Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday ordered federal prosecutors in 10 areas, including Maine, that have been especially hard-hit by overdose deaths from fentanyl to bring drug charges against anyone suspected of dealing the synthetic opioid, regardless of quantity.
An additional prosecutor will also be sent to each of the designated areas in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, California, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania as well as in Maine, Sessions said.
Sessions is going to discuss the opioid and fentanyl crisis in Portland on Friday. He will speak at 11 a.m. at the U.S. attorney’s office at 100 Middle St.
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