Outreach/Drug Prevention Prescription Drugs …
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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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Ohio Men Sentenced for Burglarizing Illinois and Missouri Pharmacies of Controlled Substances

… several pharmacies of oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine pills with intent to illegally distribute the controlled … in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and took more than 16,000 pills. After burglarizing the pharmacies, Allen admitted to …
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Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty for Attempting to Sell Fentanyl

… sell to a customer, 1,000 counterfeit OxyContin/oxycodone pills containing fentanyl for the negotiated price of … customer asked the vehicle occupants whether they had the pills, Rockmore motioned towards a bag on his lap and stated …