Local Man Sentenced 10 Years In Prison For Trafficking Drugs That Led To A Death
A Pittsburgh man was sentenced 10 years for distributing Schedule I and II drugs that contributed to a fatal overdose in April 2016.
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A Pittsburgh man was sentenced 10 years for distributing Schedule I and II drugs that contributed to a fatal overdose in April 2016.
A jury has found an East Hills woman guilty in the death of her 17-month-old child involving a fentanyl-filled sippy cup.
Police seized heroin/fentanyl worth an estimated $20,000 in Rankin early Friday morning.
Authorities say a Pittsburgh mother who admitted to letting her sons store fentanyl at her house has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
Police in Monroeville seized more than $60,000 in an ongoing narcotics investigation on Wednesday.
A controversial tool allows people who use street drugs such as cocaine and heroin to test whether their drugs are laced with fentanyl.
A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to prison in connection to an incident that sent 18 SWAT officers to the hospital for fentanyl exposure.
Janel Firestone found her son — the 24-year-old, just resigned mayor of the tiny Pennsylvania town of Mount Carbon — in what she assumed was a deep sleep.
A new report on overdose deaths released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control indicates more than 70,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2017.
A prosecutor says investigators haven't been able to determine how an inmate and 23 staff members at a southern Ohio prison were exposed to and sickened by a mix of heroin and the potent painkiller fentanyl.
Despite the ongoing opioid crisis plaguing the nation, the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new opioid medication five to 10 times more powerful than fentanyl.
A big first for Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, as the White House is placing a special program here to help fight the opioid epidemic.
A sheriff's office thought it made a huge drug bust, seizing 13 pounds of fentanyl worth $2 million on the street, but it actually turned out to be sugar worth about $8 at the grocery store.
Jhenea Pratt was charged with criminal homicide and endangering the welfare of a child after a lethal amount of fentanyl was found in her 17-month-old daughter's bloodstream.
Pittsburgh Police have arrested an East Hills woman in connection with the April death of her baby daughter after tests showed fentanyl in the girl's sippy cup.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania and seven other states will pursue even seemingly small synthetic opioid cases in hopes of reducing the supply of the drugs in areas with high overdose death rates.
Authorities are investigating after a flyer with fentanyl on it was found on a sheriff office vehicle in Houston on Tuesday.
Five family members who were all involved in a drug trafficking organization are facing charges for selling drugs that resulted in fatal overdoses.
Amid the carnage of the national opioid crisis, there may be some light at the end of the tunnel in Western Pennsylvania.
State police in Punxsutawney say there were four overdoses in the area in the last 48 hours.
Police arrested a man after they found fentanyl and other drugs in his car in Indiana County last Thursday.
The Saltsburg man police say killed two people while driving high on fentanyl and marijuana went before a magistrate judge today. The families and friends of those killed were in court as well.
A post by an Arkansas police station about fentanyl on shopping carts went viral, but has quickly been deemed not true.
An Ohio county prosecutor says the amount of fentanyl seized from three California men last month was enough to kill the entire population of Columbus.
Authorities have charged a 60-year-old Ohio woman in the death of a 12-year-old boy who a coroner says died from a fentanyl overdose during a sleepover at her apartment.
