Masri said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration gave PBSO $120,000 in overtime expenses and an additional $90,000 for undercover drug buys. He announced the arrests at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office headquarters, flanked by State Attorney Alexia Cox and Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

A dozen hooligans with lengthy rap sheets terrorized an East Harlem NYCHA complex for three years, brazenly hawking deadly drugs such as fentanyl and the even-more-powerful nitazene in plain view, federal authorities alleged Wednesday.

Federal drug enforcement officers seized a kilogram of fentanyl and more than 600 grams of methamphetamine during operations in San Francisco over the past two months, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Across Latin America, cocaine trafficking has surged as Washington has prioritized combating fentanyl. Times reporters traveled to Ecuador to see how criminal groups are wreaking havoc.

It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about 2020 — but it’s even more dangerous. Experts say it can be up to 20 times more potent, meaning small amounts can be highly addictive.

Jermaine Lewis was sentenced to a decade in prison after the interception of a 4-pound package of fentanyl kicked of a federal drug investigation.

For more than three and a half years, officials said, the men used the Johnson Houses as “an open drug market” to sell crack cocaine and fentanyl.

Andy Dick explains he sneaked away from friends to do mystery drugs with a stranger before being captured on video unresponsive from an apparent overdose at a Hollywood strip mall.