Anor “Tip” Burnside Jr,Anthony Wolfe,David King,Donald Wayne Miles

Anor “Tip” Burnside Jr., 25, of Carrollburg Drive, was sentenced to nine years in prison. Burnside was a three-sport athlete at Westover High School. He graduated in 2000. Anthony Wolfe, 35, of Pamalee Drive received a sentence of 15 years in prison. Harold Mitchell Monsour, 47, of Morganton Road, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. David King of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to six months in prison.All...

Naseeruddin dead at a hotel in Sharjah yesterday morning

Police found a man they believe to be a Pakistani drugs mule dead at a hotel in Sharjah yesterday morning. The dead man, identified as Naseeruddin, was believed to have been in his thirties. It is thought he died due to poisoning from the drugs. Sharjah Police recovered 40 capsules of drugs from his stomach, although it was not clear yesterday exactly what the drugs were.He had arrived at the Monaco...

Dimitar Zheliazkov aka "The Eyes",

A court in the Black Sea city of Burgas convicted Dimitar Zheliazkov and 11 members of his gang after they pleaded guilty to charges of founding an organised armed group for drug trafficking, a court spokeswoman said. Bulgaria's most notorious crime bosses, nicknamed "The Eyes", has been jailed for for drug trafficking. "For the first time such a key figure from the Bulgarian criminal world has been...

Venezuelan making a drop-off of drugs or guns on a beach in Guapo last

Radar system was credited with detecting a Venezuelanmaking a drop-off of drugs or guns on a beach in Guapo lastweek, but the contraband was missing and the crew abandonedthe boat when Coast Guard vessels tried to make aninterception. The three-member crew was not found and likelymade it back to Venezuela on another fishing boat, policeThe radar installation on the San Fernando Hill that formspart...

Methamphetamine laboratory discovered

suspected methamphetamine laboratory discovered in Agana Heights Tuesday night. Methamphetamine, popularly called ice, is an illegal drug. Police were initially called to check a suspicious vehicle in the area. They detected items used to make the drug in a nearby house. Officials said three adults and one infant were found in the house. The adults were taken in for questioning but no arrests have...

China: Possible Death Sentence for Nine Filipino women .

“The arrest of nine Filipinos in Guangdong province and Beijing in a span of three weeks is nothing less than alarming,” she said in her report to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Nine Filipino women were arrested in Guangdong province and Beijing from December 24 last year to January 15 this year for alleged drug trafficking, the Philippine embassy in China said Wednesday.This brings to 22...

Glenn Sunich

Glenn Sunich, 53, was sentenced to not less than 54 months and not more than 20 years for his conviction for two counts of delivery of Fentanyl and two counts of delivery of morphine to Robert Smith, also of Onaway. Cheboygan County 53rd Circuit Court Judge Scott Pavlich also sentenced Sunich to not less than 72 months to not more than five years for the guilty verdicts handed down by a jury on charges...

Rebecca Oxley

Rebecca Oxley, 32, helped herself to the money after the retired victim, with whom she sometimes stayed, left his trousers at the foot of the bed.He dozed off but awoke to find the defendant taking something out of his pocket. Oxley, now said to be pregnant and on a methadone reducing programme, admitted theft last June. The defendant, of Cross Bank Street, Padiham, was given a 12 month conditional...

Dale I. McCoy

Dale I. McCoy was found guilty of a charge of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and the non-criminal violation of unlawful possession of marijuana, after a two-day trial.McCoy was arrested by Hudson Falls Police after authorities received a report from the Cumberland Farms on Main Street the night of July 21 that a man appeared to be selling drugs in the store parking...

Michael T. Mello, Robert L. DeMattio, Salvatore Latona

Michael T. Mello, 29, of Montague, N.J., and Robert L. DeMattio, 26, of the 200 block of Alexandria Drive, Mansfield Township, are each charged with conspiring with the other to distribute cocaine Thursday. Mello is also charged with criminal attempt to distribute less than a half-ounce of cocaine. DeMattio is also charged with distribution of cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine...

Adam Villarreal

Authorities are searching for a 29-year-old member of a San Antonio drug ring who escaped from a federal prison camp.A federal marshal says Adam Villarreal probably walked out of the minimum-security Three Rivers Federal Prison Camp between midnight and 3 a.m. Sunday. Deputy Marshal Tom Smith says he apparently had arranged for someone to pick him up.U.S. Marshal Carlos Trevizo says Villarreal is...

Troy Wright ,Daniel Leggitt dead

32-year-old Troy Wright of Chesterton and 31-year-old Daniel Leggitt, also of Porter County, dead at 11:30 p.m. Monday at a house on 29 Sunset St. "We did find what appeared to be listed substances and syringes" in the house, Porter County Coroner Victoria Deppe said. "My fear is we have two young males who were using the same stash of drugs and that makes me very worried there's something" with which...

Kant Nguyen: 20-year jail term

Kant Nguyen, 37, was sentenced by a Ho Chi Minh City court on Tuesday for trafficking 219 grams of the drug on an Australia-bound flight from the city last May, the police-run Cong An Nhan Dan daily said.The Vietnam Airlines flight returned for an emergency landing and doctors later found he had been poisoned after one of the heroin packages in his digestive system had burst open, reports said. Nguyen...

Timeeka Biddinger

Timeeka Biddinger, 22, already was on probation for a past possession of meth conviction when she was caught in June with the drug when police discovered a rolling meth lab.Biddinger admitted she violated her probation and pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped additional charges of manufacturing meth, a Class B felony...

Alberto Ramos

Alberto Ramos, 32,Ramos was jailed for 21 months for dangerous driving, and four years for each count of unlawful wounding. 'inexplicably' veered off the road and hit the women while doped up on a cocktail of crystal meth and prescription drugs. Mrs Reeve, 43, remained conscious as she was thrown up in the air and saw her right foot lying four feet away after it had been torn off above the ankle....

Mark Franklin ,Pieter Tritton

Mark Franklin told a jury yesterday that up until just before he travelled to Venezuela with Pieter Tritton, he thought it was in Europe.Franklin, who said he had nothing in his life at the time when Tritton offered to take him away to the South American country in late April 2005, said: "I thought it was near Italy and Spain."He is appearing at Gloucester Crown Court, accused of being part of a...

Wesley Scott

Wesley Scott, 47, who was profiled in a 1988 Time magazine article about racism in Chicago's near west suburbs, is scheduled to be off until Wednesday, by which time the results of the follicle test should be back, town spokesman Dan Proft said.Cicero Police Cmdr. Town officials are standing by Scott, even as the Police Department's internal affairs unit investigates the arrest, he said."We're surprised...

Ghulam Nawaz and Tawa Ibrahim a Nigerian woman were executed

A Nigerian woman and a Pakistani man were executed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca today for drug trafficking, the Saudi interior ministry said. Ghulam Nawaz was beheaded by the sword after being found guilty of drug smuggling in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. In a separate statement, the ministry said Tawa Ibrahim, the Nigerian,...

Jere Karalahti

Jere Karalahti was charged Tuesday with smuggling amphetamines into the country in a case involving 19 people, including a motorcycle gang.The Espoo District Court opened the case against Karalahti and other suspects in a local prison for security reasons. If found guilty, Karalahti could face up to...

Damian Bryant

Damian Bryant, 33, who had a prior drug-dealing conviction, faces 10 years to life in prison and a fine of up to $4 million when he is sentenced April 11 for possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base.Police said they made several controlled purchases of crack from Bryant and Danielle Hamilin at the Days Inn on Flanders Road between June and September 2007. On Sept. 14,...

Megan Enes,Garry Ramsey

Megan Enes, 28,Arrested for possession of Schedule W drugs (heroin). They also located Garry Ramsey, 40, of Hartford, Conn., on the Cross Point Road in Edgecomb and arrested him for domestic assault, operating under the influence, and violation of a protection order issued by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department. A follow-up investigation resulted in a search warrant for 1 Howard Street, Apartment...

Suleyman Yildiz

Suleyman Yildiz was jailed at Sheffield Crown Court last October after admitting conspiracy to supply heroin.He was caught when police stopped a car containing heroin with a street value of £1.75 million on the M1 at Catcliffe, near Sheffield, and linked him to it.He pleaded guilty to the charge at the first available opportunity and Judge Alan Goldsack QC, sitting at Sheffield Crown Court, sentenced...

Heroin hidden in a child's cot

Heroin with a street value of around £3,500 was found hidden in a child's cot at a property on Weston's Coronation estate.A woman who has now been charged with possession with intent to supply.The 37gm of heroin were found when members of the south ward policing team carried out a search warrant at the property in Columbia Crescent.Three members of the same family were arrested and two were then released...

Lee Paul Hamshaw

Lee Paul Hamshaw 26-year-old threw away 35 foil wraps containing £175 worth of heroin and when his home in Denison Road, Hexthorpe, was searched there were more traces of heroin and boxes of cash, said Alison Dorrell, prosecuting.Hamshaw was found guilty at an earlier trial of possessing heroin with intent to supply and admitted a separate offence of possession of heroin last July.On that occasion...

Jose Luis Magana

Jose Luis Magana of Edinburg, Texas, was taken into custody and is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $1 million bond on charges of trafficking in cocaine. Hale said Magana, 44, is originally from Mexico but is in the United States legally. The Sheriff's Highway Safety Unit, trained by the Department of Transportation, stopped the truck for a random safety inspection. The deputy's training...

Italian and Nigerian citizens involved in international drug trafficking

According to the report, the law men were in the process of arresting a large number of the members of a vast criminal organisation made up of Italian and Nigerian citizens involved in international drug trafficking. The Italians have some 250 state police on the case and they are backed by helicopters and dog units working under an operation called 'Black Shoes.' Members of the operation, led by...

Anthony Johnston

Anthony Johnston, 24, was arrested on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture methamphetamine. Johnston was released from the Crawford County Detention Center Thursday after posting $5,000 bond.Van Buren Police Lt. Brent Grill said an unknown person called the Crawford County Sheriff's Office to report a strange odor at Meadow Lane Apartments, 2020 Baldwin Street....

Adrian Starks

Adrian Starks, of Chicago and Madison, who is accused of being the source of the heroin which killed Sarah Stellner, 20, in May of 2005, and Michael Ace, 31, who died in April 2005. Both died after using heroin which was sold to friends of theirs by Lavinia Mull and Dennis Dickinson, heroin dealers in Madison who regularly used Starks as their source.Starks is charged with two counts of first degree...

Alfredo Araujo Avila

Alfredo Araujo Avila, a US citizen, was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 26. Mexican officials, who had been seeking him since 1998, described Araujo Avila as "one of the most dangerous hit men of the Arrelano Felix" drug empire. Cardinal Posadas, who was Archbishop of Guadalajara, was gunned down during a confusing series of events at the city’s airport in May of 1993. Although some have held...

Jack Blackamore

Jack Blackamore, 32, of Johnson Street, Dowagiac, was sent to prison for five to 40 years for possession with intent to deliver cocaine less than 50 grams.He got a concurrent two to 15 years for fourth offense resisting and obstructing police at the time of his arrest on Sept. 19 last year.Circuit Judge Michael Dodge was given the option to increase Blackamore's guideline range from 19 to 38 months...

Victoria Baptist,Mark Franklin

Victoria Baptist, who is on trial at Gloucester Crown Court with co-accused Mark Franklin, told police Tritton had asked her to pick up the chemicals for a friend of his - who needed it for motocross."I didn't know what the process was," she told officers, referring to her not understanding how the chemical was used in motor sport, when she was interviewed at Stroud police station.Earlier the trial...

French National arrested in Tangier

Cannabis resin, found, arrested a French national.The banned substance was concealed onboard a car registered in France.A few hours later, a Moroccan woman living in Spain was arrested in possession of 25 kg of hashish hidden in her car.Customs services also seized, on Sunday, some 23kg of this substance...

James Edward Mareno

James Edward Mareno had a chance to significantly cut his time in prison with an agreement to help investigators make cases against other dope dealers. The 25-year-old Bayou La Batre man did provide help and seemed poised to win his lighter punishment. While he was awaiting sentencing, though, he had his wife smuggle drugs into the Escambia County Detention Center, and then he assaulted a fellow inmate...

709 Eramin, 13 Yaba, and 3 Ecstasy pills, syabu and heroin worth RM85,000

At 1am yesterday, police detained two Vietnamese, a man and a woman, at a hotel along Jalan Penang and seized an assortment of drugs and ketamine weighing 2.1kg.The drugs seized were 709 Eramin, 13 Yaba, and 3 Ecstasy pills, syabu and heroin worth RM85,000. Police also seized their belongings and cash worth RM910.00.Salleh said the Vietnamese duo, who are in their 30s, had been distributing drugs...

Wesley Scott, police commander.

Wesley Scott, of Cicero, was charged with misdemeanor possession of cannabis and issued a traffic citation for running a stop sign, police News Affairs Officer David Banks said. Chicago Police stopped Scott, a member of the Cicero Police Department, at the 6700 block of South Ashland Avenue at about 9:10 p.m., Banks said. “This officer is a really, really good guy. He’s a straight arrow,” Cicero spokesman...

Both cases have been classified as trafficking under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the mandatory death sentence

The man, in his 30s, was waiting for his customer to collect the 1.46kg of No. 4 heroin when a narcotics team raided his room after a tip-off at 3pm on Thursday. The four slabs of high-grade heroin, which is 99.9% pure, could be processed into No. 3 heroin which is the type taken by drug addicts. Each kilogram could be processed into 10 times the original amount. State deputy police chief Senior Asst...

Sitthiphone Phengsengkham,Itthison Phengsengkha and Xtacy Nightclub

Sitthiphone Phengsengkham, 29, and Itthison Phengsengkham, 35, both of Amarillo, of running a "wide-scale trafficking operation responsible for distributing drugs throughout the Texas Panhandle." The brothers, along with their mother and father, were arrested Thursday in raids involving more than 100 area law enforcement officers at locations across Amarillo."Today's enforcement action effectively...

Earl Eugene Jackson

Earl Eugene Jackson, 46, guilty of three felony charges, attempting to manufacture methamphetamine, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of chemical reagents used to manufacture the meth Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney said the case was Delaware County's first involving operation of a meth lab. At this week's sentencing hearing, McKinney recommended a 12-year sentence, while defense...

€200,000 worth of heroin was seized in the Meath Market

Gardai in Blanchardstown, Finglas, Tallaght, Clondalkin and in the city centre arrested seven men, two women and a teenager in connection with the seizures of heroin, cocaine and cannabis. On Saturday evening, €200,000 worth of heroin was seized in the Meath Market and South Earl Street area of Dublin city centre. However, gardai from Kevin Street, who carried out the raids, did not arrest anyone....

"Scissionisti" clan

The Rome flying squad, working alongside those of Naples, Caserta, Perugia and Macerata, with activities coordinated by the central anti-crime headquarters of state police and the central anti-drugs headquarters, is in the process of arresting a large number of members of a vast criminal organization, made up of Italian and Nigerian citizens involved in international drug trafficking. Two hundred...

June Minnie Flett

June Minnie Flett, 31, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for parole violation. Sentenced to four years, one month for prostitution, robbery and drug possession in May 2004, she was given statutory release Dec. 4, 2007, after serving two-thirds of her time. Her release was revoked Jan. ...

Tequinho ,Edinaldo de Souza Brito Filho ,Motta Neto

Tequinho and his two brothers, Edinaldo de Souza Brito Filho and Jacques Jeronimo Motta Neto, who were charged with murders attributed to the gang.Police said Tequinho had connections with drug lords in the city of Rio and Sao Paulo.The drug dealers ruled the traffic in three slums in Angra dos Reis, a tourist region known as 'the Green Coast' and famous for its beaches and islands.Police chief Francisco...

Patrick Mangion

Patrick Mangion, 33, of Qormi, pleaded guilty to seriously injuring 71-year-old Vincenza Attard when he snatched her handbag containing an undisclosed amount of money and other items.Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera heard how Ms Attard was walking along Hospital Street, in Rabat when Mr Mangion grabbed her handbag.The magistrate noted that crimes targeting the elderly are very serious. In addition,...

Dimitar Zhelyakov

Dimitar Zhelyakov pled guilty to all charges and agreed to a 4.5-year sentence. He will also be subject to confiscation of property worth over $25,000 USD. Zhelyazkov, dubbed "Mityo Ochite" ("Dimitar The Eyes"), has been detained since 2 April 2007, together with 16 of his associates. All of them have...

Holme House Prison, Stockton:More Drugs in Prison than on the Street

The British prison service once more shows how out of control the problem of drugs in U.K. Prisons has become.Between November 2004 and 2007, there were 443 incidents in which drugs - both illegal substances and unlawfully held prescriptions - were discovered at Holme House Prison, Stockton.In 2005, there were 191 drug discoveries at Holme House, compared to 98 in 2006 and 142 between January 1 and...

Drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman

A cocaine shipment seized by Mexico last week could have been worth as much as $2.7 billion on U.S. streets and the Mexican government said on Monday it belonged to Mexico's most wanted man, drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.Police, navy and customs officers found the 23.5 tons of drugs hidden in a shipment of plastic floor-covering aboard a Hong Kong-flagged container ship at Mexico's Manzanillo...

Darryll Edward Bishop aka Fish,Tashannia M. Clark

Darryll Edward Bishop, 40, of Larimer "Fish" is accused of being the main supplier of the ring that distributed more than $300,000 worth of heroin to Venango, Crawford and Erie counties between 2005 and last year, state Attorney General Tom Corbett said Friday. Bishop often was assisted by Tashannia...

BrokeFellas: $55 million in assets,cash from Tony Mokbel and his crime family

Victoria Police Criminal asset seizure on one criminal group has netted 61 houses and businesses, vehicles worth more than $1.5 million and huge caches of cash. have seized $55 million in assets and cash from "The Octopus" or "Fat Tony", Antonios Sajih Mokbeland crime network.And police promise more...

Michael Shafer, Stephanie Davis and Sean Christner,Kelvin White.

Assistant Prosecutor Betsy Sundermann said police found 20 grams of heroin - with a street value of $200,000 - on White, who has felony drug convictions in Chicago. White is charged with drug trafficking, possession, preparing drugs for sale, driving under suspension and running a red light.Wilson is charged with permitting drug abuse and was ordered jailed on a $10,000 bond."It's our belief," Sundermann...

Adam M. Bembridge,Adam C. Steven Deinstadt,Douglas,Christopher Cormier

Steven Deinstadt, 32, was convicted of assault and violating bail. He was given credit for 64 days of pretrial custody, sentenced to a further 30 days in jail and placed on probation for 18 months.Erin E. Davis, 20, was convicted of theft, drug possession, drug trafficking, possession of a drug for the purpose of trafficking, vandalism and three counts of violating bail. He was given a six-month conditional...

Bolivians were arrested for smuggling coca paste

Bolivians were arrested for smuggling coca paste into Sao Paulo where they refined it into cocaine and shipped it directly to Rocinha (favela) in Rio. They found 80 kilos of cocaine in the lab they had set ...

Jose Lee Cross Jr,Dale Lynn Kokes.

Jose Lee Cross Jr., 25, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years, eight months in prison for his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of meth, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney Joe Stecher. The release also gave the following information: Cross conspired with others between May 1, 2003, and July 1, 2007, to distribute about 4...

Todd Archibald Patey

Todd Archibald Patey was sent to jail for a total of four years on charges related to the Operation Bitten drug bust back in July 2005.Patey, who had pleaded guilty to seven charges, was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Friday morning. The charges included conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana and cannabis resin, trafficking in cocaine and marijuana and one...

Jesús Navarro Montes

Mexican federal police announced the arrest of Jesús Navarro Montes, 22, in Sonora state in connection with the killing of Agent Aguilar. He was being held in Mexicali on Mexican charges of human smuggling. Acting on Mexican President Felipe Calderón's vow to hit the cartels hard, heavily armed federal agents on Tuesday encircled police stations in Juárez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros to relieve police...

Casey D. McClelland,Tashannia M. Clark, Darryl E. Bishop,Jacob T. Elliott,Corey J. Blood,Duane A. Zirkle Jr

Casey D. McClelland, 25, of the 11300 block of Hunters Ridge, Vernon Township, charged with one count each of delivery of heroin and possession of heroin.Corey J. Blood, 19, of the 200 block of South Second Street, Conneaut Lake, charged with three counts each of delivery of heroin and possession of heroin and one count of criminal conspiracy.Duane A. Zirkle Jr., 20, of the 12900 block of Ryan Road,...

Heroin and crack cocaine drugs ring

Authorities have smashed what they described as a major drug ring that had been supplying heroin and crack cocaine throughout the region, arresting five people with ties to Adams on Wednesday and Thursday and a Pittsfield man on Thursday night.After a three-month investigation, police made the arrests in separate raids at a second-floor apartment at 58 Howland Ave. in Adams, at room 197 of the Howard...

Duane Jennings

Duane Jennings: A federal judge sentenced Jennings to five years in prison, the lowest sentence allowed by law.Jennings, 31, who formerly lived on Old Kennedy Road, was by all accounts the secondary participant in the attempt to buy cocaine from a dealer who turned out to be a government informant. The sham deal took place at a Meriden hotel on the evening of June 22.Jarvis Terry, 36, formerly of...

Pierre Goulet

Pierre Goulet was arrested in June 2006 following a covert investigation that uncovered his role in a wide-reaching scam to import cocaine through the Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport.Goulet initially pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering, possession of the proceeds of crime, conspiracy and conspiracy to import drugs.But he agreed to change his plea to guilty on most...

K. Nanda Kumar , M. Poobalan to hang

K. Nanda Kumar and M. Poobalan, both 31, were found guilty of trafficking the drugs in front of a hotel in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, at about 8pm on Aug 24, 2002. Police arrested the accused after a raid in front of the hotel on the same night. The two also had a meeting with an undercover police officer...

José Angel Mori Soto a.k.a. Shevaco

At approximately 3pm Wednesday afternoon, as José Angel Mori Soto a.k.a. Shevaco was entering a prison complex in downtown Lima to testify in a case involving drug kingpin Fernando Zevallos, he was shot in the neck two times by an unidentified man.The assassin fled the scene after immediately jumping...