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British Virgin Islands Premier arrested in Miami on drug trafficking charges
According to the Miami Herald, the Premier of the British Virgin Islands and the port director were arrested in Miami on drug trafficking and money laundering charges on April 28. According to a DEA affidavit filed by U.S. Attorney Frederic Shadley, Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Port Director Oleanvine Pickering Maynard ...
Scandal in the British Parliament: Cocaine found in 11 out of 12 Westminster’s restrooms
A well-known British newspaper published a report on Sunday, Dec. 5, claiming that in 11 of the 12 toilets in the Westminster building, traces of cocaine were found, including in the toilets near the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel. The report made by The Sunday Times, which ...
21-month-old toddler overdosed on cocaine, Florida couple charged with negligence
After their 21-month-old baby overdosed, a Florida couple was charged with child negligence. Kaitlyn Van Dorn and her partner Blake Pavey were arrested, facing felony charges, according to Sarasota County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kaitlyn Perez. The charges are connected with an incident, when a 911 call was received from a Venice home ...
Hugo Chávez ordered the flooding of United States with FARC cocaine
The former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, ordered his subordinates to coordinate actions to flood the United States with cocaine produced by the Marxist guerrilla FARC, since 2005. U.S. federal prosecutors reported these attempts by the leftist regime to harm American society, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal. For ...
26 kilos of cocaine wash up on Florida beach during Hurricane Dorian, police say
Rain and wind are not the only things that Hurricane Dorian is pushing onto Florida's shores. As the storm started crawling along the east coast of the state on Tuesday, Sept. 3, police said somebody found a suspicious package on a beach that turned out to be a brick of cocaine. Police ...
6-week-old boy found in Myrtle Beach hotel room with cocaine dies, 2 arrested
A 6-week old infant found unresponsive in a Myrtle Beach hotel room with cocaine has died, according to the coroner. The child died on Tuesday morning, Aug. 27, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. Myrtle Beach police said officers responded to a call on Sunday, Aug. 25, about an unresponsive infant at ...
Kilos of cocaine found in banana boxes at three Safeway stores in Washington
The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating after cocaine was found inside shipments of bananas at three Safeway stores in western Washington. The King County Sheriff's Office recovered 22 kilos of the cocaine at a Safeway store in Woodinville on Sunday, Aug. 18. The drugs were valued at roughly $550,000, King County ...
Georgia police arrested college football quarterback after mistaking bird poop for cocaine
Twenty-one-year-old college football quarterback Shai Werts, was falsely accused of being in possession of cocaine after Georgia Southern police mistook bird poop for a controlled substance. The video, which was recorded during the arrest on July 31, shows Werts was pulled over in Clinton, South Carolina, after officers said he was ...
Agents seize $77 million of cocaine at New York-area port
Customs agents have seized the biggest shipment of cocaine recovered at the ports of New York and New Jersey in 25 years. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 3,200 pounds of the drug in 60 packages were seized at Port New York/Newark on Feb. 28. The street value is estimated at ...
CBP officers intercept shipment of cocaine valued at over $19 million
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers working at the Savannah seaport last November encountered a commercial shipment of pineapples that originated in Cartagena, Colombia. During a physical inspection, officers discovered 450 packages weighing 1,157 pounds concealed in the produce. A subsequent field test confirmed that ...
Pompeo: US ‘deeply concerned’ about Colombia coca cultivation
The United States is deeply concerned about an increase in coca cultivation in Colombia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, but will work with the Andean country to cut production of th
The tobacco industry plays price games to make it even tougher to quit smoking
It is thought about two in three smokers want to kick their deadly habit, and with good reason – the same proportion of them are believed to die prematurely because of smoking. Around the world, the habit kills more than 6m people a year. Yet quitting is notoriously difficult. Smoking tobacco is an addictive habit that the UK ...
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