Tag: Synthetic Opioids
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Denver man sentenced to over 145 years for fentanyl production
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Denver District Court judge sentenced a 33-year-old man to over 100 years in prison for producing millions of fentanyl pills in the metro Denver area. Judge Karen Brody sentenced Tashon Roberts to 145.5 years in prison on Friday on four charges related to the…
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War on fentanyl: Adams County first responders taking new approach in effort to save lives
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Name a vehicle that’s red all over and read all over. Answer? Adams County Fire Engine #11. The six-wheeled, 33-foot first-responder vehicle is believed to be the first and only fire engine in the country fully wrapped with anti-fentanyl messages in English and Spanish. The…
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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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Mother sentenced in fentanyl poisoning death of 12-year-old daughter
Mystique Sade Wadena, 32, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison Friday
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Underground Music Showcase trains staff for potential fentanyl overdoses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Though the Underground Music Showcase (UMS) is set to bring three fun-filled days of live music to the South Broadway neighborhood, the event organizers know that potential drug overdoses are always a possibility. “Obviously, we do not permit drugs on our premises, but we’re also…
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Denver police arrest 3 suspects in fentanyl pill-producing operation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Officers raided a home and arrested three people allegedly involved in a fentanyl operation that authorities believe could churn out 20,000 fentanyl pills a day. Denver’s narcotics unit began investigating the alleged operation earlier this year. After several months, the Denver police, Homeland Security…
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Colorado DEA seizes more than 570,000 fentanyl pills in one week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division seized around 570,000 fentanyl masked to look like legal prescription pills during a collection of operations in June. During separate operations across a seven-day period, DEA Special Agents and members of multiple state and local law enforcement…
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Rocky Mountain DEA on pace to break fentanyl seizure records
Nearly 1.8 million fentanyl pills have been seized by the DEA so far this fiscal year
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Mom of Brighton toddler who died of fentanyl poisoning pleads guilty
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The mother of a toddler who died of fentanyl poisoning during her parents’ New Year’s drug exchange pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in death and drug possession with intent to distribute, a Class 3 felony. Nicole Casias,32, and the child’s father, 33-year-old Alonzo Montoya,…
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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,…