Articles Tagged with fentanyl

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When the police reportedly discovered a felon from Florida passed out behind the wheel in the middle of traffic, they allegedly found several types of drugs and a loaded rifle in the truck he was driving.  

Just after midnight on March 29, a man in a Chevy Silverado was driving through an intersection in Brooksville when he allegedly fell asleep. The truck was stopped in the middle of the road blocking traffic. 

Someone notified the authorities about the situation, and deputies from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Department went to the location to investigate. 

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An Oklahoma mother was incarcerated after she was accused of using her baby’s diaper bag to carry methamphetamine and paraphernalia. 

In the middle of the afternoon on February 6, the mother of a 7-month-old child was at her residence in Sapulpa, which is about 14 miles away from the downtown Tulsa area. 

According to reports, the Creek County Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant for the home. The reason for the search has not been disclosed at this time. 

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A North Carolina woman is facing an extensive list of criminal charges after the authorities allegedly found two children without adult supervision and an abundance of drugs and drug paraphernalia in her residence.  

A 24-year-old woman who resides in Bladenboro, North Carolina had two children in her home last week, and people in the neighborhood got the impression that the kids were not being treated properly. 

The suspicions were reported to the authorities, and deputies from the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office went to investigate the situation with workers from the Bladen County Department of Social Services. 

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A teacher in New Jersey is facing multiple charges after allegedly overdosing on Fentanyl in front of the students in his middle school class.

At the beginning of the school day on November 29, a 57-year-old art teacher at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, New Jersey, was in his middle school classroom with his students.

Around 9:00 AM, the students saw the man fall onto the floor.

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The Portland police made an arrest and are continuing their investigation of a savage attack on a 78-year-old man who had half of his face and one of his ears bitten off by a man on a MAX transit station platform. 

Around 2:00 AM on January 2, a man was at the Cleveland Ave. MAX Transit Station in Gresham. The light rail was not operating at the time. 

Some people in the area reportedly noticed that the man was being attacked by a younger man. They believed the older gentleman had been stabbed during the event, which was ongoing. 

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A man was arrested after he reportedly fled from the scene of a traffic stop where the police found hundreds of fentanyl pills and almost 3 ounces of amphetamine. 

Late in the evening on September 18, the authorities reported that they spotted the driver of a black Chrysler minivan cruising around with a man in the front passenger seat. The vehicle reportedly did not have its taillights on. 

A traffic stop was performed, and one of the officers went to the passenger’s side of the vehicle. It was noted that the passenger was not wearing a seatbelt. The man also seemed like he was having a tough time sitting still. 

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A man who is on probation for drug crimes was allegedly caught with 50 grams of fentanyl and several other substances when the driver of a car he was in was pulled over. 

On September 16, a 28-year-old from Vero Beach was a passenger seated in the back of a vehicle when the driver allegedly ran a stop sign. 

The alleged failure to stop was spotted by officers from the Vero Beach Police Department, and they performed a traffic stop. 

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A teen accused of driving under the influence after crashing his car in Santa Rosa was allegedly found with drugs and a ghost gun in his residence.

19-year-old Luis Fajardo Melgoza lives in Santa Rosa, California.

Around 6:30 am on July 25, Melgoza was driving locally in a gray Honda Accord.

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A Florida Man is facing several charges after being accused of stealing and selling a minimum of 125 cemetery vases so he could spend the money on fentanyl. 

31-year-old Douglas Deck Jr. lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. 

On July 21, a scrap metal yard in St. Petersburg notified the authorities about someone they identified as Deck Jr. that had visited their establishment on July 12, 13, 14, and 19 with bronze vases for sale. The vases are used for holding flowers and offerings at gravesites, but the man was reportedly selling them as scrap metal. 

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Two Washington men were indicted by a grand jury after they allegedly put 9,000 fentanyl pills in potato chip containers and smuggled them into Whatcom County.  

Earlier this month, Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations Pacific Northwest received information that caused them to believe that a criminal organization from Mexico was smuggling fentanyl into Washington state. 

The authorities believed that Juan E. Hernandez-Hernandez and Alejandro Macias-Velazquez, residents of Washington, were involved in the smuggling. 

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