General of the criminal division, michael hirst, christopher myers. Billy williams from the district , and i want to thank you all for being here. We are pleased to announce two indictments, marking a major milestone in our battle to stop deadly fentanyl from entering the United States. Chineseindicted fentanyl tropicals who have been using the internet to transport these two drug traffickers. These cases reflect a new and disturbing trend. Crisis wee opioid face here, more and more citizens are being held i fentanyl. These are synthetic opioids that are much stronger and more dangerous than heroine. Heroin. Than are rains of sentinel fentanyl are lethal. Americans were estimated to have died of drug overdoses 015. 0 fentanyl is coming directly from factories to u. S. Customers who make this purchase is over the internet. The president has made it a priority for us to come back this opioid crisis. The Justice Department is playing a leading role in those efforts. In july, we announced
Right now, a fallen hero. So senseless. Doesnt make sense. The man was doing his job protecting us. A community in mourning for a delaware state trooper killed in the line of duty. Ton night, the man who fired the deadly shots remains barricaded. Im petrified im petrified. Just like i said theres no respect for Police Officer any more. A tense neighborhood on lock down still. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Its been a long day stretching into a long night in delaware hours after a delaware state trooper was gunned down at a wawa. We just learned that trooper is 32yearold Stephen Ballard eight year veteran of the force. Thanks for joining us tonight im iain page. Im lucy noland. Man who police say killed Corporal Ballard took off and hold up in a home about 15 minutes away. Thats where he has been barricaded ever since. Now heres what we know at this point. This started right around lunch time 12 10 in the afternoon. Happened at the wawa on the 1600 block of pulaski highway in bear. State Pol
Husband, father, a hero something not lost on his supervisor who broke down while talking about his dedication. The acts of stephen yesterday exemplified the dedication that he brought to the citizens of delaware. So tough. Tonight the man police say shot and killed Corporal Ballard then barricaded himself inside a home in middletown is dead. He died in shootout with police this morning outside that home that he had been inside of for nearly 20 hours. Repeatedly firing shots at police they say keeping a neighborhood on lock down that entire time. Right now neighbors are back in their homes in that middletown area. Investigators say the gunman killed Corporal Stephen bala at the bear wawa then took off hold up inside his familys home in middletown just past 9 00 a. M. This morning he came out of the house and got into a shootout where he died. Fox 29 twines jeff cole is live at delaware state trooper barracks in glasgow this eveni evening. Jeff . Reporter lucy theyre trying to figure ou
Theres a good bit of lightning. We have another area of rain down in kentucky. That may be affecting us by tomorrow morning. The main area gets us saturday morning. Here we are hour by hour. As we go to 6 00, theres not much around. But the activity comes into butters county and the Lehigh Valley and the polk knows. Thats about 8 00 tonight. And by then, the sun is down and were going to start to see these weaken because of that. But we have the threat of some showers. So dont leave the windows open tonight. Through the night, its not going to get too cool. The humidity is going up. By tomorrow morning, were talking about temperatures in the 70s. Its going to be very sticky. And tomorrow during the day, were going to be seeing temperatures going up into the 80s to near 90s. We have a first alert out for tropical downpours. More in a few minutes. Tropical storm cindy made landfall early this morning in louisiana. The system has been downgraded but continues to cut a path of destruction
And heading to to the shore for the Holiday Weekend . Hit the brakes. Im Chris Oconnell in skyf skyfox. Were navigating you around some of the worst traffic nightmares of the summer. Now fox 29 news at ten. Tonight at 10 00 marine murdered, shot and killed less than 24 hours ago in the citys olney neighborhood and now police say they have the person who did it. The tragic and terrifying chain of events did not end after the gunfire. Thanks for joining us, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Police say the shooter then ran into a nearby home. Two heroes at that home held him down until Police Arrived. Our Shawnette Wilson has been talking witness neighbors of that marine and shawnette, theyre heart broken. Reporter they are, lucy. We spent tonight talking to the victims family. They say that they spent decades worrying about him when he was overseas in the military. Never did they imagine he would make it home only to be killed. He was special. Special person. Reporter relatives of the 47year