Wisconsin ranks number one during Fall drug take back day
Wisconsin ranked number one throughout the country for the most prescription medications collected during the fall 2023 Drug Take Back.
‘Cartel wife’ gets 3.5 years in prison
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
Feds and local authorities dismantle Fentanyl distribution organization
Those arrested are alleged to be responsible for obtaining and distributing approximately 1 million fentanyl pills throughout Northeast Wisconsin in less than one year. The street value of this quantity of fentanyl pills is approximately $5 million.
Drug Take Back Day is April 22
More than 158 events are planned across Wisconsin on Saturday, April 22, 2023, with more than 280 participating law enforcement agencies.
View from around the state: Step up efforts to block synthetic opioid sales
Death at $40 a gram and it's available on the Internet with a few keystrokes and a credit card. Legally.
18 indicted in alleged heroin ring in southeast Wisconsin
Authorities say they have busted a heroin ring in southeastern Wisconsin.
Judge rejects Menominee’s hemp arguments (UPDATE)
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin over a federal raid of its industrial hemp crop grown on tribal land.
Menominee tribe awaits judge’s ruling in hemp lawsuit
The leader of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin says it won't plant a new crop of industrial hemp until a federal judge resolves the tribe's lawsuit against the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
Federal grand juries indict Wis. man, 2 others on drug charges
Two federal juries for the Western District of Wisconsin have indicted an Oregon, Wis., man and two Mexicans on drug charges.
Menominee Tribe sues federal authorities over hemp raid (UPDATE)
The Menominee Nation filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to clarify that the tribe has a right to grow industrial hemp — a crop related to marijuana — on its Wisconsin reservation.
41 people indicted in alleged heroin ring on reservations
Federal and tribal law enforcement authorities said Thursday they've taken down an interstate drug trafficking ring that was the largest source of heroin on two Minnesota American Indian reservations.
Synthetic drug seller gets 17-½ years in prison
The owner of a now-closed Minnesota head shop was sentenced to 17-½ years in prison Thursday for selling synthetic drugs in a case that prosecutors said should remove any doubts that substances sold under such names as "incense," ''spice" and "bath salts" are illegal.
Legal News
- Wisconsin attorney loses law license, ordered to pay $16K fine
- Former Wisconsin police officer charged with 5 bestiality felony counts
- Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case
- Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
- The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
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