Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

Cameron County Constable Precinct 1 Saul Ochoa was arrested Wednesday morning by the FBI on charges stemming from possession and distribution of marijuana, according to federal court documents.FBI spokesman Jorge Cisneros confirmed that Ochoa had been arrested and referred all questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Texas, who could not be immediately reached for comment.An indictment filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas charges Ochoa with four counts of possession with intent to distribute marijuana in incidents over the past three weeks.Each count carries a maximum punishment of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine upon conviction. Ochoa's arrest is the result of the joint investigative efforts of the DEA, FBI and the Port Isabel Police Department. The case will be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jody Young.Cisneros would not say where Ochoa was arrested or where he was being detained.His brother is Justic...

Kenneth Bauer, 61, was scheduled to go to trial today but as part of a plea agreement with the prosecution, he decided to plead guilty to illegal manufacturing of drugs, theft of anhydrous ammonia and breaking and entering. The maximum sentence Bauer could have received if he was found guilty at trial was 11 years in prison, according to Judge Steven Beathard.On Feb. 23, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office received information about people trespassing at Crop Production Services, 4111 McKillip Road, and deputies located a suspicious vehicle in the area, according to reports. The driver of the vehicle was Bauer, who was reportedly driving under suspension.Bauer was arrested and transported to the sheriff’s office.Deputies checked the business and found evidence of the theft of anhydrous ammonia and also found two sets of footprints in the snow leading away from the rear of the business around the location of the anhydrous ammonia.Deputies followed the tracks and after a lengthy search, ...

Alice English provided "a complete confession," the judge concluded: "It was clear and deliberate, fluid and unrehearsed. It was replete with factual details that were provided spontaneously and without suggestion or prodding.She appears destined to get a lengthy taste of life on the wrong side of the bars.She was hustled into custody and off to Maison Tanguay, the women's prison in Ahuntsic, yesterday, where the Verdun resident will await sentencing following her conviction for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Bordeaux jail in 2005.Her payoff, thus far, for carrying out the smuggling includes $1,000 cash and dismissal from the Quebec prison service. At a morning hearing yesterday, Quebec Court Judge Patrick Healy found English guilty on five counts - four of trafficking in drugs plus one of conspiracy to traffic.She faces potential jail time of 10 to 14 years.English, 55, is a mother of four and a grandmother of 12. Her defence lawyer, Tom Pentefountas, sai...

Gregory Abbott, 31, of Placentia has taught history at the school for seven years, police said in a statement. He was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possessing a weapon on a school campus and possessing narcotics for sale. Police said they made the arrest after receiving an anonymous phone tip that he was selling drugs.The caller contacted police at about 10 a.m. Tuesday to report that he had purchased drugs from a teacher at the high school named Abbott who kept a gun in his car,police said.A school police officer then contacted administrators at the high school, reached Abbott in his classroom and got permission to search his car. Inside, they found the shotgun, some prescription drugs and marijuana packaged for sale, police said.Abbott was then arrested without incident.He was being held this morning at Fullerton City Jail on $25,000 bail, police said. Gregory Abbott, 31, of Placentia, was booked at the Fullerton city jail on suspicion of possession of a weapon on a school campus ...

A man who police said passed out behind the wheel at a local intersection last night was arrested on drug charges after 290 bags of heroin were found in the car.Police received a call about 11:30 p.m. about a driver who appeared to be passed out at the intersection of Tolland Turnpike and Adams Street. Officers found Angel Rivera, 59, of Sunrise Avenue in New Britain in the driver's seat, his head against the steering wheel and the car in drive.They woke him up and got the car to a safe location, where he failed a field sobriety test, police said. Officers found 290 bags of heroin in his glove box, they said; they also found $772.Rivera was charged with driving while under the influence, possession of heroin, possession with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia and other charges, he said. Rivera was in custody on $100,000 bail this morning and was scheduled to be arraigned in Superior Court in Manchester this afternoon.

Amy Gilbert, of Bellgreen Lane, was arrested at Gatwick Airport on Sunday (May 15). UK Border Agency (UKBA) officers stopped her after she arrived on a flight from Brazil.Gilbert was charged with smuggling cocaine, worth an estimated £160,000, and appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court yesterday (May 19).She was remanded in custody and will appear before Mid Sussex magistrates on May 28

Martin Stephen Patience, of Oldstead, Crown Woood, admitted trying to smuggle 7.35kgs of cocaine when he was stopped by customs officers at Heathrow’s Terminal 4 on February 20 this year after travelling from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court last Friday

Elisa Vazquez Sanchez was accompanied by a 13-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl when she was stopped at London's Heathrow Airport on her way from Mexico on March 11, the agency said in a statement.A Mexican housewife was sentenced to more than nine years in jail after she pleaded guilty to using two children to smuggle cocaine into Britain, the customs agency said Friday.Officials at the airport found about 20 pounds of cocaine taped to the children's bodies.The agency said Judge Jonathan Lowen at London's Isleworth Crown Court sentenced Sanchez, 40, to 9 1/2 years of prison Thursday.Sanchez's relationship to the children, who are Mexican residents, was not disclosed. The kids are now in the care of social services.

Leebert Ramcharan, a U.S. White House-designated Drug Kingpin, was sentenced today by U.S. district Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz to 440 months’ imprisonment on his March 5, 2008 conviction on charges of conspiracy to import and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five (5) kilograms or more of cocaine.Ramcharan and co-defendant Williams, who was also convicted at trial, were arrested in the Montego Bay area of Jamaica in 2004, and extradited from Jamaica to the United States in 2007, after their extradition was approved by the Jamaican Supreme Court. According to the evidence presented at trial, defendant Ramcharan was the leader of a sophisticated cocaine smuggling operation in Jamaica. From 1998 through 2004, this drug organization received as much as fifteen (15) thousand kilograms of cocaine imported via go fast vessels from the Northern Coast of Colombia. The cocaine was then stored in Jamaica, and subsequently it was transported to the Bahamas on boats and airplanes. ...

Allen Keith Greynolds, 53, of Carolina, was arrested and charged with delivery of a controlled substance, crack cocaine. Greynolds has yet to post bond and is still currently being housed in the North Central Regional Jail in Doddridge County. Michael Stephen Peck, 28, of Fairmont, was arrested and charged with delivery of heroin. Peck was released on a $25,000 personal recognizance bond. Marion County Sheriff Junior Slaughter said he was not surprised that there have been recent arrests for delivery of crack cocaine in the area. He added that cocaine and marijuana have been an ongoing problem in the area for some time now. “But it disturbs me that heroin is making its way into Marion,” Slaughter said. Six other Marion residents have also been arrested on drug charges recently. Melanie Ann Keener, 49, of Fairmont, was arrested and charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Heather Ann Keener, 26, of Fairmont was arrested and charged with obtaining a controlled substance by...

Joshua T. Zinewicz, 26, of 15 Scotland Road was stopped in his green Ford Explorer on Town Street at Washington Street Extension Tuesday night.Police said heroin — 6,000 bags in all — was discovered in a hidden hydraulic compartment where the passenger side airbag would be. Police also seized $4,500 in cash and the Explorer. The heroin, police said, was portioned into 600 bundles and had a street value of between $60,000 and $120,000.Zinewicz was charged with possession of heroin and possession of more than one ounce of heroin with intent to sell. He was arraigned Wednesday in Norwich Superior Court. City police detectives had learned early Tuesday of the possible large-scale drug deal, court documents show. Specifically, police said they found out Zinewicz would be transporting a large amount of heroin from New York City to Norwich.Zinewicz was placed under surveillance Tuesday and was being watched when he met with a man with a record of drug arrests at the McDonald’s on Town Stre...

Peggy Vanhorn and her son Gary Vanhorn, Jr. were arrested Thursday morning for selling heroin.A mother and son in Berkeley County are keeping their business in the family, and now they're facing felony charges.The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office searched their home at 739 Loop Road and found heroin, drug paraphernalia and a large amount of cash.The arrests come after an eight-month investigation where officers were able to buy drugs from the home.Investigators say there may be more arrests in connection to the charges. The arrests came after the Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team served a search warrant at a home in the 700 block of Loop Road for illegal narcotics, the release said. Gary Vanhorn Jr., 30, of 739 Loop Road, was and charged with three felony counts of distribution of a controlled substance (heroin) and one felony count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver (heroin), according to the release. His mother, Peggy Vanhorn, 51, also of 739 ...

Ruggiero also had an outstanding warrant at the time of her arrest, according to police. She was additionally charged with two counts of identify theft; two counts of false statement to procure a credit card; two counts of illegal use of a credit card; one count of larceny in the fourth degree; and one count of larceny in the sixth degree. Patricia Ruggiero, 30, of Danbury, was charged with possession of heroin; possession of heroin with intent to sell; possession of crack cocaine; possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell; possession of narcotics; possession of narcotics with intent to sell; possession of hallucinogenic; possession of hallucinogenic with intent to sell; possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell within 1500 feet of a school; possession of drug paraphernalia; and risk of injury to a minor. She was issued a $500,000 bond. As a result of the Willow Park Apartments investigation, police say they also charged Sandy Almonte, 24, of Edgewood Street in Danbury, wit...

A pair who police said tore gutters off local buildings, including a church, to sell as scrap metal were arrested Thursday after a foot chase and a scuffle.Officers attempting to serve a warrant at Erika Weller's Nutmeg Avenue home for an unrelated crime on Thursday encountered Weller, David Fazzina Jr., and a van loaded with copper and aluminum, including the gutters.The metal was from local buildings, including houses, businesses and St. Adalbert's Church, police said. Police said they arrested Weller after a brief struggle and Fazzina after a foot chase.Both Weller, who turns 20 today, and Fazzina, 38, of Connecticut Boulevard in East Hartford were charged with third-degree larceny, third-degree criminal mischief and interfering with police. They also were charged with possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia because police found evidence of heroin use.They are expected to be arraigned in Superior Court in Enfield today.

Daniel Galloway, 23, was searched when he began to act suspiciously during a visit to Holme House Prison, Stockton. Two heroin substitute tablets were found on him, which he said had been given to him by a fellow-visitor. Galloway, of Diamond Road, Thornaby, pleaded guilty to possession of Class C drugs with intent to supply when he appeared at Teesside Crown Court. The hearing heard that two days before the offence was committed on 22 February, Galloway had been given a three month suspended jail sentence by Teesside Magistrates' Court for attempted theft. The hearing also heard that the Subutex tablets sell for £60 each in prison. Rebecca Smith, defending Galloway, said: "He is under no illusion how serious the offence is. "He has been under the influence of drugs since the age of 12. He wants to rid himself of drugs but he is subject to outside influences at the present."Sentencing him Judge George Moorhouse said: "The message must go out loud and clear to ot...

Jerry Michael Bussell, 51, is charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine and is being held on a $1 million bond, Sterling Heights police said today. He was arraigned May 1 in 41A District Court in Sterling Heights. A May 13 preliminary exam was adjourned because Bussell wanted a court-appointed attorney. No new preliminary exam date has been set.Officers stopped him April 29 in the area of 14 Mile and Van Dyke and found about 3 ounces of cocaine and a large amount of cash in his vehicle.They interviewed him and he told them about a large amount of cocaine in a storage facility on Merrill Street. Officers with the city’s Crime Suppression Unit searched the facility and found 25 kilos of cocaine.

Raymond Kwame Amankwah, a Ghanaian described as one of the most wanted drug barons, has been arrested in Brazil through collaboration between the German Federal Police and its Brazilian counterpart. He was arrested alongside two women, Mandy Veit, a German, and Irena Beata Ciaslak, a German-Polish, at the Pinto Martins Airport in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceara State in December 2007. The three were said to be working for a Nigerian group in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Amankwah was waiting for the two women, Mandy and Irena, who were due to fly to Lisbon, Portugal, each of them carrying 3.08 kilogrammes and 3.097 kilogrammes of cocaine, respectively. The Daily Graphic, in its August 13, 1996 edition, published a story in which the then Narcotics Unit of the Ghana Police Service had Amankwah, also known as Chanda Keita, wanted. The Southwark Crown Court in the United Kingdom was said to have issued a bench warrant for his arrest in 1995 for being the brain behind a crack cocaine network whose bu...

Fellow agents described Ramiro Flores Jr.,as a longtime member of the Border Patrol’s ranks in McAllen.Agent Ramiro Flores 36, of McAllen, used his federal credentials and badge to bypass U.S. Transportation Security Administration screeners at McAllen-Miller International Airport with about 13.2 pounds of the drug hidden in a piece of luggage.Once inside the secure area of the airport, he is accused of swapping the bag with an awaiting accomplice, before both men boarded a flight to Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport.Houston police arrested both men Thursday as they exited the plane.According to a criminal complaint filed in the case, Flores unknowingly met with a federal informant earlier in the week to plan the drug smuggling trip. The man offered him $400 up front and an additional $6,000 once the trip was completed.A search of the Flores’ McAllen home after his arrest uncovered $340 of the initial payment, U.S. attorneys said.Federal authorities said it remains unclear whethe...

Diego Fernando Murillo, 47, was extradited from Colombia on Tuesday along with 13 other jailed warlords as part an effort by President Álvaro Uribe to take a hard line against them and defuse a scandal. Mr. Murillo had been held in Colombia since 2005.The heavyset Mr. Murillo, who has a prosthetic leg and entered the courtroom with a pronounced limp, held his loose-fitting blue jeans up with one hand. He appeared weary and remained seated as his lawyer entered the not guilty plea. The indictment against Mr. Murillo charges that he conspired to import thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States and to launder the drug proceeds. Prosecutors said the group for which he was the de facto leader, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, supported its paramilitary activities and enriched its leaders through drug trafficking. The State Department has designated it as a foreign terrorist organization. During the brief court proceeding, Paul R. Nalven, a lawyer for Mr. Murillo, portr...

Francis P. Peron, 44, was arrested at 9 a.m. after troopers with the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement, working with federal probation officers and U.S. marshals, found evidence of drugs in his home, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. Officers found glass pipes with white residue in his home, along with syringes, several empty baggies and $4,000 in his wallet.Law enforcement officers then returned with another search warrant to search buildings and vehicles at the house. That search turned up several baggies containing methamphetamine packaged for sale, a set of digital scales and another $2,275 in cash. Four baggies of crystal methamphetamine totalling 1 ounce were found in the center console of a vehicle registered to Peron.Peron was on probation for a previous drug conviction in 2000. He is being held at Fairbanks Correctional Center on $20,000 bail.

Correctional officer Ivan Duke Peters, 34. He was taken into custody while on duty. Peters was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver, unlawful compensation, and smuggling contraband into a detention facility. Officers received information that Peters had been bringing contraband into the prison in return for cash from inmates housed at Washington CI. Peters was taken into custody shortly after arriving for his shift.Additional arrests and charges are expected, the release said.

Rawle A. London was arrested yesterday after it was discovered that he had money, drugs and a cell phone in his possession. All are items prohibited at the corrections facility in Smyrna .Police say another observed the cell phone and reported London, who has worked for the Department of Corrections for 3 years, to a superior officer. That officer investigated further and discovered London was also carrying $345, which is also a policy violation, 26 grams of what is suspected to be marijuana and about 1.5 grams of cocaine.Delaware State Police responded and continued the investigation. Their investigation revealed that London planned to distribute the items in his possession inside the prison.London, who lives in Dover, is charged with Possession with the Intent to Deliver Marijuana, Possession with the Intent to Deliver Cocaine and Promoting Prison Contraband. He was arraigned and released after posting $15,500.00 secured bail.

Prison officer Adam Vega, 21, was arrested in Karnes County. Vega is accused of plotting to smuggle more than an ounce of cocaine into the Connally Prison Unit in Kenedy.Sneaking contraband into a prison is a felony. If convicted, Vega faces from five years to life in prison.“The biggest measure to try to keep the contraband out is just someone’s own honesty and integrity,” said Oscar Mendoza, warden of the McConnell Unit at Beeville.Unfortunately, in the past five years, 219 Texas prison employees were caught trying to sneak contraband to inmates. More than 31 employees have been arrested this year.“Any investigation (that) is initiated on the inside and it takes us to the outside, then we’ll follow those leads and complete the investigation, no matter where it’s at,” said Lt. Terry Cobbs, of the Office of the Inspector General in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The OIG investigates every incident, employee, guard or inmate who tries to sneak in contraband, and with more tha...

Mark Bunton, 52, from Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire was stopped by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers at Dover on June 14 last year. He was driving a Vauxhall Astra car when he arrived on the ferry at the Eastern Docks and claimed that he had been to France to look for a property. Officers recovered about 32kg of cocaine and £6,000 from the rear quarter panels of Bunton's car. Tom Hunnisett HMRC's Acting Head of Criminal Investigation for the South East said: "Revenue & Customs is working alongside the newly - formed UK Border Agency at the forefront of the fight to stop drugs entering the UK and to reduce the associated harm to our communities. We aim to protect society from this activity wherever we detect it and will not hesitate to pursue those involved so that they can be effectively prosecuted by the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office.

In February of last year, undercover police in Venezuela filmed the Samantha arriving in a warehouse in the port city of Puerto Caballo. Paul Stromberg and Paul Clough will be sentenced later Police seized the boat, and used X-ray equipment to examine it, the court heard. They discovered a substantial number of blocks hidden in the lower half of the boat beneath a false floor. The jury was told after drilling through the floor, they discovered 337 kilos of cocaine said to be "almost perfectly pure". Once "cut" with other drugs it would have had a street value estimated at more than £40m. When he was arrested, Stromberg told detectives from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), that he was a simple businessman who had property deals and catering interests. The court heard he said: "I'm not a man of lavish means by a long shot; I struggle like the rest of us." Stromberg, of Abergavenny, Gwent, was convicted of conspiracy to commit a drug trafficking...

When officers raided the address in Oxford Road, Linthorpe, an attic bedroom revealed a drug-dealing treasure trove - £1.16m of heroin, £4,000 of high-purity cocaine and £626 of crack cocaine, Teesside Crown Court heard.Police have welcomed the convictions of four men embroiled in a huge narcotics conspiracy after Teesside’s biggest ever drugs haul.The Middlesbrough ring could have put millions of pounds worth of cocaine and heroin on to the streets of Teesside.Raja Ali Arshad, 26, who lived at the Oxford Road home, and Shazad Majid, 29, of Westbourne Grove, North Ormesby, admitted conspiring to supply Class A drugs between December 31, 2006 and July 19 last year.Arshad’s brother Murthaza Arshad, 24, also of Oxford Road, and Amin Younis, 31, of Brafferton Road, denied the charge but were convicted by a jury after a four-week trial.Detective Constable Jim Devine said: “Four people who would have poured misery on to the streets will now themselves have a period of time to consider the im...

Anna Budinger was a custodian at Kaimuki High School when she arrested more than two years ago with more than 1/8th of an ounce of crystal methamphetamine, or ice. She pleaded guilty to drug charges.In court on Friday, she again admitted that guilt. "I made a mistake. I crossed a boundary. I know I need to go into treatment," she told the judge.Prosecutors wanted Budinger sentenced to 10 years behind bars because she was a school staff member when she was arrested.Her defense attorney asked for probation, because Budinger had no prior convictions and did not sell drugs to students."The issue was how far away in her car she was located, but it doesn't involve schoolchildren at all," attorney Johnaaron Jones said.However, Budinger admitted to Circuit Court Judge Michael Town that she was still using ice and that the drug would show up if she were tested.Town criticized Budinger for failing to enter a drug treatment program while awaiting sentencing.He sentenced he...

Anselmo Zepeda, 52,a "major" cocaine trafficker in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois was indicted in December 1998 as part of Operation Crackshot. A Mexico native, he was a fugitive until 2005, when FBI agents and the Chicago police made a series of drug arrests. They noticed his name, compared notes and determined it was Zepeda, the man who trucked in millions of dollars worth of cocaine from the Southwest to the Midwest.Mihm noted that Zepeda was the main source of drugs for the Gangster Disciples and the Vice Lords street gangs. In Chicago, he supplied the Four Corner Hustlers."You were in the big business of drugs," noted Mihm, before noting that U.S. probation officers linked Zepeda alone to more than 500 kilograms of cocaine."That's more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine. That's a staggering amount," the judge said.Zepeda pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court as part of a rare, fully negotiated deal with federal prosecutors. Such deals are not ...

Charged with importing a controlled substance are Epiphane Castang, 34, and Nelle George, 24, both of St. Lucia. Instant cake mix turned into an instant drug seizure for Canada customs officers at Pearson International Airport recently. It was followed with an instant investigation by the Peel Children's Aid Society (CAS), as the two women accused of smuggling in the drugs, arrived on a flight with four children.After Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers discovered the 12 kilograms of cocaine on April 26, which was hidden inside packages of instant cake mix and powdered food, the RCMP charged Quebec residents 37-year-old Sandra Colette Nalvarte, and her mother, 73-year-old Olinda Hortencia Smith, with importing a controlled substance. The drugs have a street value of more than $1.5 million.The two women and children came into Pearson on a flight from Peru, according to the RCMP.Nalvarte's four children are in the custody of Peel CAS pending a review. This week meanwhi...

Joseph Calleja, 30, and his brother Noel, 28 and Doreen Bugeja, 33, all from Santa Venera were charged with heroin possession and trafficking on 6 May and before. The drugs were found after a raid by the Police Drug Squad. A total of 35 grammes of heroin and 10 grammes of cocaine were seized.Doreen Bugeja pleaded not guilty to heroin trafficking, but admitted to charges of simple possession. She was also accused of relapsing in view of previous convictions. The court, presided over by Magistrate Doreen Clarke refused a bail application, but recommended that the Corradino Correctional Facility Director to allow the accused to enrol in a drug rehabilitation programme. The court will pass sentence on 16 May.Joseph Calleja pleaded guilty to heroin possession and trafficking as well as relapsing in view of previous convictions. The court will pass sentence with regard to this case also on 16 May.The younger of the brothers, Noel, pleaded not guilty to charges of heroin and cocaine possessio...

Six Nelsonville residents and a Glouster resident were arrested Thursday as part of a year-long, multi-jurisdictional federal heroin investigation along the U.S. 33 corridor between Nelsonville and Marysville. Hardy, McReynolds, Plunk, Cantrell, Kelsor, Carmichael, Herdman, Dennison, Lee, Woodson, Bankstron, Jordan and Large, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 grams of heroin.Plunk and Kelsor are also charged with possession with intent to distribute more than 1,000 grams of heroin.Kelsor, Carmichael, Herdman, Dennison, Jordan, Stewart and Large are each charged with unlawful use of a communication facility. Beheler and Lacorte are charged with two counts each of aiding and abetting in the distribution of heroin.Knisley, Herdman, Fritz, Large, and Nash are charged with one misdemeanor count each of unlawful possession of heroin.

Omar Castaneda, a member of the South Side Pomona gang,was involved in drug trafficking at the highest level that we've ever seen on a university campus," Mosler said. "His source of supply of the cocaine comes from Mexico. The cartel is responsible for smuggling most of the cocaine from Columbia through our border here in San Diego."Damon Mosler, chief of the Narcotics Division of the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, said that Castaneda, who has a prior conviction for the sale of narcotics, received his supply of drugs from Mexico and members of the cartel.Jesse Navarro, a public affairs officer from the district attorney's office, said the number of Hispanics actually involved is very minimal"I believe there were only two or three Hispanics of the people arrested involved in this organization," Navarro said in Spanish. "We wanted to send a loud and clear message that this is a problem with shared responsibility on both sides of th...

Rachel J. Pitcock, 23, of 1722 Allens Creek Road, in Burkesville; Christopher R. Perdue, 35, of 507 Grandview Ave.; Donnie D. Norris, Jr., 24, of 701 Woodland St., in Burkesville; Robert W. Greenwalt, 20, of 112 B Elm Hill Drive; and Daniel G. Elkins, 38, of 314 N. Lee St., Fort Gibson, Okla., were each charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, unlawful possession of a meth precursor, unlawful transaction with a minor and possession of drug paraphernalia. The arrests came after officers with the Glasgow Police Department went to 507 Grandview Ave., to investigate a drug complaint. After arriving at the scene, police made contact with Elkins outside the residence. While the subject was emptying his pockets, marijuana was found and Elkins then fled on foot, according to police. After officers took Elkins into custody, he was searched and a powdered substance believed to be methamphetamine was found on his person. Once police entered the home, they discovered the owner, Perdue, and the ...

Edgar Millan shot nine times as he came home early in the morning and opened the door, government officials said."They were hunting him," a spokesman for the Security Ministry said.Mexican media said the attackers, one of whom was caught by Millan's bodyguards, were professional killers hired by the powerful Sinaloa cartel, headed by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman. The man arrested had two pistols, one with a silencer, and was wearing a latex glove. Millan was the head of operations for a federal police force known as the PFP and was in charge of coordinating large-scale operations to break organized crime rings, including drug trafficking.Calderon has sent thousands of troops and federal police to take on drug gangs near the U.S. border and in other parts of Mexico since he took office in December 2006.The president's office condemned the "cowardly murder of an exemplary public servant who was committed to the safety of Mexican f...

Domingo Bailon-Yanez, 30, of Burien, was identified as the alleged leader of that distribution ring. El Flamingo Restaurant is owned by a relative of Bailon-Yanez, and both the manager of the restaurant, Rigoberto Sabalsa-Lozano, 43, of SeaTac, and bartender Carla Rodriguez-Romero, 26, of Kent, have been charged in the case. A 10-month investigation by a law enforcement team, dubbed Operation Pink Tiger, ended Friday with several arrests and the seizure of about 40 pounds of cocaine, a pound of heroin, guns, methamphetamine and about $240,000 in cash.The operation was a joint effort carried out by the King County Sheriff's Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Records said the suspects were believed to be operating a drug distribution ring centered around the El Flamingo restaurant in Burien.Six suspects were arrested late Thursday and charged today with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine. The arrests bring to 17 the total number of defendants charged in...

Lorenzo Sirignano targeted vulnerable people to do his dirty work for him and threatened them with violence if they did not follow orders.Sirignano, 51, was the mastermind behind the biggest drugs ring to be smashed in Sussex.He put up the money to pay for high purity cocaine to be smuggled from Brazil and Ghana in 2006 and 2007. Sirignano headed a 17-strong gang involved in smuggling, storing, distributing and supplying the Class A drug.He is believed to have personally made at least £2 million before he was arrested in February last year.Detectives believe he made even more from cocaine smuggled into the country undetected.Undercover police bugged his cars and listened in as he drove around Brighton and Hove with other members of his drugs gang.In one chilling conversation he is overheard threatening to shoot or petrol bomb Robert Paige after they fell out and Paige quit the gang in fear.Sirignano and nine members of the drugs ring have so far been sentenced to a total of 100 years b...

Simon Finlay, 32, of Park Lane, Wesham, and, 54, of Park Valley, The Park, Nottingham, appeared before South Lakeland Magistrates' Court in Kendal on Thursday. The pair are both charged with conspiracy to import illegal drugs alongside Peter Hannigan, 49, of Kendal, Darren Morris, 32, and Mark Neville, 41, both of Preston. Cumbria Police discovered nearly 300lb of cocaine after its CID officers stopped and searched two lorries at the port of Harwich in Essex.The consignment arrived via Holland and was destined for the streets of Britain, police said.The five men will appear before Carlisle Crown Court on July 7.

Tony Mokbel will be extradited to Australia from Greece to face trial on murder and drugs charges.The extradition was approved today by Greece's Justice Minister, Sotiris Hadjigakis, who ratified an earlier decision by the country's Supreme Court, The Associated Press reports.However, Victoria's Police Minister Bob Cameron said there had been no official word from Greece on Mokbel's status. "We welcome the news coming out of Greece, however, Victorian Police is yet to receive any official confirmation,'' he said tonight. Mokbel faces at least 20 charges related to cocaine importation and the deaths of underworld heavyweights Lewis Moran and Michael Marshall. He sparked a global manhunt after skipping bail on March 20, 2006 while on trial for cocaine smuggling.Following his disappearence, he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to up to 12 years' jail.He was arrested on an Interpol warrant last June at a cafe near the rented beachside Athens home he...

The following co-conspirators were arrested and have already pled guilty to federal felony conspiracy charges:Gregory A. James, 37, Heuvelton Randy A. Coller, 46, Ogdensburg Johnny L. Bogardus, 42, Ogdensburg Sonya L. Trimm, 35, Ogdensburg Amber M. Murray, 32, Ogdensburg Terry Joe “Chewer” Murray, 49, of Ogdensburg, was found guilty after a jury trial in U.S. District Court in Syracuse, of operating a drug conspiracy in St. Lawrence County in 2006.In late 2006, numerous complaints of suspected drug activity at 720 Jay Street in Ogdensburg led to the Drug Task Force investigation.Police surveillance of Murray’s residence confirmed that multiple known cocaine dealers and customers frequented his residence which was outfitted with an elaborate video surveillance system.Murray was accused of being one of six people who were involved in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine powder and crack cocaine in 2006.Murray, who has three prior felony convictions, was found by the jury to have distribute...

Darren Morris, 32, Mark Neville, 41, both of Preston, and Peter Hannigan, 49, of Kendal - have been charged with importing illegal drugs. The three are to appear before South Lakeland magistrates over the 140kg drug raid at the port of Harwich, Essex. The raid was the result of a long-running intelligence-gathering operation led by Cumbria Police with assistance from Lancashire Police and HM Customs.It is understood to be one of the biggest seizures yet made on the UK mainland.The consignment arrived via Holland and was destined for the streets of Britain, police said.Drugs were discovered when two vehicles were stopped and searched entering a port in the UK on Saturday morning.The drugs seizure was the result of an on-going investigation by officers from Cumbria Police headquarter's CID unit, assisted by Lancashire Constabulary and HM Customs and Revenue.Six men have been arrested after the haul was discovered when two cars were stopped and searched at a UK port yesterday morning....

Laverna March, 44, was stopped at about 3 p.m. Monday, March provided false identification and the trooper observed "indicators of criminal activity." The driver consented to a search of the vehicle, and police found a bag of white powder and brown powder that could not be identified, as well as five balls of a brown substance wrapped in plastic bags, police reported. A State Police canine scanned the substance and "alerted" to it, and the driver was taken into custody. The substance was tested at the state police Clearfield station and found to be one pound of heroin, according to state police. The other substances have not been identified.March was arraigned on charges of intent to distribute, possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Corey Ferguson of Alvaton was found guilty of conspiracy and aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine, out of the FADZ 4 DAYZ barber shop on Russellville Road.Ferguson was one of ten defendants facing a total of 30 counts. Eight of the others pleaded guilty to their charges in federal court and received a total of 67 years in prison. One of them pleaded guilty in state court

Dustin F. Bishop, 27, 1949 North 31st Road, Ottawa, was arrested at 7:26 p.m. on Interstate 80 at the Marseilles exit on complaints of driving under the influence (drugs), possession of a controlled substance (heroin), fleeing-attempting to elude police, reckless driving, endangering the life or health of a child and improper lane usage.Bishop was observed weaving in traffic on Interstate 80. When a deputy got behind Bishop's vehicle, Bishop made a "quick pass" around a semitrailer and then a quick exit from the interstate, according to a police report. Bishop's son was turned over to a family member. Bishop was taken to the hospital for further testing for the driving under the influence of drugs charge. Bishop then turned over several packets of heroin he had placed in his mouth.He was taken to the La Salle County Jail.

Montgomery appeared today in U.S. District Court before Magistrate Judge F. Bradford Stillman. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and requested a jury trial, which the judge set for July 9.A federal judge denied bond for former track star Tim Montgomery on federal heroin distribution charges.The former 100-meter world-record holder was arrested last week on a sealed indictment accusing him of dealing more than 100 grams of heroin in Virginia.Stillman said Montgomery is a flight risk and a danger to the community, noting he is accused of dealing heroin in Virginia four times to a government informant after he pleaded guilty in a New York-based check-kiting conspiracy. He is to be sentenced May 16 in that case.The 33-year-old Montgomery pleaded guilty in the New York case, admitting he helped his former coach, Olympic champion Steve Riddick, and others cash $1.7 million in stolen and counterfeit checks. He faces up to 46 months in prison. Eric Hurt, an assistant U.S. attorney, called t...

An Italian man has been jailed for seven years by Ipswich Crown Court after attempting to smuggle £118,400 worth of drugs through Stansted Airport. The man, Giuseppe Greco, 24 who was a carpenter from Sardinia attempted to smuggle the drugs on January the 16th 2008. For a reason that is still not clear Greco attempted to abandon his luggage containing the drugs at the airport but was stopped by Revenue and Customs officers.Greco, when challenged, claimed to have lost the keys for his baggage. However when they were scanned it was discovered that there were 33 rectangular packages inside them. As a result of the discovery the officers forced the locks on his baggage and a set of scales was found with most of the rectangular packages containing cannabis resin, along with two containing cocaine. Also inside were ten pellets that looked as if they had been made to be carried internally. Greco was sent to the local hospital to ensure that there were no more packages inside his body.In sente...

Faron Blanchard, 41, is charged with importing and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. He next returns to court June 3. Blanchard was arrested Feb. 27 after officers from the Canada Border Service Agency discovered 230 kilograms of cocaine in the cab of a transport truck entering Canada. It was the largest seizure of cocaine at a land border crossing in Canadian history. A court order preventing publication of evidence presented at Friday's day-long hearing was necessary to ensure a fair trial, Justice of the Peace Stewart Taylor said. Outside the courtroom, federal prosecutor Michael Robb said cocaine seizures are on the rise. Three significant seizures have been made at the bridge so far this year, and nine in the previous two years. Many involved commercial truckers carrying perishable produce from California. About 3,700 trucks cross the bridge daily and border officers can only conduct secondary inspections on about 35 of them. Because cross-border trade is t...

Carolina and Alejandro Gonzalez were arrested in August after officers with a search warrant went to their home in the 2800 block of South Jennings Avenue. Police have said the arrests culminated a two-month investigation in which undercover officers bought black-tar heroin five times at the house. When police executed the search warrant, they found nearly an ounce of heroin, scales, drug paraphernalia and a ledger that recorded who bought the heroin and the price.On March 10 -- the same day her husband died -- Carolina Gonzalez, 58, reached an agreement with prosecutors and was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to five charges of delivering and manufacturing a controlled substance, according to court records. According to court records, Alejandro and Carolina Gonzalez were arrested Sept. 4, 1996, for possessing 4 to 200 grams of heroin with the intent to deliver. Alejandro Gonzalez, then 69, and his wife each received seven years of deferred adjudication. Alejandro...

jury has recommended that a notorious local drug dealer spend life without parole in the state penitentiary after finding her guilty of drug trafficking.Formal sentencing for Diana Rallo, 55, has been scheduled for June 4.Testimony in Rallo’s trial began on Tuesday and continued through Wednesday when the jury eventually retired at about 1 p.m. It took jurors approximately two hours to return with a “guilty” verdict.The jury has also recommended that Rallo pay a $150,000 fine.A pre-sentence investigation has been ordered in the case.According to a probable cause affidavit, at approximately 8:30 a.m. March 22, 11th Judicial Drug Task Force officers set up a surveillance in the 1300 block of South Keeler Avenue. Rallo and a man named Jack Morrison pulled up in a vehicle and were immediately surrounded by police. Morrison reportedly got out of the vehicle without incident, but police say Rallo became combative, kicking, hitting and attempting to bite officers.After Rallo was secured, poli...

Andrew Martin, 30, 212 N. Salen St., Boston, was arrested after Richmond police pulled him over for suspicious driving. After a search, police found a rock of cocaine in his vehicle, but police did not know the exact amount on Saturday. Martin initially resisted a blood alcohol test and was escorted to Reid Hospital, where he was found to have a .15 blood alcohol level. The legal limit in Indiana is .08.He was taken to the Wayne County Jail on Friday and had made bail by Saturday night.

Susanna Binti Janury has been charged with drug smuggling after she allegedly arrived at East Midlands Airport with cocaine, said HM Revenue and Customs. More than three kilos of the class A drug cocaine were found in luggage with an estimated value of £150,000 - although this would have doubled or even trebled once 'cut' by drug dealers, HMRC said.UK Border Agency officers intercepted the suspect after she arrived on a flight from the Gambia. After questioning, officers searched her luggage and found the cocaine concealed in its base.Susanna Binti Janury was remanded in custody to appear before magistrates in Loughborough, a HMRC spokeswoman said.

Ashley Harmon, aged 27, of Lime Grove, Hinton, Hereford; Mark Sayce, aged 34, of Archenfield, Madley; Timothy Kaye, aged 26, of Archenfield, Madley; and Paul Kings, aged 35, of Springfield Avenue, Hunderton, Hereford; all admitted a series of charges related to supplying heroin and were each jailed for four years. His Honour Judge Richard Rundell told the four that evidence showed they had set up a “significant operation” to meet a ready market. Anthony Johnston, prosecuting, told the court that the gang used Kings’ flat in Hunderton to sell from and kept its stocks at Sayce’s home in Madley. A police surveillance team spent several weeks watching the flat between July and September last year to see a steady stream of addicts calling and deals being done. Another team was watching Sayce’s address at Madley. Sayce and Kaye were caught with more than £1,000 worth of the the drug that they had been seen buying in Gloucester when undercover officers stopped and searched their car. Raids on...