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November 2nd, 2021category: News Reports
By Deepti Govind The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with its law enforcement partners, said it removed nearly 745,000 lbs of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country under its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day program, which was held on...
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November 1st, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer As part of their mandate to prevent substance abuse, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) periodically puts out a resource guide titled “Drugs of Abuse.” The latest version from 2020 is meant to serve as a “comprehensive guide” to...
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October 27th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On Tuesday, Oct. 26, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the results of a massive ten-month, multinational, multi-agency operation (called “Dark HunTor”), which included over 150 arrests across the world and the seizure of 45 weapons, 234 kgs...
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October 13th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer A majority of contacts between law enforcement officers (LEO) and the public only happens during emergencies, or situations that are highly charged and emotional. But these are not the most ideal circumstances for LEOs and the community they...
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October 8th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer A few months ago, Reuters News analyzed data from the National Emergency Medical Services Information System, which represents almost 90% of all emergency responses in the U.S., and found that during the pandemic, “the rate of drug-related 911...
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October 5th, 2021
By a Biometrica staffer A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent was killed in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, Oct. 4 when a passenger on an Amtrak train fatally shot him. The passenger also died in the course of the operation in which...
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September 29th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer The Global Organized Crime Index paints a "worrying picture of the reach, scale and impact of organized crime in 2020." The data driven analytics tool evaluated 193 United Nations member states. The 2020 report, the first published by Global Initiative,...
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September 28th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Aara Ramesh In the face of the real and present danger posed by Covid-19, the opioid crisis, America’s long-standing other epidemic has fallen under the public radar, though it continues to ravage large swathes of society. Experts say that, as with...
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September 9th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer The latest report in the Cocaine Insights series, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Europol takes a hard look at the trade in the illegal drug around the world, highlighting some of...
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August 30th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind In July, the U.S. government reported that drug overdose deaths last year, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, soared nearly 30% to a record number of around 93,000. That's a massive spike from 2019's 72,000 drug overdose deaths,...
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August 26th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer In 2019, 9.7 million people misused prescription pain relievers, 4.9 million people misused prescription stimulants, and 5.9 million people misused prescription tranquilizers or sedatives. A majority of those misused prescription drugs were obtained from family and friends, often...
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August 9th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind At the end of last month, a drug dealer called Chukwuemeka Okparaeke, whose online darknet avatar is "Fentmaster," was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He imported and trafficked fentanyl analogues and other synthetic opioids through the dark web,...
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July 29th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer There have been nearly 100 bills introduced so far this year that address the opioid epidemic. It seems everyone can agree this is an issue that needs to be addressed, but very few have managed to get any support...
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July 21st, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh One of the largest civil suits in U.S. history took a turn towards resolution on Tuesday, July 21, when officials announced that a deal had been brokered in the 3,000 lawsuits filed by states, cities, counties, and other jurisdictions...
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June 30th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh The nation’s continued struggle with the opioid epidemic and its fallout entered a new phase on Tuesday, June 29, when a dozen companies faced in court, for the first time, a six-member jury in a case brought by the...
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June 9th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh In what is being called the “largest and most sophisticated” operation ever against encrypted criminal activities, Europol, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and law enforcement agencies in 16 countries across the world have managed to take down hundreds...
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June 4th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On Thursday, June 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that preliminary data seems to indicate that U.S. traffic deaths shot up by 7.2% in 2020 (as compared to 2019), despite the pandemic and associated lockdowns...
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May 28th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer With several states across the U.S. legalizing the use of cannabis, for medical and/or recreational purposes, over the past six months or so, we began a series of posts on topics related to drug-free workplaces. Our very first...
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May 21st, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh On May 18, Governor Doug Ducey signed into law a bill that excludes narcotic drug testing products from an existing law that classifies them as illegal drug paraphernalia. The particular target of this action are fentanyl test strips (FTS),...
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May 14th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer Several states across the U.S. have legalized the use of cannabis, either for medical or recreational purposes or both, over the past six months or so. With that comes questions for employers on how to address a possible impact...
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May 5th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer In the last week or so of April, sentences were given out to various individuals who had committed drug-related crimes. Biometrica rounds up ten of those for you, based on statements published by the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
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March 31st, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Tony Hernández, a former Honduran Congressman, was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit $138.5 million for distributing 185 tons of cocaine, and related firearms and false statements offenses. Over a 15-year-period, Hernández played a leadership role...
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January 29th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer January 29, 2021 The Department of Justice has charged 11 individuals on a 136-count indictment, including flouting dog fighting prohibitions outlined by the Animal Welfare Act and several drug-related violations. Five of the defendants had allegedly attended dog fights between...
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October 11th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized more than 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills, and heroin at the Otay Mesa commercial facility on Friday. This was part of the second largest methamphetamine bust along...
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September 22nd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other agencies were part of an international operation to disrupt drug trafficking on the darknet. As part of the investigation, charges were also brought on against...
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September 21st, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Cristina Godinez of San Antonio admitted to her role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin, after an investigation conducted by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and several other federal agencies. Godinez, 36,...
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August 24th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc’s subsidiary - DUSA Pharmaceuticals Inc – agreed to pay the US a $20.75 million settlement to resolve false claim allegations. DUSA allegedly caused physicians to submit false claims to Medicare and the Federal Employee...
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December 11th, 2018category: Press Releases
With employer,employee, customer and public safety as the focus in both the physical and digital worlds, eMotive gives organizations the ability to run continuous, 24x7 criminal background checks, instead of a single annual background check, to mitigate both insider threats and external...
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December 7th, 2018category: Press Releases
This expansion coincides with the growth of the technology company’s security and public safety operations and the emphasis on its new data-centric products. PHOENIX, AZ, DEC 7: On Friday, Biometrica Systems, Inc., a Phoenix and Las Vegas-based technology company that tracks crime...
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November 23rd, 2016category: Press Releases
Enhanced functionalities of the new, fully encrypted Security & Surveillance Information Network will give clients the ability to run facial recognition scans on suspicious persons from anywhere on a property or beyond LAS VEGAS, NV: On Tuesday, Biometrica Systems, Inc., a Las...
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June 9th, 2016category: Press Releases
A Board Member and Former Company Advisor, New CEO Wyly Wade Has Worked With Security Groups, Intelligence Agencies And Governments Across Five Continents LAS VEGAS, NV: The Board of Biometrica Systems, Inc., a Las Vegas and Virginia-based SaaS company focused on creating products...
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June 7th, 2016category: Press Releases
Given The Enhanced Global Threat Scenario, Biometric and Facial Recognition Products Leader Eyes Expansion into Retail and Hotels after Successful 2015 LAS VEGAS, NV: Anyone that has seen the 2001 comedy heist starrer, Ocean’s Eleven, is probably familiar with futuristic surveillance rooms,...