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2024-09-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Feds say pharmacy burglary ring is largest in DEA history

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 FBI: Enough Fentanyl to Kill 2.5 Million Americans Seized in South Carolina

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-01 09:47|| 2024-09-01 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2

Surprised, we haven't read of a drugmakers Factory being taken over and looted yet?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-02 06:06|| 2024-09-02 06:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Arkansas State Police in 2023 saw a huge rise in illegal drug seizures due to traffic stops compared to previous years. In all, there were 138 significant seizures in 2023. ASP troopers seized more than 11,000 pounds of illegal drugs and $1.4 million from Arkansas highways in total. cocaine seizures showed a huge increase, with 353 pounds confiscated in 2023. The street value of the confiscated cocaine is more than $15 million. Those seizures represent a 146% increase from the 2022 seizure of 143.35 pounds of cocaine by ASP.
The second-highest seizure of illegal marijuana was in December of 2023. Fentanyl seizures were down but still substantial with 65 pounds in 2022 compared to 46 pounds in 2023.

Posted by Sligum Hupomoling9524 2024-09-02 09:16|| 2024-09-02 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 targeted independent, non-chain pharmacies

Self-audit processes, lax security, limited inventories. Somebody did their homework on these money laundries.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-02 09:25|| 2024-09-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 In other news…. Nobody wants a free vaccine

Posted by Airandee 2024-09-02 11:31|| 2024-09-02 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Re #2 the factories aren’t in the US - and frankly it’d be a softer target to hit the shipment between the factory and the shipping export point (vessel or aircraft).

Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2024-09-02 15:28|| 2024-09-02 15:28|| Front Page Top

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