A former Colombian drug lord who has been freed after serving an 18-year sentence in the U.S. prison system has accused Diosdado Cabello, a senior official in Venezuela’s socialist government, of leading a drug cartel that has sold cocaine to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would, if passed, allow for drug testing of food stamp recipients going forward.
TEL AVIV – A 28-year-old man died on Tuesday following the discovery of dozens of bags of cocaine in his stomach. The man, who lives in a town in Israel’s central region, arrived at the Sheba Medical Center after Israel’s emergency services
Thirty-seven people and one juvenile were arrested for possessing illegal drugs, firearms, cash, stolen property, and 50 cockfighting roosters in west Texas. Of those arrested, some are suspected of being illegal aliens.
Turkey has seized 13 tons of illicit drugs on board a Bolivia-registered cargo ship navigating in international waters off the coast of Libya, according to Turkish media outlets.
On November 4, Mexico’s Supreme Court made a landmark—and highly controversial—decision, declaring that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The ruling applies only to a single cannabis club that filed the suit, but may have initiated a domino effect that will pave the way for eventual marijuana legalization.
Heroin, cocaine and cannabis possession will be decriminalised in the Republic of Ireland as part of a “radical cultural shift”, the country’s drugs minister has said. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the chief of Ireland’s National Drugs Strategy, chose a lecture at the London School
Police have charged a Portland woman for slipping illegal drugs into tampons and attempting to pass them to her daughter in jail.
In two separate incidents late this week Border Patrol agents discovered illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine hidden inside a vehicle tire and methamphetamine inside a vehicle gas tank.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
The Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s department recently announced the arrest of a woman for smoking meth in her car, which was parked near the city’s Social Security offices. Shockingly, as she took the drug the woman’s baby was resting in her lap, police said.
Two men were arrested for building a meth lab in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Taco Bell where one of the men worked, police said on Wednesday.
Agents with the Douglas-Coffee Drug Unit reported that, during her arrest, police observed a woman trying to escape a drug charge by eating the crack cocaine she had in her possession.
Amnesty International’s latest report on Iran states the regime executed 694 people between January 1 and July 15. This means the country averages at least three executions a day.
Cannabis users in Durham, northern England, will be free to grow it for their own consumption after the local police force said they will no longer actively target people who take the drug. The Times reports that Ron Hogg, police
Mexican drug dealers really do believe in going out with a bang, a bang for their buck that is.
Donald Trump has weighed in on the audacious prison escape of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, claiming it as proof of the country’s ‘corruption’.
On Wednesday, federal and local law enforcement officials crushed a huge heroin operation in Chicago, arresting or naming 42 defendants in the roundup. The apparent ringleader of the operation, James Triplett, 33, also known as “Trell,” had the entire city block of 3700 W. Grenshaw under the sway of his dealings, supplying heroin wholesale. He even had “shift workers” working 24/7.
Today started out like any other Saturday morning, which for me involves checking emails and Facebook. Shortly after starting to scroll through my feed, I saw my friend had shared a heartbreaking story: the strange sentencing dilemma of a heroin dealer who was complicit in the death of her son’s namesake—a teenage boy in upper middle class Middle America.
With less than two years left in his presidency, Obama says it is “heart-breaking” that his administration has not been able to pass more gun control.
Police in Calhoun County, Michigan, are reporting that as snow melts in local wooded areas, methamphetamine dump sites are “popping up like spring flowers.”
On Friday, the state of Michigan has taken the step to implement a mandatory drug test for recipients of state aid who authorities suspect are taking illegal drugs.
