Two men are behind bars following a traffic stop that led to the largest drug bust for the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.
The Butler County Undercover Regional Narcotics Task Force seized fentanyl, cocaine, thousands in cash and an AR-15 after executing a search warrant in Fairfield, according to a press release from the task force.
When police arrived, Melissa Pruitt agreed to a sobriety test, but she was so intoxicated, she couldn't stand.
"As a mom who's had to deal with the gut-wrenching pain of not knowing if their child was alive on these streets," said Gina McDonald, Co-Founder of Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths.
Ecuadorian national pleads guilty to armed fentanyl trafficking in Orlando and faces 15 years to life in prison.
In recent remarks to the press, President Donald Trump restated his intention to impose 25% tariffs on U.S. imports from Mexico and Canada as early as Feb. 1. His reasoning: "vast" illegal immigration and "massive" amounts of fentanyl coming to the U.
Jose Ricardo Pena, 63, faces a prison term of 63 months and a third deportation following a conviction in U.S. Middle District Court.
Two illegal aliens tied to Mexican cartels and approximately 130,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, cocaine and meth were discovered during a drug bust in the Denver, Colorado, area.
"As a mom who's had to deal with the gut-wrenching pain of not knowing if their child was alive on these streets," said Gina McDonald, Co-Founder of Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths.
A Browning man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl that resulted in the death of a man on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.Do
A Detroit man was sentenced to 23 years in prison over fentanyl-related deaths, the U.S. Attorney's Office reports.