Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

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. It was unclear whether they are in federal custody in Houston or have posted bonds. The alleged possession charge is a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years or life in prison and a fine up to $10,000, police reported.

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 of cocaine worth $385,000 in tightly wrapped bricks, along with a small amount of crack, $55,000 in cash and nearly 1.5 kilos of Benzocaine."It's an incredible seizure," said Const. Nick Paulet.Three men, one 24 and the other two 22, face drug trafficking and possession charges.None of the men has a criminal record, and it's not known where the drugs came from, police said. Sgt. Darrin Kruger of the Winnipeg police street crime unit said the Strathcona Street home was not a cocaine production facility, and called the seizure "a little dent" in a much larger proble...

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 drug.

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 and selling high-powered weapons to Mexico's Gulf Cartel. Oscar Pena, 26, was one of two men arrested after a five-month joint investigation by local authorities, the FBI, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) known as Operation Dirty Pig. His charges range from weapons charges to operating a continuing criminal enterprise to possession of cocaine. In raids associated with the arrests, police seized 14 assault rifles, five semi-automatic handguns, a sawed-off shotgun, large amounts of ammunition, a bullet-proof vest, $3,000 in cash, and more than a kilo of cocaine. In Atlanta, ...

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 a day nearing the end of a sentence for cocaine smuggling, for a flight when it narrowly missed the couple's home in Lyminge in thick fog.Mr Clark's arrest came after he confessed to Yourmaidstone on Tuesday morning that he was a former heroin addict who had enjoyed the high life in a variety of Asian countries - including Thailand and China.He openly spoke of his past at his luxury four-bedroom home in Barming.But the pilot denied that he had been taking Des Vignes, 53, on a drugs pick-up.He said: “We had a full tank of petrol - but we weren’t going to Europe.“We would have had...

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 for £90 to last a few weeks, and he would use 20 to 25 a night.Gibson, of Leam Lane, Stockton, admitted possessing a Class A drug with intent to supply.Nigel Soppitt, defending, said Gibson was “delusional” at the time, saw no harm in his lifestyle and stood inline at the club knowing people were being searched.He added Gibson was ostracised and bullied horrendously over a disability which took 20 operations to remedy. So he sought solace and escape in drug experimentation, took Ecstasy from the age of 15 and became “heavily dependent”.Mr Soppitt said Gibson knew his habits ruined his life a...

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. Briseno has pleaded guilty, admitting that on June 1, he received a telephone call from Smith and discussed meeting him to sell him one pound of meth. Briseno and Aguirre met Smith in Gregg County to distribute the drugs, but were arrested. Law enforcement searched Briseno's vehicle and found two cereal boxes, each containing 1 pound of meth. In U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis's court, U.S. Public Defender Ken Hawk said Smith had a "stunning" history of drug use and needed drug treatment in prison. Smith apologized to the judge, to his family and to society. "I...

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 bound for Manila.Licanto said law enforcement authorities were notified soon after the cash was found. Drug paraphernalia were also reportedly found in the luggage. An investigation has been launched by the Department of Customs and Quarantine. No arrests have been made yet.

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 driving equipment from Spain, they discovered the class A drugs stashed behind speakers in the cab.The driver 27-year-old Rothenburg was immediately arrested, and the lorry owner Stockall, 47 was subsequently detained.Judge Derwin Hope said the foiled plot represented a major importation and they had been a vital cog' in a professional organsation.This was a most serious offence which merits a most serious punishment.

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 early morning hours on Feb. 26, approximately 37 officers area law enforcement agencies conducted the service of numerous drug warrants throughout Jasper and Newton Counties.Those agencies included Jasper County Sheriff’s Department, Newton County Sheriff’s Department, Indiana State Police, Rensselaer Police Department, DeMotte Police Department, Remington Police Department and Francesville Town Marshal. The arrest warrants were a cumulative action from Bi-State Drug Task Force Investigation in cooperation with the aforementioned agencies from August 2007 through the present.This drug inves...

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 suspicion of possessing drugs and transporting narcotics

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 year the number rose to 721, carrying a total of nearly four tons of cocaine, the police National Anti-Drug Directorate told IPS. The usual method is to swallow some 10 packets or capsules, each containing 100 grams of cocaine. But often larger quantities are carried, with the drug hidden under false bottoms in luggage, camouflaged in different kinds of containers, or attached to the body with adhesive tape. Of the 721 smugglers arrested in 2007, 62.4 percent (453) were Peruvian and the rest were foreigners, particularly from Spain (45), the Netherlands (29) and Brazil (18). Over three-quarters of the Peruvian "mules" were poor or unemployed. According...

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 of Lake George on Sunday night — on property used by the Warren County sheriff's department as a firing range.Police say they believe the marijuana was destined for the New York City area and was brought into the U.S. through the Akwesasne-St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reserve, which straddles the U.S.-Canada border.Several hours after the arrests, another sheriff's deputy pulled over a car in nearby Warrensburg and arrested four Massachusetts residents after finding 4.5 kilograms of marijuana in their car.Police believe that marijuana was also brought into the country through the ...

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 facing nine years in a French jail. The Court of Appeal today upheld a ruling that Campbell had deliberately avoided the trial and should be extradited. Campbell, who has two daughters and two grandchildren, faces being sent to France within ten days.

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, 2130 Evans St., Oshkosh; manufacture/deliver cocaine (less than one gram), state prison, license suspended, extended supervision. Tanya Kasper, 972 Home Avenue, Menasha; maintain drug trafficking place; probation, license suspended. Timothy Kasten, N181 Springfield Court, Appleton; possess drug paraphernalia; local jail, license suspended. Anthony Love, 528 W. Concordia Ave., Oshkosh; possession of THC; forfeiture/fine, license suspended. Florentino Quinonez, 824 Lincoln St., Menasha; possession of THC; local jail. Shawn Schettle, 1015 S. Washburn St., #134, Oshkosh; possession of THC; loc...

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 with possession of amphetamines in Thornaby and is due in court.A 31-year-old man was charged with possessing a bladed article in Billingham and is to appear in court.A 29-year-old man, wanted for an assault on a woman, was found and arrested in Stockton. He has been bailed pending further inquiries.Two men - one in Stockton and one in Thornaby - were also arrested for public order offences and issued with fixed penalty notices for disorder which incurs an £80 fine.

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 bosses found the packets of cocaine mixed with the seasoning during a routine check of her bags.White was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at Croydon Crown Court on February 19.

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 to Myanmar’s military crackdown against protesters and included a freeze on any assets the firms and individuals may have under U.S. jurisdiction.Myanmar’s junta in September crushed the biggest pro-democracy protests in nearly 20 years, killing at least 20 people, according to Human Rights Watch. Western governments say the toll may be much higher.“The situation in Burma remains deplorable,” U.S. President George W. Bush said in a statement, and called for concerted international pressure on Myanmar to achieve a “genuine transition to democracy.”“The regime has rejected calls from its...

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 as a Bonanno associate, and accuse him of conspiring to extort a granite company. Now Urciuoli, 43, and his wife, Susan, 40, face a slew of felony drug and weapon charges on top of his mob counts.The top charge against both of them, first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, carries the prospect of 25 years to life in prison in the event of conviction at trial. The couple was arraigned in Stapleton Criminal Court on Sunday, according to William J. Smith, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. Judge Desmond Green ordered the husband remanded without bail and the wife released on her own recognizance.When asked to comment about the arrest outside h...

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 was arrested when she showed up for a 3 p.m. visitation with Harris on Sunday. Investigators and agents with the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County searched Glenn's vehicle and found about two grams of methamphetamines in a purse inside.Glenn was arrested and she and Harris were each charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into a jail. Jackson County Judge Sharon Sigalis revoked Glenn's bond on the murder charge Monday. She set an additional $20,000 bond for the drug charge. Harris was in jail at the time of his arrest Sunday on charges of methamphetamine possession and grand l...

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 impregnated in the fabric of several items of clothing, including numerous pairs of jeans and t-shirts.Preliminary testing of fabric of several items of clothing, which were stiff to the touch, indicated the presence of cocaine. The man was subsequently arrested by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and charged with attempting to import clothing impregnated in cocaine, defined as a " marketable quantity of a border controlled drug".

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 3.8kg of cocaine and 200 grammes of cannabis. A 32 year old Leamington man appeared at Stratford Magistrates Court on Friday charged with possession of cocaine with intent to supply the drug, attempting to export cocaine and cannabis and money laundering. He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear before magistrates again on March 19

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 trafficking in hashish and marijuana. They would patrol the night club areas around hospitals and as an order would come in they would take the drugs in the ambulance directly to the customer. Still one more use for the “drug box.”

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, police searched it and found 120kg of cocaine valued over R54-million."He said the drugs were destined for Durban, according to a label on the box in which they were found in the cargo section.No arrest had been made, he said.Naidoo said it was not the first time that a large quantity of drugs of had been confiscated at the airport.

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, police searched it and found 120kg of cocaine valued over R54-million."He said the drugs were destined for Durban, according to a label on the box in which they were found in the cargo section.No arrest had been made, he said.Naidoo said it was not the first time that a large quantity of drugs of had been confiscated at the airport.Authorities at OR Tambo International Airport have made a multi-million rand drugs bust. Customs officials and police made the discovery at the cargo section of the airport earlier today, 122kg of suspected cocaine came in on a flight from Sao Pol...

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 the back of 14 Elder Street, a short distance from the scene of the incident. Officer placed the victim in the back of the cruiser, and drove him around in the area of the incident to try and find the suspect. Officers were able to locate the suspect walking on Elder St. and stopped him as he got to Columbia Road. The victim positively identified the suspect and he was placed under arrest.Suspect, Joshua Womble, 24, of Dorchester was placed under arrest and transported to the station charged with Armed Robbery. During the booking search, officers found 16 individually wrapped packets of c...

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 Miller said in a statement.Shea Pedersen, 32, was arrested en route from his home to his business. He had a loaded handgun at the time, Miller said.Officers found about 43 grams of suspected methamphetamine, 327 grams of suspected psilocybin mushrooms and drug paraphernalia at In Range, 210 Dundas Road, Suite 400, in Monticello.Because of the drug seizure, 108 firearms also were removed from In Range.The search of Pedersen's house, in the 8200 block of Acacia Avenue NE, Monticello, turned up suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, three firearms and explosives.The Minneapolis Bom...

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. The encounter led the trooper to seek permission to search the vehicle, but the request was denied. Niko, the Troop A K-9, and his handler were called to the stop location. Niko alerted on several duffle bags in the bed of the truck. Troopers searched the duffle bags and located 114 pounds of marijuana. The driver of the Toyota Tundra, Maceo Jones (B/M/Age 37) of Houston, TX, was booked into the Livingston Parish Jail for Improper Lane Usage and Possession with Intent to Distribute (Marijuana).

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. attorney. The two-year investigation resulted in law enforcement officers seizing more than $350,000 in cash that was on its way out of the state, prosecutors said. The men are scheduled to be sentenced in May. They each face a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison, prosecutors said.

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 a month to search for Madeleine. Spanish police had the container under surveillance following a tip-off. But Jimenez, then a chief inspector with the Drugs and Organised Crime Unit of the National Police, is suspected of providing vital information to the gang. He retired from the police shortly afterwards. The cocaine was smuggled into Spain in 974 packets on the ship Hispanota, which was transporting frozen prawns from Venezuela. It docked in Barcelona in November 2004 and the drugs were taken on January 24, 2005. Five officers from the Civil Guard have also been arrested and remanded in cu...

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 when you consider the amount of cocaine - 52 tonnes," said a spokesman for the Drugs Enforcement Administration in Washington yesterday. "That significant effect is going to be felt around the world." He said that more arrests could follow. The prime catch, as far as the DEA officials and their colleagues in Brazil were concerned, was Rayo-Montano, who had been on the run for 10 years. The arrest of the capo was spectacular.Seven federal agents armed with assault rifles swept into the luxury apartment in the upmarket Itaim neighbourhood of Sao Paulo, which the capo shar...

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 bodily injury or death. The first charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and the second by up to 20 years. In August, Franklin County, Columbus and Grove City law enforcement authorities began the investigation into the black tar heroin trafficking organization. According to information received by investigators, heroin users called a telephone number and spoke to an individual to order heroin. Then, a runner was dispatched to make the delivery. Contreras was indentified as the person who normally handled the phone calls and Parra was tagged as one of the runners.Between August ...

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. However, following a 16-day trial, a jury deliberated less than two days before convicting Henderson of five felonies including second-degree murder, driving while under the influence causing injury, fleeing the scene of an accident causing death and drug possession. Prosecutor Sean Gallagher said the case rose to the level of murder rather than gross vehicular manslaughter because Henderson’s lengthy criminal and drug record should have taught him better.“It is different than pulling the trigger of a gun, no question about it, but it is hard to come up with something more inherently dang...

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 were supervisors or leaders of drug rings, and about 5 percent were convicted of obstructing justice, generally by trying to get rid of their drugs as they were being arrested or contacting witnesses or co-defendants before trial, according to the analysis being circulated on Capitol Hill by the commission to counter Bush administration assertions that the guidelines would prompt the release of thousands of dangerous criminals.About one-quarter of these inmates were given enhanced sentences because of weapons charges, though the charge can apply to defendants who were actually not carrying a g...

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 Emma Cutts told the court that Mr Forest had produced a knife but Summers managed to turn it back on him and stab him three times in the chest, as well as in his neck and arm.Summers left Mr Forest to stagger 300 yards to Hartington House homeless centre, in Hartington Street, where staff called an ambulance.Judge Andrew Hamilton told Summers: "You got the upper hand and caused him some injuries which were beyond what was required to defend yourself."You have a bad record and you were only released on licence a few days beforehand. However I accept you didn't go there armed an...

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 stopped Frazier's vehicle about 1:20 a.m. Feb. 15 after seeing her traveling 52 mph in a 40 mph zone along Fourth Street Northwest. Frazier was arrested after failing sobriety tests. About 6 a.m. that day, the officer went back to his squad car to check under the back seat for contraband and found eight packages of cocaine.

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 drugs internally.The woman was taken to hospital where she passed 103 pellets containing heroin, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) allege.A 22-year-old American man was stopped on arrival at the airport last Saturday on a flight from Dubai. He was referred to the AFP and also taken to hospital, where it is alleged he passed 44 pellets containing about 130 grams of a substance suspected of being heroin.He is due to appear in court at a later date.Eleven people have now been charged with smuggling drugs into Australia internally this year.The offence carries a maximum penalty of 25 yea...

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. Dykeman was seen leaving the vehicle and heading into the bush near Barrydowne Arena, the bail hearing was told. "It was believed he was making a drop of drugs in the bush area," said Huneault. There are a number of trails in the area, one of which leads to the nearby Adanac Ski Hill, said Huneault. About 7:30 p.m., a drug officer found a green garbage bag containing about 250 grams of cocaine concealed under a bridge on one of the trails. Meanwhile, other officers followed Dykeman back to his apartment where they arrested him, said Huneault. A search of Dykeman's bedroom in the ...

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, said prosecutor Richard Bennett.She was nowhere in sight when he travelled from North Yorkshire to Middlesbrough’s Acklam Road on October 27 last year.Instead, he was met by Sinharoy, who got angry when Mr Brockie did not want £120 worth of crack cocaine and had no money to pay for it.Sinharoy was joined by his “back-up” Richardson. They chased Mr Brockie and pushed him over, the jury heard. Richardson pulled a knife, and they demanded, “Give us your money.”They searched Mr Brockie at knifepoint before taking his wallet and mobile phone. Finding no cash, they forced him to drive them to an...

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 night. I did," Kern said during yesterday's sentencing.Paquette's 2006 arrest led to what police Chief John Romero described then as the largest cocaine bust ever seen in the area. Between the 21 kilos found in Paquette's rental car and another 30 kilos seized from a Methuen home linked to the crime, the drugs had a street value of $2.5 million, Romero said at the time.The cocaine was brought into the courtroom during the trial — the most the judge said she had ever seen. Kern said it was an amount that "in my years on the bench, I have never seen in one p...

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 and assaulted both her and her 52-year-old mother. Byleveld has previously arrested another brother of the two men, Gillie Willemse, on drugs related charges. The crack detective says he believes the three bouncers are role-players in the West Rand drugs industry and are connected to a major organised crime boss arrested earlier this week. Theuns Grobelaar, a founder of the notorious Elite bouncer group, will appear in court today on several charges.

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 would be cancelled.All four branches of Vacation Travel, in Blackpool, Cleveleys, Durham and Halifax were hit at the same time in the sting.The company, which specialises in flights and cruises to the Canary Islands, said it was operating as normal and no holidays had been affected by the raid. Its managing director Stuart Arnott said he was angry but refused to comment on Tuesday morning's raid.A police spokesman said: "The raids were in connection with a money-laundering inquiry that is ongoing."

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. The arrest was the second incident this week for the task force, which Tuesday arrested a 26-year-old Warren man and three Port Huron residents during a crack cocaine drug deal in Kimball Township

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 countries. Police say the ring was also involved in growing marijuana in Ottawa and Toronto. In all, there were three separate operations to bust the ring. Canadian police went after operations in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal that produced ecstasy pills and smuggled them to the United States, where they were so

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 dog alerted officers to something suspicious. An X-ray scan revealed some irregularities in the vehicle’s floor cargo area. Officers searched further and found 20 cocaine packages hidden in the Jeep’s floor. Cedillo remains in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pending an appearance before a federal magistrate.

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 fled was not found, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. The two female passengers were not charged and were released. Wade was arrested on allegations of resisting law enforcement, possession of meth, reckless possession of paraphernalia and false informing, all class-D felonies. Other allegations are reckless driving and leaving the scene of a property damage crash, both class-A misdemeanors. Conviction of a class-D felony can mean up to three years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines. A class-A misdemeanor can mean up to one year in prison and up to $5,000 in fines.

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 a storage unit at Derrel's Mini Storage, at 1919 S. Airport Way, police found an additional 1,042 grams of heroin, for a total of almost 3 pounds, Stockton police Officer Pete Smith said.That is roughly equal to the total amount of heroin seized in Stockton all of last year, Smith said."This represents a lot of sales that won't be taking place out there," Smith said.Carlos Alberto Arrellano Lopez, 28, and Jose Luis Arredondo Quintero, 31, were arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs for sale and drug trafficking with firearms enhancements and criminal conspir...

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 booked into the Vista jail on suspicion of multiple drug violations, as well as an immigration hold.The second suspect, Jessie Jesus Garcia, 56, was arrested Feb. 15 on suspicion of heroin possession and possession of heroin for sale, Carter said. A search warrant led to the recovery of 64 grams of heroin, valued at $10,760, he said. Police also arrested Edelmiro Lorenzano, 38, a previously deported felon with prior drug convictions, Carter said. Lorenzano, of Acapulco, Mexico, was arrested for an immigration violation and released to federal immigration officials, he said.It was not im...

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 by Detik.com, adding that the police shot him three times in the chest and back. The police said they found 130 grams of heroin worth Rp 60 million (US$6,382) under a washing machine. The police arrested Poguidison and Zambia national Abdoulie Bojang, 26, in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, on Monday, and found 52 grams of heroin in the pocket of Bojang's pants. "We will continue the investigation to unveil the drug ring in Jakarta," Arman said

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" ballads glorifying drug traffickers "We believe Alfaro had links to the Arellano Felix cartel," said an official with the Baja California state attorney general's office who declined to be named. The official was referring to Tijuana's main drug smuggling cartel, which is fighting a gory turf war with traffickers from Mexico's Pacific state of Sinaloa, led by the country's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman. At least half a dozen Mexican folk singers, who play narcocorridos and upbeat, brassy "grupera" music...

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 news agency said, quoting local news website Terra. Panama authorities have arrested several Bulgarians over recent months on drug-related charges as they continue their war on drugs. The Bulgarian was is part of a joint programme by the Panama national police and airport authorities to combat drug trafficking. In January, police in the Latin American country arrested another two Bulgarians, aged 36 and 39, who were though to be part of an organized crime group smuggling cocaine from Columbia to Western Europe via Panama. Another Bulgarian national, believed to be involved in smuggling dru...

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 a confederation of individuals" whose job was to scout out U.S. aircraft desired by Venezuela-based drug traffickers and help broker transactions to buy them to ferry cocaine shipments around the globe.Last year's arrest of Benavides was part of a more sweeping investigation of money laundering schemes aimed at uncovering the purchase of aircraft in the United States by South American traffickers, the court documents show.Steve Robertson, a spokesman at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, described the schemes as "very imaginative" since they invo...

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 for unlawful use of a weapon, assault, arson, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a controlled substance, the release said.Sentencing for Pulliam has not been scheduled. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison without parole.

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 use dive gear to retrieve it and sell it. Chupurdy, Xiang and Brown pleaded guilty last fall. Members of the Beaufort/Jasper Multi Agency Drug Task Force initiated a drug investigation into a subject living in the Thunderbolt Georgia area and frequenting the Beaufort County South Carolina area. This subject was identified as Garry Clifford Chupurdy, and it was learned that he was responsible for the importation of several thousands of pounds of marijuana being brought into the United States. A drug investigation was initiated by The Drug Task Force when they received information from c...

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 by allowing Haylock to use his phone to make deals. The pair later fell out and Duncan began running the operation himself, the court heard.Undercover cops used test purchasing methods to buy Class A drugs from Simms and Hargreaves.Officers then raided in September and arrested the four. A month later the hotel was the subject of a crack house closure order.Police estimated the dealers were making up to £3,000 a week, with up to 70 visitors a day, causing “misery” for people living nearby.The four pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. Haylock pleaded guilty to an additional five charges of supplying Class A drugs.Michael Bosomworth, defending Duncan, said: ...

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 with his ex-lover, from Middlesbrough, but had been given a mobile phone number for the dealer she was working for and called to arrange a deal, in Middlesbrough, on October 27 last year. But the woman never turned up and, instead, Mr Brockie was said to have been met by Andrew Sinharoy, after travelling from his home in Catterick.Richard Bennett, prosecuting, said Mr Sinharoy became aggressive after being told by Mr Brockie - who did not use drugs - that he did not want any crack cocaine. Mr Sinharoy is alleged to have told Mr Brockie that he had paid £120 for the drugs and that he was going...

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 the trunk for a total to 175 pounds. The driver was arrested and the vehicle seized.According to the report, the next morning, a DPS Officer stopped a vehicle northbound on Interstate 19 between Tucson and Nogales where a search of the vehicle revealed 194 pounds of Marijuana. The driver was arrested for possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale and transportation of marijuana for sale.Director Vanderpool calls this “Another excellent example of the due diligence performed everyday on the highways of this state by DPS Officers.”

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 said.Acting on the tip-off, the regional director asked the concerned authorities to make a plan to foil the attempt, he said. Accordingly, different teams were constituted to counter the attempt. A team of ANF, consequently, intercepted a passenger Schoeman Gerhardus, a South African national, at Islamabad International Airport, proceeding to South Africa bya flight EY-232 bound for Johannesburg, and recovered five kilograms of heroin hidden in secret cavities of his baggage. During questioning, the suspect told the investigators that before indulging in the drug smuggling, he was work...

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 with the inquiry and charged them. They have been released on bail until March 3. Two women, aged 52 and 54, who were also arrested as part of the inquiry remain on police bail.

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 to replace the ecstasy before the box was repackaged and sent to Mermaid Beach on November 2, 2005.The court was told a federal officer delivered the package and police waited outside the home while a co-accused accepted the parcel.Within 15 minutes Boyd emerged from the house with the parcel and was arrested by police. Boyd had sent a total of $16,080 to Canadian bank accounts in October 2005. He said he was a heavy steroids user and became involved in the importing of a package because he owed his steroids supplier money.Boyd, who said he believed the package contained steroids, appea...

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 East Orange and Raheem Williams, 24, of Newark. In making the arrests, investigators seized some 300 Percocet pills and 25 Oxycontin pills along with $211 in cash, said Detective Dante Pasquale of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Operation Medicine Boyz, a 12-month undercover operation, closed down a conspiracy in which "runners" were dispatched to the area of Broad Street and Branford Place to purchase prescription drugs -- Oxycontin, Percocet and Tussionex -- from Medicaid recipients in exchange for cash or heroin, Pasquale said. The ring would then sell the pills to ...

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. Mays is charged with the drug conspiracy and attempting to distribute cocaine on Dec. 19, 2007. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison and a fine of up to $4 million. U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said Leslie Adgar, 42, of Decatur, Jon Patton, 44, of Lawrenceville and Andre Mays, 24, of Atlanta, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges relating to a drug-smuggling operation at the airport. “These individuals allegedly abused their positions at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to smuggle drugs past security and onto Delta flights,” Nahmias said. “This indictment should serv...