Drug Crime
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Increases in Intentional Drugging at Bars and Nightclubs Linked to Rape, Robberies
About 15,000 Americans are treated in hospital emergency rooms every year for intentional poisoning, according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The typical victims are at nightclubs or bars when perpetrators slip drugs into their drinks in order to make them pass out. Perpetrators then take advantage of their victims through rape, sexual assault, or robbery. After being intentionally poisoned, a person experiences drowsiness, loss of consciousness, and memory loss, and therefore is extremely vulnerable to crime.
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Drug Traffickers Caught Trying to Deliver Marijuana via FedEx
On March 23, 2009, several detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), along with a US Postal inspector, began a stake-out of Mail Plus, a commercial mail receiving agency, due to past mailing of illegal narcotics from the nearby US Post Office. Detective Beshai and Detective Winter’s primary duties were to profile the packages and track narcotics offenders who use the US Mail, Federal Express (FedEx), and other means of shipping narcotics across state lines.
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Drug Busts at the Border
It’s no secret that the US border is ridiculously porous. People, vehicles and drugs flow freely from the north and south into the United States, avoiding ports of entry, every day. And given the sheer volume of traffic at the official border posts, inspections there are random; many are waved through at a port without proper paperwork and with prohibited contraband, such as drugs. While only a small percentage of contraband shipments are actually intercepted, the actual amount and value of illegal drugs that are collected by border agents puts the breath of the US drug trade in alarming perspective.
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Drug Busts on Cruise Ships on the Rise
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Miami is noticing an alarming rise in the quantity of illegal drugs being imported into the US on cruise ships. With several million passengers traveling through South Florida to set sail on luxury liners each year, the area is ripe for drug traffickers.
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Another Day, Another Drug Tunnel
United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced the discovery of another US-Mexico drug tunnel. Found Thursday, the drug tunnel starts in a residential kitchen in Tijuana, Mexico and extends over two thousand feet (seven football fields) to the Otay Mesa industrial district in San Diego, California.
The sophisticated international tunnel contains rail cart transport, air circulation and lighting systems and is the second tunnel to be discovered in the same area this month. In fact, the two tunnels are within one half-block of each other. At the Mexican end, users dropped almost one hundred feet into a cinderblock entry vestibule and landed on a wooden floor. Upon exiting in the US, the user would climb a staircase into a room full of pot, almost fifty feet under ground.
Authorities have yet to determine how long this most recent tunnel has been in operation for. However, an investigation into surrounding warehouses began this summer as a result of a tip gleaned after a drug bust in San Bernardino. During the investigation, US law enforcement officials tracked a truck from one of the San Diego warehouses to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint in Temecula; they seized almost 30,000 pounds of marijuana that had been packed into the back of the trailer. Continue Reading
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Georgetown University Police Bust DMT Drug Lab in Student Dorm
Georgetown University police bust DMT drug lab
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Philadelphia Officers Steal Heroin from “Drug Dealers”
Two police officers from Philadelphia’s 25th district were recently arrested for trying to steal drugs from a drug dealer. Unfortunately for them, the “drug dealer” was actually another undercover cop. The pair, Sean Alivera, age thirty-one, and Christopher Luciano, age twenty-three, tried to rob a man whom they thought was a drug dealer. Up for grabs was over twenty pounds of marijuana and $3,000 in cash. The officers were on duty and dressed in their official uniforms at the time of the “arrest”. They initiated a traffic stop and, during the stop, took the pot and the cash. They then cuffed the pretend dealer and brought him back to the station.
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Reggae Singer Gets Mistrial in Cocaine Trafficking Case
Four-time Grammy award nominee Buju Banton, real name Mark Myrie, must be one very lucky Jamaican reggae star. A judge in Florida recently declared a mistrial in the singer’s drug trial; Banton was caught trying to buy cocaine form an undercover cop in 2009. If convicted, he could have received a sentence of life in prison.
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Drug Crimes in the News – August
Drug addiction often leads to crime because the addict must find ways to feed the ever-growing need for substances. It also leads to crimes in the community associated with the drug trade and trafficking. Here is a wrap-up of recent addiction-related crimes.
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Money Laundering by Drug Lords Expected to Intensify in Las Vegas
Those who believe Las Vegas is a wonderland for grownups may soon find it is also a wonderland for drug lords. According to a recent LVRJ report, “Sin City” could offer Mexican drug cartels the optimal location to get their money into the banking system and get around new laws in Mexico.
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