California police union executive charged in opioid import case
A San Jose, California, police union executive has been charged with trying to import a synthetic opioid into the U.S., which prosecutors said was uncovered in a probe into drug shipments into California and beyond.
Joanne Marian Segovia, executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, is charged with attempting to unlawfully import controlled substances, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said Wednesday.
That charge relates to a March 13 intercepted package from China that contained valeryl fentanyl, which is an analogue — or chemically similar — of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, prosecutors said.
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