Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.
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MUMBAI (AFP) — Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty won bail Wednesday, nearly a month after being arrested for allegedly buying drugs
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Medical cannabis patients as young as 14 are urging the Supreme Court to take up a case challenging the constitutionality of classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that like his fierce critics, he has also suspected that extrajudicial killings may have happened under his drug crackdown that has killed thousands of people.
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Aiming to combat an epidemic of overdose deaths and open-air drug dealing in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods, the City Attorney’s Office is seeking civil injunctions against 28 repeat drug dealers who sell their wares in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
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Record seizures of cocaine indicate that the drug is more available than ever in Europe, and there is little sign that the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted smugglers and dealers, the EU narcotics agency said Tuesday.
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A Chinese drug trafficker on death row escaped from a jail near Indonesia’s capital after digging a 100 feet tunnel from his cell, police said.
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Mexican authorities say seizures of the synthetic opioid fentanyl so far this year are 465% higher than in 2019, but progress against another big Mexican export to the U.S. market — methamphetamines — is slower.
Read moreNarcotics officers were entitled to qualified immunity on a man’s claims relating to their mistaken arrest of him instead of his half-brother, who has the same name, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The man lost his job after local news covered the arrest. The court determined the record suggests the officers made an “honest mistake.”
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MUMBAI (AFP) — Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been arrested for allegedly buying drugs for her former boyfriend, the actor
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The Tennessee Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether district attorneys can treat pharmaceutical companies like illegal drug dealers and sue them for the damage the opioid epidemic wrought in their communities.
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A lawyer for Breonna Taylor’s family said a plea deal was offered to an accused drug trafficker that would have forced him to implicate Taylor, who was killed by police in a raid on her home in March.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly ordered the country’s top customs official to shoot and kill drug smugglers in one of his most overt threats during a deadly four-year campaign that has been the centerpiece of his presidency.
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A low-profile U.S.-Serbian gang has trafficked cocaine to Europe for decades. Some credit its longevity to friends in the shadows.
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Tossing out a court order forcing Florida prisons to treat inmates suffering from the early effects of hepatitis C, an 11th Circuit panel Monday ruled that state prison officials are not constitutionally required to treat all inmates who suffer from the disease with expensive antiviral drugs.
Read moreAn at-will employee has no cause of action for common-law invasion of privacy when they consent to the collection of their urine under the “direct-observation method,” during which a same-sex monitor visually observes the employee producing the sample, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
Read moreThe Covid-19 pandemic has shut down nightclubs, music festivals, concerts and raves worldwide, leaving many partygoers in a lurch. But New York University researchers have found the parties are moving online — and many socially distanced partiers are using drugs in these digital settings.
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An attorney for one of the three officers accused of aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd filed court papers attacking Floyd for drug use and saying that his client “did nothing wrong.”
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A last-minute battle is unfolding over the fate of a former paramilitary warlord who the Colombian government wants returned following a long drug sentence in U.S. prison.
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Money talks, they say, but for some, money also smells. Aki, a 9-year-old Belgian Shepherd dog based at Frankfurt’s international airport in Germany, sniffed out almost a quarter of million euros in cash from travelers in a few days.
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