Archive for November 2018
Authorities In Tennessee Warn That Fake Pills Bought Online Contributing To The Opioid Crisis
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation just released their annual report and they consider counterfeit fentanyl pills purchased online to be a contributing factor to the opioid crisis. Across the state, authorities are finding more and more of these types of cases and warned of increased incidents of overdose outbreaks caused by these types of pills…
[...]New Jersey
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[...]Leader Of Counterfeit Fentanyl Pill Ring In Elmira, New York Pleads Guilty In Federal Court
The U.S. DOJ announced a guilty plea from Robert Ian Thatcher of Elmira, NY. He was a leader of a counterfeit fentanyl pill drug ring that manufactured and distributed fake 30 milligram Percocet pills in the area, as well as in North Carolina. At least two people died from taking the pills sold to this group…
[...]DEA Says Counterfeit Pills Made With Fentanyl A Public Health Risk And A Law Enforcement Challenge
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released their 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment. With over seven times more people abusing prescription drugs than heroin in this country, the DEA stated that counterfeit pills containing fentanyl pose a genuine public health risk and a law enforcement challenge…
[...]Charges Filed Against California Man For Distributing Thousands Of Fake Fentanyl Pills
For the second time this year, an indictment has been handed down against the individual who allegedly sold a counterfeit fentanyl pill that killed a member of the U.S. Armed Forces. An investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service into the overdose death of a Navy service member led to the charges against Marcel Travon Robinson III…
[...]Missouri Teenager Almost Killed By A Counterfeit Oxycodone Pill Containing Carfentanil
The U.S. Department of Justice received a guilty plea from Gage S. Lankas in federal court. Lankas sold hundreds of Xanax pills and 14 oxycodone pills to a 17-year-old. The oxycodone pills were counterfeits made with carfentanil and almost killed the young man who only took half of one…
[...]Pennsylvania Woman Killed By Counterfeit Fentanyl Pill; Dealer Charged With Her Death
A grand jury in Northampton County in Pennsylvania charged Gustavo Rivera after prosecutors made their case that he was the person who sold a counterfeit Percocet pill that contained fentanyl to Kara Heckenberger. She died after taking that pill on August 9, 2017…
[...]Drug importation is not a new idea.
Drug Importation Is Not A New Idea, And It Is Not A Good One, Either–More Than A Decade Of Experience Has Shown It Is Dangerous
[...]Trio In Sacramento Sentenced For Illegally Importing And Selling Non FDA-Approved Drugs
The California Attorney General announced sentences for three members of the Kybych family. The trio admitted to illegally importing non FDA-approved medicines from Russia and selling them to customers at their stores in the Sacramento area…
[...]Man Admits To Selling Counterfeit Xanax Pill That Killed A Connecticut Resident
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a guilty plea from a Connecticut man who was distributing counterfeit Xanax. Data retrieved from the mobile phone of a Seymour resident that died led police to Kamil Golebiowski. In June 2017, two packages shipped from Canada to him were found to contain approximately 1,400 counterfeit Xanax…
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