Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

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 entered guilty pleas to cocaine- and marijuana-related charges. Donald Wayne Miles, 48, of Porter, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana and cocaine. The case was heard in U.S. District Court. Miles, who grew up in Fayetteville, was arrested in February as part of Operation Second Wind, a 15-month investigation launched by the Fayetteville Police Department’s Drug Interdiction team. It culminated with the arrest of Miles and nine others, including six Fayetteville residents. Police and federal authorities seized 26 kilograms of cocaine with a street ...

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 hotel last Saturday, but had not been seen since checking in. Police were called after a cleaner realised the room had been locked for two days and noticed a foul smell coming from it. “The cleaner immediately alerted the hotel management who in turn called police to break open the door at around 1am on Wednesday,” a source at Sharjah Police said. When officers entered the room the body was already partially decomposed. Staff at the Monaco hotel yesterday refused to comment. Dubai Customs recently foiled a daring attempt by a Pakistani passenger to smuggle 1,000 grammes of heroin into the ...

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 convicted. This has not happened so far," prosecutor Svetlozar Kostov said on national radio. Last week, Zheliazkov, 32, and the other 11 men reached an out-of-court agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to the charges. The 11 were jailed for one to five years. Zheliazkov was sentenced to 4-½ years. Commentators criticised prosecutors for not seeking the maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Zheliazkov had been arrested several times before but prosecutors could not build a successful case against him. The European Union, which Bulgaria joined in 2007, and the...

Radar system was credited with detecting a Venezuelan making a drop-off of drugs or guns on a beach in Guapo last week, but the contraband was missing and the crew abandoned the boat when Coast Guard vessels tried to make an interception. The three-member crew was not found and likely made it back to Venezuela on another fishing boat, police The radar installation on the San Fernando Hill that forms part of the State's $100 million 360-degree coastal surveillance system went dead again four days ago and has become a roost for corbeaux. All day yesterday, the birds, which feed on carrion, flew around or nestled on the facility. But the Ministry of National Security has refused to comment on what some believe to be a malfunction of the system that Government considers critical in the fight against drug and gun smugglers. Communications specialist with the Police Service, Wendy Campbell, referred queries to the ministry. When the radar went down recently, the ministry had promised to ...

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 been made. The infant remains in the custody of the adults

“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 the number of Filipinas who have been detained or investigated in China for alleged drug smuggling from February 2007 to January 2008, leading Philippine Ambassador to China Sonia Brady to call the situation “alarming” as she warned Filipinas against being lured by drug syndicates into acting as couriers. “The embassy earnestly hopes our kababayans [compatriots] would heed the Philippine government’s warnings and not allow themselves to be used as ‘drug couriers’ by unscrupulous ‘friends’ working for syndicates involved in drug trafficking into China,” her report said. All 22 arrested Filip...

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 of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, to be served consecutively after the first sentence. Pavlich also overruled the jury's conviction of Sunich on a charge of murder/manslaughter. The jury deliberated less than four hours in November before finding Sunich guilty of aiding Smith's death on Dec. 9, 2005. The jury also found Sunich not guilty of two drug delivery charges after the fact. “This is a culture of drugs, and he (Smith) was getting drugs from many sources, not just Mr. Sunich,” Pavlich said in explaining his decision. “He was either negligent in d...

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 discharge and must pay £60 compensation and £75 costs. The court was told Oxley, who had 58 previous convictions, had been given a conditional caution for the offence, but had not attended the drugs services appointment the police made for her. Bill Maude, prosecuting, told the court the victim and defendant had been to a pub and the victim had got £60 from a cash machine. Oxley was arrested after being found stealing and told police she had only wanted to take £20 but could not untangle the notes. She had wanted to buy heroin. The defendant claimed she had been off drugs for 18 months, bu...

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 lot. Police who responded found McCoy, 28, in possession of four packets of heroin and several small bags of marijuana, officials said. McCoy told police he had not been selling drugs, however. The charge of which the jury convicted him alleged McCoy had heroin with the intent to sell. McCoy had refused a plea deal that would send him to state prison for up to three years. In light of the conviction, he could now face up to 12 years in prison. Washington County Judge Kelly McKeighan, who presided over the trial, scheduled sentencing for Feb. 22. McCoy was sent to Washington County Jai...

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 and possession of less than a half-ounce of cocaine. Salvatore Latona, 26, of the 200 block of Alexandria Drive, Mansfield Township, is charged with hindering the apprehension of Mellow and DeMattio, according to court officials and records

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 considered to be a dangerous fugitive. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in December 2003 for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. He was an admitted member of a cocaine smuggling ring led by his uncle, Joey Villarreal, who's also in prison. Smith says the prison camp from which Adam Villarreal escaped has only small fences, allowing inmates to walk away.

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 the drugs have been mixed. The Porter County Coroner's Office is conducting toxicology tests. The Porter County Narcotics Task Force has submitted evidence for quantitative testings and to test for foreign substances that may have contributed to the deaths. Porter County Sheriff David Lain said the incident is reminiscent of a period a few years ago, when heroin laced with fentanyl -- a narcotic 80 times as powerful as heroin -- caused a spike in deaths. From April 2005 to August 2006, more than 200 deaths were linked to fentanyl-laced heroin overdoses in Cook ...

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 told the court during the one-day trial that he was hired for $20,000 to smuggle the drugs from Vietnam to Australia, it said, according to the Associated Press." Vietnam's proximity to Burma and Laos, the second and third largest opium producers after Afghanistan, and its porous borders and long coastline have made it a major heroin transit country. Under communist Vietnam's tough anti-drug laws, possessing, selling and trafficking more than 600 grams of heroin or 20 kilograms of opium carries life in prison or the death penalty.The Vietnamese-Australian man received a 20-y...

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 and attempted possession of a controlled substance and another possession of a controlled substance charge, all Class D felonies. Bartholomew Superior Court 1 Judge Chris Monroe ordered Biddinger to participate in the county's forensic diversion program while on probation. The program requires her to have regular contact with her probation officer and to participate in women support groups and drug recovery programs. Her previous probation was terminated as "unsuccessful" because she violated it but served the remainder of that sentence in jail awaiting conclusion of the new d...

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. Kayleigh Reeve remembers nothing after hearing screams and seeing a car coming towards her and then hitting her. She was later told she had lost her leg below the knee. Police arrived at the scene at the junction of Margaret Street and Regent Street to find a 'tangled heap of bodies'. Ramos initially gave no explantion for the incident, but had later told probation officers he had taken 'large amounts' of crystal meth throughout the night before the collision. He had driven into the West End to see his dealer after running out of the drug and claimed he was returning f...

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 plot to smuggle cocaine from South America into this country ingeniously hidden in camping gear. He denies his trip with Tritton to Venezuela had any drugs connection.In an operation, orchestrated by Pieter Tritton, the Crown alleges Franklin was a "footsoldier" or "mule" in the plot and was paid for his services. Tritton is currently serving 12 years in prison after he was arrested in a hotel room in Ecuador with 7.8kg of cocaine in a rucksack. In evidence yesterday, Franklin said Tritton had offered him the holiday two or three weeks before they left at a time ...

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 and being cautious," Proft said. "Wesley Scott has earned the benefit of the doubt, and we're giving him the benefit of the doubt." Scott was pulled over about 9 p.m. Sunday at 67th Street and Ashland Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood after running a stop sign in his personal vehicle, Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. Officers smelled a suspicious odor and searched the vehicle, turning up a burned marijuana cigarette and 4.6 grams of the drug—about one-sixth of an ounce—in a plastic bag on top of the console, she said. Scott refused a...

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, was beheaded for cocaine trafficking. Their executions bring to 18 the number announced by Saudi authorities since the start of the year, after a record 153 people were put to death in 2007. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the oil-rich Gulf Arab country, where executions are usually carried out in public.

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 six years in prison. The 32-year-old Karalahti was charged with smuggling four kilograms (nine pounds) of amphetamines into Finland. He also allegedly provided ¤20,000 (US$29,500) for smuggling operations, prosecutors said. He has denied all the charges. The drug ring is suspected of smuggling about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of amphetamines and hundreds of grams (ounces) of cocaine from Estonia to Finland last year. In December, Karalahti was taken off the ice during a practice session with his team Karpat for police questioning. Karalahti left the NHL in 2002 after being suspended for six months for his third violation of the league's substance abuse policy. He played 121 games from 20...

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, they executed a search and seizure warrant on two hotel rooms. Bryant jumped from the second-floor balcony but was quickly apprehended. Hamlin did not attempt to flee. Bryant was carrying a clear plastic bag containing 13.7 grams of crack and police said they found nearly 200 grams of powder cocaine, an additional 34.3 grams of crack, 3.2 grams of marijuana, $2,794 in U.S. currency and other drug-dealing paraphernalia. Bryant, who was living on Colman Street in New London at the time of his arrest, had been sentenced to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release in 2000 in a ...

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 B, and the officers recovered contraband. Enes was charged with possession of Schedule W drugs (cocaine). Hasch said that the investigation into this case is ongoing and other charges are pending.

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 Yildiz to 20 years, saying he was a trusted member of a nationwide heroin conspiracy. Yildiz challenged his sentence at the Criminal Appeal Court in London - but three judges ruled the sentence was not excessive and condemned the 52-year-old from Edmonton, north London, to serve the term.

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 without charge.

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 plain-clothes officers in Doncaster town centre saw him buy a wrap of heroin which he dropped as soon as the police approached. Defence counsel Guy Wyatt said Hamshaw, who has previous convictions for burglary, shoplifting and perverting the course of justice, now accepted he was involved in the supply of drugs but only as a 'runner' for someone else. He had become a father just two weeks before his arrest and seen the baby only twice while he was in custody awaiting trial. Mr Wyatt said: "That bears very heavily on this defendant's mind. Being a father does give him a gre...

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 alerted him to the hidden compartment and the cocaine, Hale said. The bundles, which were numbered one through 53, were wrapped in layers of cellophane, aluminum foil and black plastic. Earlier this month, sheriff's deputies seized 331 pounds of marijuana - with an estimated street value of $625,000 - found hidden in a load of tomatoes on a tractor trailer traveling eastbound in Interstate 20 near the Interstate 459 exchange. "This is a real crossroads for drug smuggling," Hale said. "The drug cartels are using the interstates, we know that. Deputies across the co...

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 Naples anti-mafia district headquarters, have reconstructed the route of drug trafficking from South America to Europe, with traffickers attentive to every single detail of drug imports. In the case of Guyana and Suriname, cocaine and heroin were taken to Italy by Nigerian runners who hid the drugs in false soles of their shoes or swallowed capsules filled with it. The operation is two years old and with the collaboration of many law men in different countries the investigators were able to identify cells in Guyana, Suriname, Holland, Romania, India, Pakistan, Uganda and the Ivory Coas...

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. A sheriff's investigator then contacted Van Buren police, who went to the complex to investigate. Upon arrival, they made contact with Johnston. While talking with Johnston outside Apartment 4, Grill said an investigator opened the apartment door and "smelled what he knew to be a really strong chemical odor associated with a meth lab." Another investigator then went over to a nearby garbage bin and found items commonly associated with producing meth, according to Grill. After getting consent to search the apartment, Grill said investigators found materials such as matches an...

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 reckless homicide and one count of being involved in a conspiracy to sell heroin. Under Wisconsin law, anyone who is involved in the distribution of an illegal street drug that leads to the death of a user is subject to prosecution and Starks would be one of the few larger dealers to be prosecuted under the law. Already convicted in the case were the people who bought the heroin used by Stellner, and the person who bought the heroin used by Ace. Those convictions subsequently led police to Mull and Dickinson, who were the dealers who sold the drugs. Cooperation by that pair led to the char...

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 the cardinal was caught in the middle of a gunfight between two drug trafficking gangs, there are many clues that indicate it was a planned assassination. For example, investigators questioned why the gunmen were allowed to board a flight in Guadalajara, cross the country, and drive away without a challenge. After an initial inquiry that raised more questions than it answered, Mexican authorities finally charged 13 drug traffickers with involvement in the assassination, and they were convicted in 2004. But in 2006 a Mexican court nullified the convictions and ordered a new invest...

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 to 38 to 76 months since it was his second offense. Dodge said it was a sad day for Blackamore and that he didn't enjoy it, either. He said delivering cocaine is a major controlled substance offense. The Michigan Supreme Court says that that a double penalty is more specific with major controlled substances. This means that the 19 to 38 months could be doubled, and Dodge said the prosecutor asked that it be done. He said that the resisting and obstructing conviction gives the court the discretion to increase his term up to 15 years. He said this was appropriate. A third conviction ...

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 heard that forensic scientists discovered methanol and other chemicals when they raided an address in Edinburgh, and discovered buckets of liquid with rubber material floating in it. Scientist Adele Lange told the jury that methanol was a solvent, which could be used to withdraw cocaine from the rubber. They heard today how police had found at Baptist's home, after a search warrant was executed on August 25, 2005, a receipt for 75 litres of the chemical from a Bristol based company. When asked how the chemical she picked up was contained, she said: "It was like some ...

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 and arrested a French national who tried to smuggle the drug in the dashboard of a car heading for the Port of Algésiras (southern Spain). Some other 19kg of hashish were seized aboard a car of an Algerian-born French citizen. In 2007, Customs services at the port of Tangier have made a record seizure of 34 metric tons of hashish in 309 operations and arrested 437 people. The value of the seized quantity on the European market is estimated at Euro 140Mn.

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 who gave him up while both were in the federal courthouse in Mobile. Now, Mareno will spend more than a dozen years in prison. U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose sentenced him on Friday to 12 years and seven months for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, three counts of possessing or attempting to possess prison contraband, conspiracy to provide contraband in prison and retaliating against a witness.According to prosecutors, Mareno's wife tried to smuggle methadone and marijuana to him and Stewart in April and May by mailing packages bearing the return addresses of lawyers' ...

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 on the island since last year.

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 Dan Proft said. “Any type of incident like this is beyond out of character. It really surprises me.” Scott, a 20-year veteran of the Cicero Police Department, was appointed police commander by Cicero Town President Larry Dominick in 2005. Scott was the first African-American police officer to be promoted to commander in Cicero history, Proft said.

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 Comm I Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid said the man, an international drug trafficking syndicate member, had no record of any previous arrests. "We are now looking for his accomplices. He has since been remanded pending questioning into the source of the heroin. "We also seized his car, a branded wristwatch, an assortment of jewellery and cash amounting to over RM70,000 obtained from the sales of drugs," he told a press conference on Monday. Also present at the conference were state Narcotics Department chief Supt R.S.S. Batumalai and his deputy DSP Ismail Idris. On Sunday, a local m...

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 shut down a dangerous drug trafficking organization operating in the Amarillo area," said U.S. Attorney Richard Roper of the Northern District of Texas. "This case demonstrates the commitment of federal, state and local law enforcement to work as a team to aggressively address the drug problem in the Panhandle." Large dealers? Federal investigators' sources, according to the affidavit, said the Phengsengskham brothers distributed large amounts of drugs, including 5 to 10 pounds of methamphetamine to one source for three consecutive months. Another drug d...

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 attorney Louis Denney, noting his client had no prior criminal convictions, asked for a three-year sentence. Jackson -- who said he would appeal his convictions -- is scheduled to again stand trial in Barnet's court, on Jan. 28 and Feb. 11, on meth-related charges

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. Also on Saturday, two men, aged 32 and 22, were arrested at Harelawn Park in Clondalkin and €60,000 worth of heroin was seized. The men were released yesterday without charge. The weekend's biggest haul came on Friday night, when about 10 kilos of heroin -- with an estimated street value of €2m -- was recovered in an operation in Tallaght by the garda drugs squad and the Irish Customs Service, assisted by the Tallaght gardai. Four men, three in their twenties and one in his thirties, were arrested in connection with the raids on five properties, which targeted both houses and commercial p...

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 and fifty state police are working in several Italia cities, backed by helicopters and dog units. The operation, name "Black Shoes", led by the Naples anti-mafia district headquarters, has reconstructed the route of drug trafficking from South America to Europe, with traffickers attentive to ever single detail of drug imports. Receivers for the drugs were organizations with links to the Camorra, who then distributed the "goods" across the Italian peninsula. From Suriname and Guyana cocaine and heroin were brought into Italy with Nigerian runners who hid the drugs in false s...

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. 11.

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 Lopes said that the arrests did not conclude the investigations. The police still had court orders to arrest another 20 suspects, and would analyse what they had seized to identify other gangs operating in the region. During the operation, about 70 officers from the state and federal police departments seized weapons, drugs, money and notes left by gang members.

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, the accused was a repeat offender. She said he had a number of conditional discharges, suspended sentences and even jail terms but it seemed he had not yet learnt his lesson. Magistrate Scerri Herrera said the court always tried to help drug addicts kick the habit but, in this case, Mr Mangion did not make much of an effort to reform himself. She, therefore, jailed him for two years and recommended that the prison authorities help him with his addiction. Police Inspector Mario Tonna prosecuted.

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 been accused of organizing an armed gang for drug dealing. Eleven of Zhelyakov's associates also made confessions. Their sentences in the agreement will vary depending on the evidence and their parts in the crimes. All of the agreements, however, include sentences shorter than the maximum that can be imposed by law. The prosecution will also take into account the time that the defendants have already spent in detention.

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 port on the Pacific. The vessel came from Colombia and the drugs haul was the biggest ever seized by authorities, Mexico said.

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 M. Clark, 32, of East Liberty who took him to meeting locations and helped deliver the drugs, the attorney general said. Both are charged with possession and delivery of heroin and conspiracy.

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 pain for those who aligned themselves with the underworld kingpin. police confiscated a $500,000 property in which a good friend of Mokbel had been living. It is believed some of what was seized by police had been set aside for a war chest to pay for Mokbel's coming legal proceedings, which could cost millions. Mokbel has been in a Greek jail since his arrest in Athens last June, more than a year after he skipped bail while awaiting sentencing on serious drug charges. Police have seized 61 houses and businesses from him, his family, associates and others since the Operation Kayak raids of 2001. In Kayak, police seized $2 billion in drugs and $25 million in assets, a...

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 said, "that she has been helping (White) in his drug operation the entire time." Also arrested were three Clermont County residents - Michael Shafer, Stephanie Davis and Sean Christner, also known as Sean Christopher. Shafer was ordered held on a $5,000 bond. Davis and Christner were released. Information on the case is limited because it was a Regional Narcotics Unit investigation.Kelvin White, 30, came from Chicago to marry Jetaun Wilson in a ceremony that was scheduled for today.

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 sentence to serve in the community under restrictions, followed by probation for 12 months. Mark J. Guindon, 28, was convicted of drug trafficking and was given a four-month conditional sentence to serve in the community under restrictions. Mark B. Harvey, 56, was convicted of vandalism. His sentencing was suspended; he was placed on probation for 12 months and ordered to pay $930.67 in restitution. Joseph MacDonald, 39, was convicted of drug trafficking and fined $500. Leslie N. Morris, 33, was convicted of violating probation. He was sentenced to 30 days of intermittent jail on w...

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 up.

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 pounds of meth in the Grand Island area. His sentence was increased by three years because he possessed a gun during the conspiracy. He was taken into federal custody on July 27, 2007, and was held without a bond. He entered a plea on Nov. 8, 2007. In an unrelated case, Dale Lynn Kokes, 49, was sentenced to 21 years, 10 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of meth. Kokes conspired with others to distribute at least a pound of meth in the Grand Island area between July 1, 2003, and March 14, 2007. His sentence was substant...

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 count of production of marijuana. Each conviction carried a sentence of either one or two years, but some of the jail terms are to be served concurrently. The consecutive jail terms for Patey tallied up to four years. He was also ordered to pay a $700 victim-fine surcharge, $100 for each conviction entered. Patey is also prohibited from possessing firearms for a 10-year period. Patey wasn’t the only person arrested during Operation Bitten to be sentenced Friday. William Bernard Long of Flat Bay was given a six-month conditional sentence for conspiracy to traffic and trafficking in cannabis ...

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 officers of duty, disarm them and search for evidence that may link them to drug traffickers. A day earlier, Mexican federal authorities announced the capture of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva in Culiacán. He is purportedly a major operator in the Sinaloa cartel. Border law enforcement officers, while watchful of the rising violence on the Mexican side, say that so far it hasn't shifted directly onto the U.S. side. "All the sheriffs along the border are extremely concerned about the escalation in violence in Mexico," said Don Reay, executive director of the Texas Border Sheriff...

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, Conneaut Lake, charged with two counts each of delivery of heroin and possession of heroin and one count of criminal conspiracy. Jacob T. Elliott, 20, of the 9100 block of Route 6, Conneaut Lake, charged with one count each of criminal conspiracy, delivery of heroin and possession of heroin. Also charged as part of the case were Pittsburgh residents Darryl E. Bishop, 40, and Tashannia M. Clark, 32. Both were arraigned Thursday on charges of delivery of heroin, possession of heroin and criminal conspiracy, investigators said. The arrests were the result of a 14-month grand jury investigati...

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 Johnson motel in Williamstown, outside a Linden Street house in Pittsfield, and at 28 Water St. in Greenfield. Police seized about $7,000 worth of heroin, a safe and a .22-caliber derringer in the Greenfield raid, $6,400 worth of heroin in the Pittsfield arrest and about $2,000 worth of crack cocaine in the North Berkshire raids, according to the Berkshire County Drug Task Force. The task force has issued an arrest warrant for the suspected ringleader of the group, Sean "P.R." McGirt, 37, whose last address was 58 Howland Ave., but who may have fled out of state after his wife, ...

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 Brewster Road in Windsor, had negotiated the purchase in previous telephone calls with the informant. But prosecutor Geoffrey M. Stone told Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven's U.S. District Court that when Terry and Jennings arrived at the hotel "they were almost equally involved in trying to consummate the transaction." The two men arrived at the hotel with more than $23,000. Like Jennings, Terry pleaded guilty in the case. Senior Judge Alan H. Nevas, who sits in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, sentenced Terry in November to 70 months, or almost six years, in federal priso...

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 of those counts in exchange for the Crown dropping the more serious charges of conspiracy to import cocaine. His sentence, handed out Friday by Quebec court Judge Sylvie Durand at the Montreal courthouse, takes into account time served before Goulet was released on bail. He had 14 years experience on the Montreal police force when drug squad investigators were tipped off about him by American authorities. His arrest created concerns about security at the airport and prompted Montreal police chief Yvan Delorme to insist Goulet had acted outside his hours of duty.

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 where they discussed a drug deal prior to the arrest. Their offence was classified under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 152 and the sentence was under Section 39B(2) of the same act, which carries the maximum death sentence. The defence raised the issue that the drugs were brought to the crime scene in a lorry by someone else. Both accused had denied any involvement in the drug deal. Nanda Kumar, in a black collared shirt, and Poobalan, in a grey shirt, were teary eyed when the verdict was read. High Court Judicial Commissioner Datuk Zawawi Salleh said the court found all elements in the charge conclusive, especially the meeting prior to the arrest. "The explanations ...

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 onto a motorcycle being driven by another man, similar to the murder of 34-year-old Jaime Enrique Caballero at a KFC restaurant in San Borja in September. Drug traffickers are without a doubt responding and taking more of an offensive role, using hitmen, as is done in countries like Colombia and Mexico, affirmed Rospigliosi. Iván Quispe, the prosecutor investigating the case against Fernando Zevallos and Jorge Chávez Montoya a.k.a. Polaco has stated that he is considering requesting protection from Peru's Ministry of the Interior. All the prosecutors involved in the case need to be protected, said Justice Minster, Rosario Fernández.Drug traffickers have become more aggressive and begu...

Cruz Medina Chabarria, 43, of Coolidge on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a dangerous drug for sale, transport/sale of a dangerous drug and money laundering led to a seizure of methamphetamine with a street value of $49,500. A traffic stop in the 700 block of North Trekell Road late Tuesday night resulted in the seizure of methamphetamine with a street value of about $49,500, according to Casa Grande police Commander Kent Horn. About midnight police stopped Cruz Medina Chabarria, 43, and an officer found drug paraphernalia in plain view. The officer then found a few grams of methamphetamine. The Casa Grande Narcotics Unit was called for assistance and 33 grams of methamphetamine, valued at $1,500 per gram on the street, was found in Chabarria's possession along with $5,900 cash. Horn said that as the investigation continued, detectives obtained a search warrant for Chabarria's Coolidge home, in the 400 block of West Gibson Avenue. Because firearms we...