Fentanyl

A pair of drug traffickers may rot in jail for life after pleading guilty to peddling a slew of narcotics on the hidden corners of the Internet and securing a stash of cryptocurrency funds from these operations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York bared.

It is not clear from where Fuquan Johnson and his friends acquired the cocaine or the circumstances leading to the drug use.

Osvaldo Medivil-Tamayo, a 22-year-old Mexican drug trafficker, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for smuggling drugs into the U.S. using teenagers as couriers.

A narcotics dealer will serve 15 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl analogs and synthetic opioids across the United States, including to an 18-year-old who died of an overdose.

A Pennsylvania father has been arrested after his 4-year-old son died of an accidental fentanyl overdose after attending a family birthday party.

A 2-year old boy in Kentucky died Thursday after consuming a lethal dose of fentanyl that belonged to his mother