Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

Delfon L. Hare of Riverdale on Friday, based on his recent and prior drug convictions. Once Hare is released from prison, he must serve 10 years of supervised release.According to a guilty plea in Hare's case, he sold cocaine in Hyattsville and elsewhere in Prince George's County on three occasions in 2006. Prosecutors say law enforcement officers observed all three transactions and recovered the drugs.

Megan Smethurst, 20, was apprehended at the Peace Arch border crossing after an inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 2.3 pounds of ecstacy, worth an estimated $10,000, in her purse, according to a press release by the Border Protection. Smethurst was a participant in the NEXUS traveler program. NEXUS participants are prescreened, low-risk, frequent border crossers who have undergone a background check, according to Border Protection.

Raymond Owen had more than 1kg of cocaine, worth more than £55,000, and almost £214,000 cash scattered about his rented house on Grantham Green, Middlesbrough. Bundles of £2,000 to £50,000 were unveiled under boards in the loft, behind a bathroom wash basin, in the cupboard under the stairs, under drawers, behind the cooker and washing machine and even in the vacuum cleaner.The 44-year-old admitted possession of cocaine with intent to supply and concealing criminal property.Robert Mochrie, mitigating, said Owen was profiting from cocaine dealing but the cash in the house was money that he owed, not his.Owen was caught in a “web” of cocaine addiction and pressure to store and supply drugs to pay off spiralling debts. But Judge Peter Bowers said Owen was heavily involved in the commercial supply of cocaine.

Michael Hunt’s home in Haswell Court, Stockton, was searched by police on April 19 last year and Hunt, 30, threw a package containing 24.3g of heroin, worth £2,430 on the streets, out of a window, Teesside Crown Court heard.Digital scales and 11 pieces of paper carrying his phone number were also found, said prosecutor Harry Hadfield.While on bail during long delays bringing the case to court, Hunt, pictured, was caught with heroin on April 1 this year.He ran from police in Talbot Street, Stockton, and discarded three packages in a garden. They contained a total of 280.6g of heroin worth £14,180.A drugs squad officer believed only a trusted member of the illicit drugs market would be caught with that amount, the court heard. Hunt had some scales in his pocket and 2.3g of cannabis.He admitted two charges of possessing a Class A drug with intent to supply and one of possessing a Class C drug.He had previous convictions, but none for drug dealing.Brian Russell, for Hunt, said Hunt was int...

Adam D. Meyer, 22, formerly of Dixon, and Elizabeth S. Lawyer, 26, were arrested Thursday in the apartment they share on state Route 84.They are in Winnebago County Jail. Meyer, whom investigators believe is the shooter, is being held on $1.5 million bond; Lawyer, who is accused of providing the gun, is being held on $1 million.According to investigators, the afternoon of May 27, Larry "Chico" D. Wright, 36, was sitting in his car on Parmele Street and 20th Avenue in Rockford when he was shot. The arrest was the result of a tip made to State Police in Sterling, Blackhawk Area Task Force Master Sgt. John Biffany said."It was a heroin deal gone bad," Biffany said.Two weeks before the shooting, Meyer was charged with misdemeanor possession of a hypodermic needle for heroin use. Lawyer has a misdemeanor conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show. No further arrests are planned at this time, Rockford police said in a news release Thursday.

Marisol Sanchez, 39, of 659 State St., Apt 2B, was charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute, two counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and violation of a drug-free school zone, police documents state. Sanchez also had an outstanding default warrant. Julia Ann Santos, 33, of 102 Waite St., was charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute, three counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and violation of a drug-free school zone, documents state.

Charles Joseph Campbell Sr., 50, was arrested for possession with intent to deliver marijuana and for maintaining a drug house. He posted $1,000 bond and was released. Cathy Lynn Campbell, 52, was arrested for maintaining a drug house and was released on a personal recognizance bond. Charles Joseph Campbell Jr., 19, was released on a personal recognizance bond after his arrest for possession of marijuana. The family was booked at the Mackinac County Jail. Moran is a small community just north of St. Ignace.

Antonio T. Mickens, 22, was charged with trafficking crack cocaine, and possession with intent to deliver cocaine and Ecstasy; while McKenzie C. Rogers, 24, was charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin and marijuana, and resisting arrest, police said.Also, Tyrone L. Carson, 23, was arrested on warrants charging him with armed robbery and assault and battery with intent to kill in connection with a May 23 robbery and shooting on School House Road, police said.The three men were among 60 people arrested in the special operation, police said.The department’s Community Response Team, K-9 and Organized Crime/Narcotics units, Gang Task Force and road patrol officers participated in the arrests.

Filiberto Parra Ramos, nicknamed "The Bitch", was arrested along with 58 other men on Saturday (local time) by soldiers who raided a childrens party in a neighbourhood of Tijuana across the United States border from San Diego, California."When they identified him they separated him from the group," a spokesman for the Baja California state police said.Parra Ramos is considered one of top leaders of the Tijuana cartel, which is headed by the Arellano Felix family.President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 troops and federal police to fight the well-armed cartels that smuggle cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines to the US.About 1,550 people have died this year as drug gangs battle each other and security forces.

Alice English, a 55-year-old mother of four and grandmother of 12, who worked as a guard for 16 years, was found guilty last month by Quebec Court Judge Patrick Healy on four counts of trafficking in drugs and one of conspiracy to traffic.Both the Crown and defence had suggested a sentence of 5 1/2 years.Healey's decision gives English 64 months and one week in jail - five years, four months and one week. During her trial, Healy dismissed court testimony English gave in February as "self-contradictory." He accepted without argument an earlier confession by English videotaped by investigators during which, he noted, the accused appeared relaxed and even joked.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."The gravity of the offence was compounded by the breach of trust that had been...

Filiberto Parra Ramos, nicknamed "The Bitch", was arrested along with 58 other men on Saturday (local time) by soldiers who raided the party in a neighbourhood of Tijuana across the United States border from San Diego, California."When they identified him they separated him from the group," a spokesman for the Baja California state police said.Parra Ramos is considered one of top leaders of the Tijuana cartel, which is headed by the Arellano Felix family.President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 troops and federal police to fight the well-armed cartels that smuggle cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines to the US.About 1,550 people have died this year as drug gangs battle each other and security forces.

Michael Dudas pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to conspiracy to import marijuana. He is scheduled to be sentenced in September. Dudas, 35, front man of a Canadian rock band faces decades behind bars after admitting he smuggled loads of marijuana is among dozens of people arrested in a two-year investigation that nabbed drug smugglers flying tons of drugs across the Canadian border into Washington.Key members of the smuggling operation were arrested in 2005 in Snohomish County. Dudas is among the many drug smugglers who have used Snohomish County as a distribution point for their operations. Earlier this month, federal authorities arrested the suspected kingpin of a multimillion-dollar drug ­trafficking ring with ties to the Hells Angels. The traffickers used the county as a shipment hub, authorities said.Three Snohomish County residents also were indicted in connection with the smugglers busted June 5, including two people who are accused of storing the dope on their properties...

The former Delta employee, 42-year-old Leslie Adgar, and 1 of the former TSA workers, 44-year-old Jon Patton, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin.Two former employees of the Transportation Security Administration and a former Delta Air Lines employee assigned to Atlanta's airport have pleaded guilty in federal court to involvement in a drug-smuggling operation. The other former TSA worker, 24-year-old Andre Mays, pleaded guilty to entering a secure airport area in violation of screening requirements.Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 17. Adgar and Patton face a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. Patton could receive up to one year in prison.

A woman and her three daughters have been arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the United States in what the port director called a "first." U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that the four Brownsville women were detained late Wednesday night at an international bridge after a dog smelled narcotics on their 2006 Mercedes.The women tried to flee back to Mexico, but were caught. Customs officials noticed "unusual bulges" on the bodies of mother Maria Venegas Viuda de Trevino, 59, Adriana Trevino, 23, and Evelia Trevino, 27. Also arrested was Laura Trevino, 31, who was driving. The daughters are all U.S. citizens. Their mother is a Mexican citizen living in the U.S.In total authorities seized nearly 37 pounds of cocaine with a street value of more than $1.1 million. The four women are being held pending a hearing.

Christopher Ferraro, 29, of Doncaster, organised safe houses for the storage of drugs for the syndicate, which called itself The Company. The Supreme Court heard Ferraro's friends from his days at Whitefriars College, Joseph John Mansour and Bart Rizzo, ran the drug business while Mokbel was on the run in Greece. While Mansour and Rizzo allegedly personally received instructions from Mokbel, Ferraro did not know him and played a lesser role involving storing amphetamines and drug-making chemicals in return for cash. From January 2006 to June 2007, the group moved 42kg of speed with a wholesale value of $4.2 million but with a street value many times that, the court heard. Ferraro's cut was $500 for each pound of amphetamines he stored for The Company. Defence lawyer Rob Melasecca said his client wasn't in it for the money. He said Ferraro, who has cerebral palsy, was bullied as a teenager because of his disability. He felt indebted to Rizzo and Mansour as they were his clos...

Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal officials said.Keys told officers he was wearing a diaper and when they asked if there was anything in the diaper, he 'shook his head affirmatively.'Officers then removed a package containing about 257 grams of heroin from the diaper."

The U.S. Attorney's Office in New Haven announced Monday that Wilfredo Abrahante, 29, of Graveline Ave., was given ten years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release after court evidence revealed phone conversations from May 2006 in which he set up drug deals at his former residence, 238 South Colony St. in Meriden.His brother William Abrahante, 29, of North Second St., was convicted of operating through a third-party in the basement of his residence, which police said was operated as a crack house.

Mahmood Hussain, date of birth 21/09/1976, Buckingham Street, Rochdale - jailed for 14 years Michael Hogan, 07/07/1961, Sawyer Street, Rochdale - jailed for 10 years Carl Singleton, 04/03/1975, Great Lee Walk, Rochdale - jailed for 8 years, 6 months, plus 4 months of an unexpired sentence. Gazanfer Hussain, 11/12/1981, Lightwood Road, Normacott, Stoke-on-Trent - jailed for 6 years Bilal Moghal, 06/10/1958, Vincent Road, Sheffield - jailed for 6 years Shaied Iqbal, 04/08/1976, Drummond Road, Aston, Birmingham - jailed for 6 years, 6 months Mohammed Yousaf, 18/06/1969, Normandy Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham - jailed for 8 years Ansar Iqbal, 25/05/1977, Selston Road, Aston, Birmingham - jailed for 8 years Abdul Jangeer Aziz, 06/12/1980, Stockingstone Road, Luton, Bedfordshire - jailed for 5 years, 9 months Shezad Rehman, 27/06/1980, Meir Road, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent - jailed for 6 years Gang was behind large-scale drugs trafficking in Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Birmingham and Bedford. ...

Sean Walker, 40, of 45 Medford Street was placed under arrest after police, armed with search warrants, conducted a search of Walker and his home. The search yielded several thousand dollars as well as crack cocaine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. Police also seized a loaded .25 semi-automatic handgun, a plastic bag containing several .38 rounds, a camouflage body armor “flack jacket” type vest, $7,889, an 8 gram bag of a substance believed to be heroin, 350 grams of a substance police believed was crack cocaine, fifteen bags of what is believed to be marijuana, several plastic bags thought to contain cocaine, drug packaging, a digital scale with white powder residue, communications devices, and personal papers.Walker is being charged with trafficking crack cocaine over 200 grams, possession with intent to distribute Class “B” substance offense, possession with intent to distribute Class “A” heroin, possession with intent to distribute Class “D” marijuana, school zone violation, unlaw...

Shoade Cao, 21, of Sunnybank, Do Hyung Lee, 27, of Eight Mile Plains, Francis Vui Jan Lee, 25, of Stafford Heights, and Alice Yun Hsuan Yang, 22, pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to conspiring to import narcotics between August and December 2004. The court heard the crew used a similar modus operandi and some of the same people who were involved in the Bali Nine.Commonwealth prosecutor Stephen Hall, who revealed intimate details of the group's organisational structure and planning, said that Cao, Yang and Lee were couriers and allegedly recruited by Do Hyung Lee, or "Korean Danny", for two trips.He said Lee allegedly helped organise another earlier expedition involving two men he had recruited from a Brisbane karaoke club, promising that they would earn $10,000 if they successfully returned to Australia with drugs.That trip was abandoned when the two mules backed out. Sydney man Khanh Thanh Ly, jailed last December for conspiring to import heroin, yesterda...

arrested Colby Weymouth, 20, on charges of aggravated cultivating of marijuana and possession of heroin, both Class C felonies. On Friday evening, state troopers and an agent from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency went to an Industry Road home to conduct a probation check on someone living with Weymouth at 50 Industry Road, Casavant said. When they arrived, they detected an odor of green marijuana. A search warrant was applied for and carried out with the assistance of Franklin County sheriff's officers where 48 marijuana plants were being grown. They also found a loaded rifle and a small amount of heroin, the trooper said. The street value of the heroin is about $300 and if all the marijuana plants grew to maturation, the street value would be about $72,000, Casavant said. Weymouth was released on $1,000 cash bail.

Arrested Robert Santana Jr., 24, who had been watched. When Santana left his house at noontime, police stopped him, seizing $1,270 cash and three cell phones. Santana gave officers a false name, calling himself Luis Feliciano, police said. A search of Santana's apartment turned up 13.2 grams of heroin, three scales, a grinder, utility bills in the name of Luis Feliciano, drug packaging materials and $69 cash. Santana was charged with possession of marijuana, distribution of heroin, possession of heroin with intent to distribute, false name to a police officer and possession of a false Registry of Motor Vehicles document. Three people, who detectives of the street narcotics enforcement unit said they saw hanging around on the corner of Tower Hill Street and Oregon Avenue waiting for a drug dealer while the detectives were waiting for a warrant to search Santana's home, also were arrested.They were: Nicole Eaton 24, 63 Washington St., Groveland, on a charge of knowingly being pre...

David Baez, 39, of 48 Saratoga St., Apt. 3, Lawrence, was in court Wednesday to plead innocent to a charge of distribution of heroin in a case involving the Haverhill Police Narcotics Unit, assisted by state police."This has been an example of a series of arrests we've been making where we have been targeting heroin dealers out of Lawrence," Arahovites said.After Baez's release shortly before noon Wednesday, undercover police had a hunch that he might be operating again — and they were right. Police arrested Baez for attempting to sell heroin to an undercover police officer. In addition, they arrested his driver, seized drugs, money and a 1995 Nissan Maxima. Baez was charged with distribution of heroin and a drug violation in a school zone. Jose Medina, 36, of 70 Union St., apartment 1, Methuen, was arrested on similar charges. "On the second deal, we guessed it may be him. When we grabbed him, we were as surprised as he was," Arahovites said. "In my ca...

Vietnam arrested three Australian women after authorities found heroin in the hotel room of two of them and in a packet hidden on the body of the third as she tried to board a plane home, state-controlled media reported Friday (13 June).Early Thursday (12 June), police arrested Trang Bich Hong, 28, and Lam Mong Chinh, 25, after finding heroin in their hotel room, Tien Phong (Pioneer) newspaper said. Late Wednesday (11 June) they detained a woman, who was unidentified, at the airport in southern Ho Chi Minh City after authorities found 250 grams (0.5 pound) of heroin hidden in one of her body cavities.The newspaper said the three, all of Vietnamese origin, were being monitored by Australian police for several months for their suspected role in trafficking heroin from Vietnam.Police were not available for comment Friday and officials at the Australian Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City would not comment. Last week, police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested another Australian woman of Vietnamese ori...

Van Quyen Ken Tang, 41, of Vancouver, appeared in court Thursday charged with possessing and importing commercial quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy. Australian police pegged the value of the haul at $78 million.Australian newspapers report that neither Tang nor three others applied for bail when they appeared in a Melbourne Magistrate's Court. They will be held in custody until their next appearance on Sept. 4.Australian Federal Police and Customs officers had been watching the container and swooped when four men began to unload it, Assistant Commissioner Tim Morris told the Melbourne Herald Sun."It's currently the subject of ongoing investigations, both here in Australia but certainly with our international counterparts in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police," he said. "Obviously we have a lot of questions, and investigations are now taking place in Canada to look at the other end of the syndicate."Also charged are three Australians -- Son An...

Spiros Katos, 50, is charged with intent to pervert the course of justice, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and accessory after the fact to cocaine importation.He is also charged unlawfully assisting Mokbel to flee the jurisdiction while on bail.Katos was remanded in custody and ordered to face court on September 20 for a committal mention. He did not apply for bail.He was charged last night following an interview with Purana taskforce detectives at the St Kilda Road police complex, after which he faced an out-of-sessions hearing at St Kilda Road.Mokbel absconded while on trial on drug charges in Melbourne in March 2006 and was arrested in a cafe in Athens on June 5, 2007.The alleged plot to smuggle Mokbel out of Australia involved a luxury yacht, illicit money transfers and the use of a rural hideaway, according to police.He was recaptured in suburban Athens in June last year and extradited to Melbourne on May 17 following a lengthy legal battle.Five people were charged ear...

Andrea Henry, 39, of Ettington Avenue, Park End in Middlesbrough was jailed for six months and her partner Wayne Walshaw, 32, of Saltburn in Cleveland was jailed for 12 months at the hearing in Montego Bay.Charges against Henry's 17-year-old daughter, Toni Bellamy, were dropped and the teenager will be deported to the UK, a spokesman for HM Revenue and Customs said.The trio were arrested at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Sunday on suspicion of swallowing packages of cocaine, the spokesman said.They had been due to board a flight to Manchester. The court also handed down fines of 350,000 Jamaican dollars (£2,488) to Walshaw and 250,000 Jamaican dollars (£1,777) to Henry.Both face an extra six months in prison if they fail to pay.

23-year old Nicola Black from Galway city was arrested in the Republic of Suriname two months ago. Two packages of cocaine had allegedly been strapped to Nicola Black's thighs when she was arrested by police in the South American Republic of Suriname over two months ago.She was boarding a plane to Amsterdam at the time. Nicola's been held in prison ever since and her mother Maureen has had no direct contact with her. Her mother lives at 83 Drom Chaoin on Bishop O'Donnell Road in the city

Middlesbrough woman, her partner and a 17-yerar-old girl have been arrested in Jamaica suspected of attempting to smuggle drugs.The three were arrested at the Sangster international airport in Montego Bay on June 8th by the Jamaican authorities.Police claim the two women were caught attempting to smuggle cocaine internally and all three are suspected of swallowing packages of cocaine before boarding a flight back to Manchester.The trio were arrested as part of Operation Airbridge, a UK Border Agency initiative working in partnership with the Jamaican authorities, aimed at catching drug smugglers using the island as a gateway to the UK and Europe.Tony Walker, from the UK Border Agency, said: "The use of such young people in smuggling drugs demonstrates the ruthless nature of those criminal gangs involved in the illegal narcotics trade and the misery they cause. "The dedication of UK and Jamaican drug detection officers has prevented deadly class A drugs from entering the UK. ...

Park Lane Safe Deposit Ltd raided. The raid that closed it down — and two others in Hampstead and Edgware owned by the same people — had been planned for eight months with 300 officers, sniffer dogs and enough firepower to start a small war. The Metropolitan police's assistant commissioner John Yates said it was an "unprecedented operation". Each of the 7,000 boxes would be treated as a potential crime scene. Suspected offences involved ran the gamut of organised crime: drugs, human trafficking, prostitution, fraud, firearms and money laundering. Many of the boxes may have been rented with false identities. Forty-eight hours after the police went in, they revealed some of their findings: £14m in cash, a firearm, counterfeit currency, passports, chequebooks and credit cards, a substantial amount of high value jewellery and four paintings — three landscapes and still lives in the 17th century Dutch style and a 20th century Russian portrait. At the Hampstead centre, an Edwar...

Officer Geovani Nunez and Detective Jorge Hernandez, both 13-year veterans of the Miami Police Department, were paid a combined $39,500 by a man they thought was involved in numerous illegal businesses, prosecutors said. That man, however, was secretly an FBI informant and all of their conversations were taped.U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said the case was particularly disheartening in a year when several South Florida police officers have died in the line of duty."It is sad that a handful of individuals choose to repay their colleagues' sacrifice through criminal conduct," Acosta said.Nunez and Hernandez were released on bail after appearing briefly in court Friday. Their lawyers said they would fight the charges, which carry potential life sentences.Nunez's attorney, Michael Catalano, said the FBI sting means that all of the allegedly illegal conduct was staged and not real."They are charged with committing crimes that did not exist," he said.It's...

Alfred Porro, 42 years of age, of Governor's Street.The arrest took place after it was discovered that cocaine had gone missing from the exhibits storeroom at New Mole House police headquarters. He was on police bail.Subsequenly, it was reported that cannabis had gone missing from the Irish Town sub-station.Porro has also been charged with theft of a rucksack, a portable play station and games.Police say that following the discovery of the missing cocaine, investigations led detectives to carry out further checksof drugs stored at both police HQ and Irish Town station. Fifty kilos of cannabis resin were found missing, of which 15 kilos have been recovered.Porro retired early from the RGP and was later employed as a civilian storeman. A police statement says he was yesterday released from police bail and charged. "He is currently interdicted," said a spokesman. Porro is appearing in court this morning.

The chief of Kendleton’s fire department was arrested after an undercover drug bust, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.The Fort Bend County Narcotics Task Force had been investigating 43-year-old Dannie Conners because of reports that he was selling crack cocaine. During a raid of Conners’ home, deputies said they found crack cocaine, marijuana, weighing scales and packaging materials.Conners has been charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana. He was booked into the Fort Bend County Jail.

Matthew Roberts, arranged drug deliveries of more than £1m to his home town of Maesteg, was handed down a 17-year sentence.As he jailed the group to a total of 82 years, Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC told Roberts, 36, and his nine co-conspirators that they were helping to spread a “cancer in society”.He said: “Almost daily in this court I listen to cases involving people whose lives have been destroyed by the use of Class A drugs and it is the same story in other courts.“Between June 2006 and February 2007 you conspired to bring substantial quantities of cocaine with a value of up to £1.2m from Liverpool.“In addition there was £48,000-worth of cannabis and an amount of amphetamine which the Crown has been unable to calculate.“In my view drugs are cancer in our society.”He said Roberts had been at the centre of the conspiracy and his wife Diann Lee, 42, who lived with him in a luxury self-build home had been willing to share the lifestyle drug dealing brought, although she belie...

The Mounties say six of the seven Montreal-area suspects arrested face a total of 17 criminal counts related to importing drugs and conspiracy to import drugs. Three employees of a catering service have been arrested after authorities dismantled an alleged cocaine-importing ring at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The three were among seven men who were nabbed Wednesday as about 60 police officers moved in. The trio were employed by Entreprises Cara, a company which provides services to the travel industry and the Montreal airport. The Mounties say six of the seven Montreal-area suspects arrested face a total of 17 criminal counts related to importing drugs and conspiracy to import drugs. RCMP Insp. Andre Lemyre says the arrests followed an investigation that began in August 2006. "The goal of the investigation was to dismantle an alleged criminal organization that specialized in importing cocaine at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport,'...

John Briscoe showed the gardai 52 ecstasy tablets when they entered the house and he told them he had more stashed away upstairs. He took them to his bedroom where he produced a shoe box full of tablets. He told them he was getting paid €1500 to mind the tablets for another person, whom he refused to name.John Briscoe (32), No 1 Mingban, Ballycrissaune, Portumna, received a six-year prison sentence at Galway District Court last Friday afternoon after pleading guilty to having 9,640 ecstasy tablets, with a street value of €96,460, in his possession which were for sale or supply to others at his home on July 16, 2006.Briscoe, whose date of birth is July 8, 1975, and co-accused, Philip O’Dwyer (24), Ballykeeland Road, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, were both arrested and detained for questioning after gardai raided Briscoe’s home in the early hours of July 16, 2006, and gatecrashed a birthday party which was in full swing at the time.O’Dwyer pleaded guilty last week also to being found i...

Police raided three houses at Burnside and Reservoir about 6am today as part of the Mokbel investigation, codenamed Operation Magnum.The raids were the culmination of a 14-month operation targeting associates who allegedly used proceeds of crime to organise Mokbel's great escape.A man and two women were arrested and were this morning being questioned at St Kilda Road police complex. The arrests come almost three weeks after Mokbel was extradited to Australia in a dramatic end to more than two years on the run.The drug boss disappeared while on trial for cocaine smuggling in March 2006.It is believed he was holed up at an associate's property in Bonnie Doon, in Victoria's high country, before fleeing Australia eight months later.Mokbel was arrested in Athens in June 2007 and returned to Australia via a luxury Gulfstream jet on May 17 after a seven-month extradition battle.He is serving a minimum nine years' jail at Barwon Prison's high security unit after being convi...

James Anthony McCabe, 39, was due to stand trial yesterday on armed robbery and drugs charges in the NSW District Court. But he agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of robbery in company, with the drugs charges to be considered only as an aggravating factor when he is sentenced. McCabe, a Victorian police officer on secondment to the National Crime Authority, was charged after a NSW Police Integrity Commission investigation in 2004. The commission heard evidence from several NCA informants that McCabe and his partner, former NSW police officer Samuel John Foster, set up drug deals and stole cash and drugs in phony busts. Foster and McCabe were investigating Asian organised crime for the NCA, now the Australian Crime Commission. "The methodology involved was to arrange a purchase of prohibited drugs from a person known as a drug trafficker," a statement to the court said. "As the deal was finalised, Foster would arrive with another person and pretend to arrest those ...

Mohammad Asif has been arrested at Dubai airport on charges of possessing illegal drugs, cricket officials said Tuesday.The 25-year-old Asif was seized while returning home from India after featuring in a domestic event which ended on Sunday, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials said."Yes, we can confirm about Asif's arrest. He was stopped at Dubai airport on charges of carrying opium and was supposed to be brought before the magistrate on Tuesday," the official said.PCB human resources director Nadeem Akram said he was in Dubai and has also hired a lawyer to assist Asif."I am in Dubai as part of the PCB's efforts to get Asif cleared. As far as we know a contraband item was in his wallet which he himself did not know and it's in a very small quantity," Akram told AFP by telephone."He was detained at the airport and was interrogated. As far as we know no first incident report has been lodged as yet but police have conducted several tests on Asif in...

Tatum O'Neal, who was this week arrested for allegedly buying crack cocaine, said she was tipped over the edge by the death of her dog three weeks ago. O'Neal may face up to a year in jail after being charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. It was reported she was caught buying crack cocaine from a homeless street vendor three blocks from her Manhattan home. Former drug addict O'Neal has reportedly blamed her dog's death for pushing her over the edge. "Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the police came and saved me," she said, The New York Post reports. "There's no excuse for what I did. I lost my Scottish terrier, Lena, three weeks ago. That seemed to set me off." A judge released her from custody yesterday on her own recognisance and she was ordered to return on July 28. At the age of 10, O'Neal became the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award for her supporting role in Paper Moon, in wh...

Lamon Glenn Washington, 34, and Tammi Mae Chapman, 20, were sentenced recently to serve 87 months and 32 months, respectively, for their involvement in a drug conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine, prosecutors said. Washington -- also known as "Monte" -- was accused of paying Chapman to bring in the drugs from Seattle on two occasions in the spring of 2006, according to prosecutors. Chapman later recruited another courier to replace her; that courier was caught in the summer of 2006 and has already been sentenced. The conspiracy involved a total of more than 2 kilograms of cocaine, according to prosecutors. Judge Ralph Beistline imposed the sentence.

Vicente Esteves, 35, and his wife, Chantal, 30, masterminded a cocaine smuggling ring from their fortress-like home and amassed a wealth of luxury goods that included dozens of pairs of Prada shoes and around 100 Rolex watches. The two were arrested on conspiracy and money laundering charges after a 14-month investigation, federal and county officials said. The $1 million (£500,000)-a-week operation used commercial airline flights to move drugs from Mexico and Colombia into the United States and to send millions of dollars back, investigators said. The proceeds were then allegedly laundered through two real estate companies run by Esteves that had no legitimate business. Authorities described the opulent lifestyle the couple led behind the gates of their home in New Jersey. The couple "attempted to hide behind the beauty of suburbia," said Gerard McAleer, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey office. "It's like something out ...

Johnnel Bowens, 31, and Sandy Wilcher, 41, both of Jersey City, were charged with possession and distribution of drugs, resisting arrest, aggravated assault on a police officer and other charges around 6 p.m. after being caught with 2,000 bags of heroin and more than 1,000 vials of cocaine, reports said.Two cops responding to the tip knocked on the door of an apartment at 177-183 Bergen Ave., where a caller said a group of possibly six male non-residents carrying three bags had entered, reports said.Bowens opened the door approximately 10 inches, and cops observed three tennis ball-sized clear bags and one sandwich bag of a white powdery substance, one black plastic bag, a digital scale, a yellow bowl and a box of empty clear glass vials on a table 10 feet from the door in plain sight, reports said.Bowens yelled and attempted to slam the door on the police before he and Wilcher ran and exited from a bedroom window - with Wilcher losing a shoe in the process. They were spotted by two ba...

Mark Standen, 51, of Bateau Bay on the NSW Central Coast, an assistant director of criminal investigations with the commission, was arrested this afternoon at his Sydney office by Australian Federal Police (AFP). A 45-year-old Maroota man was also arrested over his alleged involvement in the syndicate following AFP raids at properties in the Sydney suburbs of Blacktown, Campbelltown, Alexandria, St Helens Park Maroota, the Sydney CBD and Bateau Bay on the Central Coast this afternoon, the Australian Federal Police said."The AFP can confirm that this evening a 51-year-old man and a 45-year-old man were each charged with offences in relation to an alleged conspiracy to import border controlled precursor chemicals into Australia,'' an AFP spokeswoman said.The spokesman said the 45-year-old man was not an AFP officer, NSW police officer or border control officer. She was unable to say whether he had been released on bail. Mr Standen is one of two assistant directors of crimina...

Tim O’Toole was arrested in Marbella as the gang prepared to transfer the shipment, originally from Venezuela, to speed boats off the coast of Spain. The drugs were destined for all parts of Europe, with millions of pounds worth heading for Britain’s streets. O’Toole – known as the Invisible Man – masterminded the huge transport operation. Last night a British customs source said: “O’Toole was a major player as the sentence indicates. “This was Europe’s biggest cocaine smuggling network and it was the first of what were intended to be a series of large-scale shipments. “Had this not been stopped, tons of the stuff could have ended up in Britain.” Middle-aged O’Toole, from Ireland, had a luxury villa and fast cars in Marbella. He also spent time in London. He was arrested three years ago after a year-long inquiry codenamed Operation Tulle. It involved British Customs, the Met Police and cops in Spain and Portugal. O’Toole’s assets were seized when he appeared in court in Madrid. The gan...