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DEA Medford, Grants Pass Police and Oregon State Police Dismantle Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring in Southern Oregon

…  DEA laboratory testing indicates seven out of every 10 pills seized by DEA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl.  One …
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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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Former Maricopa County Deputy Public Defender Sentenced for Drug Trafficking

… of two pounds of methamphetamine for $3,600 and 4,000 M30 pills for $10,000 from an undercover Drug Enforcement … RELEASE NUMBER:    2024-055_Nyemba Drug Trafficking Fake Pills On On Press Release Image Layout Landscape …
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DEA Recognizes First Ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day

… to the Pacific Northwest in the form of counterfeit pills. “The DEA works every day to prevent overdose deaths …
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Two Members Of Manchester-Based Drug Ring Sentenced To Lengthy Prison Terms

… the use of cooperating individuals to purchase oxycodone pills, as well as the use of wiretaps and search warrants.  … as Raul Hernandez attempted to deliver over 600 oxycodone pills to the residence of Samuel Garcia and Jennifer Nunez … was executed at that residence and over 800 additional pills, as well as over $30,000 in cash, and three firearms …
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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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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 … arrests and the seizure of more than 1.3 million fentanyl pills, 100 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than 200 pounds …
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DEA Surge Targets Sinaloa Cartel Networks Worldwide

… 480 kilograms of fentanyl powder, 714,707 counterfeit pills, 2,209 kilograms of methamphetamine, 7,469 kilograms …
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Seven Indicted In Broward Pharmacy Takedown

… operating out of Miami, as well as prescriptions from “pill mill” doctors. During the time period April 2009 … pharmacies. It took in nearly $2 million in cash for these pills. A review of the prescriptions seized from the … and local counterparts have been investigating those in the 'pill mill' industry, we also have rogue pharmacies in our …
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Two more opioid dealers sentenced for their role in large drug conspiracy

… Elford and Hill were street-level dealers of blue pills containing furanyl fentanyl in the Elmira area. The blue pills were manufactured by the leaders of the organization – … – and made to look like legitimate 30 milligram Percocet pills.   Elford and Hill each admitted to selling pills to …
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Queens Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud and Narcotics Distribution

… he was a pharmacist and distributed over 10,000 oxycodone pills BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in … in harm’s way and introduced thousands of Oxycodone pills into the community during an opioid epidemic,” said … “After inappropriately and dangerously dispensing opioid pills and stealing from Medicare and Medicaid, Hussnain has …
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Defendants Charged with Distributing Fentanyl that Resulted in Overdose Death of Carlsbad Woman

… a chunk of a white substance. Officers also located blue pills on the kitchen counter with “M30” stamped on them. The foil and pills both tested positive for the presence of fentanyl. …
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DEA & MPD Issue Public Safety Alert on Mass Overdose Events Across D.C. Metro Area

… - (540) 662-5879 Fentanyl Lab Testing Counterfeit Percocet Pill Washington, D.C., -- Today, the Drug Enforcement … – often sold as street drugs like cocaine or counterfeit pills – are causing a number of mass overdose events, along …
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Notorious Mexican Cartel Leader Convicted for International Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

… made plans to “do it big” with counterfeit oxycontin pills—just before the fentanyl epidemic began in the United … to release only after the man agreed to make fentanyl pills for Oseguera-Gonzalez. Oseguera-Gonzalez also amassed …
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Fresno man sentenced to 3 years in prison for selling fentanyl to a minor

… 2020, Garcia-Palacio distributed counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl to a juvenile student at Bullard High School. That juvenile used one of the pills, overdosed, but survived after receiving life-saving … Garcia-Palacio’s residence and found additional fentanyl pills. He was charged with distributing fentanyl to a person …
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Oklahoma Files First Degree Murder on Drug Dealer

… Jerry Leflore, 32, is accused of selling fake Oxycodone pills that contained Fentanyl to two individuals, one who … A controlled, undercover investigation, where Leflore sold pills that tested positive for Fentanyl to a law enforcement …
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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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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… - whether laced in heroin or disguised in counterfeit pills,” said DEA Chicago Division Special Agent in Charge … 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 …
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Several Million Dollars’ Worth of Narcotics Including Fentanyl Seized in Mount Vernon

… - (914) 682-6256 38 Kilograms of Fentanyl, 25,000 Fentanyl Pills, and $35,000 of Drug Proceeds 26,000 fentanyl pill, 48 …
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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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Seattle Man Pleads Guilty to Dealing Fentanyl While Armed with a Handgun

… drug rings that import hundreds of thousands of pills, as well as individual dealers whose criminal conduct … downtown Seattle on August 4, 2022. After selling fentanyl pills to an undercover officer, Austin attempted to run from …
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U.S. Attorneys And Federal Law Enforcement Leaders Conduct Summit To Target Heroin And Opioid Trafficking And Overdose Epidemic

… to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region.  The effort was announced … to the national epidemic of heroin and prescription pill abuse that has hit Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, … organizations that distribute heroin and prescription pills and by increasing prevention and educational …
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Over 20 Pounds of Narcotics and a Gun Seized in the Bronx

… including what appeared to be heroin/fentanyl and oxycodone pills, as well as methamphetamine. CARLOS TORRES and a … found in the hallway and in the ceiling. A bag of oxycodone pills was recovered from a filing cabinet in the living …
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DEA Rolls Out Operation Engage

… Division seized just under 120,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills which were in fact fentanyl pills. In 2020, that number increased tenfold to 1.2 million …
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DEA Releases 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment

… DEA.gov .    # # # Diversion Division Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness Intelligence Division - …
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DEA El Paso Division Safety Bulletin

… this safety bulletin to remind the public not to purchase pills or medications from street dealers. Recently DEA El Paso learned that certain pills, which are being sold on the street and have similar …
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Long Island Doctor Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… 682-6256 Dr. William Conway issued over 782,000 oxycodone pills illegally to patients; two patients died of oxycodone … 5,554 oxycodone prescriptions - for a total of 782,032 pills - to numerous individuals. During the execution of a …
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Two North Sound men indicted for trafficking fentanyl

… - (509) 374-3444 Yakima - (509) 454-4407 Men pressed pills into fake oxycodone, stashed more than $1 Million & … scheme to traffic fentanyl disguised as fake oxycodone pills in Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom Counties. Bradley … found three bags each containing 1,000 fake oxycodone pills. Thompson also had more than $8,000 in cash. Law …
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DEA and Federal Partners Support Continuity of Patient Treatment

December 28, 2023
… to select patients who then sold a portion of those pills for a profit, with the expectation they would share …
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Five Defendants Charged in Drug Conspiracy Operating in Pawley’s Island

… 790-3004 Wilmington - (910) 815-4513 250,000 fake M-30 pills containing fentanyl 250,000 fake M-30 pills containing fentanyl, seized by DEA and our state and …