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Essex County Woman Convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Meth

… the backroom, and the room also contained methamphetamine pills, two plastic bags containing additional cocaine, …
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Operator Of San Fernando Valley Medical Clinics Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison For Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

… warrants on September 1, 2011, federal agents found 1,116 pills in Davtyan’s Encino home and another 7,589 pills in her Mercedes parked in her garage.  Davtyan’s …
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Former Alexandria Doctor Receives 70 Months In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Oxycodone

… for pain medications, sometimes exceeding 2,000 pills per patient each month. Wade frequently issued these … patient. Oxycodone is the active ingredient in brand name pills such as OxyContin, Roxicodone and Percocet.  It is a …
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Kentucky Physician Surrenders DEA Registration To Prescribe Controlled Substances

… that she failed to account for nearly 5,000 prescription pills at her office. According to the settlement agreement, … who practices family medicine, couldn’t account for 4,967 pills and at least 10 purchasing records for controlled …
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Queens Doctor Arrested For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone

… 2012, Mayard issued 2,953 oxycodone prescriptions - 376,469 pills - to numerous individuals, without performing any … that Dr. Mayard wrote prescriptions for over 9,000 pills of oxycodone per week affecting the availability of …
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DEA Omaha Division collects 32,713 pounds of unwanted medication at spring Take Back Day event

… Iowa NTBI April 27_Drop Off 2_B.jpg Iowa NTBI April 27_Pills_B.jpg OMAHA, Neb., – The United States Drug …
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Eastern Oregon Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Nearly 13 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Meth in Idaho

… dollars in U.S. currency, a bag with hundreds of fentanyl pills, and another with an ounce of methamphetamine. …
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Wake County Man Responsible for Trafficking Methamphetamine Sentenced to 10 Years

… methamphetamine, Suboxone, hydrocodone and Adderall pills, cocaine, and a locked box containing U.S. currency. A …
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Dante Major Received 55 Years To Life Sentence

… of Dante Major should send a clear message to the pill and heroin dealers operating in Otsego County.  Some kids who take illegal pills and heroin receive a death sentence via overdose on …
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Former Ford Dealership Manager Pleads Guilty To Prescription Drug Distribution Charges

… law enforcement partners pursuing dirty doctors and illicit pill mills to ensure that our communities remain safe and … purpose and ultimately distributed at least 500 oxycodone pills in 30 milligram dosages to others.   In addition, West …
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Costco Wholesale Corp. To Pay $11.75 Million To Settle Allegations Of Weak Pharmacy Controls

… and Everett, Washington. “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.” “Opioid misuse …
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McKesson Settlement: Pays $150 Million, Largest Fine In DEA History

… have a duty to detect suspicious orders for prescription pills that could end up in the wrong hands,” McQuade said. … an increasing amount of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, frequently misused products that are part of the …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against 10 Individuals In Multi-Million Dollar Internet Pharmacy Fraud Scheme Two Pharmacists Were Allegedly Paid At Least $13 Million By Bogus Online Pharmacy Operators For Filling Invalid Prescriptions Issued By

… “As alleged, this multi-million dollar Internet pharmacy pill scheme involved pharmacists and doctors who placed cash … operators to peddle massive quantities of addictive pain pills without valid prescriptions. We will not tolerate the …
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DEA Atlanta Holds Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … 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 South Carolina Holds Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … 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 Tennessee Holds Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … 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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Violent Bridgeport Gang Member Sentenced to More Than 22 Years in Federal Prison

… distributed heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and Percocet pills; used and shared firearms; and committed at least six …
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West Haven Man Charged With Illegally Distributing Xanax

… on May 23, 2016, the victim purchased a quantity of Xanax pills from Bell.  The victim them crushed approximately three of pills and snorted the powder.  The victim’s autopsy report …
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Veterans Affairs Employees Charged With Stealing And Selling Prescription Drugs

… supplier’s web portal to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills, 3,300 hydrocodone pills, 308 ounces of promethazine with codeine syrup, and more than 14,000 Viagra and Cialis pills, at a cost to the VA of approximately $77,700 dollars, …
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Op Sweet Silence Defendant Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Serve 20 Years in Prison

… . For more information on fentanyl, visit DEA’s One Pill Can Kill Campaign at  www.dea.gov/onepill .  The materials on this website are available for …
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Local Drug Dealer Sent to Prison

… suspected fentanyl, large quantities of various pressed pills and five firearms. While securing the location, they …
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Missouri Man Admits to Selling Fentanyl Involved in Death

… a small baggie of fentanyl powder and several fentanyl pills. McMikle is scheduled to be sentenced May 21. The …
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Michigan Doctor Receives Nearly 5 Year Federal Prison Sentence For Drug Distribution And Health Care Fraud

… doctor will spend nearly five years in prison for running a pill mill and fueling the prescription drug addiction … said. "Doctors who poison our community by pushing pain pills for profit will be treated as criminals and held …
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Lewiston Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Trafficking Heroin, Oxycodone, Crack And Cocaine And Possessing Firearms During The Drug Trafficking

… searched the vehicle and located cocaine base, oxycodone pills, heroin, and a loaded 22 caliber handgun which had a … of cocaine, 59 grams of heroin, and 106 oxycodone 30 mg. pills.  The agents discovered a loaded pistol secreted under …
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DEA To Hold Drug Take-Back Event At Locations Throughout Los Angeles Saturday, October 29th

… providing the public with another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites throughout Los Angeles, Riverside, San …
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Canadian Drug Trafficker & Leader Of Helicopter Smuggling Ring Who Fought Extradition For Years Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison

… large loads of drugs connected to the ring: 200,000 MDMA pills on March 6, 2008; 72 kilograms of cocaine seized on … 23, 2009; and 325 pounds of marijuana and 40,000 MDMA pills seized on March 5, 2009. Other co-conspirators have …
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NYPD Officer Andre Clarke Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone In Vermont

… of Valley Stream, New York. Foreste, in turn, supplied the pills to Dannis Hackney, of Burlington, Vermont, who sold … Burlington area addicts. Foreste personally brought Hackney pills, and sometimes sent them via U.S. Mail. Clarke, …
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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 …