US Customs News Release – This shipment contained commercial quantities of over-the-counter medications with no FDA notification and one...
Minnesota
MN: ‘Garage manufacturers’ flooding underground drug market with fake pills

ABC News – DEA: ‘Garage manufacturers’ flooding underground drug market with fake pills Tens of thousands of counterfeit pills...
PRNewswire – A novel synthetic opioid named brorphine, with effects similar to fentanyl, is the latest opioid drug to...
MN: Former Minneapolis police officer federally indicted on charges of extortion, drug theft

Star Tribune News – Indictment says former Mpls. officer took meth, heroin and opioids for his own use. He...
US: The Opioid Crisis, Already Serious, Has Intensified During Coronavirus Pandemic

Wall Street Journal News – Overdose deaths rise as job losses and stress from Covid-19 destabilize people struggling with...
Except from the LEGISLATIVE ANALYSIS AND PUBLIC POLICY ASSOCIATION Case Law Monitor – August 2020 United States v. Safehouse,...
KDHL News – Task force busts two now charged with possession of $1M in meth Rice County Sheriff Troy...
MN: Law enforcement warns of deadly drug known as ‘fire’ in northern Minnesota

Grand Forks Herald Report – The suspected fentanyl, described as a fine pink crystal, is being sold as heroin...
MN: Fake oxycodone pills containing deadly fentanyl raise alarms with Twin Cities health and law enforcement officials

StarTribune – In recent months, authorities have seized thousands of the pills across the Metro area. Minnesota – Fake oxycodone...
Rash of overdoses could mean contaminated heroin, Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office warns

The Star Tribune – Within six hours, the Sheriff’s Office responded to two heroin overdoses in Shoreview and one...