A former intensive care unit nurse in Oregon was arrested on Thursday for allegedly replacing fentanyl from patients’ medical drips with tap water, resulting in dozens of injuries. Dani Schofield, 36, worked at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, then known as Rogue Valley Medical Center. in Medfield and allegedly had contact with all 44 victims, …
An Alabama man was arrested this week after sheriff’s deputies found he was hiding nearly 200 fentanyl pills inside plastic Easter eggs. The Colbert County Sheriff’s Office said Jamarious Dequan Qualls was arrested at a traffic stop on Monday in Tuscumbia, WAFF reported. Qualls was a passenger in the car that was stopped, deputies said. …
Deputies found $450,000 worth of drugs and guns. Tierra Hill faces drug and child endangerment charges.
An upstate New York man was arrested on multiple charges late last week after a 10-month-old baby ingested cocaine at his home. Lucas Smith, 24, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, assault, reckless endangerment and drug and firearms possession. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office was called in when the baby was hospitalized …
A Georgia mother is under investigation Cobb County police say her deceased son had fentanyl in his bloodstream. According to the Cobb County Police Department, Jocelyn Romero said that her son “silently choked on a piece of bread” while sleeping next to her at their Kenwood Creek Apartments residence in Smyrna. She claimed she woke …
An Oregon man is facing charges after police say he drugged his daughter’s friends during a sleepover at his Lake Oswego home. According to Lake Oswego police, 57-year-old Michael Meyden is facing numerous felony and misdemeanor charges after allegedly drugging three of his daughter’s friends. He pleaded not guilty Wednesday during his arraignment Wednesday at …
Woodbury police in Connecticut arrested a reverend Friday on charges of dealing crystal meth, along with other criminal offenses. According to Connecticut State Police, Herbert Irving Miller, 63, was arrested on February 9 after police pulled him over while he drove with a suspended registration and without the minimum state-required vehicle insurance. Police then discovered …
A man and a woman in Virginia have been arrested after seven elementary school children ate gummy bears that were apparently laced with fentanyl. The incident happened at lunch on Tuesday at Central Elementary School in Amherst County, although the sheriff’s office did not say how the children came into contact with the baggie containing …
Alabama investigators believe a drug overdose led to the deaths of two brothers whose bodies were discovered on Wednesday. Braxton Thomas, 30, and Rico Tannehill, 28, vanished from the Haleyville area on November 5 — days before they were found dead in a vehicle in Winston County. Thomas’ wife told AL.com that she believes someone …
A California grandmother accused of masterminding a global drug ring out of her home has been allowed to take multiple vacations and could be in the process of hammering out a deal with the feds, the New York Post reports. In theory, 64-year-old Joanne Segovia faces 20 years in prison if convicted of drug trafficking. …
A search of a Florida home for narcotics resulted in the startling discovery of a dead newborn this week. Luciana Urbina, 32, appeared in a Lee County court Thursday afternoon on a charge of trafficking opioids after deputies found a plastic bag containing 39 grams of fentanyl on a bedroom shelf in her home, WINK …
Investigators have located and arrested Felix Herrera-Garcia, the husband of a Bronx daycare where four children were sickened by fentanyl exposure, one of them fatally. One-year-old Nicholas Dominici was pronounced dead at a hospital on September 15 after he and two other children — a 9-month-old girl and a two year old boy — were …
