Prison sentences were handed out Wednesday to the last of five people involved in the fatal fentanyl overdose of a Colorado inmate. The pills that killed her were smuggled into the jail inside another woman’s body.
Five sentenced for delivering fentanyl that killed Colorado inmate Read More »
Police in Boulder are now backtracking on their claim that over the weekend a group of University of Colorado students overdosed on cocaine that was possibly tainted with fentanyl. Instead, police now say the five men had consumed an extreme amount of alcohol and then some had taken drugs which led them to become violently sick.
After reports of a record number of seizures, one Colorado Springs mother wants to raise awareness about the danger fentanyl poses to local families.
A traffic stop led to a major drug bust, and now a 23-year prison sentence for Colorado Springs resident Michael Hemersbach, 36.
Colorado Springs man gets 23-year sentence on meth and fentanyl trafficking Read More »
The state of Colorado has broken an unwanted record: with one month still to go, law enforcement has already seized more fentanyl pills statewide than in any other year past.
Mesa County Sheriff Todd Rowell and Delta County Sheriff Mark Taylor have had a constant battle fighting the opioid crisis in their counties since 2017, when it first started impacting western Colorado.
While fentanyl arrests may be down so far in Wyoming this year, seizures are skyrocketing in adjacent southern border states while a more deadly form of meth takes hold across the state.
The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing underestimated how sick its members would be. Medicaid covers about 1.26 million people in Colorado.
570,000 fentanyl pills seized by DEA from Colorado in 1 week Read More »
China is a driving force behind much of the illegal drug trade in the United States, including fentanyl and marijuana, according to law enforcement authorities.
China involvement in fentanyl crisis a ‘huge problem’, official says Read More »
The equivalent of a capacity school bus is killed each week by fentanyl, making the drug the leading cause of death for those ages 18 to 45 in America.
‘DEVASTATED’, the story of fentanyl in Colorado, will be shown Thursday in Fort Morgan Read More »
