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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Is This Saturday

… the search window, or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, will be accepted-the … firearms.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
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Staten Island Woman Sentenced To 12 Years’ Imprisonment For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone

… 682-6256 Carolyn Richardson Obtained Thousands of Opioid Pills Using Fraudulent Prescriptions and False Patient … storage unit and recovered thousands of prescription pills filled in false names, fake prescription pads, dozens …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced In Brooklyn Federal Court To 10 A½ Years’ Imprisonment For Distributing Fentanyl

… A young mother died in West Virginia after ingesting pills distributed by the defendant BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier … co-conspirators believed they killed with their fentanyl pills.  Upon learning of the young mother’s death, …
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Man Sentenced In Alabama For Nine Pharmacy Burglaries

… of the burglaries, notifying the text recipients there were pills available and the price of the pills.  Phone data, from February 26, 2016, thru September …
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Law Enforcement Joins Forces In Coordinated Effort Against Drug Trafficking Cartel Members And AssociatesFederal, State, And Local Law Enforcement Officials United To Seize Loaded Guns And Drugs On The Upper West Side Of Manhattan

… and recovered small quantities of cocaine and oxycodone pills from his person. A search warrant for the suspected … kilogram of crack cocaine, five kilograms of powder, 350 pills of oxycodone and three loaded semi automatic handguns …
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DEA’s Eighth Statewide Prescription Drug Take Back Day Results In Another Big Haul More Than 12,000 Pounds Of Prescription And Over-the-counter Medicine Collected

… another huge success that cleaned out more than six tons of pills from Arizonan’s medicine cabinets, a crucial step … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Take Back Days are presently needed because the …
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Upper Marlboro Felon Exiled To 10 Years In Prison For Gun And Drug Offenses

… residue; .32 grams of crack cocaine; and an unlabeled pill bottle with four oxycodone pills recovered from Holland’s purse. A female deputy …
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Long Island Doctor Pleads Guilty To Distribution Of Oxycodone

… he knew were either abusing or re-selling oxycodone pills to addicts. According to court filings, the defendant … to addicts and other users for profit or abused the pills themselves. During the execution of a federal search …
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Members Of A Large Alaska Drug Conspiracy Indicted

… possess with intent to distribute powder cocaine, oxycodone pills, and marijuana in Anchorage and Fairbanks. The … Shine, would receive shipments of powder cocaine, Oxycodone pills, and marijuana from sources in Nevada, California, and …
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Costco Wholesale To Pay $11.75 Million To Settle Allegations Of Lax Pharmacy Controls

… U.S. Attorney McQuade stated, “In light of the prescription pill and opioid overdose epidemic we are seeing across the … to tighten up its compliance to ensure that prescription pills do not end up on the street market.” “These are not …
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DEA Phoenix Division partners with Air Wing to host Congressional Delegation in Arizona

April 17, 2019
… included 48 pounds of fentanyl and thousands of fentanyl pills, over 70 pounds of heroin, 14 pounds of cocaine and …
April 17, 2019
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Providence Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

… his brother-in-law, distributing both fentanyl powder and pills containing fentanyl which were designed to resemble a … Santana Ramirez arranged the delivery of approximately 900 pills in exchange for $45,000. Santana Ramirez’s … the seizure of 8,964 fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills with a net weight of 1,012.9 grams of fentanyl; 4.475 …
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Sixteen-Time Waterloo Felon Sentenced to 21 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Fatal Dose of Fentanyl

… individuals sold methamphetamine, powder heroin, and M-30 pills which contained fentanyl.  Washington sold drugs that … Attorneys Nicole Nagin and Dan Chatham.   Counterfeit Pills Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness …
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Alleged Latin Kings Gang Member Arrested on Federal Charges After Stealing Rifle From FBI Vehicle

… DEA identifies known drug trafficker, Raul Gutierrez PILLS 1.JPG Raul Gutierrez was known at DEA for trafficking …
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Fall River Man Convicted of Drug Distribution Resulting in Death of a Minor and the Sale of Drugs and Machineguns on Telegram App

… cocaine, LSD, MDMA, ketamine and counterfeit pharmaceutical pills made to resemble oxycodone but containing fentanyl. … May, and June 2024, Hunt sold counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to an undercover law enforcement … additional package containing approximately 1,600 fentanyl pills to undercover law enforcement in exchange for …
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February 25, 2025
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DEA Phoenix, Phoenix Police Department, and the Arizona Attorney General's Office Disrupt Major Transnational Criminal Organization Operating in the United States and Mexico

… Operation Double Down:   1,700,000 suspected fentanyl pills (approximate) Over 26 kilograms of fentanyl powder … success these partnerships bring.” Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness Guns/Weapons HIDTA Major Law …
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Statement from DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on Done Global Inc.

June 14, 2024
… Any diversion of Adderall and other prescription stimulant pills to persons who have no medical need only exacerbates …
June 14, 2024
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DEA and Partners Announce Results of 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… addiction and potential overdose by removing prescription pills from their homes. Our April event included 4,425 …
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Mexican National Sentenced to Prison for Role as Drug Ring Courier

… three kilos of methamphetamine, nearly a kilo of fentanyl pills and a small amount of fentanyl powder and cocaine. He … . ###   Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Synthetic drugs Fentanyl Methamphetamine Cocaine On On …
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Memphis Man Sentenced to 150 Months for Gun and Drug-Related Offenses

… was found to be in possession of approximately 500 pressed pills, which were later confirmed to be fentanyl.  … this case on the government’s behalf. Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness Synthetic drugs Off On Press …
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Sixteen Charged in Takedown of Drug Trafficking Network

… of powdered fentanyl; 5.7 kilograms of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl (estimated to be 57,000 pills); 25.7 kilograms of methamphetamine; 1.5 kilograms of …
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Second Largest Border Meth Bust in History on Southern Border

… 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills and heroin as part of the second largest … pounds of fentanyl powder, and almost 37 pounds of fentanyl pills, worth an estimated $7.2 million.  CBP officers seized …
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

… heroin, and marijuana. The trafficking of marijuana and pills, both diverted and counterfeit oxycodone, has … crisis.  Increases in fentanyl-containing counterfeit pills demonstrates traffickers’ continued efforts to expand …
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Doctor who operated oxycodone and fentanyl diversion scheme sentenced to 5 years in prison

… have a current street value of approximately $20 to $30 per pill in New York City, with street prices even higher in … Lopez wrote prescriptions for nearly one million oxycodone pills, with a street value of approximately $20 million. …
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Two Waterbury Residents Involved In Fentanyl And Heroin Trafficking Ring Sentenced To Prison

… for street distribution, approximately 1,000 fentanyl pills disguised as Percocet pills, one firearm, and approximately $50,000 in cash.  …
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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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Drug Trafficking Organization Member Sentenced for 8 Felony Counts

… home, they found more fentanyl in powder and capsule form, pill presses used to make pills and 12 blenders used to mix drugs. Green is one of …
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Kansas City Man Sentenced for Meth Conspiracy, Illegal Firearm

… of cocaine, 10.5 kilograms of marijuana, 687 Xanax pills, 3.1 kilograms of unknown pills, a quantity of bulk cash, five firearms, a 3D printer …
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Former Suffolk County Legislator Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Public Records and Patronizing a Prostitute

… provide the undercover police officer with oxycodone pills in exchange for sexual conduct, with Spencer texting … was found in possession of two 30-milligram oxycodone pills which he possessed without a prescription. Following …