The Delaware Secretary of State Jeff Bullock issued an emergency order on Friday placing the non-opioid drug xylazine used mostly in veterinarian medicine, on the list of Schedule III drugs. Bullock made the decision after the Delaware Controlled Substance Advisory Committee recommended it May 5, 2023. Bullock said in a press release about the decision that xylazine has a dangerous …
Drug smuggler with secret bunker in Bear jailed for 45 years
A Delaware man who made $1 million from smuggling cocaine and built a secret bunker under his house in Bear was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court to 45 years in prison . Omar Morales Colon, 45, had been convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and various other drug and money laundering offenses. …
2 men sent to prison in Delaware’s largest heroin, fentanyl case
The 2 men were arrested in what officials say was Delaware’s largest heroin and fentanyl seizure. Photo by Sora Shimazaki of Pexels Two New Castle men have been sentenced to prison, one for 10 years and one for 7, in a drug case involving more than $1 million of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl-laced pills. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. …