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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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Idaho Dentist Pleads Guilty To Prescription Drug Fraud

… prescription at a pharmacy and return the majority of the pills to Akhtar. Sometimes Akhtar provided the person … the person picking up the prescription kept some of the pills. According to the plea agreement, Akhtar admitted that …
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Eagle Dentist Sentenced For Prescription Drug Fraud

… prescription at a pharmacy and return the majority of the pills to Akhtar. Sometimes Akhtar provided the person … the person picking up the prescription kept some of the pills. On November 4, 2013, Akhtar pleaded guilty to two …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Meets A Growing Need For Northern California Residents

… Take Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever during the April 26, 2014 event.  Federal, … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Take Back Days are presently needed because the …
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Eighth Defendant Sentenced For Drug Trafficking And Conducting Illegal Cash Transactions

… pharmacies in Modesto, and then transported or mailed the pills to Washington for distribution on the black market. After illegally selling the pills, the defendants then deposited the cash proceeds of …
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Two More Guilty Pleas Entered In Vallejo-Based Drug Trafficking Indictments

… lyrics glorify and promote the use and distribution of MDMA pills. In April 2012, agents arrested a total of 25 … the investigation, agents seized approximately 45,000 MDMA pills, four pounds of crack cocaine, two pounds of heroin, …
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Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Public Service Announcements Launched In New York

… drugs are safer than illicit drugs, are abusing pills at an alarming rate.  One in four teens has misused or … medicine cabinet is the number-one source of prescription pills for teens and young adults. The PSAs can be found …
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Public Response To DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Keeps Growing

… Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected more pills than the previous one, demonstrating the American … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Shortly after DEA’s first Take-Back Day event …
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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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 …
December 28, 2023
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July 15, 2021
… Convicted of Illegally Selling 10 Million Hydrocodone Pills June 30, 2008 26th - Annual IDecember to be held in …
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Delano Man Sentenced to 6 Years and 8 Months in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl

… Morfin Villa with approximately 2,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to sell.  On Aug. 14, 2023, Morfin … prosecuted the case. Arrests/Convictions - Major Fake Pills Seizures (Drugs/Property) Synthetic drugs Fentanyl …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison for Role in Drug Conspiracy

… others possessed approximately 40 kilograms of powder and pills containing fentanyl and more than 55 pounds of … NUMBER:    2025-079_Montano-Peralta Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guilty Plea Fentanyl Methamphetamine On On Press …
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Hartford Man Pleads Guilty to Oxycodone Distribution and Gun Possession Offenses

… and a co-conspirator were illegally selling oxycodone pills that were prescribed to his co-conspirator.  In August … 2024, investigators made controlled purchases of oxycodone pills from Benitez and his co-conspirator. Benitez was …
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New Jersey nurse charged with drug and weapons offenses

… search warrants resulted in the location and seizure of pills and powder (suspected Adderal), prescription washing materials, assorted pill bottles, U.S. currency, a vehicle, and 30 firearms to …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

… on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs.  DEA supports the efforts of … mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs—in powder and pill form—to drive addiction and create repeat customers. …
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Webster Man Going to Prison on Drug and Gun Charges

… 572 grams of marijuana packaged for sale, 83 oxycodone pills, a scale, a loaded 22-gauge shotgun, and a box of … various THC products packaged for sale, 85 clonazepam pills, and a scale. In addition, on December 4, 2020, law …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

… on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs.  DEA supports the efforts of … mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs—in powder and pill form—to drive addiction and create repeat customers. …
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DEA launches Secure Your Meds campaign, calls on Americans to medication safe

… Oklahoma City - (405) 475-7500 Tulsa - (918) 459-9600 PILLS_0.jpg No Vaping_0.jpg DALLAS – With families …
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Providence Man Sentenced on Federal Drug and Firearm Charges

… of more than 500 grams of cocaine and 100 fentanyl pills, and who, as a previously convicted felon, was … an additional quantity cocaine, approximately 100 fentanyl pills, $1,180 in cash, several magazines, and ammunition. …
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Six Arrested in Multi-Jurisdictional Fentanyl Takedown

… that distributed fentanyl and counterfeit oxycodone pills in and around the Andover and Lawrence areas. The … guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Fake Pills Drug Trafficking Oxycodone On On …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

… on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs. DEA supports the efforts of … mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs—in powder and pill form—to drive addiction and create repeat customers. …
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Grocery Store Pharmacists Help Put St. Louis Man in Prison

… Used Fraud to Obtain Over 1,500 Oxycodone Pills ST. LOUIS – Derek J. Petty of St. Louis was sentenced … were caught, Petty and Price obtained over 1,500 oxycodone pills unlawfully. At the time of the conspiracy, Petty was …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

… on the serious dangers of fentanyl poisoning from fake pills and other illicit drugs.  DEA supports the efforts of … mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs—in powder and pill form—to drive addiction and create repeat customers. …
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Several Million Dollars’ Worth of Narcotics Including Fentanyl Seized in Mount Vernon

… 720-431-8836 38 Kilograms of Fentanyl, 25,000 Fentanyl Pills, and $35,000 of Drug Proceeds WHITE PLAINS, NY – … District Attorney’s Office. Approximately 25,000 pills alleged to be fentanyl, many marked “M30,” and an …
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Pasco Drug Dealer Who Attempted to Assault a Richland Police Officer Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

… BMW, RPD located an additional handgun, 10,179 fentanyl pills, $72,354 in cash, a small quantity of methamphetamine, … the Richland Police Department.  ### Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Synthetic drugs Fentanyl On On Press Release Image …
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El Paso Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Dealing Fentanyl

… documents, Victor Arellano, 40, delivered 1,000 fentanyl pills to an undercover agent in exchange for $1,500 on or … case. ### Arrests/Convictions - Major Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Seizures (Drugs/Property) Synthetic drugs Fentanyl …
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Phoenix Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 151 Months After Agents Seize Over 90 Pounds of Fentanyl and Over 40 Pounds of Cocaine from Stash House

… Administration (DEA) agreed to purchase 150,000 fentanyl pills (approximately 15 kilograms) from a member of a drug … Scope, approximately 34 kilograms (74.9 pounds) of blue pills stamped M30 which contained fentanyl, 8 kilograms …