Crystal meth, cocaine, ammunition discovered during traffic stop | stop, ammunition, traffic - Top Story - Brownsville Herald: "nervousness that Hector Castillo, 21, of Brownsville, and Fernando Gonzalez Alvarez, 31, of Matamoros, displayed indicated to the officers that this was not going to be any routine traffic stop for a mere traffic violation, said Brownsville police spokesman Eddie Garcia on Tuesday. The traffic stop happened at 6:30 p.m. at the 400 block of FM 802 on Monday. “The individuals were very nervous and that was very suspicious as far as their actions. The investigation lead to the discovery of cocaine inside,” Garcia said. “It was luck that the officer came across this.” A search of the 2007 Nissan Altima lead to the confiscation of a powerful drug – nearly 26 pound of crystal meth - that is not commonly found in Brownsville, police said. Authorities also confiscated 46.23 pounds of cocaine. Police later went to a nearby storage shed where they seized some 584 assault rifle magazines and more than 300 rounds of ammunition."
George Clooney galpal caught in cocaine scandal? - BostonHerald.com: "Elisabetta Canalis, the Italian model who has been dating Hollywood hunk George Clooney for the past year, has been implicated in a cocaine scandal that led to the arrest of five people in her home country. According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, two years ago, authorities began investigating two Milan nightclubs that were allegedly running an escort-and-prostitution ring fueled by alcohol and cocaine. The clubs, Hollywood and The Club, were regularly frequented by celebrities. French model Karima Menad, 26, has testified that she “had done cocaine” with Canalis in both Milan hot spots."
West Australian police fear a lethal batch of heroin may have hit Perth's streets after three fatal drug overdoses were reported within 24 hours.
Since 4pm (WST) on Thursday, three men have died due to heroin overdoses, including a 54-year-old businessman who was found dead at his West Perth office, police said.
A 40-year-old was found dead on a freeway overpass in the Perth CBD at about 9pm, while a 31-year-old overdosed in his home at about 10am (WST) on Friday in the northeast Perth suburb of Ashfield.
Police are carrying out toxicology tests as part of the post mortems to determine whether the deaths resulted from a bad batch of heroin cut with other substances to bulk up the quantity, Detective Inspector Alan Morton said.
The heroin could also have been of a much higher purity than usual, he said.
Det Insp Morton said the men did not know each other, and each death was a separate case.
Drug users should be cautioned, he said.
"There's nothing significant about the three of these that set it apart from any other heroin users, so if drug users are thinking they can outsmart or use safely, they can think again," he said on Friday.
"They are playing Russian roulette with their lives."
Det Insp Morton said there was nothing to suggest an increase in heroin use or a spike in the amount of the opiate hitting Perth streets.
Last year police attended 30 suspected deaths due to drug overdoses.
So far this year police have attended 15 deaths.
Eric Dillon from the Drug and Alcohol Office said many users had no idea what was in the heroin they were buying, and the deaths overnight highlighted just how deadly the drug was.
"The reality is that people just don't know what they are getting," he said.
"If people do get into difficulty, they should call an ambulance without delay."
WOMAN charged with trying to extort almost $800,000 from John Stamos says she had a photo of the actor snorting cocaine in 2004 in Florida, where he was unwinding after a separation from his supermodel wife.
Allison Coss, 24, testified in the Federal Court in Michigan yesterday, where she and co-defendant Scott Sippola, 31, are accused of demanding money from Stamos and threatening to sell photos to magazines of him with strippers and cocaine.
Defence lawyers have argued it isn't a crime to make a business deal, but prosecutors say it's a ruse and the photos don't exist.
Coss admitted she lied in emails to Stamos to try to get him to pay.
new legal highs had flooded the market since mephedrone and naphyrone were banned this year.Chairman Professor Les Iverson said it was difficult for these to be policed. Naphyrone, which is sold as NRG1, was legal until being reclassified as a Class B drug after research from the ACMD showed it could be 10 times more potent than cocaine.Responding to the BBC investigation into the online mephedrone trade, Professor Iverson said: "At the moment we're floundering. We haven't got adequate mechanisms to combat the internet crime. And it is internet crime if you're selling a banned substance."
Experts say it is now impossible to know what you are taking because as soon as one compound is outlawed, another slightly different one takes its place.
The ACMD has suggested a blanket ban on all chemicals similar to mephedrone and naphyrone.
It is an open secret that our prisons are awash with drugs. The evidence points to the fact that the bulk of drug dealing, as well as the smuggling of mobile phones, into prisons is highly organised and involves the collusion of around 1000 corrupt members of prison staff – an average of seven for every prison in England and Wales."
Australian arrested in Bali over cocaine: "Angus McCaskill, 57, a New Zealand-born Melbourne investment adviser, at a news conference yesterday, during which he covered his head to hide his face. Mr McCaskill had been living in Seminyak, an upmarket district north of Kuta Beach, when police arrested him last Wednesday after allegedly receiving information from a local. As he was led into the conference, Mr McCaskill told reporters he had made a ''silly mistake'' and told police he had used the drug for the first time the day before he was arrested. ''I'm very, very sorry,'' he said. He told reporters he had been watching the World Cup and had drunk a lot. ''I was very, very drunk.' Police said they caught Mr McCaskill with six packets of cocaine in his wallet after they watched him walk into a supermarket in Tuban, near the international airport at the southern end of the island. Police said they then took sniffer dogs to his villa but did not find any more drugs. They said a urine test confirmed that he had been using the drug. Police said Mr McCaskill had been living on a tourist visa for several months at Bobo Villa, near the resort area Ku De Ta. But the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said he was a long-term resident of Bali. It said it was providing consular assistance to Mr McCaskill and his family, who live in New Zealand."
Lindsay Lohan’s Cocaine Accidentally Thrown Away By Cop: "Apparently Lindsay Lohan’s 2007 DUI arrest could have been even worse! TMZ is reporting that the police offer who pulled Lohan over thought her cocaine was breath mints and threw them in the garbage. According to the police report filed by the Santa Monica Police department, the officer:"
Suspected Crack and Heroin Overdose for Jennifer Capriati | Celebrity Dirty Laundry: "Jennifer Capriati overdosed and was rushed to hospital in Riviera Beach, Florida. Jennifer Capriati has been using hard drugs since at least 1994 when she was arrested in Coral Gables, Florida for marijuana possesion and her two friends arrested with her were busted for heroin and crack – all 3 had been partying in a cheap motel and her friends told the Coral Gables cops that Jen had been using these drugs for at least the last 2 years! This explains both her premature career demise and her overdose last night. Poor girl couldn’t handle the pressure of being a star and now can’t handle the reality of being a failure"
The Press Association: Air stewardess faces cocaine charge: "Elphia Dlamini, 42, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday morning after officials found about 3kg of the Class A drug during cabin crew checks, the UK Border Agency said. She was a member of the crew on South African Airways flight SA236 from Johannesburg to London. The drugs, which were discovered by a sniffer dog, had an estimated street value of around £120,000, according to officials. Dlamini, from Cape Town in South Africa, is due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court charged with attempting to import a Class A drug."
The report, to be released Monday, finds that the area has seen an increase in people admitted to emergency rooms for heroin-related problems. It now has more than any other metropolitan area.
Other trouble signs include soaring overdose deaths in the collar counties, a high percentage of inmates at the Cook County Jail testing positive for heroin and an increase in the number of people injecting the drug."
The dead man, possibly a West Norriton resident, had been carrying 16 bags of suspected heroin and $1,200 cash, which police recovered at the scene, according to Norristown police Chief Russell Bono. Identification found with the corpse puts the person’s age at 39, however, because of the advance state of decomposition, investigators are resorting to analyzing dental records to positively identify him."
The Death Penalty in Singapore: "Singapore drug laws fail miserably as a deterrent": "efforts to save Yong Vui Kong, who received the mandatory death sentence in Singapore for drug trafficking, face an almost impossible battle. It is a case that absolutely screams out for compassion: a foolish, confused and handicapped youth ill-used by faceless drug kingpins. His appeal for clemency has already been rejected by the president of Singapore who ought to have used his office to mitigate the appallingly harsh law under which Yong was convicted despite the small amount of drugs he was found in possession of.
Singapore's Law Minister is reported to have said: 'Yong Vui Kong is young, but if we say, we let you go, what is the signal we are sending?' One might reply that it will signal there is still a shred of mercy left within the island's justice system. And can the minister really be so unforgiving that commuting the sentence to life imprisonment is equated to 'letting you go?'
Perhaps the minister is alluding to the possibility that drug kingpins will be encouraged to use young persons as couriers if Yong is not executed. But this is to imagine that drug kingpins, contrary to everything we know about them, actually care about the fate of their mules. To think that the island will be flooded with drugs if one less person is executed or the law made more discriminating is indeed a case of paranoid thinking."
The Death Penalty in Singapore: "Singapore drug laws fail miserably as a deterrent": "Death Penalty in Singapore For murder and drug trafficking in Singapore, the death penalty is mandatory. The 'mandatory' clause means judges have no discretion to apply a lighter sentence, even if the drug offender is a teenager or have mitigating factors.
The law concerning the death penalty for drug traffickers is rigid and outdated, with no regards to factors such as age, background of the offender and other special circumstances. That is why we seek to raise public awareness and support for the review and abolishment of the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers in Singapore.
Removing the 'mandatory' clause in the law does not remove the death sentence for capital crimes like drug trafficking. It only gives judges the authority to impose a lesser punishment to a drug offender on a case-by-case basis."
Prescription drug abuse exceeds heroin, cocaine and ecstasy combined: "Rates of prescription drug abuse worldwide are higher than those for the use of cocaine, ecstasy and heroin, combined, according to a new report by the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Boards (INCB).
'Abuse of such drugs has been spreading over the world in recent years,' said report co-author Hamid Ghodse of St. George's University in London. 'It needs to be tackled urgently.'
Ghodse said that prescription drug abuse is a 'hidden problem,' and it is difficult for authorities to get comprehensive data on the scale of the abuse. Recent high-profile celebrity deaths from prescription drug abuse, such as that of Michael Jackson, have brought more attention to the issue, however."
Methamphetamines affect the brain in numerous ways. The drug tricks the brain into thinking that extra dopamine is released. Eventually, the brain shuts down.
Police chief: Cartels threaten U.S. law enforcement in Arizona - CNN.com: "Speculation about death threats by cartels towards U.S. law enforcement has been widespread for some time, but this is the first time U.S. officials along the border confirmed a case. The threats began less than two weeks ago, after off-duty police officers from the Nogales police department seized several hundred pounds of marijuana from a drug smuggling operation they stumbled upon while horseback riding in the eastern fringes of Nogales, the chief said. The smugglers in the incident managed to flee into Mexico before they could be detained, Nogales Police Chief Jeffrey Kirkham told CNN."
Koppel’s Son Had Heroin, Cocaine, and Prescription Drugs in System at Time of Death -- Daily Intel: "There was more than just booze coursing through the veins of Ted Koppel's son when he died in a stranger's apartment in Washington Heights last month. According to coroners, 'he died from acute intoxication due to the combined effects of alcohol; heroin; cocaine; diazepam, the generic form of Valium; and Levamisole, a drug used to cut other drugs.' It was ruled an accident. Andrew Wemberly, the stranger who befriended him and went on a drinking binge at his side, eventually taking him home to sleep it off, had said at the time: 'There was a lot of alcohol. He didn't take anything else [drugs] around me, and neither of us ate all day.' That dude's not talking today."
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