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Parents are being warned about fake prescription pills that could contain lethal amounts of fentanyl.

An Arizona family purchased a Glo Worm toy from a thrift store for their daughter and found 5,000 pills “believed to be fentanyl” inside.

A 39-year-old Montreal man is facing a cocaine trafficking charge that was part of a broader effort to transport 1,500 kilos (3,300 pounds) of the drug from Peru to Vermont, federal court documents say. The court documents do not say what the ultimate destination of the cocaine was, but a number of people involved in the deal were from Canada….

Attorney General William Barr and Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said the U.S. would drop the charges and allow Mexico to investigate and determine if Salvatore Cienfuegos Zepeda should be tried in that country.

Walmart is suing the U.S. government in a pre-emptive strike in the battle over its responsibility in the opioid abuse crisis

“These two seizures are more than enough to provide a dose of meth for every man, women and child in the United States and Mexico,” said DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea.

Multiple people were arrested as part of “enforcement actions” conducted by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and Boston police on Wednesday morning. DEA Special Agent Timothy Desmond confirmed to NBC10 Boston that the DEA and Boston police conducted “enforcement actions” in the city on Wednesday morning that resulted in “multiple arrests.” He said the operation is still ongoing so he…

Mexico has extradited the son of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to face drug charges in the United States, leading to fears his gang may stage retaliations. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that Ruben Oseguera will appear in Washington D.C. to answer a drug-distribution indictment.

A Massachusetts woman has filed a class action lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Transportation Security Administration. Rebecca Brown says she had taken about $82,000 in cash from her father’s Pennsylvania home and was bringing it to Massachusetts because the time had come for her to take charge of his finances. The money was confiscated before her flight…

A woman says she’s worried about getting more than $80,000 back after it was confiscated before her flight from Pittsburgh to Boston.

European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids in three southern states on allegations they operated the so-called the “Wall Street Market” darknet platform, which...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

Federal officials have a new tool to battle the opioid crisis: data. The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program is using a web portal called the “OD Map” to track overdoses caused by opioids in real time. The program will help the agency target high-problem areas with resources and track the sources of...

A woman from Monson, Maine was arrested after Somerset County Sheriff’s deputies found nearly 100 grams of fentanyl powder in her car following a traffic stop, according to WCSH-TV.

As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis.

A Queens man and a New Jersey woman have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute dangerous designer drugs, including a synthetic opioid several times more potent than morphine that has been blamed for at least one overdose death, authorities said Tuesday.

Officials confiscated 1,029 marijuana plants, weighing approximately 2,200 pounds, with an estimated street value of over $6 million

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it will not call for reclassifying marijuana, NBC News reports. In a notice for the Federal Register, the DEA proposed to leave marijuana in the most restrictive federal category: Schedule I, which also includes heroin, LSD, and ecstasy. But the agency said it would open the door to more extensive research on the...

El hombre alegó ser inocente, pero es investigado por ser el presunto gatillero.