Cosme, Jose Rangel,Hernan Garza arrested each was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to deliver more than 400 grams

Cosme, Jose Rangel, 25, and Hernan Garza, 27, were arrested about 7 p.m. Wednesday at a McDonald's in the 3700 block of the Gulf Freeway in Dickinson, police reported. Rangel and Garza are Rosharon residents, police said.Each was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to deliver more than 400 grams. Bond was set at $50,000 for each man.The three were not in the Galveston County Jail this morning....

nine kilos of cocaine worth $385,000 in tightly wrapped bricks.Three men, one 24 and the other two 22, face drug trafficking and possession charges.

Police said they conducted a traffic stop on Wednesday near Ellice Avenue and Century Street around 4:30 p.m., and after searching the vehicle, found two kilos of cocaine and $30,000. The seizure of the drugs and cash prompted the arrest of the two men in the vehicle -- police then said their investigation led them to search a home on Strathcona Street. Inside the home they found another nine kilos...

Kempsey Heroin dealing

A man and a woman have been arrested over allegedly suppling heroin in the Kempsey area.Local detectives raided a property at Burnt Bridge yesterday and arrested a 23-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man.They found heroin and cash.The pair are due to face Port Macquarie court this morning charged with possessing and dealing a prohibited dr...

Texas court bailiff accused of peddling cocaine and selling guns to the Gulf Cartel

A Texas court bailiff accused of peddling cocaine and selling guns to the Gulf Cartel, two TSA officials indicted for helping to smuggle drugs onto airplanes, and a California evidence tech with sticky fingers and a bad habit. Just another week on the corrupt cop front. Let's get to it:In Brownsville, Texas, a Cameron County court bailiff was arrested last Friday on charges he was dealing cocaine...

Sid Clark was quizzed about cultivating cannabis after 300 plants were found during the police raid

Sid Clark, 47, needed hospital treatment after crash-landing his Cessna plane into conifer trees in an elderly couple's back garden in thick fog on Saturday.He was quizzed about cultivating cannabis after 300 plants were found during the police raid on Tuesday evening.Mr Clark has now been released on bail for further investigation.He had taken friend Tim Des Vignes, who was released from prison for...

Daniel Gibson’s was stopped as he tried to get into Stockton’s Zanzibar nightclub

Daniel Gibson’s was stopped as he tried to get into Stockton’s Zanzibar nightclub on April 20 last year.After his arrest, 102 more tablets were discovered in his bedroom and another 36 in his car, Teesside Crown Court was told yesterday.Gibson said he would probably have supplied some to his girlfriend and to other friends, said prosecutor Deborah Sherwin.He told police he’d just bought 200 tablets...

Michael Layne Smith,Santiago Montiel Aguirre,Jesse Joseph Montoya,Raul Berumen Briseno indicted

Michael Layne Smith, 40, Kilgore, was sentenced to seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute at least 500 grams but less than 1.5 kilograms of meth. Smith was indicted along with Jesse Joseph Montoya, 26, Raul Berumen Briseno, 29, both of Longview, and Santiago Montiel Aguirre, 30. Smith bought multiple ounces of meth from defendants in Longview....

Guam International Airport $800,000 in cash and drug paraphernalia were reportedly found in luggage

Two people are in custody after some $800,000 in cash and drug paraphernalia were reportedly found in their luggage at the Guam International Airport. According to Transportation Security Administration spokesperson Nestor Licanto, the money was discovered by one of the TSA officers during a routine inspection at the terminal's check-in area at 5:30 a.m. Thursday. The luggage was to be on a flight...

Ronnie Rothenburg,Stephen Stockall found guilty and sentenced

Ronnie Rothenburg, of Wallace Street, and Stephen Stockall, of Marford Close, Kingsmead, both denied the smuggling bid but were found guilty and sentenced this morning at Southampton Crown Court.Customs officials found almost 14 kilogrammes of 100 per cent pure heroin were they pulled over a haulage lorry for examination at Newhaven docks, Sussex.When officers searched the vehicle, which had brought...

Twelve suspects were arrested in Jasper County and an additional two were arrested in Newton County.

According to Chief Deputy Terry Risner, “We are witnessing an increase in burglaries to residences, thefts and other criminal activity that is directly related to these narcotics. We as a community recently witnessed an increase in daylight residential burglaries in multi-county areas which may exceed over 100, in which prescription drugs were targeted as part of those residential burglaries.”In the...

Duncan William Nothstein

Duncan William Nothstein, 56, of Milwaukee, Oregon, was found with a small quantity of cocaine in his possession, a news release states.A K-9 unit was brought in, and a dog trained to sniff out drugs discovered places in the RV where 240 bricks of cocaine were hidden, according to the report.Nothstein was taken to the Tulare County Main Jail and is being held on $5 million bail.He was arrested on...

45 Spanish Drug Mules arrested at Peru’s "Jorge Chávez" international airport in Lima

Anti-drug police at Peru’s "Jorge Chávez" international airport in Lima have had their hands full over the last year, arresting nearly two "mules" a day, each carrying an average of five kg of pure cocaine.In 2005, 249 "mules" or drug couriers were arrested. In 2006 there were 454 arrests, and last...

Kendra Theoret,Kayla Ann C. Snyder,Cassey O'Byrne charged with first-degree criminal possession of marijuana

Kendra Theoret, 22, Kayla Ann C. Snyder, 20, and Cassey O'Byrne, 28, all of Cornwall, Ont., were charged with first-degree criminal possession of marijuana.The Three women from Cornwall, Ont., have been jailed in upstate New York after a sheriff's deputy seized garbage bags full of marijuana.Investigators allege that 57 kilograms of the drug was being transferred from one car to another in the town...

Alistair Campbell claims he has been falsely accused of involvement in an £8million cocaine smuggling operation is facing nine years in a French j

Forty-six year old Alistair Campbell from Killin had been fighting extradition at the Court of Criminal Appeal, after being found guilty in his absence in France six years ago. Perthshire lorry driver who claims he has been falsely accused of involvement in an £8million cocaine smuggling operation is...

Rogelio Almanza-Sierra,Brittany Carder,Michael Ellenberger,Florentino Quinonez,Anthony Love,Timothy Kasten,Damien Gambrell,Tanya Kasper arrested drug

Rogelio Almanza-Sierra, 2300 Woodrow Court, Apt. 4, Appleton; possess with intent-cocaine (less than one to five grams); probation, license suspended. Brittany Carder, 805 Powers St., Oshkosh; possession of THC; probation, local jail, license suspended. Michael Ellenberger, 419 Martin St., Neenah; possess drug paraphernalia; forfeiture/fine, license suspended. Damien Gambrell, a.k.a. Janarro Bradley,...

Operation Lumberjack.seven arrested for drug offences

Twenty officers with a passive drugs dog visited seven licensed premises in Stockton, Billingham and Thornaby on Saturday night as part of Operation Lumberjack.Six men and one woman were arrested during the evening.A 55-year-old man was cautioned for the possession of ecstasy in Billingham.A 21-year-old man, also in Billingham, was cautioned for the possession of cocaine.A 27-year-old woman was charged...

Fiona White tried to traffic 14kg of the drug through Gatwick airport

Fiona White, of Cronin Street, Peckham, tried to traffic 14kg of the drug through Gatwick airport on December 20.White has been jailed for nine years for trying to smuggle nearly £600,000 worth of cocaine mixed in chicken spices through airport customs.Customs officials say the class-A drugs have a street value of £572,000.The 33-year-old was arrested after flying home from Jamaica. Airport security...

Steven Law and his father, Lo Hsing Han the “Godfather of Heroin” who has been one of the world’s top traffickers of the drug since the early 1970s.

The U.S. Treasury Department said it was banning Americans from doing business with Asia World Co Ltd, a Myanmar company controlled by Steven Law and his father, Lo Hsing Han, who it said was a big figure in the international heroin trade.The Treasury described both men as “financial operatives” of the Myanmar regime.It was the fourth set of sanctions under an executive order issued last year in response...

Michael Urciuoli aka "Mike the Electrician,"first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance

The drug bust came just two and a half weeks after Michael Urciuoli, nicknamed "Mike the Electrician," was swept up in a massive federal organized crime indictment that targeted every alleged member of the Gambino crime family, and a few Bonanno crime family associates.Federal authorities refer to Urciuoli...

Karrie Glenn,Brian Harris alleged conspiracy that involved Glenn smuggling methamphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco and cigarettes into the jail

Karrie Glenn, 35, of Pascagoula, was out of jail on $60,000 bond for murder when she was arrested Sunday after showing up at the jail to visit Jackson County inmate Brian Harris.Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said investigators had gotten a tip about the alleged conspiracy that involved Glenn smuggling methamphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco and cigarettes into the jail through Harris.Glenn...

German man caught allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine from New Zealand to Brisbane

29-year-old German man caught allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine from New Zealand to Brisbane was arrested after customs officers found his clothing was stiff to the touch.Customs officers stopped the man when he arrived at Brisbane International Airport on a flight from New Zealand yesterday, The Age newspaper reported.During a search of his bags, officers became suspicious that drugs may have been...

Birmingham Airport arrest seized drugs valued at £160,000

Police have seized drugs valued at £160,000 at a house in Burton Green after arresting a man at Birmingham Airport.As part of a two-day operation targeting organised crime, officers from Warwickshire Police Serious and Organised Crime Unit intercepted the man as he prepared to leave the country on Wednesday.After the arrest police executed warrants at an address in Burton Green and seized more than...

cocaine smuggling ring that was operating through funeral homes

13 members of a drug organization that was using ambulances to deliver the goods.After a 2-year investigaion, the National Financial Police uncovered a cocaine smuggling ring that was operating through funeral homes as a cover for their activity.While the movement was primarily cocaine, they also were...

OR Tambo International Airport R54-million worth of cocaine

About R54-million worth of cocaine, smuggled into the country from Brazil, was confiscated at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport on Sunday, police said.National police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said police in Sao Paulo, Brazil, notified South African authorities on Saturday that a plane heading to OR Tambo was carrying cocaine."When the plane arrived at the airport,...

OR Tambo International Airport R54-million worth of cocaine

About R54-million worth of cocaine, smuggled into the country from Brazil, was confiscated at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport on Sunday, police said.National police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said police in Sao Paulo, Brazil, notified South African authorities on Saturday that a plane heading to OR Tambo was carrying cocaine."When the plane arrived at the airport,...

Joshua Womble placed under arrest and transported to the station charged with Armed Robbery. During the booking search, officers found 16 individua

Armed Robbery Suspect Caught with CrackAbout 1:36pm on Saturday, February 23, 2008, officers from District B-2 responded to 14 Elder St. in Roxbury for an armed robbery call.On arrival, officers met with the victim who stated to officers that he had been robbed at knifepoint at the corner of Dudley and Wendover Streets. The victim reported that he followed the suspect and observed the suspect go into...

Shea Pedersen search turned up suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, three firearms and explosives.

A Monticello business owner and a woman were arrested Thursday and three children were placed with county authorities after the Wright County Drug Task Force found suspected drugs and explosives during searches of a home and a gun shop/indoor shooting range.The searches, based on warrants obtained during a drug investigation, were conducted simultaneously at about 10 a.m., Wright County Sheriff Gary...

Maceo Jones Possession with Intent to Distribute (Marijuana).

Louisiana State Police, Troop A Criminal Patrols Units conducted a traffic stop that resulted in the seizure of 114 pounds of marijuana. The stop occurred on Interstate 12 west of Albany in Livingston Parish. The trooper initiated a traffic stop after seeing the driver of the Toyota Tundra commit a traffic violation. After pulling onto the right shoulder, the trooper and the driver had a conversation....

Jose Antonio Diaz,Adolfo Sanchez-Rios,Luis Manueal Castaneda Robles smuggling the drugs in hidden vehicle compartments

Jose Antonio Diaz, 30, Adolfo Sanchez-Rios, 37, and Luis Manueal Castaneda Robles, 31, all citizens of Mexico, pleaded guilty to the charges that stemmed from their actions smuggling the drugs in hidden vehicle compartments, then funneling the cash back out of the state the same way, the U.S. attorney said. During one shipment in April 2007, the men sent 10 kilograms of cocaine, according to the U.S....

Antonio Jimenez remanded in custody on Thursday by a judge investigating the loss of half a ton of cocaine from a container docked in Barcelona in 200

A private detective has been arrested on suspicion of helping a gang smuggle £25million worth of cocaine. Retired police officer Antonio Jimenez, 53, was remanded in custody on Thursday by a judge investigating the loss of half a ton of cocaine from a container docked in Barcelona in 2005. Jimenez was a business partner of Maria Fernandez Lado, 57, founder of Metodo 3, the agency charging £50,000...

Pablo Rayo-Montano aka El Tio who had been on the run for 10 years. The arrest of the capo was spectacular.

Colombian-born Pablo Rayo-Montano, known as El Tio (the uncle) who was captured in Brazil.While not all the agents used disguises to snare their prey, the sheer scope of the operation appeared to take those arrested by surprise. Agents claimed to have seized more than 50 tonnes of cocaine and millions of dollars in the coordinated raids, after three years of surveillance."It is extremely significant...

Jose Manuel Cazares Contreras,Victor Delgadillo Parra pleaded guilty in federal court to manslaughter charges

Jose Manuel Cazares Contreras, 30, and Victor Delgadillo Parra, 21, both pleaded guilty in federal court to manslaughter charges tied to their selling heroin to a Grove City man who died from an overdose of the drug.Each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of cocaine and one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin resulting in serious...

Mark Eugene Henderson received 15 years to life

Mark Eugene Henderson, 49, received 15 years to life for the Oct. 1, 2006 death of Rebecca Seibenmorgen, a University of California at Santa Cruz student. Judge Joseph Scott doubled the term as a second strike and added another five years for having multiple felonies. Henderson denied being under the influence of methamphetamine at the time of the crash, instead claiming he was fighting to stay awake....

Crack cocaine offenders immediately eligible to petition courts to be released from federal prisons

Most of the more than 1,500 crack cocaine offenders who are immediately eligible to petition courts to be released from federal prisons under new guidelines issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission are small-time dealers or addicts who are not career criminals and whose charges did not involve violence or firearms, according to a new analysis by the commission staff.About 6 percent of the inmates...

Kevin Summers attacked Patrick Forest after an argument over a £1,500 drug debt

Violent thug stabbed a drug dealer five times with a kitchen knife just 11 days after being released from prison.Kevin Summers attacked Patrick Forest after an argument over a £1,500 drug debt, at a house in Green Lane, Derby Crown Court heard.However, the 39-year-old was sentenced to serve just 16 months in prison yesterday after a judge ruled he had not intended to carry out the attack.Prosecutor...

Jennifer Jodel Frazier charged with single felony counts of second- and third-degree drug crime for allegedly possessing about 3.5 grams of cocaine

Jennifer Jodel Frazier, 36, is charged in Mower District Court with single felony counts of second- and third-degree drug crime for allegedly possessing about 3.5 grams of cocaine. She faces lesser charges of fourth-degree driving while impaired, speeding and possessing drug paraphernalia. Frazier has been summoned to appear in court March 17. According to the criminal complaint, a police officer...

Latest drug mules at Sydney International Airport

Two people have been charged with trying to smuggle drugs into Sydney International Airport in separate incidents last weekend.A 39-year-old Australian woman will appear in Parramatta Local Court later Saturday after allegedly trying to smuggle in more than 300 grams of heroin.She was stopped by authorities after arriving on a flight from Vietnam last Sunday.Authorities suspected the woman was concealing...

James Dykeman will be released on bail to await trial on a number of drug and weapons charges

James Dykeman will be released on bail to await trial on a number of drug and weapons charges. Federal drug prosecutor Richard Huneault told a Sudbury bail court Thursday how police received a confidential tip that Dykeman, 24, was delivering large quantities of cocaine in the Sudbury area. After setting up surveillance, police spotted Dykeman driving his Jeep to a dead end area on Dublin Street....

Stephen Richardson,Andrew Sinharoy were convicted of robbery and attempted robbery.

Stephen Richardson, 23, and Andrew Sinharoy, 28, from Middlesbrough, were convicted of robbery and attempted robbery.They turned on long-distance lorry driver Stewart Brockie, 45, after he arranged a drug deal he had no intention of seeing through, Teesside Crown Court heard.He hoped to see prostitute Hazel Grantham, whom he heard was being used for drug deals, to “rekindle a relationship” with her,...

Nicole Paquette arrest for trafficking cocaine

Lawrence Superior Court Judge Leila Kern said it was a tough sentence to impose on Nicole Paquette, 31. Until her 2006 arrest for trafficking cocaine, Paquette only had a car accident on her record.Haverhill mother of four will spend the next 15 years in prison, convicted of trafficking more than $1 million worth of cocaine found in a rented minivan."It's not an understatement to say I spent a sleepless...

Major role players in the West Rand bouncer and drugs industry

Piet Byleveld's team has made yet another breakthrough in bringing down Johannesburg's bouncer industry. Officers arrested two brothers they claim are major role players in the West Rand bouncer and drugs industry yesterday.Byleveld’s team yesterday arrested brothers Jacques and Deon Willemse on charges of armed robbery near Sophiatown. It's understood the duo had stolen a car from a 27-year-old woman...

Vacation Travel, on Corn Market, was targeted in a morning raid by the Serious Organised Crime Unit

Travel agent's was raided by police as part of a money laundering investigation in the north of England.Vacation Travel, on Corn Market, was targeted in a morning raid by the Serious Organised Crime Unit, who spent three hours poring over financial records and transactions of the company.Staff were left shocked by the surprise raid and one customer contacted the Courier fearing her pre-booked holiday...

Detroit man discovered with $300 worth of heroin and $175 worth of crack cocaine

The St. Clair County Drug Task Force arrested a 37-year-old Detroit man discovered at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of Botsford Street in Port Huron with $300 worth of heroin and $175 worth of crack cocaine. The Detroit man likely will be arraigned this afternoon on charges of possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to deliver. He also is being charged as a fourth-time habitual offender....

170 people charged Supplying the U.S. with about 15 per cent of the drug ecstasy

Police in Canada and the United States say they have smashed a drug ring that had been supplying the U.S. with about 15 per cent of the drug ecstasy. In Canada, 29 people were arrested in Ottawa, including two in Montreal, and one in Toronto. A further eight arrests were made in Toronto and three additional arrest warrants have been issued. Those arrested here were among 170 people charged in both...

Jose Luis Cedillo arrested on federal drug charges

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 50 pounds of cocaine Tuesday at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge. Agency officials estimate the street value of the drugs at nearly $1.5 million. Officers arrested Jose Luis Cedillo, 45, of Houston, on federal drug charges in connection with the seizure. Cedillo was trying to cross into the United States in a Jeep Wrangler when a drug-detection...

Brandon M. Wade was arrested and two female passengers were detained

Brandon M. Wade, 24, was arrested and two female passengers were detained.Items found in the car under the passenger side seat were associated with possession, distribution and production of meth, according to police. Corners of a plastic bag contained white powdery substance estimated at one gram that field-tested positive for methamphetamine, according to the news release.The male passenger who...

Carlos Alberto Arrellano Lopez,Jose Luis Arredondo Quintero were arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs for sale and drug trafficking

A two-month investigation by narcotics detectives concluded Thursday morning with the seizure of around $300,000 worth of heroin, the Stockton Police Department announced.Police served a search warrant around 7 a.m. at a home in the 1200 block of Pilgrim Street. They reported finding 251 grams of heroin, two handguns and information that led them to search a self-storage facility in south Stockton.Searching...

Jesus Castillo Larios,Jessie Jesus Garcia arrested for drug offenses

Jesus Castillo Larios, 34, was arrested Feb. 13, Escondido police Lt. Craig Carter said. He was found carrying 36.4 grams of meth, which has an estimated street value of $5,800, as well as $6,711 in cash and a scale, the lieutenant said.Police subsequently used a search warrant to search Larios' Escondido home and found unspecified additional evidence, as well as two weapons, Carter said.Larios was...

Jefry Poguidison the police shot him three times in the chest and back.

Police shot a Guinea national on Tuesday for allegedly resisting arrest in a drug case, an officer said Wednesday.Narcotics unit director Sr. Comr. Arman Depari said that Jefry Poguidison, 30, was brought to his rented house in Bekasi Barat on Tuesday in a police search. "We removed his handcuffs as requested ... but he tried to take the evidence and struggled to run away," he was quoted as saying...

Jesus Rey David Alfaro, known as "The Little Rooster," tortured, murdered and pinned with threatening messages

Jesus Rey David Alfaro, known as "The Little Rooster," was one of six that turned up tortured, murdered and pinned with threatening messages for Mexico's army last week in the border town of Tijuana near San Diego.Drug gunmen have killed a popular Mexican singer along with his manager and assistant near the U.S. border, authorities said on Wednesday, the latest murder among musicians who sing "narcocorrido"...

Panama police arrested a Bulgarian national carrying a large quantity of cocaine

Panama police arrested a Bulgarian national carrying a large quantity of cocaine on February 20, Focus news agency reported. The 29-year-old, whose last name was withheld, was carrying the drug in a secret compartment in his suitcase, and was arrested at Panama City's Tocumen international airport. He was traveling to Valencia, in Spain, which is believed to have been his final destination, Focus...

Pedro Jose Benavides-Natera, goes on trial in Miami next month

Pedro Jose Benavides-Natera, goes on trial in Miami next month and more arrests may be forthcoming, thanks to a confidential informant who shed light on the drug-money-for-aircraft laundering scheme, the documents show.The documents were filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in October. In them, FBI agent Michael Hoenigman says the informant was "personally involved with...

Joseph Pulliam has prior felony convictions for unlawful use of a weapon

Joseph Pulliam, According to the release, officers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Missouri State Highway Patrol found drugs, a 12-gauge shotgun and .22-caliber rifle when they raided Pulliam?s home on Nov. 22, 2006.Federal law makes it illegal for anyone previously convicted of a felony to possess any firearm or ammunition.Pulliam has prior felony convictions...

Garry Chupurdy 18 years jail. Chupurdy's girlfriend Qing Hong Xiang six years and Aaron Brown got four years

U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield sentenced the ring leader, Garry Chupurdy to 18 years behind bars. Chupurdy's girlfriend Qing Hong Xiang is going away for six years and their accomplice Aaron Brown got four years. The three were using Chupurdy's boats to transport a large amount of marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. They would throw the drugs overboard off the Georgia coast, then...

Alan Simms, Mark Duncan, Mark Hargreaves and Graham Haylock jailed for a combined total of 16 years.

Alan Simms, Mark Duncan, Mark Hargreaves and Graham Haylock jailed for a combined total of 16 years.Teesside Crown Court heard that the heroin dealing operation was run from the Bay View Hotel on Newcomen Terrace, Redcar.In January last year, shortly after being released from prison, Duncan got involved...

Andrew Sinharoy,Stephen Richardson deny robbery and attempted robbery

Mr Richardson, 23, of Edward Street, Stockton, and Mr Sinharoy, 28, of Wicklow Street, Middlesbrough, deny robbery and attempted robbery. The trial continues.Stewart Brockie is said to have arranged to meet a dealer in the hope his former girlfriend would turn up after he heard she was selling heroin on the streets.A jury at Teesside Crown Court was told how the North Yorkshire man had lost touch...

Search of the vehicle revealed 194 pounds of Marijuana

A DPS Officer stopped a rental car westbound on I-10, near Picacho Peak north of Tucson, February 14, for an equipment violation. In searching the vehicle, officers found a burlap bundle of marijuana on the rear floorboard, according to the report. Three more bundles of Marijuana were also found in...

Schoeman Gerhardus at Islamabad International Airport recovered five kilograms of heroin hidden in secret cavities of his baggage.t

The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has arrested a national of South Africa after recovery of a huge quantity of heroin from his possession, a spokesman of the ANF said here on Tuesday.Brigadier Muhammad Asif Alvi, force commander at the ANF Regional Directorate, Rawalpindi, received a tip-off that an international drug mafia group would attempt to smuggle heroin from Islamabad to Johannesburg, the spokesman...

Serving Metropolitan Police officer was arrested in May last year on suspicion of corruption and being involved in the supply of illegal substances.

Six men have been charged with drugs offences as part of an anti-corruption investigation.A 44-year-old serving Metropolitan Police officer was arrested in May last year on suspicion of corruption and being involved in the supply of illegal substances. He was released on police bail until next month.Detectives from the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards later arrested six other men in connection...

John James Boyd appeal dismissed

John James Boyd, 32, was jailed after pleading guilty to helping import $80,000 worth of ecstasy from British Columbia in Canada, in 2005.The 2024 ecstasy tablets were mailed to an address at Mermaid Beach, on the Gold Coast, but the parcel was intercepted by authorities who found cheap toys and the ecstasy tablets, wrapped in a smaller package using birthday gift paper.Federal Police used plain tablets...

Operation Medicine Boyz arrests Raheem Williams,Hassan Bellamy, Tuqran Clemons,Jihad Waiters,Shantaya McTerrell

The Essex/Federal Gang Suppression Partnership made the new arrests in recent days in East Orange and Newark, but it still has not tracked down the ring's alleged leader, Maurice Gaskins, 26, of East Orange, authorities said. Picked up in a series of raids last week were Tuqran Clemons, 34, of East Orange, Shantaya McTerrell, 24, of Newark, Jihad Waiters, 28, of East Orange, Hassan Bellamy, 25, of...

Leslie Adgar,Jon Patton, Andre Mays,TSA employees conspired to distribute narcotics through Hartsfield-Jackson Airport

Leslie Adgar, 42, of Decatur, Ga., Andre Mays, 24, of Atlanta, and Jon Patton, 44, of Lawrenceville, Ga., were indicted by a federal grand jury after a sting operation set up by the federal government. The indictment charges Patton and Adgar with conspiring to distribute narcotics and attempting to distribute cocaine and heroin on three dates drugs were smuggled through Hartsfield-Jackson to New York....