On the afternoon of October 9, the authorities received a call from someone who lives at the Sugarmont Apartments in Salt Lake City. The caller informed them that one of the neighbors was behaving strangely and needed help. They also reported that they were pretty sure he had a gun.
The police additionally received calls from others regarding the situation.
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.
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.
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.
A fake pill bottle with a GPS tracker helped the police find and arrest a Michigan man who allegedly robbed thousands of dollars worth of prescription drugs from several CVS pharmacies over two months.
Beginning on May 24, CVS pharmacies in four separate locations in midwestern Michigan were robbed of several prescription medications by an unknown suspect.
One of the stores in Van Buren Township was visited by the suspect twice. The first time was on May 24, and then again on June 8. The alleged robber went to the pharmacy in Saline on June 2, the Ann Arbor location on June 14, and the store in Milan on July 7.
A South Carolina women’s prison guard was accused of trying to distribute narcotics to inmates by hiding them inside Rice Krispies Treats to sneak them into the facility.
43-year-old Marcy Shaffer lives in Columbia. She was employed by the South Carolina Department of Corrections as a women’s state prison guard at the Camille Graham Correctional Institution.
On July 1, Shaffer was entering the facility, and she was reportedly carrying a plastic bag filled with Rice Krispies Treats.
The authorities allegedly found drugs in a man’s prosthetic leg as he was being processed into the jail for narcotics possession.
33-year-old Keith Adams resides in Largo, Florida.
Around 5:00 am on April 24, Adams was reportedly the passenger in a vehicle traveling around the local area.
The owner of an addiction treatment center in Kansas is facing charges after he was allegedly found with a large stash of drugs, in addition to other items causing the authorities to assert that he is involved in trafficking.
44-year-old Trevor J. Robinson lives and works in Olathe. He is the owner and operator of the Nuvista LLC, which provides services as an opioid addiction treatment clinic that uses Suboxone to help the patients.
At the end of October, Robinson, who had an active warrant out for his arrest, was in his Maserati when the authorities caught up with him.
A baby born at home and allegedly without the assistance of a trained professional was reportedly found with hypodermic needle marks on her head had heroin in her bloodstream, leading to her death and the arrest of three people.
21-year-old Destiney Harbour from San Angelo, Texas, was expecting a child and was due to give birth in late-August.
It was reported that Harbour’s mom, 37-year-old Christin Chanelle Bradley, and Bradley’s beau, 34-year-old Dustin Wayne Smock, was with Harbour on August 23, when the woman gave birth to her daughter.
When a Tampa woman went to the police station to turn herself in for an active warrant, she was allegedly found with many pills stuffed in the lining of her hairpiece before she was taken into the jail.
31-year-old Arayia Hudson learned that she had a warrant out for her arrest due to an alleged violation of the terms of her probation.
On July 31, Hudson went to the Pasco County jail outside of Tampa to turn herself in. When the woman arrived she was taken into the area of the facility where body searches are performed before an inmate is incarcerated.
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