Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania’
Pennsylvania Is the 16th State with a Confirmed Death from a Pill Sold on Snapchat
Pennsylvania has become the sixteenth state in which PSM has found someone poisoned and killed by a counterfeit pills sold to them by a dealer on Snapchat.
[...]Doctor in Pennsylvania Pleads Guilty To Treating Patients with Imported Injectable Biologic Medications
Dr. Thomas Whalen, a rheumatologist who practiced medicine in Havertown, Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to charges he purchased non-FDA approved, temperature-sensitive biologic medication from Turkey and the United Kingdom to treat his rheumatology patients.
[...]Former Pennsylvania Congressman Decries Fake Drug Sales Via Social Media
This editorial by Ryan Costello was published in The Philadelphia Enquirer on October 9, 2019. Mr. Costello is a former U.S. Congressman (PA-06), and is now a public policy consultant.
[...]Husband of Former Pennsylvania Township Commissioner Charged in Fake Online Pharmacy Case
Koledin ran a website called awakebrain dot com that marketed and sold misbranded and unapproved medication imported from Russia and China. It describes several instances when either the website or emails from Koledin described medications as FDA-approved, when in fact they were not.
[...]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…
[...]Pennsylvania
Fake Medicine Is Killing People Around the Keystone State Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in Pennsylvania and consult the updates below. State Incident Summaries July – December 2022 Counterfeit news in Pennsylvania17 arrested, 10,000 fentanyl pills seized in narcotics trafficking operation across DMVMay 15, 2025Reynoldsville man faces drug charges after overdose leads…
[...]110 Pounds of Fentanyl Seized at Port of Philadelphia
U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, during a routine inspection, discovered 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of illicit fentanyl powder that had been hidden in a shipment of iron oxide from China. According to CBP, a narcotics detector dog alerted agents to the presence of the drugs inside barrels of iron oxide that had arrived at the facility in late June.
[...]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…
[...]DOJ Announces News Cases In PA And OH Against Couples Selling Counterfeit Drugs and Fentanyl
U.S. Department of Justice announced two new cases. One is against a PA couple for manufacturing and selling counterfeit prescription pills made with heroin. The second case is against an OH couple charged with running a drug ring that imported and sold fentanyl and carfentanil in the Akron area…
[...]Pennsylvania Pharmacist Sentenced for Passing Imported, Misbranded Drugs Off As FDA-Approved
Four years after pleading guilty in 2013, a Pennsylvania pharmacist has been sentenced to 6 months of home detention and three years probation after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to smuggle foreign drugs in the United States and money laundering.
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