Tag: Oxycodone
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Rocky Mountain DEA breaks fentanyl seizure record for second straight year
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division broke a record for the most fentanyl pills seized in Colorado last year. This year, the division has already broken the previous record with a month left. The law enforcement agency has confiscated around 2.7 million fentanyl pills in the state as of the beginning of…
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
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Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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Convicted Colorado fentanyl dealer creates circus in federal court, gets sentenced to life
Desperate to be heard at his sentencing, Bruce Holder disrupted a federal courtroom Wednesday complaining that his trial was a lie built on faulty evidence. At one point he stood up and walked to the exit door. “I’ve had enough of this,” he told the deputy before he was convinced to calm down. U.S. District…
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Adams County judge dismisses murder charges in toddler’s fentanyl poisoning death
An Adams County judge dismissed first-degree murder charges against Brighton parents accused of causing the fentanyl poisoning death of their 2-year-old girl, according to an order filed this month. Chief Judge Don Quick of the 17th Judicial District ruled the evidence does not support allegations that Alonzo Montoya, 31, and Nicole Casias, 31, “knowingly caused the death” of…
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Longmont man convicted in Boulder fentanyl death case
A Boulder County jury Friday convicted a Longmont man of manslaughter, distribution of a controlled substance and various other charges related to the March 2020 death of a Lafayette woman. Prosecutors outlined their case against Sammy Lee Valdez in a week-long jury trial. They said that Valetta Kroeger was found unresponsive by her boyfriend after taking…
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Boulder officials warn of fentanyl found in counterfeit oxycodone, Xanax
Boulder County Public Health is warning residents of potentially deadly counterfeit medications found to contain fentanyl and other dangerous additives. Illegally manufactured pills made to look like the oxycodone and Xanax were recently found in Boulder containing fentanyl, the department said Friday. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid around 50 times more potent than heroin and…
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Key member and leader of drug trafficking ring sentenced to 6 decades in prison
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man who sold over 1,400 pills containing Fentanyl — a deadly opioid — was sentenced Friday by a Boulder County judge and will spend the next six decades behind bars. Michael L. Reed, was…