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WASHINGTON — A George Mason University student will effectively serve three years in prison for selling LSD to a fraternity brother who died from falling out a fifth-floor window. Alejandro Porrata admitted selling LSD to 19-year-old Tristan Medina in September. Three days after the sale, Medina ran and crashed through a dorm building window on the Fairfax, Virginia, campus. Porrata faced a charge of distribution of a controlled drug. “You are a drug dealer,” a judge told Porrata, according to WTOP’s news partners at NBC Washington. “You did a very stupid thing, and as a result, your family is suffering,...

The dime bags seized in Cranford were called "Bloody Money" and "Superman." The drug samples found in Hillside during a vehicle stop were called "Dunkin Donuts." But more ominous than the names were what authorities announced yesterday they found inside: fentanyl-laced heroin. It's the first confirmed appearance in northeast New Jersey of a drug cocktail that has in recent months become a public health scourge, trigging a rash of overdoses and deaths in South Jersey, Philadelphia and New York. "Of all the drugs available on the street right now, fentanyl-laced heroin is the deadliest of the deadly," said Jim O'Brien,...

Fentanyl-laced heroin found in Ohio Mansfield, Columbus labs identify fatal combo Friday, June 16, 2006 Margaret Harding THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH MANSFIELD, Ohio — The deadly mix of drugs that has killed addicts in Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia has reached Ohio. Mansfield police have identified the powerful prescription painkiller fentanyl in six of the last 10 batches of heroin confiscated by police. Mansfield police laboratory director Anthony Tambasco said he decided to start looking for fentanyl after hearing about the deaths in Detroit just before Memorial Day. Authorities there have confirmed 100 fentanyl/heroin deaths. Another 60 were confirmed in the Chicago...