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A California drug dealer has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute over 15 kilos of fentanyl. The seizure of fentanyl – thought to be the biggest on record within the United States – occurred during routine surveillance at Omaha Amtrak Station last October. The court heard that an eagle-eyed DEA Special Agent spotted a …
An investigation that has been running for the past month at the Eureka Gardens apartment complex has ended with four people getting arrested for their involvement in narcotics. The Humboldt County Drug Task Force (DTF), Sheriff’s Deputies, District Attorney K-9 Unit, The US Forest Service, and the Eureka and Fortuna Police served a search warrant …
The San Diego Sheriff’s Department has laid federal charges against Corey Bernard Green, who allegedly sold illicit substances to a Fallbrook man, JAS, who died of a fentanyl overdose in November 2017. The wife of a Fallbrook man found him lying face down on their living floor, killed by fentanyl toxicity. His death launched a …
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced renewed efforts to legalize recreational marijuana in the Garden State, during his presentation to introduce his budget to the New Jersey Statehouse. The fiscal plan includes $80 million in tax revenues that he expects to collect from marijuana sales in 2019. Murphy stated that New Jersey spends over …
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has requested the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to review the quantity of opioids manufacturers are allowed to produce in a bid to control drugs that are now killing 175 Americans a day. Session says a review of the amount produced will act as a significant step towards containing the opioid …
After a state trooper was caught in a federal drug sting, the Ohio State Highway Patrol fired him. Jason Delcol, 43, was arrested Feb. 27, 2018, along with five other Ohio men in part of an ongoing drug investigation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio. All six men were …
A darker side of San Francisco’s storied Haight-Ashbury district was revealed Feb. 22 when three men died of drug overdoses. San Francisco public health officials feared fentanyl, up to a hundred times more potent than heroin, may have killed the men, who were found unresponsive on Page Street early on a Thursday morning. Police officers …
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Brandon Jamal Parker was arrested and charged in the overdose death of James “Alex” Brasfield. The 20-year-old died after using heroin and Parker was accused of being the man who sold Brasfield the drug. The authorities are now charging Parker with second-degree murder. Investigators say that Parker sold Brasfield heroin on …
For Ronald Denorth Taylor, a resident of Albany, a tip with information regarding a delivery of methamphetamine resulted in his arrest. Drug agents said that they received information about a suspected delivery of drugs and that Taylor would be meeting with someone at the hotel off of Highway 19 in Thomasville, Georgia. The police used …
Authorities released details on Operation Yellow Brick Road, an operation that busted a drug trafficking ring being operated by gang members, who the police say have been terrorizing the streets of a Hudson Valley city. On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman revealed that 16 members of the narcotics ring have been arrested and …
Legalization of marijuana has been one of the topical issues in the history of United States with different factions citing contracting theories about the problem. Perhaps the most recent voice on marijuana legalization has been that of Attorney General Jeff session, who has vowed to crack down on its users. According to Sessions, the opioid …
Ayesha Henry is facing charges, including possession of fentanyl and trafficking fentanyl, after allegedly selling $400 worth of the substance to undercover police officers in Hollywood, Florida. The arrest was part of a larger drug sting that was organized by the police department’s Vice Intelligence and Narcotics Unit, which resulted in Henry’s arrest at 106 …
