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Canadian Mounties bust massive drug 'super lab' linked to transnational organized crime
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian police dismantled what they said Thursday is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug “super lab” in the country. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police believe organized crime ran the operation where there was mass-production and...
US imposes sanctions on top members of the armed wing of a Mexican fentanyl-trafficking cartel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico. Five Mexican citizens and two companies linked to La Linea, a violent Mexico-based drug...
Owner of NYC day care where toddler fatally ingested fentanyl pleads guilty to federal charges
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl pleaded guilty to federal drug charges Tuesday. More than a year after the September 2023 death of 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici, Grei Mendez entered the guilty plea in...
Walmart reaches settlement deal for shareholder lawsuits over its handling of opioids
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Friday it has reached a proposed settlement pact related to three lawsuits filed by shareholders on behalf of the company over the handling of prescription opioids. According to the terms of the settlement that were disclosed in a regulatory filing,...
California man accused of using drone to deliver fentanyl and other drugs
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man was arrested Wednesday after federal prosecutors say he used a drone to deliver fentanyl and other drugs to customers, including one who died of a fentanyl overdose. Christopher Patrick Laney, 34, of Lancaster, California, was arrested...
Man gets a 45-year prison sentence in the fentanyl death of a toddler at a NYC daycare
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who hid a stash of fentanyl beneath the floorboards of a Bronx daycare center was sentenced to 45 years in prison Wednesday in connection with a toddler's fatal opioid overdose. Felix Herrera-Garcia previously pleaded guilty to drug charges and causing bodily...
Puerto Rico police investigate 8 deaths and about two dozen suspected fentanyl overdoses in one town
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least eight people have died in a town on Puerto Rico’s north coast in recent days after around two dozen suffered from suspected overdoses linked to drugs likely contaminated with fentanyl, police said Tuesday. The eighth victim was a 26-year-old...
Suspect in deadly Minnesota crash convicted of federal gun and drug charges
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a Minnesota man accused of causing a 2023 car crash that killed five young women of federal firearm and drug offenses. Derrick John Thompson, 29, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, was found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm...
Hot days and methamphetamine are now a deadlier mix
PHOENIX (AP) — On just one sweltering day during the hottest June on record in Phoenix, a 38-year-old man collapsed under a freeway bridge and a 41-year-old woman was found slumped outside a business. Both had used methamphetamine before dying from an increasingly dangerous mix of soaring...
A police union director who was fired after an opioid smuggling arrest pleads guilty
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The former executive director for a Northern California police union pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges she illegally imported synthetic opioid pills from India and other countries. Joanne Marian Segovia, who was executive director of the San...
