>> the fentanyl coming from china is 90% pure. >> and do we know -- >> i don't know. >> it fentanyl the only drug coming in through mail? >> there is various analogs, different types of cocaine, heroin, meth. >> is most of it coming from china? >> a good deal of the opioids coming from china, yes. >> what about mexico and the south -- >> primarily you are seeing the meth and cocaine, primarily. >> and do we have the same level of scrutiny of packages comes from mexico? >> we do. the narcotics coming in are coming across the land border in passenger vehicles through ports of entry. >> not necessarily through postal service. >> not necessarily from mail. >> got you. looking at the -- when you consider diseases and mallties of humans and you look at the glass of how they affect people and the life expectancy, most of every mallty we incur that they are either starting to trend level or down. i mean, we're getting a handle on a lot of these things and we have a long way to go with a lot of things and we are getting better. with opioids, the trend is startling. it is not that it is getting b

in 2016 that increased to 81 pounds of fentanyl. and in 2017335 pounds of fentonenle were received in the mail. already this year we have seized 211 pounds ever fentanyl and expect to cleed exceed that this summer. we must continue to increase the level and accuracy of the advanced electric data provided. we must further refine targeting capabilities. we must find a technological solution that can quickly examine parcels are for the presence of contraband without having to open the package and work with law enforcement partner togs identify and dismantle the criminal networks bringing the illicit narcotics into the communities and ensure criminal prosecutions. we must deliver consequences. kmarm reichert, ranking member pascrell members of the subcommittee thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i look forward to questions. >> thank you for your testimony. your mr. cintron your written statement will be made part of the record and you are recognized for five minutes. >> good appear patch members of the subcommittee thank you

the final thing i will speak to his fentanyl. -- his fentanyl. present in about 30% of the overdose deaths in massachusetts. in 2017, it was present in over 80% of the deaths in massachusetts. if it wasn't for fentanyl, our success in reducing overdose deaths would have dropped dramatically more. but we can do a lot of things with prevention and education, and i believe we are. i believe we are doing a lot of things with treatment and recovery. together ando come chased the central issue a lot harder than we are chasing it andif we want to protect preserve the opportunity for treatment to be successful for many of the people in our states. >> am grateful to be here. azar: president trump has made the opioid crisis a top priority. level of been a new urgency to our response across the federal government. president trump and his administration recognizes it is not the federal government on the frontline of this battle. your law of you and enforcement officers, teachers, school counselors, community leaders, doctors, emts and , and for faith-based p

we truly have watched the crisis of illicit fentanyl evolve before our very eyes, from fentanyl powder mixed into heroin, often without the knowledge of the user, fentanyl pressed into pills and sold as counterfeit medications, being bought and sold over the internet, to the proliferation of fentanyl analogues now available for sale. we have addictive drugs that are extremely deadly, sometimes purchased over the internet with crypto currency, coming through the mail system or commercial carriers at a high volume into the country, or sometimes smuggled across the borders of our land, with no signature and a variety of forms that are incredibly hard to trace. this should tell us a great deal. we must accept that fentanyl, while a crisis in its own right, is likely a window into the future of the drug problem in america. we must reduce the size of the user population through prevention, treatment, and recovery support services, at the same time we are reducing the availability of these drugs. as complementary efforts to reduce the market forces pulling these drugs across the border. we co

and fentanyl analogs. fentanyl and its analogs are potentially poet tent and deadly being anywhere 50 to 1000 times as potent as morphine and feign at that nil comes in any forms. we've truly watched crisis of illicit 10 at that nil over the last two years. fentanyl powder into heroin without the user's knowledge. fentanyl pressed into pill form sold as counterfeit medications. fentanyl bought and sold over the internet. to the proliferation of fentanyl analogs now available for sale which brings us to where we are today. we have among us a family of drugs that have extremely addictive and deadly, sometimes ordered over the internet and purchased using cryptocurrencies coming into the country at high volume through the mail system or commercial carriers or sometimes smuggle abouted across our land borders with a low signature in variety of forms that are incredibly hard to detech. this should tell us a great deal. more than anything, we must accept that fentanyl, while a crisis in its own right, is very li

and fentanyl analogs.e analogs are extremely potent and deadly, being anywhere from 50 to 20,000 times more potent than moore find and fentanyl comes in many forms. we have soon the cries evolve over the last two years. from fentanyl powder, mixed into heroin, often without the user's knowledge, to fentanyl in pill form and set al curacao photo medications, being bought and sold over the internet. through the proliferation of fentanyl analogses for sale. we have among us a family of drugs extremely addictive and deadly, sometimes ordered of the internet and purchased using crypto currencies, coming into the country ha at a high vallejo through the mail system or commercial carriers or sometimes smuggled in, with a lowing and i a variety of forms incredibly hard to detect. this should tell us a great deal. more than anything we must accept that fentanyl, while a cries in its own right, is also very like lay window into the future of the drug problem in america. we must reduce the size of the user population

overdose deaths from fentanyl we're up a staggering 70%.he majority is being shipped in from china or crossing the border being smuggled in from mexico. we simply can't stop it without the federal government's stepping up. this crisis is going to take an all hands on deck approach from federal, state, and local governments. along with community organizations, faith-based organizations, and others in the communities. we need to be working together on this issue. i urge you and your colleagues to make increased funding for the opioid crisis a top priority. maryland and many other states are all working to provide nal oxen to all of our local jurisdictions but greater federal support would help make this life-saving medication available to more of our first responders and emergency personnel. i recommend the federal government advertise about how lethal fenltnol and these other drugs are. we also need more targeted and aggressive federal enforcement interdiction efforts when it comes to fentanyl the and other opioids through initiatives like t

it's hard to keep track of which one has the fentanyl at which one doesn't have fentanyl. and there are a lack of resources. so we need to enforce the laws around about illegal importation of medicine to control the volume of -- the law enforcement needs to impact is huge. the needs for the people and the number of packages coming from international sources. fda commissioner gockley says because of the illegal importation today, less than one half of 1% of the packages in the country are screened. so you can see we just don't have the people to screen all those packages. the one thing that i've been harping on for over a decade, we need to curb the selling of pill manufacturing tablet manufacturing equipment. it should only be sold to licensed manufacturers or pharmacists. you should not be able to get online and buy a tablet press. that, to me, -- what are you going to do a tablet press? you've got one use for it and that is to make a counterfeit, sony medication. so we need to get control of that and stop that. go on ebay and you can find them. they sell them and they ar

they're flooding the country with the illegal drug fentanyl and they're hiding behind bitcoin. here in utah, authorities accuse these crypto-savvy college ks of routing the fatal narcotic through surban salt lake city while working att an ebay call center. >>hey were entrepreneurs looking for ways to make money. they are alleged to have gotten into a dark hole. >> reporter: a dark hole that startehe on what's known as dark web, an encrypted online networkri wherenals can conduct their business.s site like google or cnbc.com, that's jt a tiny sliver of the internet. experts believe the dark web makes up as much as 94% of what's online. access is fairly simple, but requires a special browser. matthew swenson is a cyber crimes special agent at the department of homeland security. >> we're going to take a look at the tor network. >> reporter: he shows cnbc how easily the to network can disguise his identity and location. >> there's going to be a series of reys, basically, which are different computers that the traffic is going to bounce in between. >> reporter: and is that what mak

we have all seen the cartel that fentanyl intog the united states.e know ms 13 is manufacturing medicines toing united states and protecting markets in los angeles and new york. that paints the picture for wife stephen hobbie air has a perspective -- for why steve and javier have a perspective. no. they do next, retire, this is an unending problem and we see the transition into counterfeit medicines. i cannot imagine two better experts who under stand this threat. it is with great pride and appreciation that i introduce these two people. why do not we start with javier, when you first arrived in columbia, what was your mission and what did you think you were going there to do and what you found with little escobar. javier: when we arrived, pablo one or started off small two kilos at a time. before it was all over, he was responsible for 80% of the cocaine that was reaching the world. we had never seen a trafficker of this magnitude. , andwrote -- very wealthy employed violence. pablo escobar is known as the of narcohe inventor terrorism. he would kil

with fentanyl use and the states in order of when they were found to have counterfeit fentanyl products. it has exploded in the last 24 months quite possibly the worst i have ever seen we have 43 out of those 22 confirmed death which is a conservative number given the difficulty to confirm a death with a counterfeit drug it is really difficult we are dependent upon the corners with him -- the corners within your jurisdiction. we have to make this clear it is from fenton all laced counterfeit drug not cocaine or heroin or anything like that but what people think they have for real xanax, oxycontin but it is counterfeit laced with fentanyl this is what we are dealing with only those types of products. the fake looks identical to the real product and then to be tainted with fentanyl they have been completely banned in manufacturing and we have evidence of that. to be documented as 2018 and many victims. many of the fatalities they believe the pills that were taken were identical so now a 23-year-old jill patterson is wife was pregnant and never really got to see his newborn son. jill patte

and fentanyl analogs. prudent and deadly been anywhere from 50 to 10000 types important as morphine and in many forms. we truly have watched the crisis of illicit fentanyl involved before our very eyes over the last two years. from fentanyl powder mixed with heroin, often without the users knowledge and conventional testing to perform and sold as counterfeit medications and fentanyl being bought and sold over the internet through the proliferation of sentinel analog now available for sale which brings us to where we are today. we have among us a family of drugs that are extremely addictive and deadly and sometimes ordered over the internet and just using crypto currencies and coming into the country at a high volume to the mail system or commercial carriers or sometimes smuggled across our land borders with a low signature in a variety of forms that are incredibly hard to detect. this should tell us a great deal. more than anything we must accept fentanyl while a crisis in its own right is very likely a wi

this was fentanyl. i would like that report to be made. >> without objection. >> as her own little with a lot of work, after this report was issued, the ceo was criminally arrested. that is major progress. we are continuing to look at the manufacturers and how they contributed to the problem. we want the plans to require to submit to you potential fraud abuse. is there some reason why you're not requiring the plans to give you the evidence of fraud and abuse that they uncovered. that is something we have been re-examining and are exploring making that mandatory so that there would be mandatory reporting of that. >> i hope that it does not take very long. we have people dropping dead. in my state, every day. talk about common sense, why would this be hard to not do immediately? what studies do you need to do if a party plan that is making money off of our program, the taxpayers support, is not reporting the fraud and abuse that they find. than what chance do we have on getting a handle on it? ms. brandt:

i know what fentanyl is. most people don't realize that one-quarter of a milligram can kill you if it's injected iv. a minuscule amount. i want to thank your agency for doing this, because that amount of fentanyl given incorrectly can kill 4 billion people. that's the amount of fentanyl we're talking about that potentially crosses our borders. you are the thin blue line that helps separate us from that. this has got to end. one of the ways it ends is through law enforcement. i just want to end by saying, look, thank you all for enforcing the law. in the instance of seizing dangerous drugs like fentanyl, finding where they're coming from, saving potentially thousands of american lives. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. one good thing about the committee, we do have different perspectives. i think we're all trying to reach the same thing but we do look at things a little differently. when we talk about crime, everybody points to the border. if you look at the latest fbi stati

now, fentanyl is extremely powerful. it's 25 to 50 times more powerful than heroin. these folks were buying what they thought was a legitimate hydrocodone pill on the black market, yet they were buying a pill that contained fentanyl. >> and it killed them. >> and we had 15 people die of overdoses. >> wow. well, lieutent simmons, you have the unique perspective from being a pharmacy technician turned police officer. now you're training other officers and district attorneys how to recognize the dangers from prescription-drug abuse. can you give us -- what did you see before and now? >> so, working in the pharmacy as a pharmacy technician, in the profession, you saw a lot of individuals who were most likely addicted to the opiate-based drugs, who were doctor-shopping or pharmacy-shopping or altering prescriptions and trying to find other illicit ways to get their hands on more of the opiate drug or amphetamine drug that they were addicted to. and now in law enforcement, you see those people out on the street, whether they just purchased something illicitly or whether th

two thirds of those related to fentanyl. this is a huge crisis and it is amazing to me that we are allowing the united states post office to be able to continue to not provide the data they need to find a needle in a haystack. we introduce the legislation back in february of 2017. it is 32 cosponsors include a number of members of this committee on both sides of the aisle and i am frustrated as the chairman knows that as the staff knows we can't get it out of this committee. there's a companion bill in the house. it common sense legislation. is it the ultimate answer? no. the legislation which senator whitehouse tonight authorities working on treatment of recovery and prevention hoping arcand. that this is a clear and present danger and we are not addressing it. we are allowing people to have access to fentanyl in our communities and at a minimum if we could do more in terms of stopping it coming in through the u.s. mail system. i would ask you about this. are you aware of this issue and are you supportive of the stock back.

a even stronger narcotic called car-fentanyl is spreading. as a supposed to be used sedative for elephants. it is so potent and dangerous. first responders around the country have to run around in hazmat suits when they are around it. oft is the horrifying level the danger plaguing our communities as a result of the epidemic. on a bipartisan basis, we have begun the work and when you get into this, you deal with the paradox that cutting down the supply of opioids, depending how you do it, could drive even more people to other drugs, leading to even more overdose deaths. that is nothing any member of this committee could possibly want. want tot said, i stress, as chairman hatch has, that we've got a big opportunity for bipartisan action. i'm going to touch on a couple of issues that have been important to me. at the top of my list is addressing what i have come to call the prescription pendulum. doctors used to be criticized for prescribing too conservatively. now, they are criticized, and i believe fairly, for prescribing too much. there has

using the dark web >> what kind of fentanyl are you seeing come through here >> the fentanyl that we're about 90% pure, which is a couple grains will create an overdose for you >> now, online drug buyers have also used traditional forms of payment like credit and debit cards and paypal, but bitcoin is popular because it provides more anonymity, and law enforcement tells us that makes their jobs harder >> interesting in this case, the financing helps the illegality of it, but the marijuana business wants to become more legal. >> bitcoin, if you use your bitcoin and get it through a currency exchange in the u.s., it is regulated. currency exchanges in the u.s. have to comply with bank secrecy laws, et cetera, but so many people doing this illegal a using overseas currency exchanges, sites that allow you to swap out your bitcoin in order to conceal who actually is holding this currency. >> when i see that stand-up of you in jfk, and you're talking about the screening process for the packages, that's expensive to take those packages, stop, screen them, go through that entire process the tec

prince's death, no charges but just revealed counterfeit vicodin laced with a powerful painkiller fentanyl. what role did they play that fateful day? >>> and you'll meehe artist behind this newly beloved cartoon about barbara sh. and this 52 mickey mantle baseball card just sold for almost 3 million bucks. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm phillip mena. the comey memos are out. the justice department releasing to congress redacted unclassified memos written by the former fbi director. the details some of his private conversations with president trump and those close to him. and within minutes of the memo's leaking to the press, comey sat down with msnbc's rachel maddow telling her why he felt compelled to record his dealings with the president. >> i also was worried that i was meeting alone with the president to talk about things that were relating to him and to the fbi's core responsibilities and given the nature of the person, as i understood the president-elect, he might not tell the truth about those if it ever became an issue and so i needed a written record. >> th

so we can have fentanyl there. in boston, i understand that you have substances and basically pure fentanyl and now being mixed with heroin. it does remain a deadly disease. the fbi doubled their team and figure out a way to hammer the dark websites where people order through mail. i'm confident we can make progress in that area than i was a few months ago. we have had success but it's a continuing problem. i believe you are correct, that three-prongs of this effort. you've got to prevent. people need not to start. this is a powerful addiction. any thought that you can get addicted and walk away from it easily is just totally false. we need people to not start the drugs. good prevention can help. our role is primarily enforcement and congress under your leadership and mr. chairman and on the president's leadership, this is the most -- the biggest expenditure we probably ever had to deal with treatment and prevention. in the $6 billion that congress set aside for the project. so i think our goal should be clear. i t

reveal today that prince might not have even be aware he was taking the extremely powerful drug fentanyl that killed him. a tragic turn in a high-profile case in the opioid crisis highlighting the question how many addicts might not know what's really in the drugs they are taking. here is nbc's blake mccoy. >> reporter: tonight, prosecutors announcing no criminal charges in music superstar prince's death after revealing he died from counterfeit vicodin, unknowingly laced with one of the most powerful pain killers, fentanyl. >> in all likelihood, prince had no idea he was taking a counterfeit pill that could kill him. >> reporter: after a two-year investigation, prosecutors unable to determine where it came from. >> we have no direct evidence that a specific person provided the fentanyl to prince. >> reporter: prince's doctor has denied any wrongdoing but today agreed to a $30,000 fine and two years of monitoring for prescribing percocet to prince's long-time friend and bodyguard allegedly for prince's use. the famously private "purple rain" singer had been battling a secret opioid addict

but they don't know who and that counterfeit vicodin was laced with the deadly drug fentanyl.hich we know is much more powerful than vicodin. so prince was battling an opoid addiction and he was getting pills from several sources, including some legally through doctors. but they don't know where these street drugs came from and that's why they're not filing charges. while no criminal charges are being filed, a civil case was settled today by one of prince's doctors, dr. michael todd schluenberg. the dea found that doctor was prescribing prince's longtime friend and bodyguard percocet to be used by prince. he has agreed to a fine and additional monitoring. the big headline, no criminal charges relating to prince's death. >> we also now to assume that law enforcement is finished trying to figure out precisely where prince got these drugs? >> yes, they said that case has simply run dry. one of the problems they've run into is prince was very protective of his privacy. he didn't even own a cell phone. so as they've been going through this investigation, trying to retrace the final

we're seeing such an increase in the fentanyl, synthetic fentanyl being mailed into the united states. how dangerous it is, such a small amount of fentanyl an wipe out an entire community. i'm not saying a small amount the size of this table. i'm talking about a small that is less than what is in this glass can wipe out an entire community, potency of fentanyl. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has taken a hard-line approach. so, i think the federal government has finally woken up, and certainly the administration has, but woken up to the dangers of this problem. hopefully through some, not litigation, that was a freudian slip, legislation, let me get that correct, that through some legislation that we will see, being able to curb the number of prescriptions available to individuals as well as potency levels that we're seeing and increasing the criminal punishment for individuals who are putting fentanyl out into the streets and killing individual. >> so we have ten minutes left. at the start of the discussion i promised everybody the opportunity to raise questions if they have any.

but now with fentanyl and fentanyl analogs being produced predominantly in china, we are very fortunatethis president is going after these drugs where they're produced. the administration had the first-ever indictment of two chinese nationals accused of illegally making fentanyl and trying to ship it here. >> dr. crystal, you talked about other advancements that your company's working on. give us some sort of a timeline and also perhaps what your thoughts are on prevention in the first place. >> well, actually, i can start with prevention just given my experience as a surgeon and having worked my clinical career in the united kingdom. there it was extremely rare to prescribe any opioid at all, and if i was to do so, it would be something more mild like codeine and limited, perhaps, for a couple of days. here in the u.s., obviously, that's dramatically different. but if we can stop that prescribing, at least we can prevent future addiction. however, for the two million americans who have opioid addiction, our efforts, again, are to further innovate and create additional opioid overdose r

he also wasn't aware it was counterfeit vicodin, laced with fentanyl. fentanyl is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin. >> despite the intensive law enforcement investigation, there is no reliable evidence showing how prince obtained the counterfeit vicodin laced with fentanyl or who else may have had a role in delivering the counterfeit vicodin to prince. >> reporter: while investigators could not determine how prince got the counterfeit vicodin, they did find dozens of the white pills throughout prince's home. he likely got the pills without a prescription because he was an intensely private person and didn't want anyone to know his pain or about the pills. but it's that privacy that inadvertently led to his death. he was found dead in an elevator at his paisley park home april 21st, 2016. he was 57. >> we wish to express our sincere condolences to the family, friends and vast legion of prince's fans. >> reporter: now, related to the case, but not prince's death, a local doctor did settle with the u.s. attorney's office, a civil settlement for $30,0

are seeing such an increase in fentanyl, synthetic fentanyl being mailed into the united states, how dangerous it is, such a small amount of fentanyl can wipe out an entire community. i'm not saying a small amount that's the size of this table. i'm talking about a small amount that's less than what is in this glass. can wipe out an entire community, the po tency of fentanyl and u.s. attorney attorney general jeff sessions has take an hard line approach. i think the federal government has finally woken up and certainly the administration has but it's woken up to the dangers of this problem and hopefully through some -- not litigation, that was a freudian slip, some legislation, let me get that correct, that through some legislation that we will see being able to curb the number of prescriptions available to individuals as well as the po tency levels that we're seeing and increasing the criminal punishment for individuals who are putting fentanyl out into the streets and killing individuals. j.c.: we've got about 10 minutes left. at the start of the discussion i promised everybody an o

, and was working when the tragedy hit...he didn't stand a chance nobody stands a chance against fentanylon't get a fighting chance you take it and that's it... and now because of that decision....karin is left without a son.the other thing that eats at me is that i miss him. i'm never going to see him again in real life. (jrstone) it is still unclear where david got the unclear where it is still unclear where david got the xanax laced with fentanyl. (justine) innovation seems to be the name of the game when it comes to marketing marijuana... now that it is recreational pot is legal in california. but as kron four's rob fladeboe reports .... your pot purchase can now be made... from a vending machine. the kindpeoples cannabis shop here on soquel avenue has the reqisite bud bar where customes can browse but for those who dont have time to smell the roses, if you wll, there is this. a vending machine where you simply "grab and go" saysmarketing director brett friel.brett friel/kindpeoples cannibis "...a lot of customers come in an they know exactly what they want so they have the ability to

using the dark web. >> reporter: what kind of fentanyl are you seeing come through here >> the fentanyling here is about 90% pure just a couple of grains will create an i don't have dose for you. >> reporter: online drug iers have used western union and even pay poll but bitcoin is popular because it provides more anonymity and that makes law enforcement's job harder. >> i want to get to the fwoin and the cc cryptocurrency that's used here. also, because fentanyl is so dead deadly, how dangerous is that job to try to irfairette it out if there is a chance that one grain could give you an overdose. >> reporter: they only recently started using dogs to start to help them sniff out the drug because they were worried that the dogs would die jfk is one of the first facilities to use canines. they were able to train them so they don't explode the package and have grains going everywhere. >> this is coming through the united states postal service. >> that's right. >> i assume there are owes others using package delivery services dhl or fedex they must be studying it, too. >> one reason why it

vicodin, not fentanyl. >> police released audio of a phone interview with sinead on con noer. ?used hard drugs commonly. he would be very violent. very aggressive. his eyeballs would disappear literally from his eyes. they vanished. >> and there's another twist to the prince sinead angle. ♪ nothing compares to you >> prince wrote the song "nothing compared to you." yesterday, prince's estate released this video. prince's original studio version of the song from 1984. never before seen or heard by the public until now. ♪ nothing compared to you >> for fan, the video's release is a bright spot amid so much sad news. and a hopeful sign more unreleased music may be on the way. >>> well, prince harry and meghan markle's i dos are less than a month away. more details in tonight's "royal report." >> we have the explosive search dog teams out with us. we're doing streets and making sure it's -- as safe as possible for when people visit. >> with just 29 days to go in windsor, it's all hands and tails on deck. putting security checks in place. >> we'll regularly empty the drains. make sur

. >> there has to be some reason why, and someone should be held accountable for the fentanyl in there and i hope that happens one day because i will still keep a light on this situation. >> prince died april 21, 2016, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl. the prosecutor says evidence shows prince thought he was taking vicodin, not fend nil, a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more powerful than heroin. >>> former first lady barbara bush will lie in repose today in houston, texas. the general public can pay their respects. tomorrow a private funeral will be held. president trump will not be there. the white house says out of respect for the family with his added security. instead, first lady melania trump will go. former presidents barack obama and bill clinton will be their with their wives. >>> 4:40 is the time right now. from the bay area to parkland, florida, students will hold another mass school walkout. at the top of the hour, the demonstration at one east bay school that is a little different. >>> plus, we are learning more about the man that bought a winning lottery ticket

one of the latest victims is a petaluma teenager who died after ingesting xanax laced with fentanyl. this is one of several incidents in the last few days. here's a look at the growing opioid crisis not just happening across the country but our own backyard. pete, you've been pouring through some of those numbers. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, laura. i had a chance to dig through numbers and we'll get to in a moment. in the latest incident that took place just yesterday, according to petaluma police, two adults were arrested including the 16-year-old victim's mother in connection to this incident. they are facing several charges including child endangerment and possession of narcotics but this has been a problem for the petaluma area in the past six months. here are the latest numbers we're getting according to petaluma police. they have responded to close to 19 narcotic related overdose calls and there have been three deaths in that six-month period. incidents are her owe inrelated but they have seen an increase in fentanyl, powerful and deadly if improperly used. i did lo

involving xanax laced with fentanyl. opioid problem is taking aim at teens and young adults. kron 4's j-r stone has the story. students remembering their former classmate at a memorial in san bruno on wednesday. just over two months after that young man...18 year old david ochoa overdosed on xanax laced with fentanyl.they were up late playing video games until 2 in the morning...they all woke up and he didn'tit was eventually determined that it was the fentanyl that had killed david. a drug that can be 100 times more powerful than heroin or morphine...it's unclear how many pills david had...possibly 4 or 5 according to his family. experts told them one could have killed him too. sound like a rare case? not at all...we've seen recent cases like this in san francisco, petaluma, and san bruno just to name a few.it's the new party drug to haveit's becoming an epidemicpeople are overdosingdavid's mom karin wants to get the word out to parents and their children that these drugs are dangerous. these former classmates of david

david ochoa overdosed on xanax laced with fentanyl.rug that can be 100 times more powerful than heroin or morphine. now david's mom karin wants to get the word out to parents about the dangers of the drug. ( james ) it's unclear how many pills david had ...possibly 4 or 5 according to his family. experts say one pill could have taken his life. ( james ) the sonoma county sheriff's office says they've found the car that was involved in a sebastopol murder. they asked for the public's help on social media to help find the b-m-w that they say anthony ibach used after killing a man saturday afternoon. one of their followers spotted the car in west santa rosa and called the sheriff's office. detectives are now processing the b-m-w for evidence. ibach was arrested sunday. ( darya ) police have arrested 3 people for stealing from a beauty supply store and a home depot in santa rosa. pol

authorities say it is still unclear where david got the xanax laced with fentanyl. with fentanyl.therine) next on kron4 news at 5... a woman with dreams to become a back-up dancer.. . gets some unexpected back- up while filming her audition tape. how an officer stepped in to help. (grant) a woman backup dancer for janet jackson recently got some unexpected back-up of her own. and it came from an unexpected source - the birmingham police department. jamiese price reports. she's been dancing since she was three years old.now la la diore is dancing in the hearts of many across our area. this comes after this video of her dance movesnow a huge hit with the help of an unlikely source-- a birmingham police officer.lala diore / dancer: "woah, he really turned the corner really fast and he said you know you can't do this. you can get hurt, people can die."but la la was determined to get the shot--- she was on a mission.lala diore/ dancer: "we really had a purpose behind it."she was trying to catch the attention of the legendary janet jackson."lala diore / dancer: "i'm trying to submit for

fentanyl is 50 times as powerful as heroin. it is so powerful that an amount equivalent to a pinch of salt is powerful enough to be deadly. we must acknowledge that the vast majority of fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine first come across our southern border. it almost all is coming across the southern border. we are working with our homeland security partners to reduce and ultimately end illegal will alson, which help us take on transnational criminal organizations and reduce the drugs pouring across the border. we are streamlining prosecutions and targeting criminal aliens. congress has provided us, thankfully, enough funding for 100 new immigration judges. and a recent omnibus which will help us keep up with the caseload. mr. chairman, i'd like to one matter i know is important to the committee, the legal orientation program. you and senator shaheen both raised it with me. i reviewed the situation. and i have previously expressed some concerns about the program. the executive office for immigration review has expr

but the prosecutor says evidence shows prince thought he was taking vicodin, not fentanyl, a syntheticoid 50 times more powerful than heroin. >>> the body of first lady barbara bush will lie in repose today in houston, texas, where the general public can pay their respects. tomorrow there will be a private funeral. president trump will not be going. the white house says out of respect for the bush family and with his added security he will not go. but instead first lady melania trump will attend. former presidents barack obama and bill clinton will attend with their wives. >>> federal regulators are expected to announce today that wells fargo will be fined as much as $1 billion. according to the new york times the fine is linked to abuses in the bank's car lending and home emergency businesses. that fine would be the largest ever mosaicked by federal bank -- imposed by federal bank regulators. this is not tied to the scandal involving millions of bank accounts set up without customer authorization. >>> our time is 5:39 . proposition 64 legalized recreational marijuana sales at the begi

for the first time since losing her 18- year-old son to a drug overdose involving xanax laced with fentanyl.(vicki) authorities say this opioid problem is taking aim at high school teens and young adults. (grant) kron 4's j.r. stone is following the story and joins us live tonight where that young man went to high school. students remembering their former classmate at a memorial in san bruno on wednesday. just over two months after that young man...18 year old david ochoa overdosed on xanax laced with fentanyl.they were up late playing video games until 2 in the morning...they all woke up and he didn'tit was eventually determined that it was the fentanyl that had killed david. a drug that can be 100 times more powerful than heroin or morphine...it's unclear how many pills david had...possibly 4 or 5 according to his family. experts told them one could have killed him too. sound like a rare case? not at all...we've seen recent cases like this in san francisco, petaluma, and san bruno just to name a few.it's the new party drug to haveit's becoming an epidemicpeople are overdosingdavid's mom k

when he overdosed at paisley park in 2016, but he was really taking counterfeit pills containing fentanylannot bring criminal charges. >> we simply do not have sufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime related to prince's death. >> carver county attorney mark metz says investigators do not know who provided the 57-year- old superstar with the fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin. >> there is no reliable evidence showing how prince obtained the counterfeit vicodin. >> the announcement came hours after documents revealed that a minnesota dr. michael schullenberg has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a federal violation. prosecutors say he put prints on the ox i co didn't a -- put prince on the oxycodone a week before his death but wrote out the prescription to his friend kirk johnson to protect prince's privacy. prosecutors made clear oxycodone did not play a role in prince's death. a bay area doctor was also part of the prince investigation but is among those cleared. the day before prince died his reps reached out to mill valley addiction treatment specialis

the announcement comes nearly two years after prince died from an accidentally fentanyl overdose. the prosecutors said today prince thought he was taking vicodin, but was unaware it contained fentanyl. >> i'm going to still keep a light on the situation. >> fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's 50 times more powerful than heroine and is sometimes used to make counterfeit drugs on the black market. >>> and two deputies in florida were killed today in an ambush style attack. they were shot in a chinese restaurant in the city of trenton near gainesville. the suspect walked up to the restaurant and fired shots through a window from outside. when authorities arrived, they found the shooter dead outside the restaurant apparently from a self-inflicted wound. a motive for that attack is under investigation. >>> freedom of speech case involving a university professor went before the wisconsin state supreme court today. the case started back in 2014 at marquette university when a teacher posted another teacher's information his blog and called her a totalitarian. the teacher says she receiv

police say she knew the boy had xanax but continued -- that contained fentanyl. she was under the influence of a narcotic herself and had outstanding warrant for her arrest. the resident of the house was also arrested. he was found in possession of a loaded syringe and loaded firearm. according to police, this is the third narcotics -related overtures they have responded to since friday. in the past six months they say they have responded to 19 overdoses. three of those ended up being fatal. police say they are seeing an increase sharp increased in fentanyl related medical emergencies. >>> happening today, san francisco's board of supervisors is looking at a plan to require permits for companies to operate fleets of motorized scooters in the city. ktvu's alex savidge joins us from san francisco. >> reporter: the city has been getting a lot of complaints, as we know, about these motorized scooters. one of the biggest complaint is that they are left sitting on sidewalks, like this one here. that blocks the path, makes it tough for people to get by in creates a safe