Canada and Mexico are expected to intensify efforts this week to avoid punishing 25% tariffs on their exports to the U.S. in talks to persuade President Donald Trump's administration that their steps to increase border security and curb fentanyl trafficking are working ahead of a March 4 deadline.
The DA's office says that the bust helped to "dismantle a large scale drug operation during the service of an arrest warrant in the city."
The man appointed by the Canadian government to help stop fentanyl from entering the United States said his goal is to totally eliminate the drug crossing the border. “Getting the number to zero is a goal and should be our goal,
Marcus Roach, 41, of Gastonia, was charged with felony death by distribution following a fentanyl overdose investigation that began in January 2024, authorities said.
Before sewage gets treated at a Denver facility, some of it goes to a lab in Boston for testing. Officials say the samples make it possible to learn a lot.
A 23-year-old mother has been charged with second-degree murder over her child's fentanyl-related death that happened last year.
President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping freeze on foreign aid has temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States.
Winnipeg police are warning the public about fentanyl that has been pressed and packaged into shapes “similar to cut-out cookies, colourful candles, soaps or confections” recently found in the city.
The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is underway, in which illicit fentanyl is more frequently mixed with other drugs.
Stone likely had no intention of killing his friend when he gave him cocaine. Yet that is what happened, and for that, he’s going to spend up to five decades in prison. Judge Darnell Jackson imposed the lengthy sentence,
Justin Turnick was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for supplying fentanyl-lased narcotics used in six Rockland overdoses, three fatal.