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DEA Revokes Two CVS Retailers’ Ability To Sell Controlled Substances

… 28, 2011, the Miami Field Division established a 24-hour “Pill Mill” tip line, which allows callers to leave … or members of the public can send an email to Florida.Pill.Mill.Tips@usdoj.gov . In addition, the Miami Field …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

… 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 …
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DEA’S National Drug Take-Back Day Collected Nearly 16 Tons In The Pacific Northwest

… Take-Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever.  After seven previous Take Back Days spread over almost four years, 780,158 - ( 390 - tons) of pills were brought to the 6,072 - collection sites that DEA …
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Riverhead Physician Assistant Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Illegally Prescribe Oxycodone

… - (914) 682-6256 Defendant Issued Prescriptions for Pills to be Sold in Exchange for Cash BROOKLYN, N.Y. - … substances, issued prescriptions for thousands of oxycodone pills to co-conspirators for the purpose of illegally …
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Southampton Town Councilman Sentenced To 24 Months In Prison For Conspiring To Illegally Distribute Oxycodone

… Westchester - (914) 682-6256 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 …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

… 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 …
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Visalia Doctor Pleads Guilty To 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 have …
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Surgeon Receives 78 Months In Prison For Distributing Oxycodone

… 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 …
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DEA To Hold Its Third Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Month

… 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, …
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Illegal Alien, Co-Leader of Nationwide Drug Trafficking Ring, Who Plotted to Kill Centralia, Washington Police Officer, Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

… Revealed Mexican National Sourced Thousands of Fentanyl Pills and Pounds of Meth from Her Family in Mexico Iris A-G … of methamphetamine, hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills and large quantities of heroin. She also laundered …
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DEA’s Third Annual National Family Summit on Fentanyl Highlights Progress in Fight to Save Lives

… 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 …
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Schenectady Man Sentenced to 330 Months for Drug Trafficking and Firearm Crimes, and for Violating Supervised Release Conditions

… machinegun, as well as more than 400 grams of fentanyl pills, more than 7,000 grams of pills containing methamphetamine, and more than 700 grams of …
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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

… 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 …
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Law Enforcement Operation Results in 25 Arrests for Drug-trafficking Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

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

… 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 …
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U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak issues progress report

… 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 …
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Department of Justice Announces Results of Operation Dark HunTor

… 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, …
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Brooklyn Woman Charged with Attempting to Steal Opioid Prescriptions from Hempstead Assisted Living Facility

… oxycodone prescriptions to a pharmacy to obtain the pills while she was working at an assisted living facility … The prescriptions were each for ninety 10mg oxycodone pills.  One of the prescriptions was written for a resident … was seen on surveillance video allegedly placing oxycodone pills into a brown paper bag, carrying it out of the office, …
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Four Bergen County Residents Charged for Roles in Drug Trafficking Ring

… 1,675 grams of psilocybin mushrooms, 38,337 Adderall pills, five pounds of marijuana, 332 Xanax pills, 42 oxycodone pills and $520,000 were seized. The case …
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Alaska Woman Sentenced to 10 Years for Trafficking Drugs to Savoonga, a Rural Alaska Community

… opened the parcel and found over 3,000 illicit fentanyl pills. A few weeks later, law enforcement officials … search warrant and found over 4,000 illicit fentanyl pills.  In February 2023, law enforcement officials learned …
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Texas health care fraud and opioid takedown results in charges against 58

… involved in Medicare fraud schemes and networks of “pill mill” clinics resulting in $66 million in loss and 6.2 million pills. Of those charged, 16 were doctors or medical …
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Liberty County Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Methamphetamine in School Zone

… 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 …
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Port Arthur Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

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

… 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 …
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Drug Supplier From New Hampshire Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

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

… 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 …
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Leader of Lawrence Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Prison

… 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 …
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… 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 …
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Long Island Doctor Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone

… 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 …
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Santa Clarita Man Charged with Distributing Opioid More Powerful than Fentanyl and Causing Victim’s Overdose Death

… 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 …