750,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized in One County in 2024 but Crisis Persists
Kansas' fentanyl crisis is an “extremely dangerous situation,” law enforcement officials say, with the synthetic opioid causing roughly 80 percent of drug overdose deaths in one of the state's most populous regions. Sedgwick County officials Have One population More than 520,000 people Revealed Police have seized as many as 750,000 fentanyl pills so far in […]
GOP Funding Bill ‘Filled with Poison Pills’
In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said a bipartisan bill was the only way to keep the government funded. When asked if he would support a bipartisan bill to require proof of citizenship to vote, he said the Republican plan includes a variety of other poison pills. […]
Lethal Dose Methamphetamine Pills Accidentally Given Out by Food Bank
AFP — New Zealand police said on Thursday they had recovered 29 methamphetamine pills disguised as pineapple sweets that had been mistakenly distributed to members of the public in a charity donation box. Police are rushing to trace more brightly packaged drugs that have been anonymously donated to anti-poverty charity Auckland City Mission and then […]
Arizona Mother-Son Duo Smuggled 120,000 Fentanyl Pills into Chicago Suburb
An Arizona mother and son were arrested in the Chicago area on suspicion of trying to smuggle thousands of fentanyl pills from suburban Illinois, police said. Gloria Gastelum (54) and Germán Vargas (22) McHenry County sheriff’s deputies stopped them Thursday as they were driving through Marengo, authorities said in a Facebook post. Sheriff’s Office Arrests […]
Half-Ton of Fentanyl Pills Seized at Arizona Border — Largest Bust in CBP History
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Lukeville, Arizona, recently made what they called the agency’s largest fentanyl seizure to date, when agents at a port of entry found approximately 4 million blue fentanyl pills weighing more than 1,000 pounds. The seizure was one of several large seizures of fentanyl identified by the department […]
CBP seizes 4 million pills at Ariz. border in largest fentanyl bust in agency history
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized more than a half ton of fentanyl, or more than 4 million pills, authorities announced this week, the largest drug seizure in the agency’s history. When CBP officers at the border port of Lukeville, Arizona, stopped a 20-year-old driver of a pickup truck towing a SRV trailer, they […]
Pro-life groups rally behind Trump VP pick JD Vance despite his support for ‘accessible’ abortion pills
Pro-life advocacy groups are backing Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, who was recently selected by former President Donald Trump as his running mate for vice president in 2024 despite his support for access to abortion pills. Last week, in an interview with “Meet the Press,” Vance said he supported “availability” of the abortion drug mifepristone […]