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Families Sue Snapchat Over Drug Dealing: An Overview

On October 13, 2022 theย Social Media Victims Law Centerย andย C.A. Goldberg, PLLCย  filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Snap, Inc. on behalf of the families of Alexander Neville, Daniel Puerta, Jeff Johnston, Jr., Dylan Kai Sarantos, Devin Norring, Jack McCarthy, Alexandra Capelouto, and Daniel (Elijah) Figueroa. These teenagers and young adults are eight among hundreds who have died after taking pills purchased from drug dealers operating on Snapchat.

Also included in the suit are the parents of a 16-year-old who survived fentanyl pill poisoning and continues to use the app.

More details can be found on the Parternership for Safe Medicines web site.

Widow and mother of late MLB pitcher Tyler Skaggs speak out against fentanyl

For the first time on camera, the widow of Tyler Skaggs and his mother are sharing their story of loss after the 2019 death of the Los Angeles Angels pitcher. Skaggs was just 27 years old when he was found dead in his hotel room after taking fentanyl-laced oxycodone on the road with his team.

Over three years after Tyler Skaggs’ death, his wife, Carli Skaggs, and mother, Debbie Hetman, spoke to ABC News about what justice looks like to their family.

Read the full article on the Good Morning America web site.

DEA: 36 million lethal doses of fentanyl removed from U.S. communities from May to September

(The Center Square) โ€“ As a result of law enforcement operations from May through September of this year, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and law enforcement partners confiscated 36 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill 36 million Americans.

As part of the DEAโ€™s One Pill Can Kill initiative, DEA agents and law enforcement partners in multiple states seized more than 10.2 million fentanyl pills and approximately 980 pounds of fentanyl powder.

Their operations took place between May 23 and Sept. 8, 2022. The operations saved the lives of at least 36 million people who might otherwise have been subjected to the lethal doses, the DEA estimates. Also during the operation, law enforcement officers confiscated 338 weapons, including rifles, shotguns, pistols, and hand grenades.

Of the 390 cases investigated during this period, 51 cases were linked to overdose poisonings; 35 cases directly linked to one or both of the primary Mexican cartels responsible for the majority of fentanyl in the United States: the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Read the full article on The Center Square web site.

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Snapchat Sued By Temecula Family And Others Who Lost Kids To Fentanyl

TEMECULA, CA โ€” Santa Monica-based Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, is being sued by families โ€” including one in Temecula โ€” who lost children to fake “medications” containing fentanyl. The deadly drug was peddled to their kids using the popular instant messaging app and the company did nothing to stop it, the suit alleges.

Read full article on Patch.com.

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The Chad Prather Show – Fentanyl PSA

North Carolina, where a babysitter just got sentenced to a minimum of four year years in prison for the fentanyl death of a toddler.

Haley Godshall is the now-former defendant in question. Haley was babysitting a friendโ€™s baby for the day, but was also hanging out with one of her friends โ€ฆ a girl with the unfortunate name of Daisy Bare. But hereโ€™s the thing: Fentanyl, as we know, doesnโ€™t take a whole lot to kill a person. A few grains of it can be lethal under the right circumstances, and thatโ€™s for an adult! I think the pretty obvious first place to land on this is: Donโ€™t do drugs around children, and especially donโ€™t do dangerous drugs that can kill you around them.

Rainbow fentanyl concealed in LEGO box in NYC

Authorities find 15,000 rainbow fentanyl pills in Lego box, largest seizure of the drug in NYC history, DEA says

Federal authorities have accused a New Jersey woman of concealing approximately 15,000ย rainbow-colored fentanyl pillsย in a Lego box as part of a drug trafficking scheme, in what US Drug Enforcement Administration authorities said in a news release is the largest seizure of the drug in New York City history.

Latesha Bush, 48, pleaded not guilty last week at an arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, a spokesperson for the prosecutor said. She was charged with one count of first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to a criminal complaint.

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