Tag: fentanyl
‘Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’: Judge...
Sixty hours of volunteering over two years is not nearly enough to escape jail time for the "exceptional" crime of selling fentanyl on the...
Vancouver fentanyl sentence a joke
In the past few years we have been inundated with information telling us we are in an opioid crisis that is causing hundreds of...
Nine jailed in landmark joint US – China fentanyl smuggling investigation
Nine people have been jailed in China for smuggling fentanyl into the US, after a landmark joint investigation by American and Chinese officers. In August,...
Vancouver fentanyl trafficker with 69 prior convictions gets nine years in...
A man who was convicted of possessing fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking and possessing a loaded firearm has been sentenced to nine years...
Drug company founder convicted of bribing doctors with money, strippers to...
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in...
Drugs, weapons linked to Brothers Keepers gang seized by Delta police
DELTA - Police say they have seized a significant amount of drugs, including a suspected bulk quantity of fentanyl, from a known criminal organization.Delta police...
Unprecedented manslaughter charges laid against drug dealers in fentanyl overdose deaths
SASKATOON - First, it was the unprecedented warning about the possibility of cocaine laced with the opioid. Now, it’s the decision — unprecedented in Saskatchewan,...
Man acquitted after judge throws out police seizure of 27,000 fentanyl...
VANCOUVER - A man has been acquitted after the police seizure of 27,500 fentanyl pills in a van was thrown out of court due...
One dead, 12 more hospitalized after suspected Fentanyl leads to ‘mass...
CHICO, Ca. - A “mass overdose” in a California home Saturday morning left one person dead and another 12 hospitalized after police say the victims...
Vancouver seeks to pioneer ‘safe supply’ for hard drug users
VANCOUVER - Pig de-wormer, Comet, plaster and, increasingly, the infamously deadly opioid fentanyl. These are some of the substances Sarah Blyth and the Overdose Prevention Society find...
