Category Archives: Drug Crime
Pennsylvania Couple Faces Charges For Obtaining Thousands Of Gabapentin Pills Through Fraud
In the days of the pill mills, you could walk out of a pain clinic in Florida with hundreds of oxycodone pills and bring them back to Pennsylvania for resale. Today, if anyone had that many oxycodone pills in the same place at the same time, anywhere except locked up in a pharmacy, it… Read More »
Pennsylvania Declares Xylazine A Schedule III Controlled Substance
The aftershocks of the opioid epidemic have followed each other so quickly since the pill mills shut down in the middle of the last decade that it is hard to keep track of the newest opioids that are making headlines because of their newfound prevalence in the illegal drug supply. First heroin, which had… Read More »
Wiretap Evidence In Drug Trafficking Cases
Drug trafficking is one of the most serious charges you can face that does not involve violence or sex. Prison sentences for a drug trafficking conviction can last decades. Drug trafficking cases often go through the federal courts, as they often involve complex plans to transport illegal drugs across multiple states, or even multiple… Read More »
Jurisdiction In Pennsylvania Drug Cases
Jurisdiction is a court’s legal authority to issue a decision about a case. It is usually connected to a geographic area. For example, in a personal injury lawsuit stemming from a car accident, the courts of the state where the accident happened have jurisdiction, even if the plaintiff who got injured and the defendant… Read More »
Refusing A Search At A Traffic Stop Does Not Mean That You Are Guilty
Many drug-related arrests arise from traffic stops, but how do police know which cars contain drugs? It isn’t as if cars full of illegally obtained cannabis leave a trail of green leaves, or like cars full of cocaine leave a trail of white powder, like you might expect in a video game. Most of… Read More »
Scopolamine Is Not A Controlled Substance, But It Can Still Cause You Plenty Of Legal Problems
Except for the Schedule I drugs, every controlled substance is a prescription drug, but not every prescription drug is a controlled substance. Plenty of medications are not available over-the-counter, but the law does not consider them dangerous enough to impose the penalties for illicit drug possession if you possess them without a prescription. You… Read More »
An Arrest Warrant For Your Housemate Can Mean Legal Trouble For You
Many of us would love to have our own space, an apartment or house where we can keep the kitchen as neat or as messy as we choose and watch movies late at night on the big TV in the living room instead of on our tiny phone screen with the sound turned low… Read More »
Pittsburgh Nurse Accused Of Stealing Prescription Pills From Nursing Homes
In elementary school, teachers would warn you that, if you buy drugs on the street, you never know what you are getting; it could be cocaine, or it could be something even worse, like rat poison. That warning rings even truer now, when fentanyl is a deadly but inexpensive substitute for almost every recreational… Read More »
Most Recent Attempt To Get FDA Approval For MDMA Is Unsuccessful
There is no vilified drug that was not once considered a panacea, and no wonder drug that was not once considered a gateway to evil and death. People used to buy cocaine and morphine over the counter at pharmacies and use them to treat all manner of nonspecific ailments. Cannabis is officially a Schedule… Read More »
Seven Philadelphia Defendants Could Face Life In Prison For Selling Drugs Near Middle School
It isn’t just fear mongering when people tell you that you can get life in prison for drug crimes, but context is everything. No one gets a life sentence just for carrying a baggie with two oxycodone pills in their backpack. For the truly draconian sentences to apply in crimes that do not involve… Read More »
