Redondo Beach man admits to selling fentanyl-laced pills that caused a fatal overdose

Idaho's fight against Fentanyl: Is busting drug dealers enough, or does treatment and education hold the key?

The Department of Justice announced they sentenced 11 people last month following a major drug bust in Idaho in 2023. During the bust, they confiscated 48 thousand fentanyl pills. Law enforcement says our communities are safer because of it. But are we really? Senior reporter Roland Beres talked to experts about the possible unintended consequences of major drug busts.Taking dangerous and highly addictive drugs off the streets hardly seems like …

Nine patients died in an ongoing outbreak of severe invasive infections associated with the use of contaminated fentanyl, produced in a plant in the town of Ramallo, in the province of Buenos Aires, without good manufacturing practices and for a laboratory with successive marketing prohibitions. The outbreak would add up to 20 cases, among those affected in a private center in the province of Buenos Aires and in institutions of the public and pr…

Redondo Beach man admits to selling fentanyl-laced pills that caused a fatal overdose

LOS ANGELES — A South Bay man pleaded guilty Monday to selling fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills to a drug dealer whose customer later died from an overdose. Marcus Michael Takaya Poydras, 36, of Redondo Beach pleaded guilty in federal court in downtown Los Angeles to one count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Poydras admitted having distributed pills that he claimed contained oxyc…

South Bay man pleads guilty to selling fentanyl causing fatal overdose

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Reynoldsville Man Faces Drug Charges After Overdose Leads to Discovery of Stash

REYNOLDSVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – A Jefferson County man is facing a felony drug charge and numerous misdemeanors after State Police say he overdosed on fentanyl in his basement and later admitted to storing drugs that had belonged to a deceased friend. According to the criminal complaint, DuBois-based State Police troopers were called to a residence on Stevenson Hill Road in Washington Township, Jefferson County, on December 15, 2024, after 35-year-ol…