Authorities say she planned to send the poisoned chocolates disguised as a congratulatory gift from a travel agency.

At the time of this interception, this was one of the biggest fentanyl busts in the state,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Pirraglia said.

More than 25 people were hospitalized over suspected overdoses in the Penn North neighborhood of Baltimore Thursday, leading authorities on the scene to shut down the Enoch Pratt Free Library to administer Narcan to the afflicted.

Deputies with the Nash County Sheriff’s Office and Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men after a 10-month investigation into trafficking

He was arrested following a months-long investigation into an individual believed to be trafficking narcotics.

A Tyler man was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Thursday after a 17-year-old died from a fentanyl overdose in 2022. KETK/FOX51 News covers East Texas, bringing you the latest local stories, weather,

The chemical is bis (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate, also called BTMPS, which is in a group of chemicals called hindered amine light stabilizers. BTMPS is usually added to plastics, coatings, and adhesives to protect them from weathering and UV radiation.

Authorities reportedly eized 75 grams of fentanyl, 278 grams of cocaine, 47 grams of crack cocaine and a loaded P80 handgun with no serial number during the search.

Illegally manufactured fentanyl kills a significant number of people in the United States and Canada every year. Since the emergence of modern heroin markets in the late 1960s, controlling supply has been associated with important reductions in opioid use and harms in several cases worldwide.

The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it had extended a deadline to September 4 for a prohibition on certain transactions involving three Mexican financial institutions hit by sanctions last month over alleged money laundering linked to fentanyl trafficking.