Man jailed for life for killing homeowner with his car
Date Outline 04/10/2017 A 24-year-old homeless man has today been sentenced to life imprisonment at Birmingham Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to the murder of a mother and son at their family home...
View ArticleOpioid crisis gets personal for judge who helped troubled youth
The Honorable Maurice H. Hilliard Jr., 84, awoke at sunrise that first Saturday morning in April, 2016. Morning dew clung to the first budding blooms of spring as he walked outside his Roswell home. He...
View ArticleSummit County gets tough on heroin deaths, charging drug suppliers with...
When Charles Marotto was recently sentenced to five years in prison for providing a fatal hit of heroin to a man he considered a friend, few people left the courtroom happy. Not Marotto. Not the...
View ArticleThe Last Shot
by Alec MacGillis ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The Last Shot Amid a surging opiate crisis, the maker of the anti-addiction drug Vivitrol skirted the usual sales...
View ArticleKRISTINE
It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleA painkiller’s deadly price: Fentanyl epidemic robs Georgia family of mother,...
Somebody help me! Pat Strickland was about to watch a movie in the den of her suburban Atlanta home two years ago, when she heard her 11-year-old grandson screaming upstairs. She rushed up the ten...
View ArticleThe Dukes of Oxy: How a Band of Teen Wrestlers Built a Smuggling Empire
The gutted teddy bears were tossed everywhere, the slit carcasses and polyester innards strewn on the floor and kitchen table along with tens of thousands of dollars in fifties and hundreds — stacks of...
View ArticleA Second Chance
Prologue Breana and Chandler: Siblings Lost Having to bury your own child is a parent’s worst nightmare. Michelle , a 49-year-old former account executive at American Express from Peoria, Arizona, has...
View ArticleArrest figures show Paterson drugs a regional problem
PATERSON — In a city where authorities say millions of dollars' worth of illegal drugs are sold every year, narcotics arrests happen all the time. On April 5, for example, a 23-year-old woman was...
View ArticleHow some California drug rehab centers exploit addiction
Rehab Riviera Navigate to a section: Part 1 | Some rehabs use loopholes, Obamacare to exploit addicts Part 2 | Many recovery centers fail to deliver Part 3 | Recovery homes can make tough neighbors...
View ArticleHow some Southern California drug rehab centers exploit addiction
Rehab Riviera Navigate to a section: Part 1 | Some rehabs use loopholes, Obamacare to exploit addicts Part 2 | Many recovery centers fail to deliver Part 3 | Recovery homes can make tough neighbors...
View ArticleEvery 25 Seconds
Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View ArticleSheriff: Cheaper drug that's 50x stronger than heroin slams Syracuse's suburbs
Syracuse, NY -- There's a new drug in town that's 50 times stronger than heroin and more profitable for drug dealers, Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway warned. It's called fentanyl, and it's hitting...
View ArticleDoctor charged with selling pain pills pleads not guilty
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey doctor has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sold prescriptions for highly addictive opioid...
View ArticleHeroin dealer admits selling drugs that caused woman to overdose in Farmers...
A heroin dealer admitted to selling the drugs that caused a woman to overdose in the bathroom of a Farmers Branch McDonald's in June 2016, officials announced Thursday. Nancy Pineda, 28, pleaded guilty...
View ArticleMan charged with supplying fentanyl-laced heroin
A Howell Township man who used the fentanyl-laced heroin died from an overdose, authorities said FREEHOLD -- Monmouth County authorities say a Howell Township man bought fentanyl-laced heroin from a...
View ArticleAlleged dealer charged with supplying drugs that killed man, cops say
Police found the victim dead of a drug overdose in a Kmart bathroom Gregory Koc(Ocean County Jail) TOMS RIVER -- A Toms River man has been charged with causing the death of a Berkeley Township man who...
View ArticleMan gets 21 years for selling drugs that killed addict
An Akron man will spend 21 years in prison for selling a drug addict the highly potent fentanyl that killed her when she overdosed in March 2015. Kevin Ecker’s case was the 22nd drug-related...
View ArticleMan accused of selling heroin that led to death indicted
Christopher T. Brown, 38, of Irvington, charged in August in connection with the death of a Raritan Township man, has been indicted, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns, III announced on...
View ArticleSon of ex-Chirlane McCray aide is a drug dealer: prosecutor
The son of a former top City Hall aide is a drug dealer who fatally stabbed a teen in a dispute over money, prosecutor said in court Tuesday. Khari Noerdlinger, 19, and victim Savion Lewellen, 16,...
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