Posts Tagged ‘counterfeit drugs’
Major Bust Brings Down Drug Ring Selling Sinaloa Cartel Drugs – Including Fentanyl and Fentanyl Pills
A year-long investigation in Ventura County started off small with a total of 600 counterfeit Roxicodone pills seized. Today, law enforcement has seized a total of $10.8 million worth of Sinaloa cartel drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, powdered fentanyl, and, of course, those fake pills all from one drug trafficking operation…
[...]Maryland Man Admits To Purchasing Thousands Of Fake Fentanyl Pills
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a guilty plea from Robert Simpson. The Gambrills, Maryland man admitted to having purchased 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl online and selling them. By the time that law enforcement searched his home, he had already sold almost 4,000 of the pills…
[...]New York Ophthalmologist Settles Civil Case Involving Use Of Non FDA-Approved Drugs
A settlement has been agreed upon by a New York ophthalmologist and the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve civil charges that the doctor used non FDA-approved medications on his patients, but billed Medicare as if he was using FDA-approved drugs. The doctor will pay nearly $7 back to Medicare…
[...]Oregon Woman Sentenced For Injecting Patients With Foreign-Sourced Botox and Juvéderm
A former doctor in Oregon received her sentence in federal court after she admitted to injecting patients with illegal foreign-sourced beauty treatments in her home. Brenda Roberts of Troutdale had previously surrendered her license to practice medicine, and a judge sentenced her to probation and community service…
[...]Counterfeit Medicine Purchased Online Permanently Alters Man’s Vision
A new study was just released that documented that permanent damage done to a 31-year-old man after he ingested a counterfeit medicine he purchased online. Even after more than a year since this happened to him, the structural changes to the man’s eyes mean that he sees everything with a red tint…
[...]Ten-Month-Old Leo Holz Died After Accidentally Ingesting a Counterfeit Fentanyl Pill
On September 18, 2017, ten-month-old Leo Holz put something he picked up off of his parents’ bed into his mouth. That something turned out to be a fake oxycodone pill made with fentanyl. He is perhaps the youngest known victim of the counterfeit fentanyl pill crisis…
[...]Maryland Man Admits To Making And Selling Over 920,000 Fake Xanax Pills
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a guilty plea from Ryan Farace of Maryland. In less than four years, he manufactured and sold over 920,000 counterfeit Xanax pills on various online marketplaces…
[...]Cheap Injectable Beauty Treatments Might Not Be The Deal You Think They Are
As the use of dermal fillers increases, so does the amount of people in the United States that are opting for cheap online deals. Sadly, 25% of the time, those deals leaving people dealing with complications such as a biofilm infection that can take months to completely go away…
[...]Arizona Woman Sentenced To 12 Years For Selling Fake Pills That Killed One Man
A federal judge sentenced Fany Madrigal-Lopez to 12 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl. Even after she learned of one customer’s death in November 2016, she continued to sell those pills until law enforcement finally caught up with her in August 2017…
[...]Stopping The Poison Pills: Senate Caucus Hearing Held To Discuss Fentanyl
The Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control held a hearing on October 2, 2018 to discuss the flow of illicitly produced fentanyl out of China and into the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Discussions with panelists involved what is currently being done by major departments within our government to keep fentanyl out and what more could we be doing to help end this epidemic…
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