A drug bust in Lafayette has taken enough fentanyl and heroin off the streets that could have taken numerous lives. The man accused of being in possession of them is now behind bars.
These parishes are the top five for opioid distribution in Louisiana. This proves that opioid misuse is not just a "big city" issue. Many of Louisiana's smaller parishes are dealing with a very potent situation as well.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - Two men - one from Jennings and the other from Lake Charles - will each be spending a long time behind bars after U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents tracking a drug ring operating in South Louisiana were able to take a significant amount of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine off the streets.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KPEL News) - A West Monroe man found to be dealing all sorts of illegal drugs across Louisiana and Texas will be spending the next two decades behind bars.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Shreveport says 50-year-old Paul Anthony Lewis had a stash house where agents with the U.S. D...
Police pulled over a vehicle on Sunday and found drug paraphernalia, but no drugs. That is, until the K-9 drug dogs detected drugs around her groin area...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KPEL News) - Tuesday was National Fentanyl Awareness Day. As we all know, fentanyl has devastated the lives of millions of people across the United States of America. It has taken lives way too young and has left families in heartache.
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Two men have been arrested and one man is still wanted following a drug raid Thursday morning on two homes in the 1300 block of Roper Road in Scott, Louisiana.
BATON ROUGE, La. (KPEL News) - In an overwhelming vote in support of the bill, Louisiana House members of the Administration of Criminal Justice Committee passed Crowley Representative John Stefanski's bill that would give a life sentence for possessing large amounts of fentanyl...