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Two Indiana men indicted for making fake pills resembling oxycodone

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Two men have been indicted in southwest Indiana for making fake pills that looked like oxycodone, but actually contained fentanyl. The U.S. Attorney’s office and the DEA announced the charges Wednesday afternoon, saying the men used the dark web and other technology to get bulk fentanyl.
Fentanyl is a highly concentrated, potentially fatal opioid that is responsible for most of the opioid overdose deaths in Indiana and the United States.
Joshua Harvey, 30 and Ethan Parker, 29, have both been indicted on federal drug charges.
The men were caught with pill presses and other devices used to make the fake pills, “that people who have substance abuse issues might be obtaining on the street and using, having no idea that what they’re using is deadly fentanyl,” explained Myers.
He described fentanyl as cheap and easy to acquire in southwest Indiana. He said that people with time and desire can easily learn how to make phony pills on the internet, but that his office and the Drug Enforcement Agency, are making it a priority to target people who do.
“Anybody, any family, any socio-economic value system, it doesn’t matter where you’re from and where you live, this can attack you and devastate you ad your family,” said Gannon, in describing the highly addictive nature of fentanyl.

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1 comment

Thor July 8, 2022 at 1:43 pm

Idiots making fake drugs for idiots who may die from taking the idiotic fake drugs.

It’s sounding like a self licking ice cream cone. If the idiots kill a lot of other idiots we get fewer idiots.

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