The Department of Justice’s Acting U.S. Attorney announced that U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason sentenced 27-year-old Hiram Luis Ducasse to 20 years in prison and six years of supervised release on Monday. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea submitted in court on June 20th to charges of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess […]
ANCHORAGE — Some heroin-containing drugs recently being distributed in Alaska have significant amounts of fentanyl, increasing the risk of overdose and death. The state medical examiner has confirmed that three individuals who recently died of overdose in Anchorage have tested positive for fentanyl and other substances including heroin and morphine. The Alaska Department of Health […]
A 22-year-old Ohio man accused of selling heroin laced with an elephant tranquilizer that led to 28 overdoses in West Virginia on a single day has been sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison. “Heroin is like driving intoxicated,” U.S. District Judge Robert Chambers said. “You may not mean harm to anybody, but […]
ATLANTA AND WASHINGTON — For decades, U.S. life expectancy has been rising. In 1950, most Americans could expect to celebrate their 68th birthday. In 2014, most Americans could expect to celebrate their 78th, and live at least another 10 months beyond that. But in 2015 life expectancy dipped by a month, according to data from the […]