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CT Wife, Mom Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On Drug Charges: Feds CT Wife, Mom Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On Drug Charges: Feds
CT Wife, Mom Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On Drug Charges: Feds The wife of an accused drug dealer and mother of a convicted drug dealer will spend the next two years in prison after she admitted to selling drugs for her husband after he was arrested, federal prosecutors in Connecticut announced on Wednesday, Feb. 1.  Maria Maldonado, age 50, of Hartford, pleaded guilty to drug charges last year, the US Attorney for Connecticut said. She is out on a $75,000 bond and must report to prison on March 1.  Trouble for Maldonado began in 2021 when the DEA raided her and her husband's home and found 13,000 wax folds of fentanyl, more than 300 loose gr…

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by Josh Lanier
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Yale Medicine Settles With DEA After Ex-Nurse Replaced Fentanyl With Salt Water: Feds Yale Medicine Settles With DEA After Ex-Nurse Replaced Fentanyl With Salt Water: Feds
Yale Medicine Settles With DEA After Ex-Nurse Replaced Fentanyl With Salt Water: Feds Yale University agreed to pay more than $300,000 for violating the Controlled Substances Act after a nurse at a former fertility clinic there admitted to tampering with vials of fentanyl meant for patients, federal authorities said.  Police arrested Donna Monticone, 49, in November 2020 after investigators discovered she had removed the high-powered synthetic opioid from glass vials meant for surgery patients at Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the DEA said.  She injected herself with the drug and replaced what she used with saline so the vials would appear fu…

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by Josh Lanier
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'Rainbow Fentanyl' Made To Look Like Candy Being Sold To Children, DEA Warns 'Rainbow Fentanyl' Made To Look Like Candy Being Sold To Children, DEA Warns
'Rainbow Fentanyl' Made To Look Like Candy Being Sold To Children, DEA Warns Brightly-colored fentanyl made to look like candy is being sold to children and young people, the Drug Enforcement Administration warns.  The DEA and law enforcement partners seized some of the brightly-colored fentanyl in 18 states in the month of August 2022.  “Rainbow fentanyl—fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes—is a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction amongst kids and young adults,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.   “The men and women of the DEA are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentan…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Fairfield County Man Charged With Trafficking Synthetic Opioid Fairfield County Man Charged With Trafficking Synthetic Opioid
Fairfield County Man Charged With Trafficking Synthetic Opioid A 28-year-old Stamford man has been charged with possession with intent to distribute a synthetic opioid, John H. Durham, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced on Monday. Gilberto Valentin, also known as “Miguel Perez-Sanchez,” who was arrested on May 4, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport and was ordered detained. As alleged in court documents, law enforcement identified Valenti as a suspected drug supplier of a heroin distributor residing in Albany, New York.  Tthe DEA’s Bridgeport High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and…

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by Joe Lombardi