Don Omar

Don Omar faces mixed fortunes in 2008 now faces a court appearance. Omar has learned he’ll have to make an appearance before the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, where he’ll face alleged drug and firearm possession charges. He was arrested on 7 September, 2004, by drug-enforcement officers in Carolina,...

Russel Collins

Russel Collins hit a man in the face during an argument at a house in Millner.The 45-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. He slipped into a coma and died yesterday morning.Detective senior sergeant Scott Pollock says police are looking for the 21-year-old, who could have travelled interstate."They're keen to apprehend him and if necessary charge him whilst he's at large,"...

Drug Detector Dog Monty

Drug Detector Dog Monty reacted positively to baggage belonging to two women aged 45 and 37. A search of the 45-year-old woman’s luggage located a baby wipes container and Christmas paper wrapped box as containing cannabis. Five clip seal bags containing cannabis plant material weighing approximately 92 grams was located. A search of the 37-year-old woman’s luggage located three wrapped Christmas...

cultivating a prohibited plant

Adelaide River police along with members of the Drug Enforcement Section, Dog Operations Unit and police Batchelor and Pine Creek executed a search warrant at a residence on Ringwood Road, Adelaide River this morning. During the search members located a two-room donga with two large cannabis plants,...

One of the Victotias biggest ever drug busts.

Police arrested the 33-year-old Ivanhoe man at a property at Northcote, in Melbourne's north-east early yesterday morning.Police were called to the scene after a passer-by reported an alarm and loud noises coming from the house.The arrest led to a raid at another property in nearby Ivanhoe, where police claim to have found enough chemicals to produce around 25kg of the drug ice, estimated to be worth...

Dion Ward

A man is being held without bail after state police say a routine traffic stop led to a cocaine and marijuana bust of more than $100000 Saturday. State police say a trooper stopped 29-year-old Dion Ward's vehi...

Willie Mays Aikens

Aikens 20 years for possession of 64 grams of crack To receive an equivalent sentence, he would have had to possess nearly 6 1/2 kilos more than 14 pounds of powder cocaine.a longstanding addiction to cocaine ended his baseball career and ultimately led to a 20-year sentence for selling crack cocaine...

Gerald Joseph Youngblood,Raymond Castillo Jr

Gerald Joseph Youngblood, 27, more recently of Dunkirk, is charged in Jay Circuit Court with dealing in cocaine, maintaining a common nuisance and two counts each of dealing in a controlled substance and dealing in marijuana He has been accused of engaging in drug transactions with an agent of the Tri-County Drug Task Force in Jay County. The cocaine count is a Class A felony carrying a standard...

Schapelle Corby

Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas reductionin her sentence.Jail officials told Corby she had been denied a reduction of up to two months in her sentence as she waited yesterday for a visit from family members, including her mother Rosleigh Rose and sister Mercedes.Restricting visits will be...

16-year-old student to sell drugs

A Nepalese prison guard was found lying on the floor of the guards post with a bullet wound in his chest earlier in the month. Police reported he had been working at the prison since March where he had been doing a 10 week internship..Authorities also reported a rise in the number of triads and gangs of young thugs in Guangdong, a Mainland province which borders Macau and Hong Kong. In Macau, an illegal...

Air Canada employee

Air Canada employee is at the centre of an international investigation after authorities at Vancouver International Airport seized a large quantity of cocaine before Christmas.Paula Shore of the Canada Border Services Agency said officers seized 61.5 kilograms of the drug on Dec. 23. Air Canada spokesman John Reber confirmed that an airline employee has been suspended pending the results of the probe....

Mark Bronson

Mark Bronson, 44,Mr Bronson, who was born in Colorado, graduated from the Stanford Law School in 1989. He had been the editor of the prestigious university's Stanford Environmental Law Journal.For the past seven years Mr Bronson worked with the prominent international corporate law firm Skadden, Arps,...

Shaikh Talal

Shaikh Talal, was sentenced last December by the lower criminal court to death - a first in the history of the state.The Appeals Court also confirmed life sentences imposed on three accomplices - an undocumented person, a Bangladeshi and an Indian. Two others, a Lebanese and an Iraqi, were sentenced...

Brij Bhushan, Akhil Bansal

Sentenced the son to 30 years in prison, while the case against the Agra doctor has stalled.Akhil Bansal, Brij Bhushan's son, created and operated a network that smuggled 11 million prescription pills from India and distributed them to 60,000 Americans."You distributed poison throughout the country," the US judge pronouncing the sentence said on Friday.All Brij Bhushan's neighbours in upscale Kamla...

Indian man identified as J.M

A man given a four-year jail sentence has appealed the verdict, with his lawyer arguing that the drugs found on his client were "tampered with". The 37-year-old Indian man identified as J.M., was charged with smuggling and possessing 0.15 grams of marijuana and 0.29 grams of hashish for personal use.His lawyer, Saif Al Mutawaa, said the seized drugs were tampered with.Records said officers said they...

Yutaka Arai

A self-employed man has been indicted for attempting to smuggle marijuana by putting the drugs in more than 100 separate bags and swallowing them, law enforcers said.Yutaka Arai, 36, a resident of Hachioji, western Tokyo, stands accused of violating the Cannabis Control Law.Arai put 297.31 grams of marijuana, with a street value of 2.35 million yen, into 120 small bags and swallowed them before arriving...

Dean Stewart : "Stewart's prosthetic legs were removed and X-rayed at Kennedy's medical facility," where cocaine was found in the limbs.

wheelchair-bound Dean Stewart was, who wears two prosthetic legs, stopped at JFK Airport for a routine search when the drugs were discovered.Stewart aroused suspicion in a number of ways. He had claimed he couldn't remove the legs, and the feds noticed his ticket "had been purchased in cash three days earlier" and as well as other brief visits to the U.S. Other tip-offs: The "cousin" Stewart was supposedly...

Budimir Kuyovitch

Serbian drug boss Budimir Kujovic was transported under closed guard to the building of the District Police Directorate in the town of Stara Zagora. Kujovic is under the escort of six heavily armed police officers. Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin on Sunday. During a special operation officials found 116 packages of the...

capsule swallowers

Dutch police confirmed close ties between Nigerian email scammers and drug smugglers from the Dutch Antilles Drugs traffickers from Latin America have been using the Caribbean island group as a transit point from Colombia. Up to 25,000 drugs smugglers are believed to take this transatlantic route every year. They are known as bolletjesslikkers (capsule swallowers) as they swallow tiny drug capsules...

John T Foley member of the State Police

John T Foley, age 62, of Highland Avenue in Saugus, Massachusetts charging him with distribution of cocaine. Foley is assigned to the Revere State Police Barracks and has been a member of the State Police since October, 1971.United States Attorney Michael Sullivan said, "The allegations against Mr. Foley are an affront to every decent, honest member of the Massachusetts State Police, who serve the...

Wilber Alirio Varela-Fajardo, Julio César López-Pena

Wilber Alirio Varela-FajardoWilber Alirio Varela-Fajardo is one of the top echelon members of the North Valle Cartel. Varela-Fajardo is known as a "point man" by the other leaders of the Cartel to direct trafficking and enforcement operations. He is also well-known throughout Colombia as an enforcer...

Hussein Karimi Rikabadi : Extradition

Hussein Karimi Rikabadi ran an international drug conglomerate suspected of distributing heroin in the Middle East, Western Europe and North America," said DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. "His organization moved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of heroin from Pakistan and Afghanistan...

Michael Ray Williams, David Paul Fain, Anna Marie Patterson

Michael Ray Williams, 48, of 19259 Runway St., Athens, second-degree possession of marijuana. David Paul Fain, 20, of 17036 Lukers Way, Athens, possession of a controlled substance, first-degree possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernaliaAnna Marie Patterson, 25, of 17036 Lukers Way, Athens, possession of a controlled substance, first-degree possession of marijuana and possession...

Shamar Franklyn Ross

Shamar Franklyn Ross, 29, of no fixed address was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute cocaine after a stop on Dec. 19, police said Frid...

Daniel Lorenzo Connor

Daniel Lorenzo Connor, 23, of 9411 Singleton Drive, Bethesda, Md., was charged with possession of marijuana, after police searched his car at 1:08 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Hunting Cove Place and Rilda Place in Bristow. Police were investigating a suspicious vehic...

Nicole Marie Klein

Nicole Marie Klein, 24, of 7800 Tayloe Drive, #138, in the Manassas area, was charged with possession of cocaine and driving under the influence after police responded to a single-car accident on Dec. 21 at 7:30 a.m. The accident occurred near the intersection ofFleetwood Drive and Hazelwood Drive in Nokesville. Klein was held on a $10,000 bond and her court date was not availab...

Marcos Vazquez-Sanchez, Carlos Fernando Flores

Marcos Vazquez-Sanchez, 27, of 8408 Impala Drive in the Manassas area was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana. He was held on a $5,000 bond and has a court date on Jan. 30. A second man, Carlos Fernando Flores, 19of 7521 Remington Road in the Manassas area, was charged with possession of marijuana. He was released on a summons and has a court date on Jan. ...

Jose Gomez-Amaya

Jose Gomez-Amaya, 28, of 8365 Tillett Loop in Manassas, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana on Monday at 12:30 a.m. Police were responding to a drug activity complaint in the 8700 block of Partridge Way in Bristow. He was released on a summons and has a court date on Jan. ...

Alejandro Bernal Madrigal,Fabio Ochoa

Arrested: Alejandro Bernal Madrigal, whom a Federal official described as the head of the biggest cocaine ring in Colombia,Bernal-Madrigal was a member of the infamous Medellin Cartel and later ran the world’s largest cocaine transportation organization. He is being extradited to the Southern District...

Jamie Hunt, Anthony James Tangires, Tony Neil Barnum, Mark Anthony Theisen

Jamie Hunt, 33, of Georgetown, S.C., was charged with possession of marijuana, illegal mushrooms and drug paraphernalia, police said.Anthony James Tangires, 48, of Ellicott City, and Jeremy Shane Moien, 31, of Greenbelt, were charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, police said.Mark Anthony Theisen, 22, Ryan Bosworth Johnson, 20, both of Ashburn, Va., and Amy Margaret Bozzard,...

25-year-old British student

Christmas Eve, police arrested a 25-year-old British student whom they suspected had swallowed cocaine, and as of Friday he had expelled 40 pellets containing the drug. A police press release yesterday said that ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch arrested the man at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, after observing his activities. He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where...

Jimmy Lee Carter

Jimmy Lee Carter, 35, of Danville for distribution of cocaine. U.S. currency and equipment associated with drug sales were also seized pursuant to the arrest, according to a news release.Carter was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocai...

Ronald D. Perry

Ronald D. Perry, 39, of Braidwood, was arrested by state police at 10:59 p.m. Thursday on Illinois Route 17 at Pipeline Road, Kankakee, for possession of cocaine.His passenger, Robert W. Perry, 40, also of Braidwood, was arrested on the same charge.Police said they stopped Perry for improper lighting and a cracked windshield. Police say they found the cocaine during a search of the passeng...

Savane Mussa

Savane Mussa, a 35 year old German national, was arraigned in court on Saturday morning and charged with importing cocaine in Malta, and with involvement in drug trafficking.Airport officials caught the man in possession of 800 grams of cocaine on Friday, as soon as he arrived in Malta on board a flight from Tunis.Mussa was stopped by the Customs’ officials, who scanned his one piece of luggage and...

Luis Collazo-Alvarez

Luis Collazo-Alvarez, a 49-year-old man also arrested in the same raids, was indicted by a federal grand jury in October in a separate indictment on single counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocai...

Humberto Lugo-Olivares Jr

Humberto Lugo-Olivares Jr. entered a guilty plea Dec. 20 to conspiracy to distribute cocaine (at least 500 grams, or about one pound) and marijuana, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in Minneapol...

17 pounds of cocaine

The bus was being driven by a 39-year-old Mexican citizen from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Once all passengers in the bus had exited, CBP canine “Martin” alerted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the back seats area of the bus. Upon further examination and a closer visual inspection of the seats, CBP officers discovered seven cellophane wrapped bundles underneath two of the back seats....

59 pounds of marijuana

Lincoln-Juarez Bridge. CBP officers referred a 1996 Isuzu Rodeo driven by a 50-year-old permanent U.S. resident from San Antonio, Tex. for secondary examination. During the examination, CBP officers detected discrepancies within the vehicle’s gas tank area. Utilizing a non-intrusive imaging system,...

false roof compartment of a Canadian truck

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers here seized $373,000 and 127 pounds of marijuana concealed in a false roof compartment of a Canadian truck. The truck and trailer arrived at the port of entry Saturday night at 8 p.m. carrying a shipment of aluminum railing components bound for California. CBP officers referred the truck/trailer for a Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System (VACIS) x-ray type...

Manuel G. Martinez

Manuel G. Martinez 5-3-62 was arrested at the 300 block of 14th St. for Possession of Marijuana and for False Reporting to Law Enforceme...

Memphis International Airport

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Memphis International Airport’s air cargo facility recently seized approximately six pounds of cocaine concealed in baseball bats. One of the bats was X-rayed and discrepancies were noticed in the thick part or barrel of the bat. A drill exam produced a white powdery substance, which field-tested positive for cocaine. The other the were X-rayed and drilled...

Byron A. Jimenez Castaneda

ICE and FBI agents executed a warrant to arrest Byron A. Jimenez Castaneda, 44, a citizen of Colombia, in Orlando, Florida for conspiracy to possess, distribute and import narcotics into the United States. In the 15-count indictment, Jimenez Castaneda is alleged to have coordinated the kidnapping of...

Galicia columbian drug connection by Drugmarine

Eight people were arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs into Galicia, although their home made invention was quite different than all other methods used. A home made submarine was used to smuggle drugs from ships at sea into the Galician coast line. The submarine was found by a Guardia Civil patrol....

Devin L. Elliott

Devin L. Elliott, 29, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of more than three grams of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, a Class A felony. Elliott will serve 20 years in prison, according to the plea agreement. The location of the arrest was at a store on Clifty Drive, which is within 1,000 feet of the Madison Consolidated High School parking lot.During a search, police found...

Ben Hurt

Ben Hurt, 25, was commenced after Lebanon Police Department executed a search warrant in the 900 block of North Broadway in Lebanon, where Hurt was residing. The location was found to have more than 28 grams of crack and more than 28 grams of powder cocaine broken down for sale, according to Hutzel.Hurt is facing a mandatory minimum of three years in prison for this offense. He will be sentenced next...

Serafin Mantero,Cecil Richardson

Serafin Mantero, 41, and Cecil Richardson, 39, returned to Tampa on Thursday with two partners and enough cash to buy two kilograms, or 4.4 pounds, for $21,000, police said.Richardson, who stands 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 315 pounds, has been arrested at least 36 times and has cocaine convictions dating to 1986, according to the Florida Department of Law EnforcemenThe drug deal took place at...

Marco Antonio Vargas-Perez

Marco Antonio Vargas-Perez, 36, was arrested for investigation of drug possession with intent to distribute and a restricted person in possession of a firearm.Vargas-Perez also admitted to investigators to being in the United States illegally, according to a Salt Lake County Jail repo...

James Michael Dollarhite,Steven William Dias

Steven William Dias. Dias and James Michael Dollarhite, the man accused in the slaying, both had previous drug-related charges.Dollarhite was in Mecklenburg County jail Friday night with no bond. In addition to murder, he's charged with communicating threats, assault by pointing a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and going armed to the terror of the public.Police said Dias arrived about 10 minutes...

Malta Airport

800 grammes of cocaine were seized at the airport on Thursday evening by the Customs Enforcement Squad and the police. The drug was on a passenger who held a German passport and who had arrived on a flight from Tunisia. The only luggage he was carrying was scanned and it appeared that there was something suspicious inside.The passenger was asked to enter the search room together with customs officials...

John Mahon, Brian Laverty,Joseph V. Schoentube Jr, Shykesh T. Treadwell,Kevin J. McLaughlin

John Mahon, 18; Brian Laverty, 18; Joseph V. Schoentube Jr., 18; Shykesh T. Treadwell, 19; and Kevin J. McLaughlin, 20, all of Keansburg, on charges of possession of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, Pigott sa...

Delbert DeBolt

Delbert DeBolt of Moundsville after they noticed the car he was driving swerved to the wrong side of the road at a high rate of speed while traveling along the Narrows section of W.Va. 2 near Glen Dale early Sunday. Officers said the car nearly struck a retaining wall before being stopped, and DeBolt appeared intoxicated as they questioned him. They administered four sobriety tests, all of which DeBolt...

Chantelly M. Asbury

Chantelly M. Asbury, 28, of Glen Dale was arrested on a second-offense driving under the influence charge and DUI with a minor child in the car after her vehicle went off the road on W.Va. 86, aka Grandview Ro...

Alejandro S. Medrano, Jaime Garcia Jr

Alejandro S. Medrano of Brooklyn and Jaime Garcia Jr. of Shaw Street in Utica were each charged with felony criminal possession of a controlled substance. $20,000 worth of heroin was recovered in 1,320 bags from a vehicle stopped for having tinted windows on the Thruway in the Herkimer County town...

Morton Tillson

Morton Tillson, 29, of Utica on Dec. 14 with felony marijuana possession after pulling his vehicle over for erratic driving in Greenburgh, a Westchester County community just north of New York City. Authorities say they found 61 pounds of pot worth about $119,0...

Rebecca L. Daley

Rebecca L. Daley, 49, of 613 Stoch Circle, Palm Bay. Charges: possession of cocaine, possession of paraphernal...

Diego M. Sanchez

Diego M. Sanchez, 21, of 3715 Pinewood Drive N.E., Palm Bay. Charge: driving with license suspend...

John Anthony Obrien,

John Anthony Obrien, 21, of 532 Vaugh St., Titusville. Charges: driving under the influence, possession of paraphernal...

Elizabeth Mary Gordon

Elizabeth Mary Gordon, 19, of 1964 Washington Ave., Melbourne. Charges: driving under the influence with property damage, reckless drivi...

Lanita Ann Clark

Lanita Ann Clark, 50, of 207 Tyler Ave., Cape Canaveral. Charge: possession of cocai...

Mary Elizabeth Killeavy

Mary Elizabeth Killeavy, 18, of Indian Hrb. Charge: driving under the influen...

Anthony D. Williams

Anthony D. Williams, 21, of 315 Sundial Court, Cocoa. Charges: sale cocaine, possession of cocai...

Bryan Michael Osteen

Bryan Michael Osteen, 18, of 3465 Old Dixie Road, Mims. Charge: disorderly intoxicati...

Jason Scott Schaller

Jason Scott Schaller, 26, of Fruitland Prk. Charge: possession of cocai...

Amber Gayle Redmond

Amber Gayle Redmond, 25, of Orlando. Charge: possession of cocai...

Sean Leearic Pope

Sean Leearic Pope, 18, of 173 Ulster Lane, Melbourne. Charges: possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of cocaine, possession of paraphernalia, felony possession of controlled substan...

Sandra Louise Belanger

Sandra Louise Belanger , 39, of Orlando. Charges: possession of cocaine, possession of controlled substance, possession of paraphernal...

Jean Robert Michel

Jean Robert Michel, 18, of 808 Wilson Ave., Cocoa. Charges: possession of cocaine, possession of paraphernal...

Estella S. Musgrove

Estella S. Musgrove, 39, of Lka 1418 Floyd Dr., Rockledge. Charges: disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest without violen...

Jonathan Alan Wester

Jonathan Alan Wester, 24, of 1205 Old Parsonage Road, Merritt Island. Charge: driving under the influe...

Salena Christina Samonas

Salena Christina Samonas, 20, of 1763 Fay St., Cocoa. Charges: carrying concealed firearm, possession of controlled substan...

Renee Lynn Lutz

Renee Lynn Lutz, 48, of 6000 Alden Avenue, Cocoa. Charge: driving whilst impair...

Samuel Cabrales Jr

Samuel Cabrales Jr., 31. About 15 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of $1,500 was found along with a digital scale and packaging material. Law enforcement also seized $100 cash and a 1991 Ford pickup. Cabrales is charged with second degree felony possession of cocaine and is being held in the Pennington County ja...

Lisa Nelson,Anastasia Narvaiz

Lisa Nelson, 27, and Anastasia Narvaiz, 21, was searched. Law enforcement found 9.25 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $21,000, a small amount of methamphetamine, a scale and some drug paraphernalia. The couple forfeited $2,300 in cash. The pair have been released with a promise to appear after being charged with fifth degree felony possession of marijuana and fifth degree felony...

Armando Flores

Armando Flores, 24, of Thief River Falls was arrested Dec. 21 after 6 ounces of marijuana with an estimated street value of $900, a digital scale, hydrocone tablets -- possessed without a prescription and $4,655 in cash were found in his residence. Flores has been charged with fifth degree felony possession of marijuana. He has been released with a promise to appear. Other charges are expect...

Clinton Earl Hazelwood,

Clinton Earl Hazelwood, of 601 Alamance Road, with possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond was set at $10,0...

Donald Jeffery Beasley

Donald Jeffery Beasley, 42, of 1917-F Morningside Drive, with possession of cocaine, maintaining a dwelling to keep or sell drugs, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $15,0...

Wanted Patrick Dewayne Gilbert

The first house is located in the GroveOak Community. The second is on County Road 482 in the Painter community.During a search of the two houses, officers did not find Gilbert. However, they did confiscate two stolen motorcycles, a laser transit, and a 9mm Taurus. They say methamphetamine and marijuana...

Sue Michelle Dunn , Emery Darrell-Lee,

Investigators say they searched 53-year old Emery Darrell-Lee's home in Collinsville Lee met drug task force agents at the door with a plastic bag full of trash from a recent methamphetamine cook. Inside the home, agents say they found a gram of finished meth, and a half gallon of meth oil. 37-year-old...

Robert Fred ("Pete") Bishop

Dekalb County arrested Robert Fred ("Pete") Bishop yesterday. Eleven people, including 6 minor children, were in the house at the time the warrant was executed at a house on Clements Road in Rainsville. Bishop was charged with distribution of a controlled substance, and is being held at the DeKalb County Detention Center on $15,000 bond. Further charges may be pendi...

large bag in a rubbish container.

A sports bag with more than ten kilograms of heroin was found in a shop in the town of Balashikha in Moscow region. Managers at the store discovered the large bag in a rubbish container.Narcotics experts said the bag contained Afghan heroin packed into ten plastic parcels.Police suspect the heroin was en route to a gang operating in the region."The drugs might have been stowed in the rubbish bin for...

Berelice Donaghey

Berelice Donaghey, 43, of Fishkill, N.Y., was arrested Wednesday by members of the New Milford police's Investigate Services Bureau. Police say the New Milford bureau had received information from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency that Donaghey had been falsifying prescriptions. Donaghey was charged with 10 counts of obtaining a prescription by fraud and was held on $50,000 bond pending a court...

Greg Smith (Mayan Express)

Greg Smith, name shows up in public documents that indicate he worked as a pilot in the past for an operation involving the FBI, DEA and CIA that targeted narco-traffickers in Colombia.The Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in the Mexican Yucatan in late September carrying close to four tons of cocaine...

Zambian women

two women, aged 31 and 29 years, had aroused the suspicion of the Customs officers at the Sydney airport and during questioning admitted concealing drugs insides their bodies, according to an Australian Federal Police statement.Three African women carrying contraband drugs were recently caught by the law-enforcement agencies in Dubai and Sydney, Australia, according to sourcesThe Zambian women, part...

Olmeda

Olmeda's vehicle allegedly contained 500 lbs. of marijuana. Four months later, it was Officer Hiland who found the escaped fugitive.Officer Nick Hiland, Quincy Police Department says, "Officer Miller and I responded to the area of 7th and Oak. They said it would be the house behind the back porch tavern. A person came to the door and we advised him what the situation was. He said that we could come...

Mollie Gower, Darrell Knighten,Collin Frisinger

Mollie Gower, 39, and Darrell Knighten, 36, were both charged with state jail felonies for delivery of a controlled substance for an amount under one gram.Collin Frisinger, 21, who was arrested in connection with delivery of a controlled substance after he sold the prescription medication Xanax to undercover officers, was charged with a state jail felo...

Candice Loecken

Candice Loecken, 28, was charged with one second degree felony for delivery of a controlled substance in an amount between 1 and 4 gra...

Tressa Stewart

Tressa Stewart, 37, was arrested and charged with two counts for delivery of a controlled substance, each for an amount of methamphetamines between 1 and 4 gra...

Dewey Miller

Dewey Miller, 30, was arrested and charged with delivery of a controlled substance. The amount of methamphetamines in his possession — over 4 grams — brought his charge to a first-degree felo...

four kilos of coke smuggled in Christmas candles.

21-year-old visitor from Barbados was arrested Dec 11 after four kilograms of coke worth US $ 550,000 was found in the binding of a Bible and other books. Another 21-year-old man who claimed to be visiting from St Vincent was arrested a day later arriving from Guyana with 2.5 kilos of coke worth about US $ 310,000 inside a Bible and in the false bottom of a suitcase. "The covers of the Bibles are...

Derrick Tyrell Harris

Derrick Tyrell Harris, 20, of 3106 Abbott, was arrested and charged with felony trafficking cocaine by possession, felony tampering with evidence and possession of forfeitable property.He was arrested when DPS detectives and narcotics unit agents, along with state police narcotics officers, served a search warrant at approximately 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police seized 4.9 grams of crack cocaine, with...

Michael John Newton

Michael John Newton, of Dale Street, Ulverston, also turned up late for his appearance at Furness Magistrates’ Court (20) and was slapped with a £25 fine.Prosecutor Mrs Lisa O’Loughlin told how the emergency services were called to Newton’s home on December 4 after a friend of his collapsed.She said ambulance crews were accompanied by the police who seized weighing scales, foil with traces of powder...

Vietnam has sentenced eight heroin traffickers to death

Vietnam has sentenced eight heroin traffickers to death, a court official said Friday, raising to more than 40 the number of drug smugglers to receive the death penalty over the past month.In the latest mass trial, the Hanoi people's court also jailed 29 others, 18 of them for life, for trafficking heroin across the country's mountainous north over two years.The report said traffickers had become...

Wendy Morse

Wendy Morse, 27, of Benmont Avenue in Bennington pleaded not guilty to two charges of violating her probation, a charge of cocaine possession second or subsequent and possession of a depressant at her arraignment on Monday. The cocaine possession charge is a felony. According to an affidavit by Bennington Police Officer John Behan, police received information on Dec. 23 at around 2 p.m. that there...

Mischa Barton

Mischa Barton was arrested early Thursday morning (December 27) in West Hollywood, California, for DUI and other charges, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. was charged with three criminal counts: driving under the influence, possession of illegal narcotics and driving without...

John J. Romano

John J. Romano, 36, of the 1700 block of South Spring Road and Worthy Davis, 19, of the 700 block of South East Avenue were charged with possession of marijuana, crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia at Walnut Villa Apartments in the 1000 block of Florence Avenue Dec. ...

Raheim O. Holloway

Raheim O. Holloway, 25, of the 600 block of East Mulberry Street was charged with resisting arrest, obstruction and possession of marijuana following a disturbance in the 200 block of East Oak Street Tuesd...

Jesus Solis,Gilberto Garza

Jesus Solis and the homeowner, Gilberto Garza, being placed under arrest.The two men are in custody after San Juan SWAT officers raid a suspected drug house.Police say the homeowner is suspected of accepting stolen property for drugs.This operation was being guarded by six barking dogs.The suspects detained are awaiting formal charges.The homeowner will be charged with possession of a controlled substance.And,...

Jason Travis Warren

Maryland State Police said a trooper stopped Jason Travis Warren, 22, near Wine Rack at 4 a.m. for clocking 57 mph in a 45 mph zone. The trooper smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle and saw several marijuana flakes on the carpet. A Berlin teenager were charged with possession of marijuana and Xanax after police said they found the drugs in their vehicle during a traffic stop early this morning...

Pedro Alfonso Alatorre Damy:Gulfstream II jet that crash landed carrying four tons of cocaine

Mexican authorities who issued an arrest warrant for a top financier of the Sinaloa drug cartel uncovered the connection between the cartel and the purchase of two jets that took off from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport on separate dates. One jet was seized, and the other crashed in...

Ndrangheta crime syndicate

‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, a ruthless and mysterious network of 155 families born in the rough hills here in southern Italy’s Calabria region, now dominates the European drug trade. By establishing direct ties with Colombian producers and building a multibillion-dollar empire that spans five continents, the syndicate has metamorphosed into one of the craftiest criminal gangs in the world, authorities...

Joshua Blackburn (update)

An Orange County commissioner delayed the arraignment of Joshua Blackburn, 32, of Murrieta until Jan. 9, and set his bail at $4 million. If Blackburn posts bail, authorities must verify whether the money is legitimate.Blackburn broke into the evidence locker room of the CHP Santa Ana office around 4...

Calvin Ward

Calvin Ward stood before U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier two years ago, and was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute at least 5 grams of crack cocaine.Mr. Ward may be one of the first crack cocaine offenders to have his sentence reduced under a change in the federal sentencing guidelines.LOWER SENTENCESThe U.S. Sentencing Commission estimates that...

Sidney Benner, escaped

Sidney Benner, 30, escaped Thursday from the county's detention center. He's believed to be in the Gallman area. During his escape, Benner cut himself and left a blood trail. His jumpsuit was found less than a mile from the Sheriff's Department, officials sa...

A woman and two youths were detained

A woman and two youths were detained in Peru after the trio allegedly ingested capsules of cocaine and attempted to board an airplane to Argentina, a police official said Sunday.The three were questioned at Lima's international airport Saturday night and taken to a nearby hospital, where they expelled capsules of cocaine, Police Gen. Miguel Hidalgo, director of the country's anti-drug unit, told The...

Gary Anthony Lynch,And Mark Trevor Archer,Liam Wright,

Daniel Murphy, 40, a joiner, of Buchanan Road, Wallasey, was convicted of conspiring to supply cannabis between September 2005 and September 2006 and jailed for six years.Gary Anthony Lynch, 45, a bricklayer, of Gorsey Well Lane, Runcorn, was jailed for 21 months.And Mark Trevor Archer, 49, of Warburton Street, Stockton Heath, near Warrington, was locked up for four years. Both admitted conspiracy...

largest marijuana bust

Costa Rican agents made the largest marijuana bust in the Central American nation's history, seizing 4.85 tons of the drug found in an abandoned boat, police said Saturday. The marijuana was discovered Friday during a patrol with the U.S. Coast Guard off the country's Pacific coast, Costa Rican police...

Snyder-Cronkhite

Snyder-Cronkhite, 19, of Brazil on allegations of dealing in methamphetamine, burglary, false informing and possession of a controlled substance. He remained in the Vigo County jail Wednesday with bail set at $55,000. He can be detained until Friday while the prosecutor’s office decides what charges, if any, to file. Snyder-Cronkhite is scheduled for court at 9:30 a.m. Frid...

Isaac E. Corbin,

Isaac E. Corbin, 27, of Terre Haute appeared on a warrant for dealing crack cocaine. Corbin allegedly delivered more than 0.2 gram of crack to confidential informants of the Vigo County Drug Task Force at an address in the 500 block of Second Avenue on two separate occasions in October. A warrant was issued Dec. 11 and Corbin was arrested Saturday. Corbin remained in the county jail Wednesday with...

Shawn Lee McBride

Shawn Lee McBride, 22, of Terre Haute on allegations of possession of methamphetamine and an additional controlled substance and habitual traffic violations. McBride remained in the jail with bail set at $50,000. He can be detained until Friday while the prosecutor’s office decides what charges, if any, to file. He is scheduled for court at 9:30 a.m. Frid...

Juanita Wilson

Juanita Wilson, 57, of Terre Haute on two class-B felony allegations of dealing oxycodone, a schedule II controlled substance. Wilson allegedly delivered the drug to confidential informants from the Vigo County Drug Task Force on two separate occasions in September and October. Wilson appeared before Lewis in Vigo Superior Court Division 6. She remained in the county jail Wednesday with bail set at...

Brandon Shawn Bell,Gregory Meredith Sanders Jr,Jauran Ashleigh Farley, Fonte Pierr Todd,Sarah Christie Reyes

Brandon Shawn Bell, 20, of 13018 Chaddsford Terrace in Woodbridge was charged with possession of marijuana about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at U.S. 1 and Port Potomac Avenue, said Officer Erika Hernandez, police spokeswoman. An officer stopped Bell's vehicle and allegedly found the drug. He was released on a summons. His court hearing date was not available.Gregory Meredith Sanders Jr., 23, of 13200 Bangor...

Zayda Pena a classic gangland-style slaying

Peña was the vocalist for Zayda y Los Culpables a popular band that produced romantic ballads. Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from...

Sergio Gómez,Zayda Pena

Sergio Gómez was kidnapped. Police found his body the next day. He'd been strangled and beaten. the savage murder of Sergio Gómez, one of Mexico's hottest singers, a headliner whose band, K-Paz de la Sierra, commanded $100,000 a show, twice the rate of other top bands was different. It has set off an...

Charles Lynch

Charles Lynch of Arroyo Grande pleaded not guilty to charges in August. His trial is scheduled for the spring, he said. In March, San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided Charles Lynch’s dispensary, Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers, at...

Jack Fagin

Jack Fagin, 50, whose hometown was not released, was in court today to answer to charges of attempted trafficking in drugs.Police accuse Fagin of trying to ship 15 pounds of marijuana here from Texas.Assistant Hamilton County prosecutor Betsy Sundermann said Fagin already has a pending indictment for...

Johnathan L. Byler,David S. Byler

Arrested after an undercover officer made a covert drug buy, were Johnathan L. Byler, 21, of 5086 Route 322, Windsor, and his brother, David S. Byler, 20, of 8369 Fortney Road in Windsor. Both men were transported to county jail.Johnathan Byler was charged with trafficking in drugs (powder cocaine), and possession of drugs. David Byler was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia including digital...

Rev. Hugh King

Rev. Hugh King announced his resignation during Sunday services at the Guillemard Street church.Pensacola police arrested King on April 27 after stopping a Ford Explorer in which he was a passenger. Police reported finding a bag of cocaine in King?s pocket. The case is set for trial Jan. ...

Raymond A. Baisi

Raymond A. Baisi, wanted on a Yonkers drug possession warrant.Baisi, of Eastchester, had just filled up his tank at a gas station when an officer saw the cracked windshield and pulled him over, Pelham Manor Detective Ken Campion said. His license was suspended, he was uninsured and his license plates didn't match his sport utility vehicle, which was unregistered, Campion said.Baisi, 57, had crack...

Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy

Domenyk Noonan is appealing against a jail sentence for having a gun in his car, claiming he was "set up" by the police.Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, a member of the Noonans gangland family, was stopped in a Jaguar car by police near Darlington in May and found with a handgun and five .357 Magnum bullets.A...

Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy nine-and-a-half years

December, Noonan, who has changed his surname to Lattlay-Fottfoy, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years after he was found to have a handgun and five bullets in his car when he was stopped in Darlington. He claims a man had planted the gun and ammunition in his car.He is appealing after a jury at Teesside...

Dr Rudolf Peitel, HMP Holme House

Dr Rudolf Peitel, who worked at Holme House Prison, in Stockton, was convicted in 1993 of trying to bring firearms into Germany from Pakistan.Peitel, 57, later came to the UK to practise and took on roles through an agency.The hearing concluded yesterday that the convictions meant Peitel's fitness to practise in the UK was impaired.He was suspended from the medical register after the hearing yesterday....

Paul Allan Firth , Debra James

Paul Allan Firth and his partner Debra James in Oliver Street, South Bank, in the raids.In the first, officers found 60g, worth £600, in a child’s jacket pocket, with smaller amounts in the kitchen, said prosecutor Shaun Dodds.While the couple were on bail, the house was searched again almost seven months later.Another £500 of the drug was found in a pillow case, as well as scales, bags and phones.Firth,...

Jamie Dawson, 19

Dawson, of Gilpin Road, Thornaby, admitted possession of a Class A drug. 12-month conditional discha...

Kevin Tymon

Kevin Tymon, 34, ran a “corner shop” with users sent to his home at Elm House Apartments in Stockton, said a Teesside Crown Court judge.Prosecutor Sue Jacobs told how Tymon was involved in various exchanges of £5 wraps...

Mark Raymond Scott

Police executed a search warrant at his home in Belle Vue Court, Stockton, and found 247g of the drug with a street value of nearly £10,000. Teesside Crown Court heard that Scott was on licence at the time.He was jailed for four-and-a-half yea...

Reginald “Shaggy” Johnson,Leanne McCaffery, Rhaul Warren

Crack cocaine dealer Reginald “Shaggy” Johnson has been arrested.The drugs squad had been working to bring him to justice for five years and now knew he was going to prison for a long time.Middlesbrough drug dealer Reginald "Shaggy" Johnson and two more cogs in the town's supply chain have been jailed...

Shafiq Aziz, Liaquet Ali ,Damion Clenaghan

Shafiq Aziz, Liaquet Ali and Damion Clenaghan, all of Middlesbrough.Aziz, 3839 on Nov 24, of Fountains Drive, Ali, 49, of Clifton Street, and Clenaghan, 22, of Cobham Street, are jointly charged with conspiring with three others to produce cannabis between December 1 last year and May 22 this year.Aziz is also accused of possessing a Class B controlled drug, amphetamine, and having custody or control...

Alan Horden

Alan Horden, 49, was caught at his home in Somerset Street, Middlesbrough with 2.14g of heroin, worth £214 on the str...

Jamie Scoon

Scoon, , of Myrtle Grove, Thornaby, admitted two charges of supplying a Class A drug and two of possession with intent to supp...

Darren Elgey ,Lindsey Robson,Carl Steele ,Joanne Dowd

jailed Darren Elgey for four years.Elgey, 37, of Yarm Road, was seen dealing heroin wraps in March and April this year.Lindsey Robson and Carl Steele were not far behind him, said the judge, using various Stockton locations for dealing.Some drugs and cash changed hands at 27-year-old Steele’s home...

Noboru Ikemoto,Seiha Fujima,Hiroki Fukawa

Japanese death sentences: Noboru Ikemoto, 75, who was hanged in the western metropolis of Osaka, and Seiha Fujima, 47, and Hiroki Fukawa, 42, who were executed in Tokyo, a justice ministry statement sa...

Executed in public

four men were hanged for drug trafficking in the city of Bojnord in the Northern Khorasan Province in Iran. The court order for one the convicts, who had criminal record of dealing drugs, adultery and smuggling alcohol, was executed in public. The three others were hanged in the prison ar...

Morocco has 11 crimes that carry the death penalty

Morocco's justice minister says his country is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment. The country has 11 crimes that carry the death penalty. Since 1973, only two of 133 people sentenced to death have been executed, the last in 1993. Abolition of capital punishment would help Morocco acquire advanced status with the European community, Moroccan officials have s...

Son La , Hoa Binh provinces eight people sentenced to Death

Vietnamese court sentenced eight people to death for smuggling heroin, raising to 35 the number of people put on death row within two weeks for trafficking the drug. A court clerk says a 10 day Hanoi trial found 26 drug smugglers guilty of trafficking or selling a total of more 50 kgs of heroin. Eight defendants received life terms, and the others were jailed for between 15 and 20 years. The 35 year...

Hao Chen, Bai Yingna ,Han Tao

a gang of six people were given sentences ranging from death to 15 years in jail for trafficking drugs, according to a ruling handed down by a court in northeast China's Liaoning Province. According to the investigation of the Jinzhou Intermediate People's Court, Hao Chen, the ringleader, and Bai Yingna bought 330 grams of methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice", in southern Guangdong Province in...