Tag: fentanyl
Minnesota Freedom Fund chair charged with fentanyl possession
The chair of the Minnesota Freedom Fund board was charged Thursday with felony fifth-degree drug possession and a misdemeanor cannabis violation.
Alpha News was the...
South St. Paul felon pleads guilty in federal court to drug...
A South St. Paul man with a lengthy history of convictions has pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking.
Nicholas Neil Nikiforakis, 34, pleaded...
DOJ charges El Chapo sons, cartel members with fentanyl trafficking, murder
(The Center Square) — The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 28 members of the Sinaloa Cartel, including drug kingpin El Chapo’s sons.
Attorney General...
ICE removes fugitive wanted for drug trafficking from Minnesota
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive from St. Paul last week who was wanted in Mexico for drug trafficking.
According...
Three arrested in Blue Earth County in connection to several teen...
One Mankato area juvenile teen is hospitalized in critical condition following a suspected overdose on counterfeit fentanyl pills, and two other teens were also...
Charges: Major drug dealer busted with over 65,000 fentanyl pills in...
A Seattle, Wash., man has been charged in two Twin Cities narcotics cases with possessing over 65,000 suspected fentanyl pills and is suspected of...
DEA seized 4.7 million lethal doses of fentanyl in 5-state region...
Federal authorities seized nearly 4.7 million lethal doses of fentanyl in 2022 in a five-state region that includes Minnesota.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Omaha Division...
DEA: 36 million lethal doses of fentanyl removed from U.S. from...
(The Center Square) — As a result of law enforcement operations from May through September of this year, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and...
Minneapolis first responders seeing 8 overdoses per day, city says
Minneapolis issued an alert last week after responding to “several overdoses” in less than 24 hours on Thursday, including three separate overdose deaths.
According to...
Caryn Sullivan: Border crisis should be top of mind when picking...
As of September, 2.5 million men, women, and children had crossed our southern border and scattered to the wind. That’s slightly less than the...