New Bedford Repeat Drug Dealer Sentenced
FALL RIVER A New Bedford repeat convicted drug dealer is heading to prison for three to five years after pleading guilty to multiple drug charges and to assaulting a state trooper.
The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office says Nicholas Beiruti, 29, pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court to indictments charging him with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and assault and battery on a police officer.
The charges date back to August 31, 2019, when Beiruti was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over by a Massachusetts State Trooper in New Bedford for having no inspection sticker. The trooper reported Beiruti was “acting extremely nervous” when police approached the vehicle, and that the trooper recognized him as a known drug dealer on probation for a drug-dealing conviction.
The Silent Epidemic: The Growing Threat of Fentanyl in Southern California
When Gail Smith lost her son to a drug overdose in 2016, she joined an Orange County club of which nobody wants to be a member.
“My son Kenny died of an accidental overdose of heroin mixed with fentanyl,” Smith told The Epoch Times. “We were told that there was enough fentanyl to kill 10 elephants.”
Smith’s story is familiar to an increasing number of families and friends throughout Southern California who have lost a loved one to an accidental overdose of fentanyl one of the most powerful opiates ever to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
REPORT: These are the Mexican Drug Cartels Who are FLOODING America with Drugs
Mar 14, 2021
n an annual report that it recently released, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration identified nine Mexican drug cartels as the principal entities behind the flood of cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine into the country.
The DEAs 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment was
The following map from the
Daily Mail the spheres of influence the cartels hold and where they have strong commercial interests in the United States.
The map demonstrated that the Sinaloa Cartel the cartel notorious drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Loera founded and the competing Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were the principal criminal syndicates transporting drugs and projecting their criminal influence into the US in 2020.
New Bedford Police Arrest Man on Fentanyl, Firearm Charges
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford Police arrested a city man after finding drugs and a firearm at his residence.
Police say that on March 11, Narcotics and Gang Unit detectives executed a search warrant at 209 Court Street, Apartment 3. The search resulted in the seizure of approximately 71 grams of fentanyl, 14 grams of cocaine, a .45-caliber handgun, bullets and $1,575 in cash.
Police arrested a resident of that location, Andre Daniels, 25, and charged him with trafficking in fentanyl and firearms offenses.
9 arrested in Polk County search for laced drug source Lou Ann Hudson, 59 (Source: Polk County Sheriff s Office) By Carrie Provinsal | March 15, 2021 at 12:08 PM CDT - Updated March 16 at 2:57 AM
POLK COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - The Polk County Sheriffâs Office investigation into cocaine laced with fentanyl led to nine drug arrests.
An investigation related to overdoses where one person died and three others were admitted into hospitals led detectives to the E Capps Rd area searching for the laced drug and âMomma Louâ.
On Wednesday, March 10, Narcotics Detectives located Lou Ann Hudson aka; âMomma Louâ, just off of E Capps Rd. Detectives searched the home and found eight people in possession of methamphetamine and items used to distribute illegal narcotics.