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Assistant U. S. Attorney Jennifer E. McCollough (619) 546-8773 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – March 29, 2022 SAN DIEGO –Jonathan Mefford was sentenced in federal

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Nigeria’s Olatunde James Temitope Akintonde has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in the United States for selling fentanyl-laced pills that caused the death of a 19-year-old Santee man. Akintonde, a resident of El Cajon was sentenced in a federal court on 24 November, 2021. According to the US Attorney General’s Office, Akintonde previously admitted…

Nigeria's Olatunde James Temitope Akintonde has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in the United States over death of teenagers.

Print Fentanyl-related overdoses have been on the rise in San Diego County in the past few years and are projected to total 700 by the end of this year, county authorities announced Wednesday. The numbers come from the county Medical Examiner’s Office, which is predicting a 50 percent increase in deaths from 2020 to 2021. In the previous two years, fentanyl-related overdoses more than doubled. So far this year, there have been 131 fentanyl-related deaths in the county, according to a spokesp...

As the U.S. grapples with a surge in drug overdoses linked to synthetic opioids, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has launched an initiative to disrupt the fentanyl supply chain.

As the U.S. grapples with a surge in drug overdoses linked to synthetic opioids, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has launched an initiative to disrupt the fentanyl supply chain.