Drug pipeline: Additional charges for 8 men, including money laundering and ‘causing death’

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, July 13, 2018

The investigation, which culminated in the execution of various search warrants on April 9, 2018, led to the seizure of more than 30 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, two firearms, and over $500,000 in cash. In court documents, the government has alleged that the investigation targeted a drug trafficking organization led by the Martinez brothers, Sergio and Raulin.

Pills, pot, fentanyl, cocaine, stolen gun recovered, 9 arrested in Operation Granite Shield round-up

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, May 3, 2018

Nine people were arrested following a drug sweep around the city, including an assortment of drugs and paraphernalia from a Laurel Street apartment.

Major bust in the Mass. to NH drug pipeline: 45 arrests, 30 kilograms of fentanyl, and $500K

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, April 25, 2018

If convicted most of the defendants arrested face a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life, as well as a fine of up to $10 million.

Man with ‘golf ball’ sized bag of fentanyl in his mouth overdoses, arrested

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Police discovered the bag of fentanyl after Louis Martinez spit it out of his mouth while inside an ambulance.

Trump: ‘This scourge of drug addiction will stop. It will stop’

Sunday, January 19, 2025Monday, March 19, 2018

President Trump’s message to a community that has been ravaged by drugs was a welcome one. On Monday Trump came to Manchester to talk about breaking the chain of misery that drug addiction has wrought, one link at a time – from drug suppliers and dealers, all the way to the morgues.

3 arrested at Bridge Street residence after months-long drug investigation

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, January 12, 2018

Three people were arrested after police SWAT entered a residence on Bridge Street and confiscated drugs and cash.

New allegations: Physicians Assistant got kickbacks from fentanyl manufacturer for pushing Rx

Monday, June 10, 2024Friday, March 24, 2017

“As alleged, Dr. Clough was the top prescriber of a powerful fentanyl spray in the state of New Hampshire,” said Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Boston Division. “He is alleged to have received kickbacks for issuing those prescriptions. The FBI will continue to attack the opioid epidemic from all angles, including rooting out individuals who place profit before patient safety.”

Nashua man indicted for selling fentanyl that caused Nashua woman’s death

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, May 23, 2016

Kevin Manchester of Nashua was indicted by the Grand Jurors of Hillsborough County for multiple sales of fentanyl, under New Hampshire RSA 318-B, Acts Prohibited, one of which caused the death of Michelle MacLeod in January of 2016.

AG forms task force to prosecute drug dealers connected to OD deaths

Sunday, January 19, 2025Monday, April 25, 2016

U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice and New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster on Monday announced the formation of an inter-office team of prosecutors who will be tasked with targeting drug dealers for prosecution in opiate overdose deaths in New Hampshire.

‘If this isn’t a state of emergency, I don’t know what is’

Sunday, January 19, 2025Thursday, March 3, 2016

“When I hear ‘state of emergency,’ I think you’re maybe sending in the National Guard to set up some emergency field hospitals, and bringing in a couple of doctors and nurses to start pumping people through these field hospitals so they can at least detox, reducing the waiting lists and relieving already overtaxed staff,” said Holly Cekala, of HOPE for NH Recovery.

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