Drug Trafficking

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 14 hours ago
Four Michigan men have been arrested in a major Drug bust in Whitley County following a tip called in to police. ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 19 hours ago
A veteran Newark prison guard was charged with leading a half million dollar Drug ring that bought cocaine in Texas and Florida and distributed it in New Jersey, authorities said Thursday. ...

Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 19 hours ago
A Conway man is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center after being arrested and charged with Trafficking more than 10 lbs of marijuana, according to the center's website. Alexander Edwin Ewald, 23, was charged with Trafficking more than 10 lbs but less than 100 lbs of marijuana and distributing, selling, purchasing or possession with intent to distribute cocaine near a school. He was jailed Wednesday. Bond has not been set. ...

Source: www.ipsnews.net --- 8 hours ago
FREETOWN, Jul 25 (IPS) - Nineteen suspects, including eight men from Colombia and Venezuela, have appeared before a Freetown High Court on charges of smuggling illegal drugs into the country. ...

Source: independentmail.com --- 10 hours ago
An attorney's attempt to block his client's case going to a grand jury failed on Friday. ...

Source: www.scnow.com --- 1 day ago
A Lake City man faces Drug Trafficking charges after police acted on anonymous tip they received Tuesday morning, Lake Police Chief Billy Brown said. ...

Source: www.shelby-sheriff.org --- 2 hours ago
Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons and Shelby County Sheriff Mark H. Luttrell, Jr. announced Thursday that deputies in the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics and Street Crimes Bureaus arrested or attempted to arrest 11 individuals who were indicted earlier this week for felony Drug charges following a year-long undercover investigation at an east Memphis hotel, just off Interstate-40. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 day ago
An Orlando doctor facing Drug-Trafficking charges in Brevard County pleaded no contest Wednesday to lesser charges, and will not be going to prison. David Wang was charged in 2005 with illegally prescribing drugs at a Cocoa clinic. He faced more than 60 years in prison if convicted. ...

Source: www.smh.com.au --- 17 hours ago
Friend puts up $45,000 bail to free reporter Peter Lloyd accused of Drug Trafficking. ...

Source: www.movieweb.com --- 1 day ago
Mark Wahlberg is set to star in the Drug Trafficking pic. ...

Source: www.dominicantoday.com --- 1 day ago
SANTO DOMINGO. – Dominican Republic’s equivalent to drugs czar yesterday slammed Washington for its “persistent obstruction” that limits his country’s initiatives and efforts “to resist and defeat” Drug Trafficking’s aggression by sea and air. ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 6 hours ago
This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of Drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street. But then the soldiers themselves turned violent, townspeople say, ransacking homes and even torturing people. The frustration boiled over this week. More than 1,000 people marched through the streets carrying signs begging President Felipe Calderon for protection from his own troops. Ojinaga, across the Rio Grande from Presidio, Texas, is not alone. People in cities on the front lines of Mexico's battle against Trafficking say they are increasingly frustrated with military tactics - a shift in opinion that threatens to undermine Calderon's nationwide crackdown. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says it has documented more than 600 cases of abuse since Calderon sent 20,000 soldiers across the nation to take back territory controlled by Drug lords. ...

Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 19 hours ago
A Conway man was released from jail Wednesday on $35,000 bail after being arrested and charged with four Drug offenses, according to the J. Reuben Long Detention Center's website. Dwayne L. Wainwright, 29, was charged with possession of crack cocaine, Drug possession, Trafficking more than 10 grams of of crack cocaine and distribution of crack cocaine to a person under 18. He was jailed Wednesday afternoon and posted bail later that evening. ...

Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 10 hours ago
Police arrested four people Wednesday afternoon on S.C. 544 in Conway, after seizing nearly 15 pounds of high-grade marijuana. The 15th Circuit Court Drug Enforcement Unit was investigating alleged marijuana Trafficking in Conway, when one of their dogs made a positive identification of drugs on a vehicle. Thomas Covert, 23, of Conway; Catherine Marcellino, 24, of Conway; Alexander Ewald, 23 of Conway; and Sean Marshall were arrested in connection to the vehicle stop. The DEU said in a release that they found a semi-automatic handgun, almost 15 pounds of high-grade marijuana and an undetermined amount of cash. ...

Source: www.norwichbulletin.com --- 2 hours ago
Police say a new generation of heroin addicts trying to replace the high they get from prescription opiates, such as Oxycontin, is fueling the Drug trade in Norwich. On Thursday, law enforcement officials launched raids in Norwich and Sprague and arrested 22 people who they suspect are involved in Drug Trafficking. Norwich police said Friday they have made two additional arrests, bringing to 24 the number of people charged in connection with Operation Jersey Barrier, a crackdown on the narcotics trade in Norwich. The increase in Drug use is no surprise to professionals in the region’s rehabilitation programs. “It’s  a trend we’re seeing — a very troubling trend,” said Jack Malone, executive director of the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Dr. James O’Dea, director of psychiatric services at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, said it is not uncommon for some pharmaceutical agents to have “a shared relationship” with some illegal drugs. “Oxycontin and other drugs have many uses in pain relief, where they are very effective and very appropriate medications,” O’Dea said. “Where it gets complicated is that heroin is in the same family,” he said. “And people who use those medications long-term can become physically addicted to them.” “The problem is that there are a lot of people with legitimate pain who need to be on them,” said Dr. Jerome Schnitt, medical director of the Stonington Institute. Malone, Sc ...

Source: www.novinite.com --- 20 hours ago
The court in southern Bulgarian town of Haskovo has sentenced Serbian national Budimir Kujovic to 18 years in prison over organizing Drug Trafficking network and illegal crossing of the Bulgarian border. Bulgarian nationals Nikolay Piskov, Stoyko Doychev, and Mihail Yankov, who are accused of being... ...

Source: www.thecourier.com --- 10 hours ago
TIFFIN -- A vendor at the Seneca County Fair was arrested Thursday and charged with Trafficking in crack cocaine after undercover law enforcement personnel purchased the Drug from the food stand. ...

Source: www.princegeorgecitizen.com --- 55 minutes ago
Cedric Baxter Smith, 59, a full-patch member of the Vancouver Hells Angels, is missing and feared dead.A full-patch member of the Vancouver Hells Angels who unwittingly introduced a police informant to the organized crime group is missing and feared dead, The Vancouver Sun has learned.Smith was one of the early members of the powerful biker gang, which is gathering in Langley this weekend to mark the 25th anniversary of its first chapters in B.C.Smith was out on parole on a series of Drug-Trafficking convictions when he was last seen by his club brethren on the Victoria Day long weekend.He failed to report to his probation officer June 17 and the next day, RCMP visited his Langley home in an unsuccessful bid to find him.Police then heard from a senior Vancouver Hells Angels member on June 27 that Smith might have met with "foul play." RCMP located his abandoned vehicle in a Langley alley later that day.Insp. Gary Shinkaruk, who heads the RCMP's Outlaw Motorcycle Gang unit, confirmed that Smith has vanished without a trace."Cedric Smith... ...

Source: www.rawa.org --- 5 hours ago
July 25, 2008 - Telegraph.co.uk: Thomas Schweich, who served as the State Department's most senior anti-drugs in official in Afghanistan until last month, said that Mr Karzai's overriding concern was to hold power. This had led him to protect 20 government officials, all linked to Drug Trafficking. ...