Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

Anthony Chambers, who prosecutors say stabbed his friend to death during a drug-fueled argument in a Chinatown apartment in February 2008.Authorities say Chambers, 52, is a homeless drug addict who frequently stayed at a friend’s studio apartment in Chinatown. On Feb. 10, 2008, they say Chambers and another friend, Edward “Red” Quiles got into a heated argument after Quiles accused Chambers of stealing his stash of heroin. “Drugs are part of the case,” said assistant district attorney Ian Polumbaum. “Drugs explain why these two men joined together, then collided, ending in a homicide.”Polumbaum’s case lays out a timeline where Chambers and Quiles spent a night buying and using heroin before passing out early the next morning. Later, the friend who had rented the apartment, woke up to hear the other two men fighting and “engaged in a physical scuffle.”“Find my [expletive]. Where’s my [expletive],” Quiles allegedly yelled at Chambers. “Mr. Quiles was accusing Mr. Chambers of stealing dru...

Paul Finney was stopped by police after he and another man were seen arriving at a house in Lanchester, County Durham, which was under observation by officers. He was subsequently found with two bags of cocaine - 40 grammes worth - with a street value of £1,500. "After being caught he attempted to eat [the drugs] but was prevented from doing so."Martin Towers, prosecutingProsecuting, Martin Towers told Teesside Crown Court: "After being caught he attempted to eat [the drugs] but was prevented from doing so." A search of the property in question revealed larger quantities of cocaine. Finney's phone also revealed text messages indicative of drug dealing, said Mr Towers. Meanwhile, a bedroom in the house, in Manor Grange, which was used by Finney's co-defendant Clive Roland, was also searched and 1.16g of cocaine was found in a jacket belonging to him, along with a can of CS spray. Both men had an assortment of previous convictions with 35-year-old Finney servi...

Adi Kauf-Stern, 20, of Tampa, Fla., was charged with second-degree robbery and possession of a controlled substance. Michael Smith, 19, of Mount Kisco, and Timothy Gallo, 19, of Water Mill, were charged with possession of a controlled substance, robbery and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon.Christian Webster, 20, of Southport, Conn., was charged with second-degree robbery, possession of a controlled substance and tampering with evidence when he threw an unspecified weapon into a storm drain, prosecutors said.Greg Sable, 22, a resident assistant at the New Complex dorm where the incident took place and the person whom police say was robbed, was charged with several counts of possession and sale of a controlled substance. Authorities said Sable had been selling Ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine and OxyContin out of his room.All five pleaded not guilty.Police say the accused robbers were dissatisfied with the quality of an earlier cocaine purchase.Bart Zienkiewicz, 18, a freshman from R...

Amanda A. Smith, 20, of Lindley, charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Third Degree – a class B Felony – and Unlawful Possession of Marihuana – a violation.

Juan J. Rodriguez, 21, of Rochester, charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Third Degree – a class B Felony – and Unlawful Possession of Marihuana – a violation.

Durran M. Henderson, 26, of Rochester, charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Third Degree – a class B Felony – and Unlawful Possession of Marihuana – a violation.

Michael J. Loza, 28, of Bath, charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Third Degree – a class B Felony – and Criminal Nuisance First Degree – a class E Felony.

Sonya L. Dennis, 41, of 17th Street, Niagara Falls, had pleaded guilty to fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance for having 5.9 grams of crack cocaine when police found her and another woman drinking in a parked car at Main and Niagara streets April 23.

Miss Teen Thailand 2007 was arrested yesterday morning for allegedly attempting to bribe state officials to the tune of Bt300,000 to let her alleged drug-dealing boyfriend walk free. The 20-year-old university student, Panthong "Nik" Khemthong, was arrested along with her boyfriend Chatchai Noppolkrang, 26 - who was named a major ya-ba dealer in Don Mueang area with a previous criminal record - in a police sting operation at 3.30am yesterday when they reportedly delivered the bribe to policemen. This followed Friday night's arrest of Chatchai, wanted for selling ya-ba and Ecstasy pills since last May as well as a night-time property intrusion and assault since February 9 at a Lak Si cinema. A search of his Mini Cooper found two fake drivers' licences and a pistol. Chatchai allegedly confessed to police that he had no ID card and used the drivers' licences in the name of Kampol Jorjong. He said he had bought the gun from fellow drug-dealers years ago. Chatchai then...

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Rizal Balgos, 60, who is now detained at the BI detention center in Bicutan after hiding in the country for more than two years.Balgos was arrested last March 6 by operatives of the BI law enforcement division in front of his residence in Barangay Macate, Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya.Earlier, Libanan issued the mission order for Balgos’ arrest at the request of the US embassy in Manila.“Like all the other fugitives that we have captured, he, too, will be deported to the US to stand trial for his crimes,” the BI chief said, even as he vowed to continue without the letup the BI’s campaign against foreign fugitives believed to be hiding in the country. According to BI Associate Commissioner Enrique Galang, Balgos was issued an arrest warrant by the US District Court in Hawaii in 2007 for narcotics distribution. Galang, who is also the commissioner-in charge on law enforcement, said Balgos was implicated in a corruption case involving officers of the Kauai police department who allegedly protect...

Arrested Gilberto Rivera, 25, of Oakdale and Felix Cruz, 29, of Brooklyn, after they completed a transaction in the parking lot of the Islandia Marriott Hotel on Saturday.Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and Major Walter Heesch, commander of the State Police on Long Island, announced the arrests at a Hauppauge news conference yesterday. Heesch said a kilogram of heroin - about 2 pounds - is worth about $350,000 on the street."We developed information from a confidential source," Heesch said. The district attorney, the Suffolk police and sheriff, and the Drug Enforcement Administration later joined the State Police.Spota said Suffolk had 63 fatal heroin overdoses in 2008 and that Rivera is "a major dealer."These dealers are flooding our community with cheap, potent heroin," Spota said. "It's reaching right down into high school."Detectives seized $25,000 in cash and 5,000 packets of heroin packaged for street sales from inside the men's c...

Luu Van Tuong, 44, was caught red handed on September 13, 2008 by the Tay Ninh provincial police while carrying more than 3.4kg of heroin from Cambodia to Vietnam via the Trans-Asia Highway. Police found 10 packages of solid substance kept inside a carton which was later identified as heroin. Tuong confessed that a Cambodian national named Bon had hired him to transport the carton to Vietnam at a cost of VND50 million. He also said that he had received VND32 million from Bon’s wife to successfully carry a box of heroin to Vietnam in August 2008. In the court room, the jury rejected Tuong’s petitions, upheld the first instance court’s ruling and fined him an additional VND30 million.

Correctional Facility officer John Gonda, 38, of White Haven, who authorities said “was selling large quantities of cocaine in the Wilkes-Barre area.”The motorcycle gang was responsible for dealing $3.6 million of cocaine throughout the Wilkes-Barre area, Corbett said in announcing Operation Avalanche.Corbett said 19 of the 22 people are in custody.The arrests were the result of a nine-month probe. SWAT teams raided several properties earlier this month, including at the group’s headquarters on Main Street, Ashley

Dasan Riddick,34, of Allentown was a target of a large scale drug operation in Monroe County involving the distribution of bricks of heroin.Riddick was arrested by police in the Saylorsburg area Tuesday night. A search of Riddick and his vehicle netted more than six bricks of heroin, marijuana and $1,400 in cash.The street value of the confiscated heroin is estimated at more than $6,000. Members of the Barrett Township Police, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Stroud Area Regional Police and Monroe County Detectives office assisted in the investigation leading up to the arrest.

Ramandeep Johal of Renfrewshire, Scotland claimed that a cousin from Vancouver had forced him to take shipmen of the drugs with $1.3 million in street value but Johal is looking at years in jail and a total collapse of his liquor business after pleading guilty. An Indo-British millionaire was busted after Canadian authorities found cocaine hidden in hollowed-out gravestones that was destined to his Scotland-based liquor distribution business. Ramandeep Johal had a memorial inscribed with the name of a fake dead Scots pensioner in a bid to fool customs men. We can reveal his deadly plan was smashed when Canadian Mounties detected traces of coke on the two-foot headstone for 70-year-old "Loving father & husband" Albert Thomas. The stone - which even had its own sentimental poem called Wings Of The Angels - was made of wood laminate and had been painted to make it look like stone. It contained 8937 grammes of cocaine, which was 53 per cent pure and had an estimated street va...

Alfredo Lira Jr.23-year-old of Dallas pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tyler to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Prosecutors say Lira was arrested April 16, 2008, in Dallas with about 13 pounds of cocaine.Investigators say Lira bought the cocaine in San Antonio, for distribution in the Tyler area.Lira also was wanted in East Texas on 2002 charges of distribution of methamphetamine. Lira last August pleaded guilty to those charges. No sentencing date has been set for Lira, who also faces a $3 million fine.

Moises B. Martinez Jr., a prison case manager, and guard Sylvia Castillo Chairez were indicted last week in Midland. Jacob C. Guzman was indicted on Jan. 28, though his Midland lawyer, Dan Wade, believes a second indictment was also issued last week. All three defendants worked at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos.Martinez and Chairez turned themselves in Tuesday morning. Guzman turned himself in earlier.Investigators said the three are accused of taking cash from inmates to smuggle in contraband including tobacco and cell phones.According to an indictment against Guzman, investigators allege the guard was paid $100 by someone in Tennessee to smuggle tobacco into the prison in September 2008. When the tobacco was found during a search before Guzman could go into the jail, the indictment alleges, he tried to destroy it.Wade declined to comment on the case against Guzman Tuesday.Court records do not list lawyers for Martinez or Chairez. Investigators said Martinez is accused of...

Charged Rafael A. "Benny" Rivera, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y., with three counts of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.He had already been charged Thursday with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communications facility. The new charges doubled his bail to $400,000. Rivera, Kailey R. Radnor, 20, of Zullinger and Joshua D. Gage, 28, Waynesboro, had their preliminary hearings postponed to March 24 in Franklin County Central Court, to give them time to consult lawyers. The preliminary hearing for the fourth suspect, Heather N. Manning, is scheduled for April 14. The Waynesboro Police officer assigned to the drug task force filed the charges on every suspect, but waited until Monday to file the charges against Manning. The drug task force identified Rivera as the supplier of large amounts of heroin into the area. Though he lives in New York, he allegedly shared a residence with Radnor on Zana Court in Washington Township. Inve...

Arrested Katie M. Luessenhop, 26, of 250 S. Edwards Blvd., Apt. 146, Lake Geneva, on charges of felony bail jumping. She is accused of having contact with someone she was prohibited from contacting under the provisions of her bond, Undersheriff Kurt Picknell said.The arrest was the result of an ongoing drug investigation, and a charge of felony possession of heroin also has been referred to the district attorney's office, he said.Luessenhop was released March 11 on a $10,000 cash bond and was scheduled to appear in court at 1 p.m. today.Luessenhop is charged with felony possession of heroin and misdemeanor possession of cocaine. She was arrested Sept. 18, after police were called to the school parking lot for a disturbance, according to the criminal complaint.She gave police a small wrapped container, which she said contained cocaine. She also gave police a file folder inside which was a small plastic bag containing a powder, according to the complaint. Police then searched her pur...

Shannon’s lawyer told the judge at sentencing Friday that his client is a “glorified mule” and that others ran the drug empire, but prosecutors say Shannon controlled a vast transportation network that used the Hells Angels for muscle. Shannon’s fleet of trucks carried pipes with marijuana stashed inside, trailers with false walls and drugs in RVs and even a church van. “It was huge. You're talking about tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine. Tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana,” said ICE Agent in Charge Leigh Winchell. Shannon set up shell companies with forged documents to move his vehicles through the border and even offered drug suppliers a guarantee against the cops intercepting the load. “If 100 of the 7,100 pounds of marijuana we seized during this investigation were taken off, the guys who provided the marijuana would be compensated and insured for a percentage of that load. It's big business,” said Asst. U.S. Attorney Adam Cornell. At sentencing, the judge didn’t...

Yvan Cech, 65, receive a 13-year sentence for his role in smuggling 700 kilos of cocaine, packed into aluminum ingots, into the country where much of it was sold to the Hells Angels.The sentence is considerable when Cech’s age is factored in, as well as the fact he has no prior convictions. At the time of his arrest in 2006, the Slovakian-born businessman, who is a Canadian citizen, owned and operated a hotel-casino in the Dominican Republic while splitting much of his time in Quebec City. But, Levasseur argued before Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer at the Montreal courthouse Friday morning, Cech played the most important role in the conspiracy as a high-level drug smuggler.The prosecutor pointed out that Richard Sanschagrin, a former police officer, received a 12-year prison term for role. Chagrin received the ingots once they entered Canada, warehoused the shipments before distributing the cocaine.Cech’s son-in-law, Atilio Martinez, a 47-year-old Kirkland resident, received a 9-...

Monica Aguirre shuffled her feet as she made her way to the lectern to address U.S. District Judge Felix Recio.During the hearing, Aguirre's attorney, Noe Garza, asked Recio to give his client time to clear pending judicial matters. The matters include a pending arrest warrant for failure to appear in Cameron County Court-at-Law No. 3 and various unpaid traffic tickets in Los Fresnos.Because of the pending judicial matters, Recio denied bond and said, "There is no condition or combination of conditions that would reasonably assure the defendant's appearance at further court proceedings."Aguirre, charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was arrested March 4 as she allegedly tried to cross the B&M International Bridge driving a red Jeep with 15.35 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment. Her two infant sons accompanied Aguirre. The children were released to the custody of a relative.

Edvinas Leonavicius, 25, arrived at the Eastern Docks on May 8. UK Border Agency officers discovered the drugs in 17 brown-taped packages hidden beneath the gear stick in the centre consol of the vehicle he was driving. When questioned by HMRC investigators Leonavicius stated he was visiting Chester as a tourist for one week. The parcels contained 12 kilos of ecstasy and half a kilo of cocaine, worth £260,000. Sentencing at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday Her Honour Adele Williams said: "There was a degree of sophistication with this importation, containing a quantity of dangerous class A drugs which wreak havoc with peoples lives."

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, is one of 38 new billionaires.For eight years Joaquín Guzmán Loera reportedly managed his international drug smuggling operation from behind bars while enjoying a lavish prison life with access to booze, women and a home entertainment system. Then in January 2001, facing extradition to the U.S., Guzmán slipped into a laundry cart and escaped.Since then "El Chapo," or Shorty, as he is called, has tightened his grip on Mexico's drug trade as head of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine to the U.S. It is a lucrative business to be in these days. Thirty-five million people in the U.S. use narcotics or abuse prescription drugs, spending more than $64 billion annually. The Drug Enforcement Agency and other industry experts believe Guzmán, 54, has controlled anywhere from a third to half of the wholesale Mexican drug market over the past eight years. In 2008 Mexican and Colombian traffickers laundered between $18 billion and $39 billi...

Sandy Rodriguez Brito, 21, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was apprehended Saturday night at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport while waiting for two drug mules to fly in from the Dominican Republic. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Brito at the airport about 10 p.m.Brito fled from a Salem motel room on Nov. 25, when one of three drug mules he hired began absorbing small bags of cocaine lodged in her digestive tract, according to police and court documents. Mally Cruz Rodriguez, 25, was pronounced dead at Caritas Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Mass., shortly after her sister, Nelly Cruz Rodriguez, another drug carrier, called 911.Nelly Cruz Rodriguez also suffered from drug intoxication and was rushed to an area hospital to have several bags of cocaine removed from her. Federal officials revealed yesterday that a grand jury has indicted Brito and four others in connection with the case. They are Brito's sister Dionaliz; a cab driver Escolastico Suero, 45, of...

Keith Morez, 60, from Sevenoaks, and his unemployed fellow gang members Chris Brown, 55, from Greenhithe, and Gerard Dutton, 61, from Suffolk, were each given 10-year sentences at Kingston Crown Court.The Metropolitan Police’s Projects Team spent several months investigating the organised criminal network, which involved importing and supplying cannabis from southern Spain, as part of Operation Cromer. Det Insp Grant Johnson said: “This group was highly organised in the way they imported drugs.“They used criminal contacts in the UK and Spain, going out of their way to disassociate themselves from the cargo by using false companies and deliberately deceiving legitimate haulage companies.”The Met’s Projects Team passed intelligence onto Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers who searched a Spanish registered lorry in April last year finding 1.5 tonnes of cannabis resin with a street value of around £4.2million.The lorry was seized in Coquelles Port in Normandy, France, and ha...

Francisco S. Perez, posted the $20,000 bail and disappeared — only to be caught Wednesday with a cache of weapons, including an assault rifle, body armor, marijuana and other drugs.This time he is being held without bail, Deputy Pima County Attorney Richard Wintory said.Perez's story is not uncommon, said Wintory, who contends judges often set bail too low because they rely on questionable information or mistaken perceptions.To prove his point, Wintory had staff members compile statistics on bail conditions set in all Counter Narcotics Alliance cases for the past five years.They found nearly a quarter of those arrested by the alliance disappear after they are released, Wintory said — a statistic he calls especially alarming because they may be among the most dangerous offenders in the community. While their motivation is drug running, the nature of the business frequently involves weapons, violent assaults, home invasions, kidnappings for ransom and even murder — sometimes with inn...

Philip Doo, 52, of Higher Manor Road, Brixham, David Mufford, 44, of Clennon Court, Clennon Lane, Torquay, and Christopher Wiggins, 42, from Spain's Costa del Sol, are charged with attempting to import 1.7 tonnes of cocaine — believed to be valued at more than 500 million euro (£440m).The three Britons have been remanded in continuing custody after they appeared in court yesterday in connection with the cocaine seizure by Irish Navy, Irish police and Customs in a joint task force operation off the West Cork coast last year.The trio were due to go on trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court but barristers asked for the case to be put back to the next session so defence teams could continue discussions with state prosecutors. "Certain communications are ongoing with the state," said Marjorie Farrelly, senior counsel for Wiggins.three men were detained last November after the authorities swooped on the 60ft ocean-going boat Dances With Waves, 170 miles off the west Cork coast.Se...

Ruden Portillo, 32, of Danbury, Conn., and Jose Rodriquez, 38, of Brooklyn are being held at the Putnam County jail and are due in Brewster Village Court Monday night. Smith said that members of the narcotics enforcement unit developed information that the pair were involved in street-level cocaine sales.Undercover officers, posing as buyers, purchased cocaine from the men on several occasions, Smith said. The two were arrested Feb. 26 during a buy-bust operation. They were collared after selling cocaine to undercover deputies, Smith said.Police seized cocaine, marijuana, cash and fake identifications from the men, Smith said.They were charged with five counts each of third-degree criminal sale and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, felonies.Portillo is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail and Rodriquez on $50,000 bail.Smith said that Portillo, a Guatemalan national, and Rodriquez, from the Dominican Republic, may be in the country illegally. Both men were repor...

Reginald Love, 23, who listed an address in the 200 block of West Bradley Avenue, Champaign.Love was charged last week with two Class X felony counts of delivery of a controlled substance but was arraigned on the counts Wednesday.Assistant State's Attorney Sarah Carlson said Love is accused of selling about 2 grams of cocaine on Dec. 5 and again on Dec. 9 from his home to an informant working with Champaign police.Both transactions, which occurred within 1,000 feet of Stratton Elementary School, were recorded on videotape, Carlson said.If convicted, Love would have to serve the sentence after any he might receive for a 2008 possession of controlled substance case for which he was free on bond when the December sales allegedly occurred.Love's bond was set at $1 million. He was released from jail Tuesday after posting $100,000 cash

Darrell Woods, 19, of the 1600 block of Harper Drive, Rantoul, was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and driving under suspension after his arrest Tuesday by Rantoul police.Assistant State's Attorney Lindsey Clark said police tried to pull over Woods' car on Century Boulevard for a traffic violation. As officers approached, he sped off with the police following. Clark said Woods eventually stopped the car, got out and ran. He was caught not far away.Woods was searched at the jail and 17 rocks of crack cocaine, weighing 7 grams, were found in his underwear, Clark said.The drug charge alleges Woods had the drugs within 1,000 feet of St. Malachy School, making the offense a Class X felony, punishable by six to 30 years in prison.If convicted, Woods would have to serve the sentence after whatever sentence he might receive for a 2007 aggravated driving under the influence conviction. The state is attempting to revoke his probation in that case.Jud...

Miguel Angel Mejia to give up all he learned in more than two decades in the bowels of the Colombian underworld, the implications could be dramatic for cocaine smuggling. Miguel and his twin brother, Victor, whose organisation became known as the "Twins Cartel", worked their way up the criminal ladder, starting as assassins, then specialising in moving large cocaine shipments by sea, into the US and into Europe via Albania."He has told me that he wants to fully cooperate with the justice system," said Angélica Mari­a Marti­nez, a lawyer for Miguel Angel Mejia, who is now on US soil awaiting trail on drugs trafficking charges.The Twins were largely unknown until 2001, when $35 million (£24 million) in cash was found in two of their flats in Bogota. The Twins then bought their way into the illegal Right-wing paramilitary United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (known as the AUC), setting up a private army and a fiefdom in the eastern province of Arauca, astride the str...

Arrested Julian Burford and Turner D. Williams after officers from Cleveland, Bedford and Garfield Heights seized 70 pounds of cocaine that police said had a street value of $5 million. Investigators learned during a three-month joint investigation that the shipment would be delivered from California to Cleveland. Police worked with federal authorities to track the shipment. The Iowa State Highway Patrol seized it Thursday and turned it over to Cleveland police. Both men are in Cleveland City Jail for investigation of aggravated drug trafficking. No charges have been filed. Burford, 40, won the local Golden Gloves boxing tournament and twice advanced to the semifinals of the national tournament, where he notched a win over future middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor. Burford then turned pro, compiling a record of 12-2 with 10 knockouts. He lost his last professional fight in 2005. Johnny Avon, one of Burford's former trainers, said the boxer could have been a star. "It...

Antonio K. Overton, 25, was convicted last week of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and four other drug trafficking charges.Two of the charges are first-degree felonies, the most serious. Two are fourth-degree felonies, and one is a third-degree felony.Prosecutor Mark Miller had asked the court to impose a 10-year sentence, while Overton's attorney, Jeremy Levy of Toledo, argued for a three- or four-year term.Under law, Overton faced a mandatory three-year sentence on just the corrupt activity offense.Overton was one of 14 people indicted last summer following a two-year investigation of a cocaine distribution ring by the Hancock METRICH drug task force.He was one of the ringleaders in the drug enterprise, and was found to have sold cocaine in Findlay on several occasions while the ring was operating between 2006 and 2008.Authorities said Overton would bring drugs to Findlay and “set up shop” at motels here. He sold some of the drugs himself and also arranged to have “runn...

Peter Gill, 39, of Penrwyn Court, Eynesbury, and Kramer Craft, 29, of Seymour Road, Benfleet, Essex, both deny conspiracy to supply class A drugs. They are accused of the adapting the lorry and organising the transportation of the drugs following scouting missions to Amsterdam.Huntingdon Crown Court was told that the drugs had been hidden in a specially-adapted brake cylinder and the lorry brought back into the country by third party driver. Prosecuting, Bridget Petherbridge said: "There were two cylinders on a lorry that normally has only one." She said Mr Craft, formerly from Eynesbury, picked up a parcel of cocaine from the driver at Thames Industrial Park, in East Tilbury, but only after a delay. The driver was due to arrive with the drugs on March 20, but was a day late and Mr Craft had to book into a hotel and meet him the following day.Miss Petherbridge told the jury that the pair had used the codenames when discussing the drug transportation on mobile phones and refer...

Jorge Luis Posada Guevara arrived on Saturday. Officials say he was to hand the cocaine stuffed in dried soup boxes to Hidsar Orlando Henriquez Parada, who has also been charged, to take to a man in Wheaton.Last month, authorities say another man was caught carrying more than 14 pounds of cocaine hidden in dried soup packets at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Colombia extradited reputed cocaine kingpin Miguel Angel Mejia on Wednesday, making him the 16th paramilitary warlord dispatched to the United States on drug trafficking charges in less than a year.The 49-year-old Mejia was an anomaly among far-right militia bosses. After initially demobilizing in a peace pact with the government, he returned to being a fugitive and authorities say he ran a major drug gang.His extradition Wednesday aboard a DEA Super King turboprop plane was confirmed by Col. German Jaimes, deputy director of Colombia's judicial police, who said Mejia was bound for Washington, D.C. News media were not invited to witness the departure. Police killed Mejia's twin brother and alleged crime partner Victor in an April 2008 raid. Mejia himself was captured the next month in a false compartment in a truck cab. The United States had offered $5 million rewards for the capture of either Mejia, who were known as the twins, "Los Mellizos" in SpanishMiguel Angel w...

Financial Investigation Unit successfully applied to Chorley Magistrates' Court to have £14,175 forfeited by Martin Gowan, 44, of Great Meadow, Astley Village. Gowan used to run the Rose and Crown pub in St Thomas's Road, Chorley, and was also a well-known karaoke DJ.He was arrested by police on May 7, 2008, and later pleaded guilty to possessing a Class A drug and intent to supply cocaine.Gowan also admitted a lesser charge of possessing cannabis resin.In Feburary he was jailed for 18 months and his fall from grace was completed when he had to forfeit £14,175 under the Proceeds of Crime Act, half of which was returned to Lancashire Constabulary.Tests revealed the cash recovered was heavily contaminated with cocaine.Insp Alison Harris, who co-ordinated the raid on Gowan's home last May, said: "This conviction is really good news for the community in Astley Village. Last year's raids were conducted with intelligence from the local community and it shows the good re...

Beau Michael Yakimishyn, 26, has forfeited his northeast Edmonton home, his $20,000 motorcycle and his $80,000 customized car as proceeds of crime.Yakimishyn yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking cocaine and is slated to begin a two-day sentencing hearing in Court of Queen's Bench this morning.According to agreed facts, Yakimishyn sold cocaine at the ounce and kilogram level between April 23, 2005, and Feb. 14, 2006, and was involved in purchasing the drug and distributing it to street-level dealers.As a result of the wiretap operation by Mounties from Alberta, British Columbia and Newfoundland, as well as police from Edmonton and Calgary, it was learned that Yakimishyn was going to Calgary to buy cocaine in January 2006.He returned with more than four kilos of the drug, with an estimated value of $100,000, and converted half of it into crack cocaine at his residence. He then gave an unidentified man three kilos, however that person was nabbed after leaving Yakimishy...

Kiel Povall, of Birkenhead, was sentenced in Jersey and received five years. Working as a courier, the 21-year-old was stopped at Jersey airport in August last year by Customs officials, minutes after landing on the island.He was found to have 12 packages of cocaine hidden internally, which amounted to 167 grams of the drug. Sir Philip told Povall: “In Jersey, we hate drugs, especially Class A drugs, because they cause misery to those who become addicted to them and they cause distress to their families as well.”Police on British islands like Jersey and the Isle of Man have launched high-profile operations to stop dealers from cities flooding drugs across from the mainland.Steve Le Marquand, director of law enforcement at Jersey Customs, said: “Both these men are typical drugs couriers.“Jersey has a strict zero-tolerance approach to drug smuggling in any form, and any individual who endeavours to bring illegal drugs to the island will be prosecuted with the full force of the law.”

Timothy Pierce, 24, was arrested after he was caught bringing in 2,400 Ecstasy tablets across on a ferry from Portsmouth.The Birkenhead man was stopped last October by Jersey Customs officials as he arrived at the island.Following a search, the drugs haul was found hidden in bottles of shampoo, shower gel and talcum powder in a toiletry bag.Sentencing Pierce, the Bailiff of Jersey, Sir Philip Bailhache, said: “You behaved foolishly and others are going to suffer as a result of your folly.“But we have to punish you, as you will understand.”

A British woman who flew to China to start a new life with a man she met on the internet has been jailed in Australia after he forced her to smuggle drugs. Victoria Nicholson's story was revealed today as police in Sydney began an investigation with the Chinese to track down the cruel hoaxer.The school teacher wrote 'Love is blind' on an internet dating site as she searched for a companion after a string of failed relationships. 'Love is blind': Victoria Nicholson is in an Australian jail after she was fooled by a Nigerian drug runner whom she met online Miss Nicholson endured several abusive relationships, but raised two children.She headed off to Turkey for a holiday and met a man in Fetya who was to become her husband - but the marriage failed when she found out he was a gigolo trying to use her to get British citizenship.Her search for love on the internet was 'like an addiction' she told Sydney's Sun-Herald newspaper in an interview in a Sydney pri...

Richard Rudolph Gayle, 38, was yesterday apprehended at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) at approximately 5:00 hours by the Police Narcotics Unit, under the suspicion that he had swallowed pellets containing cocaine. The suspected cocaine swallower, Richard Rudolph Gayle, who was apprehended at the CJIA yesterday.Gayle is currently under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after X-rays of his abdomen showed several foreign objects in his stomach.The Jamaican, who arrived in Guyana on February 26, was an outgoing passenger at the CJIA bound for Trinidad and Tobago when he was searched by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). Their initial search discovered no drugs on his person, but Gayle was later detained by the Police Narcotics Unit. Gayle is said to be cooperating with the police, as he has taken the laxatives necessary to help him pass the pellets out of his system.A few weeks ago another Jamaican national, Errol Barrette, spent three d...

Steven Atiyeh, 33, of Miami, was returned to U.S. police on the weekend after being intercepted Feb. 17 while arriving at Pearson on a flight from Mexico, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Atiyeh was detained at Pearson on an immigration violation as Canadian officers suspected he was sought in the U.S., said CBP Chief Kevin Corsaro. "He was arrested due to the excellent work by our Canadian counterparts," Corsaro said yesterday. "These are very serious offences." He said record checks revealed Atiyeh was the subject of a U.S. warrant issued in February 2002 by the District Court of Southern Florida. Atiyeh faces a number of charges including conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 kilos of cocaine. Officials aren't sure if Atiyeh has family members here.

Accused drug dealer Richard Buttrose was arrested after police discovered more than $1.3 million in cash and 7.7kg of cocaine hidden in a Darling Point apartment. Buttrose, the father of a 21-month-old son and whose wife Pollyanna is expecting to give birth on Monday, was released on bail on Thursday after police had allegedl already caught him selling $2500 worth of cocaine.Yesterday morning, about 9am, as he was reporting to Rose Bay police station to meet his bail conditions, police seized the opportunity to arrest him again. While he stayed at his mother's Vaucluse home overnight they had raided the Darling Point apartment on Sutherland Crescent believed to be connected to him.Detectives estimate the street value of the cocaine found there yesterday would be about $2 million. Police said the latest raid was part of a crackdown on street-level drug dealing in Sydney's eastern suburbs and that their investigations were continuing.Buttrose, who is the son of the publishing ico...

Andrew Haig, from Peacehaven, was arrested in Bristol with £34,000 cash - and told police he found the money under a hedge while relieving himself. Haig, of Cavell Road North, was jailed for three and a half years for conspiracy to supply cocaine on Friday. He was caught after selling cocaine to a dealer described as a ‘regional supplier’ in Bath. A list of names and sums of money then led detectives to other members of the drugs ring. Five men were jailed at Bristol Crown Court following a police operation involving 52 days of surveillance at a Bath nightclub. Duncan Whitefoot, 48, from Chippenham, was jailed for eight years for conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis. He was found with 1kg of cocaine of 48% purity, which police said he had just bought from Haig in the car park of an Ikea store, and ten bars of cannabis resin. He ran Burdells Yard nightclub in Bath, along with Stephen Carter, 54 of Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire, who was sentenced to five and a half years on the same c...

Travis M. Smith, 30, must serve 85 percent of the sentence issued by Judge J. Derham Cole before he is eligible for parole.Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies arrested Smith and Joey Wood, 29, of Moore during a Feb. 12, 2008, traffic stop. Deputies said Smith fled on foot after stepping out of a vehicle in a hotel parking lot on South Blackstock Road, but he was captured after a brief pursuit.Deputies said they saw Smith throw a plastic bag that contained cocaine while he was trying to flee. Charges against Wood are pending.Smith's criminal record includes prior convictions for possession of cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine.

James Lotharp on Friday was sentenced to three years in prison for drug possession by Senior Erie County Judge Michael L. D’Amico. One of a dozen people arrested in a March 2006 sweep of Buffalo drug houses, Lotharp, 38, of Lafayette Avenue, was convicted Dec. 6 on a drug-possession charge for concealing crack cocaine in a magnetic key case hidden in his car. He was arrested at about 7 p. m. March 15, 2006, on Virginia Street near Locust Street. Trial Prosecutor Paul J. Glascott said Lotharp has a prior drug conviction.

Ian Donaldson, 29, was snared by Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency officers on Friday afternoon. They swooped using an international arrest warrant issued by a judge in Madrid. Now Donaldson, of Renton, Dunbartonshire, faces extradition to Spain where he is expected to face money laundering and drug trafficking charges. The arrest is part of Operation Sendero - a long-running investigation spearheaded by Spanish police. Fellow suspects Ronald O'Dea, 4 2, and Jim McDonald, 59, both of Glasgow, are already in custody in Madrid.They were arrested following the seizure of 70 kilos of amphetamines from a lorry in Oxfordshire heading for Scotland. Spanish police have already seized assets worth £12million on the holiday island of Tenerife. The haul includes eight luxury homes, a fleet of sports cars and a yacht which were all owned by Donaldson. One of his properties is a £1million cliff-top villa. Donaldson will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow. A decision will be tak...

Gary Robb, who ran The Colosseum Club in Norton in the 1990s, faces four conspiracy charges - conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs Ecstasy, amphetamimes, cannabis and cannabis resin between 1994 and 1996, and also failure to surrender on July 24, 1998.Gary Robb, 46, and his mother Mavis, 71, appeared at Teesside Crown Court before the Recorder of Middlesbrough Judge Peter Fox QC yesterday.His mother was charged with two offences of doing acts tending and intending to pervert the course of public justice between September and November 1997 by assisting him to flee from the UK.Their barrister Mark Harries said that they would be pleading not guilty, and there would be an application to move the trial to another part of the country because of previous publicity.Mr Harries said a bail application for frail Mrs Robb would be made next Thursday.The Robbs, whose UK address was formerly West Road, Denton Burn, Newcastle, were both remanded in custody until May 29.