Former child star Evan Ellingson’s official cause of death has been revealed … and fentanyl is to blame. The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department finished its investigation, telling TMZ the late actor died from an accidental fentanyl overdose. We broke the story … Evan was found dead Nov. 5 at a sober-living home in San … Read more
Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are set to announce an agreement that would see Beijing crack down on the manufacture and export of fentanyl, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially delivering the U.S. president a major victory. Under the deal — which is still being finalized — China would go … Read more
Matthew Perry’s death was not the effect of a fentanyl or meth overdose, at least that’s what initial tests indicate … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ investigators ran a less-in-depth test on Perry which revealed he did not have fentanyl or meth in his system. However, it’s important to note, more in-depth … Read more
Comment on this storyComment U.S. officials announced criminal charges Tuesday against eight Chinese companies and 12 of their executives accused of supplying precursor chemicals for the illegal manufacture of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs. The charges were the second major set of indictments the Biden administration has unsealed since June accusing companies in China … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking, the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States. Leaders from the Treasury, Justice and Homeland … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Banners appeared Monday in northern Mexico purportedly signed by a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel claiming that the gang has sworn off the sale and production of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. But experts quickly cast doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying that fentanyl — which has caused tens of thousands … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Ovidio Guzmán, a son of imprisoned former Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, has been extradited to the USA to face federal drug trafficking prices, the Justice Division stated Friday. Prosecutors allege that the youthful Guzmán, 33, helped lead what Lawyer Common Merrick Garland has known as “the biggest, most … Read more
Web drug gross sales have skyrocketed in recent times, permitting highly effective narcotics to be peddled to American youngsters and adolescents. It’s a development that’s led to an epidemic of overdoses and left numerous younger individuals useless. Now, a invoice scheduled for a congressional vote seeks to deal with the issue, but it surely comes … Read more
Regardless of that development away from dark-web fentanyl gross sales, 4 members of the US Congress this week reintroduced a invoice known as the Darkish Internet Interdiction Act to extend the sentences for dark-web drug sellers, focusing particularly on fentanyl. The invoice would additionally strengthen and make everlasting the Joint Felony Opioid and Darknet Enforcement … Read more