Fentanyl
Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills and Powder Being Seized In Ever Larger Amounts In Arizona
Law enforcement in Arizona has seen the amount of seized fentanyl powder increase by 2,000 and the number of fentanyl pills increase by 3,000 in just one year. Despite the increased seizures, the number of lives lost in that state to opioid overdoses also continues to rise. With fake pills being reported across the state – in Kingman, Phoenix, and Tucson, no pill bought on the street can be considered safe…
[...]DOJ Indicts Two In Northern California Who Distributed Counterfeit Pills Made With Fentanyl
U.S. Department of Justice announced an indictment against Alfredo Sanchez and Saybyn Borges for distribution and possession with intent to distribute counterfeit oxycodone pills that were made with fentanyl. In just over one month’s time, the DEA says the pair sold over 7,500 fake pills…
[...]New Mexico Authorities Warn Of Increase in Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills
Law enforcement in New Mexico is worried after seeing an increase in the number of counterfeit pills made with fentanyl that are being found. The state lost over 20 people to fake oxycodone pills in 2016 and U.S. Customs and Border Protection keeps seeing the amount of fentanyl they are seizing increase…
[...]South Carolina Man Produced Counterfeit Prescription Pills with Pill Presses and Imported Fentanyl
A pretrial bail hearing gave the world some insights into a case out of South Carolina that is still sealed. Agents with a DEA-lead task force arrested Eric Hughes in August of 2017 after a car accident caused thousands of plls to spill out of his vehicle and onto the roadway. Hughes is allegedly the leader of a counterfeit pill drug ring that used rental properties to manufacture millions of counterfeit Xanax and oxycodone pills which were sold online…
[...]North Carolina Brothers Believed To Have Sold Counterfeit Xanax to High Schoolers
Police arrested triplet brothers in North Carolina on suspicion of manufacturing and selling counterfeit Xanax that contained fentanyl. An investigation led police to believe the trio to be a major supplier of those pills to Holly Springs High School students…
[...]Rhode Island Man Was The Organizer For An International Fentanyl Pill Ring
Newly released court documents show the role that Steven Barros Pinto played in an international drug ring that made and sold fake fentanyl pills across the United States, including in North Dakota, Oregon, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Georgia. The DOJ believes that the counterfeit pills made by this ring with fentanyl and other illegal ingredients caused multiple deaths or serious injuries in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Oregon…
[...]Foreign Hosted Online Pharmacy Sold Counterfeit Pills Made with Fentanyl Analogues to Americans
In a first case of its kind, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted two people from New Jersey for operating multiple fake online pharmacies that shipped some customers counterfeit pills made with fentanyl. The pills that Evelin Bracy and Jorge Rodriguez Lopez sold killed one of their customers in Boise, Idaho…
[...]Mother And Son In New Jersey Indicted For Selling Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills
The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments against a New Jersey mother and son for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy. Candace and Tyler Gottlieb both sold counterfeit pain pills that contained both fentanyl and heroin to a confidential human source…
[...]Pennsylvania Man Sentenced To Over 17 Years For Selling Fake Fentanyl Pills
The U.S. DOJ announced that Nathan Ott of Chambersburg, PA received a 210-month prison sentence. Ott pleaded guilty to purchasing fentanyl by the kilogram online and using it to manufacture counterfeit pills which he and his six co-defendants then sold online and around town…
[...]Counterfeit Xanax Pills Caused This Young Woman In Missouri To Overdose
Kelly Gant is a young woman in Missouri overcoming an addiction to what she thought was Xanax. After being hospitalized for an overdose, she was shocked to learn that she did not overdose on alprazolam, but on fentanyl. It was then that she began to learn more about the bags filled with hundreds of pills that her dealer sold to high school students…
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