Posts Tagged ‘Drugs’

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Cocaine Laced With Veterinary Drug Levamisole Eats Away at Flesh

Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug levamisole could be the culprit in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

James Rosemond Arrested, Charged With Cocaine Distribution

After nearly a month since being issued a federal arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in an illegal cocaine distribution ring, Czar Entertainment CEO and longtime manager of The Game, James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond was apprehended by federal agents in New York today (June 21).

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Mexico’s ‘Narcoblog’: An Uncensored Look Into The Drug Cartels

Mexico’s “Narcoblog” is an Internet site full to the brim with horrific imagery about that nation’s ongoing drug war. Criminals and innocent bystanders alike are shown beaten, tortured and murdered in explicit photographic detail. JUMP to link through to the Narcoblog.

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Crime Kingpin or Business Owner?

CALGARY — His business card dubs Dung Kien Luong “manager” of Leung Ky Meat and Seafood, but authorities allege he is much more than an employee of the Forest Lawn butcher shop.

Friday, April 1st, 2011

$2-Million Drug Bust in Windsor-Essex


WINDSOR, Ont. — Six local men have been arrested and police have arrest warrants for five others after a seizure of ecstasy, cocaine and pot valued at $2 million.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

The Cocaine Wars: Invasion of the Drug Submarines

from TIME
In recent years, the boat of choice for Colombian cocaine smugglers has been the semisubmersible, a vessel that cruises just below the ocean’s surface with only its air and exhaust pipes sticking out of the water. Since the semisubs have proved so successful at dodging interdiction, it seemed inevitable that traffickers — who in the past have commandeered entire passenger jets to move their product — would upgrade to even more elusive full-fledged submarines. But narco U-boats were a murky legend of the depths, the drug-cartel version of the Loch Ness monster.

Friday, March 25th, 2011

The Gangster Next Door

The Gangster Next Door is the harrowing story behind the headlines of the country’s bloodiest gang war – shockingly led by young men raised in the most middle-class of families. And yet they’ve stooped to new lows to win increasingly brazen gang battles, targeting previously off-limits gangster girlfriends and wives and shattering the lives of true innocents, like the four-year-old left alive in the backseat of a Cadillac, his mother shot dead at the wheel. At stake: billions in illicit drug money. (Full episode after the JUMP)

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

B.C. Drug Smuggler Denies Ties to Hells Angels


An international drug-smuggling operation centred in the Fraser Valley had nothing to do with the Hells Angels or any other B.C. gang, one of the convicted smugglers says.

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Snoop From ‘The Wire’ Arrested in Drug Ring

Baltimore native and actress formerly of HBO’s hit show “The Wire” Felicia “Snoop” Pearson was arrested this morning in a raid bust by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The arrest are a part of a five month investigation.

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Jay-Z The Crack Dealer: The Early Days


He didn’t want to shoot him — just scare him.