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Fourteen Arrests In New Bedford
Fourteen Arrests In New Bedford
Fourteen Arrests In New Bedford
Release from New Bedford Police: New Bedford Police made 14 arrests Wednesday, including the apprehension of a suspect with a long criminal history that includes pending warrants for home invasion and assault to kill. The arrests were made in collaboration with Massachusetts State Police and federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms... Read Mor
DEA Team Assigned Here
DEA Team Assigned Here
DEA Team Assigned Here
New Bedford will be one of six locations around the country where the Drug Enforcement Administration plans to establish new law enforcement teams to stem the flow of heroin and illicit fentanyl. In a statement released Friday, the D-E-A says the teams will be made up of special Federal agents, and state and local task force officers...
19 Arrested in New Bedford
19 Arrested in New Bedford
19 Arrested in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD - Local and federal officials worked to rid New Bedford streets of drugs and drug offenders over the weekend. New Bedford Police along with agents from the New Bedford DEA office arrested 19 people Friday, seizing over 60 grams of Fentanyl, more than 200 Oxycodone pills, over 20 bags of crack cocaine, six ounces of marijuana, and more than $3,000 in cash...
AG And Feds Reach Agreement
AG And Feds Reach Agreement
AG And Feds Reach Agreement
State and federal law enforcement agencies are pledging to work together to crack down on doctors and other health care providers who illegally prescribe or dispense opioid painkillers. Attorney General Maura Healey said Wednesday her office has formed a task force with the FBI, the U...
Fentanyl Seizures
Fentanyl Seizures
Fentanyl Seizures
BOSTON (AP) _ Massachusetts had the second highest number of seizures of the powerful narcotic fentanyl of any state in the country in 2014. That's according to a new study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Drug Enforcement Administration looking at increases in fentanyl confiscations and overdose fatalities related to the drug...
Drug Traffickers Jailed
Drug Traffickers Jailed
Drug Traffickers Jailed
Four Rhode Island men, arrested 13 months ago in a drug and guns sweep across the Ocean State, have all been sentenced to Federal prison terms.  The sweep turned up quantities of cocaine, heroin, the synthetic drug "Molly." Ecstasy pills and six firearms, including a machine gun...
$1 Million Drug Haul
$1 Million Drug Haul
$1 Million Drug Haul
State and Federal authorities seized large quantities of heroin and crystal meth with a street value of a million dollars this week and also arrested three men that police say were tied to a Mexico-based drug ring.   Massachusetts State Police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents were stationed at a hotel on Route 1 in Peabody where they observed two men leave with a large duffel bag and dr

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