The fentanyl epidemic, which produced intense fights two years ago over how to confront the soaring deaths from the synthetic opioid, has returned to the Colorado state Capitol this year.
The fight over fentanyl is back on tap in Colorado’s General Assembly Read More »
With a 4-3 vote, a bill that proposed harsher criminal penalties related to fentanyl was postponed indefinitely Monday night inside the Colorado Capitol after a lengthy hearing inside the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Senate committee halts SB 44, the bill to increase fentanyl criminal penalties Read More »
A Denver jury has convicted a man responsible for producing “millions of individual fentanyl pills” during 2024 in a drug manufacturing operation based in Aurora, the Denver District Attorney announced Wednesday morning.
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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.
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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.
