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A California man and woman have been charged after police discovered over 46 pounds of a powerful synthetic opioid called carfentanil in their home. Andres Jesus Morales, 30, and Christine Ponce, 27, have been hit with four felony counts each of possession of a controlled substance for sale, USA Today reports. That amount of carfentanil is extremely […]
Michael K. Williams’ cause of death was determined to be a fatal drug overdose. According to New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner, the actor’s manner of death was acute intoxication due to a lethal combination of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine, per TMZ. The 54-year-old’s death was ruled an accident. Source link قالب وردپرس
Comedian Fuquan Johnson died Saturday after overdosing at a party in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, TMZ reports. Two other victims, who have not been officially identified, were also pronounced dead at the scene. Meanwhile, fellow comedian Kate Quigley, who TMZ says lives next door to where the gathering took place and recently dated Darius […]
Ohio authorities have indicted 45 people on drug trafficking charges. The indictments took some time, as they were the result of a long-standing undercover drug operation called Operation Red, White, and Bust. Authorities in four Ohio counties were hoping to stop the sale of narcotics and opioids like fentanyl, tramadol, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, according to […]
On Monday, authorities announced the seizure of tens of thousands of fentanyl pills, approximated at about 25,000, as part of a multi-million dollar drug bust in New York’s Westchester County. On Wednesday 28-year-old Carlos Vasquez was arrested in New Jersey by that state’s police in connection with the drugs. The New York Drug Enforcement Task Force […]
As many as seven people have been hospitalized following possible exposure to fentanyl during an incident that took place around noon on Sunday on the Golden Gate Bridge. The California Highway Patrol says those taken to the hospital were exposed to a chemical substance thought to be fentanyl. Said exposure occurred during an attempt to aid/arrest […]
Myanmar police recently confiscated hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit drugs in what has become the largest seizure in Asia in decades. Also included in the bust were “unprecedented” quantities of methylfentanyl, a strong synthetic opioid, CNN reports. The contraband was the result of a three-month operation on a northeast village in Myanmar. […]
Cameron Pettit, one of three men charged with selling Mac Miller the drugs that led to the rapper’s fatal overdose, pleaded not guilty on Thursday. According to the Associated Press, the 28-year-old man appeared in federal court with his attorney in Los Angeles. Prosecutors allege that Pettit sold the rapper “cocaine and pills that contained the […]
Earlier this week, it was reported a second man had been arrested in connection with Mac Miller’s death. Lake Havasu City, Arizona resident Ryan Reavis was arrested on Tuesday as part of the ongoing investigation into the late rapper’s untimely death. The first arrest came earlier this month with Cameron James Pettit, but now TMZ […]
In a massive three-state drug bust, authorities have arrested 35 people and seized a huge amount of fentanyl. As CNN reports, the quantity of fentanyl seized in the search could kill somewhere around 14 million people. The U.S. Justice Department traced the source of some of the deadly opioids to Shanghai, China. In the process of the […]
