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Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Southeast Alaska Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… containing hundreds to thousands of illegal fentanyl pills and hundreds of grams of methamphetamine, heroin and … have been exempted from the recusal. Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Synthetic drugs Fentanyl Methamphetamine Cocaine …
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DEA Safely Disposes 620,000 Pounds of Unused Medication on 28th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… collected 28,063 pounds between 305 locations Disposed pills- DEA Take Back More than 30,000 pounds of medications …
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Set for Saturday

… Rapid City - (605) 434-4947 Sioux Falls - (605) 330-4421 Pill Bottles_Blur.jpg Members of the community are invited …
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39 Defendants Indicted in $4.7 Million Meth, Heroin Conspiracy

… 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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Licensed pharmacist charged with hoarding and price gouging of N95 masks in violation of Defense Production Act

… remained in possession of thousands of controlled substance pills/patches, including fentanyl, oxycodone, and … and he needed to destroy them.  There were nearly 4,000 pills/patches, in total. Third, Schirripa caused Medicare …
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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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Sweeping DEA Operation Targets Pharmacy Burglaries and the Illegal Sale of Addictive Prescription Medications

… “Diversion of Adderall and other prescription stimulants pills to persons who have no medical need only exacerbates … have a legal obligation to account for every dose and every pill to protect the safety and health of the American …
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Upper Marlboro Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin and Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… and procaine (a local anesthetic drug); a prescription pill bottle containing approximately 89 Oxycodone pills; approximately three grams of a white powdery …
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Indictment Charges Eight Men in an Interstate Fentanyl and Cocaine Conspiracy

… some of which was at least 65% pure; more than 6,000 fake pills containing fentanyl produced to resemble OxyContin; … https://www.facebook.com/usaodc Drug Trafficking Fake Pills OCDETF/Task Force Press Conferences Seizures …
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Sinaloa-based narcotics distributor designated under the Kingpin Act for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine in Oregon

… particularly in the form of counterfeit prescription pills, is the region’s emerging drug threat and poses a … in Oregon was in the form of counterfeit prescription pills, such as Oxycodone, commonly referred to as M-30s. If …
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Chinese drug traffickers charged in fatal opioid conspiracy

… adulterated cancer medication, creating counterfeit pills that replaced the active cancer-fighting ingredient … drugs. It also created and shipped counterfeit Adderall pills that were adulterated with deadly bath salts. The …
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Pawankumar Jain Pleads Guilty To Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Painkillers And Health Care Fraud

… guilty plea should put health care providers who operate pill mills on notice that the authority to prescribe highly … individuals who participate in drug diversion schemes, pill mills, rogue clinics and pharmacies, and prescription …
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‘Avengers’ actor Jeremy Renner joins forces with 750 students for purposeful Northern Nevada Opioid Youth Summit

… with multiple partners, is part of the DEA’s ‘One Pill Can Kill’ campaign. This national outreach effort and … they may make in the future. Information about counterfeit pills, overdoses, and community resources were provided in …
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Enforcement Surge in Portland Targets Honduran Nationals Trafficking Fentanyl in Open- Air Drug Markets

… partners seized substantial amounts of fentanyl powder and pills, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin. Firearms and … seized 44 pounds of fentanyl powder seized 2,507 fentanyl pills seized 22 pounds of methamphetamine seized 9 pounds of …
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Synthetic Opioids

Synthetic Opioids

January 25, 2025
Synthetic opioids are substances that are synthesized in a laboratory and that act on the same targets in the brain as natural opioids (e.g., morphine and codeine) to produce analgesic (pain relief) effects. In contrast, natural opioids are naturally occurring substances extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of...
January 25, 2025
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Pink Cocaine

December 27, 2024
… within that same time, DEA has seized 180 million fentanyl pills. Pink cocaine is typically found in urban areas with …
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New Jersey News 2006

July 15, 2021
… PA SEP 14, 2006 DEA and FBI Charge Thirteen in Operation “Pill Collector” SEP 7, 2006 Two Newark Police Officers Plead …
July 15, 2021
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DEA Washington Division Hosts Community Pop Up Events

July 07, 2021
… monitoring, and the ease and ability to order counterfeit pills and drugs online, we want to get the word out.” …
July 07, 2021
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Glen Head Doctor and His Son Charged with Illegally Selling Prescriptions for Controlled Substances

… period, Richard Taubman allegedly prescribed hundreds of pills to numerous individuals. These prescriptions consisted … allegedly kept the prescriptions for personal use, sold the pills for profit, or traded the controlled substances for …
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DEA to hold 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… Comeaux, Houston Division.  “The majority of prescription pill abusers get their pills from home medicine cabinets, therefore we ask everyone …
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Texas clinic owner and clinic employee sentenced to prison for conspiring to unlawfully prescribe hundreds of thousands of opioids

… months in prison, respectively, today for their roles at a “pill mill” where they and their coconspirator illegally … Clinic in Rosenberg, Texas, which he operated as an illegal pill mill.  Arif was an employee at Aster Medical Clinic who …
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DEA announces 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… DEA SAC Steven S. Whipple.  “The majority of prescription pill abusers first abused pills found in a home medicine cabinet.  This year’s …
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Houston area man who posed as physician found guilty of conspiring to unlawfully prescribe hundreds of thousands of doses of opioids

… pain clinic was found guilty today for his role at a “pill mill” at which he and his co-conspirators illegally … Clinic of Rosenberg, Texas, which operated as an illegal pill mill, to unlawfully prescribe controlled substances to …
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Man Sentenced to 132 Months in Prison for Meth Distribution

… pound of methamphetamine; November and December fentanyl pills. Thereafter, in March 2022, law enforcement recovered … networks. Arrests/Convictions - Major Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons OCDETF/Task Force Methamphetamine …
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Albuquerque Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearm Offenses

… 442.6 grams of fentanyl (equivalent to roughly 4,400 pills), approximately 267.5 grams of methamphetamine, and … Arrests/Convictions - Major Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons Synthetic drugs Fentanyl Methamphetamine …
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DEA’s Fentanyl Free America Billboard Sparks Conversation on Dangers of Synthetic Drugs

… 210 pounds of fentanyl powder and 135,000 counterfeit pills. The 467% jump in fentanyl powder seizures in … in 2025. This marks a 53% increase from 2024. Counterfeit Pills Fentanyl Awareness Fentanyl Free America …
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DEA’s Fentanyl Free America Billboards Remind Omaha Community of Local Threat, Work to be Done

… were 46 pounds of fentanyl powder and 146,000 counterfeit pills. Nebraska followed a nationwide trend in which powder … corner of 20th and Leavenworth (facing west) Counterfeit Pills Fentanyl Awareness Fentanyl Free America Outreach/Drug …
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Repeat Offender Engaged in Fentanyl Trafficking in Spokane Sentenced to 204 Months in Federal Prison

… States Drug Enforcement Administration.  ###   Counterfeit Pills Drug Trafficking Synthetic drugs Fake Pills Fentanyl Free America Seizures (Drugs/Property) …
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Three Defendants in Significant Gun and Drug Involved Cases in Western Washington Sentenced to Prison

… of methamphetamine and hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills. Based on Boorkman’s trusted role in the organization, … off the streets.    Drug Trafficking Synthetic drugs Fake Pills Guns/Weapons Fentanyl On On Press Release Image Layout …
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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 … and 378 kilograms of illicit drugs including counterfeit pills, cocaine, fentanyl powder, marijuana, MDA/MDMA, Meth, …