Recent Posts in Prescription Drugs Category
Posted on May 16, 2012 By admin
Federal agents said a drug smuggling case in which TSA screeners allowed luggage with drugs inside through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport represents a serious security breach. A man ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By admin
Drug operators running an online narcotics marketplace through a virtual network facilitated sales of illegal drugs to 3,000 people in 34 countries and every single state in the United States, ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2012 By admin
A rise in deaths from black-tar heroin overdoses in Redlands, California in late 2010 led police to an investigation that has resulted in the indictment of 20 people who made up a large group of drug ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By admin
A federal indictment in Los Angeles has charged 14 people that includes an 88-year-old doctor and two operators of a Los Angeles clinic, with running an illegal insurance fraud scheme to obtain and ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By admin
A federal judge sentenced a drug-dealing doctor, Al Bussam, who was once California's top prescriber of narcotic painkillers and other abused prescription drugs to seven years in a federal prison. ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By admin
Fifteen people that includes a doctor, a pharmacy manager and gang members, were arrested for conspiracy to smuggle prescription drugs into Mexico from Los Angeles by strapping prescription of pills ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By admin
In Compton, California, federal prosecutors announced that eight people were arrested and more than a ton of drugs were seized after a investigation discovered two national drug trafficking groups. A ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2011 By admin
A year and a half after Michael Jackson's heart stopped beating in a bedroom of his rented Holmby Hills mansion, prosecutors are due in court to present evidence that the pop star's $150,000-a-month ...
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