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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Law officers say they’ve seen a rising amount of counterfeit - and potentially deadly - pills being sold as Xanax in the Greenville area.
The pills often contain a deadly drug, Greenville Police Chief Howie Thompson said.
There have been two overdose deaths and a number of overdoses in which the person survived, The Greenville News reported.
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“These pills are dangerous. I cannot stress the level of risk to anyone who purchases these pills,” Sheriff Hobart Lewis said. “The drug potency can never be known. We know death, coma and related health risks have occurred with this clandestine creation.”
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Drugs, money, torture and murder were all part of a detailed web of gang-related, organized crime that flourished in South Carolina from at least 2017 until now, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
The enterprise, fueled by a connected collection of people who included South Carolina inmates, pledged allegiance to the Insane Gangster Disciples, a branch of the larger gang Folk Nation, which traces its roots to 1970s Chicago.
The 147-count indictment names at least 40 defendants from across South Carolina, including multiple players from Greenville, Anderson and Spartanburg counties. Major moves in the group s day-to-day operations can be traced to the Upstate, records show.