Fentanyl & Synthetics

50+ min ago   (111+ words) OSHKOSH (WLUK) – Jennifer O’Connor pleaded not guilty Monday to charges she sold a fatal dose of methamphetamine for $20. No trial date was set on three charges, including first-degree reckless homicide. She returns to court Nov. 16 for a status conference, court…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago   (307+ words) U.S. Attorney Zachary Keller, Western District of Louisiana, Lafayette, discusses drug trafficking busts by the Louisiana Homeland Security Task Force during a press conferencce March 31, 2026, in Lafayette, Louisiana. A federal judge in the Western District of Louisiana sentenced a Leesville man…...

2+ hour, 28+ min ago   (184+ words) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WTAP) - Nigel Jamille Coats, 22, of Huntington pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl. On Nov. 13, 2025, Coats sold 22 grams of fentanyl in exchange for $1,200 in Huntington. As part of his guilty plea, Coats admitted to the transaction and further admitted to…...

4+ hour, 5+ min ago   (154+ words) FAYETTEVILLE, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A woman was arrested after Fayetteville Police say more than 22 grams of fentanyl were recovered during a traffic stop on Route 19. According to the Fayetteville Police Department, PFC J.P. Hannigan conducted a traffic stop near Keller Avenue…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (83+ words) The News-Press Lehigh Acres man to spend more than decade in prison for selling drugs A Lehigh Aces man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for trafficking deadly drugs after a confidential informant arranged multiple deals…...

2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (164+ words) Big Country News | Three Methamphetamine Traffickers Sentenced to Federal Prison BOISE – U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced the results of three separate drug trafficking Christopher Lee Hatcher, 68, of California, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for In a separate…...

38+ min ago   (197+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl was sentenced last Friday to 19 years in federal prison. Joshua James Cannady, 51, of Landers, California, was convicted by a jury Feb. 19 in U.S. District Court for conspiracy to distribute…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (333+ words) EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — A 46-year-old man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in connection with a 2024 fentanyl overdose death inside the Downtown El Paso County Detention Center, a case the El Paso District Attorney’s Office says is the…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (176+ words) Three Wilkes-Barre men have been convicted at trial on federal drug-trafficking charges during an operation that resulted in the seizure of over 10 kilograms of fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Jerrod Curtis, 42, Paul “Payne” Daniel Chavis, 56, and Reneard Harris, 68, were…...

32+ min ago   (140+ words) SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) — Three Wilkes-Barre men were convicted of drug-trafficking offenses following a two-week federal trial in Scranton, prosecutors announced. A jury convicted Jerrod Curtis, 42; Paul Daniel Chavis, also known as “Payne,” 56; and Reneard Harris, 68, on Sept. 10, 2026, of conspiracy…...