Tag: fentanyl

Capitol Report (Sept. 22): Texas Governor Declares Cartels ‘Terrorists’; Democrats, Republicans Clash Over Police Reform

Long-awaited action on police reform unfolds in Congress: a package of bills that Democrats say is the answer to rising crime, but Republicans say the timing is telling. We spoke with Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher about the Democrats’ efforts to fund the police and what he is hearing from the American people in his state…


Port Jervis Major Trafficker Commits New Crime in Jail, Sentencing Postponed

Port Jervis major drug trafficker Richard McInturff, while awaiting his sentencing in jail, committed a new crime, according to a court hearing at Orange County Courthouse on Sept. 22. At the request of prosecutors, his sentencing date is postponed to Oct. 18. According to a police source, McInturff committed an assault in jail. McInturff is…


Putin Orders Military Mobilization; DOJ Regains Access to Classified Documents in Trump Probe | NTD Good Morning

A scramble for flight tickets, mass arrests, and condemnation from global leaders. Russian President Vladimir Putin raises the stakes with yesterday’s military mobilization order. The Justice Department is regaining access to classified documents in its criminal investigation of Former President Trump.  Find out why a federal court reversed a stay on the documents in question…


Florida Authorities Seize Enough Fentanyl to Kill 4 Million People

Florida authorities shut down a fentanyl operation and seized more than eight kilograms of the drug—enough to kill more than four million people—the state attorney general’s office announced on Wednesday. According to Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office, the drug trafficking organization used the U.S. Postal Service to order fentanyl from California. The investigation of the…


LAPD: 7th Teen Overdosed Recently, Apparently From Fentanyl

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Authorities said Sept. 21 at least seven local teens, including a 15-year-old Bernstein High School girl who died a week ago, have overdosed in the past month from pills believed to have contained fentanyl. The most recent overdose occurred on the morning of Sept. 17, when a 15-year-old male student at STEM Academy…


China Weaponizes Fentanyl Issue Against America: Expert

China has played a key role in flooding America with fentanyl, and the regime is now weaponizing the drug issue against the United States, according to Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk. “China is linking the fentanyl issue and negotiations with other totally different issues like [the] Taiwan issue. So when Pelosi…


18 AGs Call on Biden to Classify Illicit Fentanyl as Weapon of Mass Destruction

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong are leading a multistate, bipartisan effort urging President Joe Biden to classify illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). “I first called for President Biden to take swift action in July and call fentanyl what it is – a weapon of mass…


Rubio, Gonzales Introduce Legislation to Punish Distributing Deadly Fentanyl as Felony Murder

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) introduced legislation on Thursday that makes the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death punishable by federal felony murder charges. This comes as the crisis on the southern border continues to plague the country under the Biden administration. Known as the Felony Murder for Deadly Fentanyl Distribution…


2 Teens Arrested in Probe of Fentanyl Overdoses at High School in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD—A 15-year-old boy was arrested Thursday on suspicion of manslaughter for allegedly selling a fentanyl-laced drug to a pair of Bernstein High School students—one of whom died—while a 16-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly peddling drugs to a third student in nearby Lexington Park. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said the 15-year-old suspect…


Opioid Deaths Mount as States Battle Cartels, Drug Smugglers at US-Mexico Border

On Sept. 8, as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey toured a wall of shipping containers stacked two-high along the state’s southern border in Yuma, he declared the barrier would stem the flow of illegal migration and drug smuggling from Mexico into the United States. A month earlier, Ducey, a Republican, signed an executive order authorizing the…