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Blind Rapper Who Goes by ‘Mac Wayne’ Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Drug Distribution

… ring distributing heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl pills in Pierce, King, Snohomish, and Lewis Counties.  The … 15 pounds of heroin, 35,000 suspected fentanyl pills, 24 firearms, approximately $525,000, and a bank … 20 pounds of heroin, and more than 7,000 suspected fentanyl pills. Frisby was heard on the wiretap ordering up pound …
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Southampton Town Councilman Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Illegally Distribute Oxycodone

… Westchester - (914) 682-6256 Defendant exchanged oxycodone pills for cash and steroids BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Bradley Bender, … those prescriptions, and illegally exchanged the oxycodone pills for cash and steroids with another co-conspirator. The …
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Queens Pharmacist Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Illegally Distributing Oxycodone and Filing False Tax Returns

… New York, announced the charges. “From pharmacist to pill pusher, Daniel Russo betrayed his years of medical … for oxycodone and dispense thousands of oxycodone pills in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars in …
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Riverhead Physician Assistant Arrested For 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 re-selling the pills for cash. Troyan was captured on video in an …
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West L.A. Pharmacy Owners Arrested On Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Charges For Diverting Prescription Drugs To Black Market

… seized parcels containing thousands of hidden oxycodone pills that the brothers attempted to ship to customers in … quantities of drugs, including nearly 100,000 oxycodone pills, as well as tens of thousands of pills of (commonly …
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Harbor Area Man Arraigned on Federal Indictment Alleging He Knowingly Sold Fentanyl to Two Victims, One of Whom Later Died

… day, Doss also knowingly and intentionally distributed 45 pills containing this powerful drug, according to the … using couriers, supplied Doss with fentanyl powder, pills containing fentanyl, and cocaine. Doss, acting at the …
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Manhattan Doctor Illegally Sold Painkiller Prescriptions To Drug Trafficking Organization

… wrote out prescriptions for oxycodone - typically for 180 pills at 30 mg strength - without ever having met or treated … in the new indictment relate to 42 prescriptions for pills with an approximate street value of more than … assist him in recruiting runners and collecting oxycodone pills once the prescriptions had been filled. Investigators …
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Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Distributing Fentanyl that Caused Two Fatal Overdoses

… the drug. Just three months later, he sold 10 fentanyl pills to Jesse, who died the next morning. This shows a …
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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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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration To Participate in National Night Out Events Across the Country

… that make each of our communities unique.    One Pill Can Kill Outreach/Drug Prevention On On Press Release …
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Syracuse Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug and Firearm Crimes

… of DeWitt, he possessed a parcel containing 1,024 grams of pills containing fentanyl, which had been mailed through the … Wallace admitted that he intended to distribute these pills, and other quantities of fentanyl that he possessed in …
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Former Long Island Doctor Pleads Guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

… prescribed thousands of highly addictive oxycodone pills to two individuals identified in the indictment as … a legitimate medical necessity. Ammar prescribed oxycodone pills to John Doe 1, knowing that he intended to sell the pills to others. In addition, after learning that John Doe 2 …
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Leader of Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking, Firearms Possession, and Money Laundering Charges

… 15 pounds of heroin, 35,000 suspected fentanyl pills, 24 firearms, approximately $525,000, and a bank … nearly 6 kilos of heroin, and nearly 2 kilos of fentanyl pills, much of it buried underground.  On the property, …
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Sands Point Cardiologist Sentenced For Vicious Assault-for-Hire Plot Against Rival Doctor

… injured or killed an innocent man, we shut down an illegal pill distribution scheme and halted the trafficking of … police investigation involving the purchase of Oxycodone pills led to the additional undercover purchases of two …
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Staten Island Physician’s Assistant Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Massive Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

… prescriptions for more than 125,000 30-milligram oxycodone pills to individuals claiming to be “patients” and on a … unnecessary prescriptions for more than 125,000 oxycodone pills to fake ‘patients.’ His guilty plea today ensures that …
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New York Man Pleads Guilty to Multi-Drug Conspiracy

… conspired with others to transport fentanyl and 1,000 pills containing controlled substances from New York to … contained additional controlled substances. In total, 938 pills were recovered containing fentanyl, or a mixture of …
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West Los Angeles Pharmacy Owners Found Guilty In National Illegal Prescription Drug Trafficking Scheme

… shipments that contained thousands of hidden oxycodone pills that the Kabov brothers had shipped to customers in … 2014, the pharmacy ordered nearly 100,000 oxycodone pills, yet it reported only half of those pills to state authorities who track prescription drug sale. …
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Alameda resident sentenced for selling prescription drugs without a license and related charges

… 10, 2017, the defendant posted a photograph of alprazolam pills on his social media account as a means of adverting … admitted that on Aug. 11, 2017, he possessed both the pills and a 9 mm pistol. He admitted he possessed the pills with the intent to distribute them, and he possessed …
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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 …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs On 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 Indicted For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

… for abuse, and users will often crush and snort the pills or dissolve and inject them to get an immediate high. … that the defendant prescribed thousands of highly addictive pills for his own personal profit and with complete … cards. After obtaining the oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, the defendants shipped the pills to other states. On …
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DEA Task Force Takes Down Fentanyl Distribution Ring

… that Petersen was selling fentanyl powder, prescription pills and marijuana.  DEA Task Force Officers and the New … that Casadei supplied fentanyl and various prescription pills to McBriarty, who in turn supplied them to Petersen.  … Casadei also obtained and distributed various prescription pills, including Xanax and oxycodone.  It is alleged that …
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Trafficker smuggling large quantities of deadly fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine sentenced to 168 months

… prison for conspiring to smuggle more than 450,000 fentanyl pills from Mexico into the United States during a nine-month … in her plea agreement, Kelly smuggled the fentanyl pills through ports of entry in San Diego and Nogales, … into the U.S. could have produced millions of fentanyl pills and significantly impacted the increasing …
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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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Two Men Indicted for International Conspiracy to Ship Fentanyl, Other Drugs into United States through Dark Web Connections

… any prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. “Pills in the underground drug market and on the Dark Web are … follow DEA Atlanta via Twitter at  @DEAATLANTADiv ### Fake Pills Dark Web- Internet Trafficking Overdose Extraditions …
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Operation Spring Cleaning Takes Down A Prescription Drug Trafficking Ring In Port St. Lucie

… also resulted in the seizure of 24 vehicles, 239 pills of (Dilaudid), 16 morphine pills, 126 oxycodone pills, 2.7 grams cocaine, 7 grams marijuana, $2,897.00 and …
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Hamden Man Sentenced To Prison For Distributing Oxycodone Involved In Weston Overdose

… January 3, 2016, a 20-year-old male purchased 30 oxycodone pills from Farid in exchange for $900.  He then consumed some of those pills, as well as other substances, including Xanax.  On … Ryan Looney, also of Hamden, supplied Farid with oxycodone pills.  Farid then distributed the pills to the victim.  …
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Grand Jury Indicts 14 In L.A.-Based OxyContin Ring

… organization allegedly distributed over 1 million pills LOS ANGELES, CA - Federal and state authorities this … obtained and distributed more than 1 million OxyContin pills obtained largely through fraud against public …
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El Paso Man Pleads Guilty in San Antonio to Fentanyl Trafficking Charge

… Medina Jr. aka “Tots,” 37, sent at least 60,000 fentanyl pills to an undercover agent in San Antonio in 2021. Federal … William Calve is prosecuting the case. Guilty Plea One Pill Can Kill On On Press Release Image Layout Landscape …
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Long Island Doctor Sentenced To Eight Years Of Imprisonment For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Distribution Of Oxycodone

… -- a rate that equated to the distribution of over 782,000 pills. Conway’s office files revealed only cursory, … Manzella five oxycodone prescriptions, totaling over 800 pills, over a six month period with little or no examination … Evidence also showed that Conway prescribed 180 oxycodone pills to Manzella on April 21, 2011, and then 24 hours …