James Welch, 19, of Colbert, Georgia, during a late-night traffic stop December 22. Stopped for speeding at 81 m.p.h. in a 45 zone on the North Bypass, Welch was arrested and charged with possession, manufacture, or distribution of a controlled substance; and with speeding. He was released December 26 on $25,500 bond.
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Michael Corbett, 38, his wife, Marisabel, 26, and another woman, Marie Lafond, 20, saying they were growing marijuana and selling cocaine with children present, arrest affidavits state.
Michael Corbett was being held at Orient Road Jail this morning, with bail set at $15,500. His wife and Lafond also were being held, and bail for each was set at $8,000 bail, jail records show.
All five people also are charged with felony drug charges.
About 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, a Tampa police officer on foot tapped on the driver's side window of a 1997 Buick at North Tampa and East Tyler streets after smelling a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, affidavits state.
When Beckham rolled down the window, a "smoke cloud" drifted out of the car, the affidavits state. There was an 8-year-old girl in the rear seat, police said.
The officer found a small plastic bag of marijuana and a plastic pill bottle containing oxycodone inside the car, as well as a brown paper bag with six small plastic bags of marijuana inside Beckham's purse, police said.
About 7 p.m. Wednesday, deputies conducted a search warrant at a house at 7328 Exeter Way, where the Corbetts and Lafond live, the affidavits state. They found cocaine packaged for sale, marijuana being grown in a bedroom and marijuana pipes in the kitchen and bedroom, the affidavits state.Tampa police on Wednesday arrested Tanisha Carleston, 28, and Shawnte Beckham, 29, both of Tampa, during a traffic stop in which they found an 8-year-old child and marijuana in their car, affidavits state. The women were being held without bail at Orient Road Jail this morning.
Jose Baez, 26, died from acute cocaine intoxication.Baez went into a medical emergency about 10:30 p.m. as deputy Justin Debode spoke with him about an alleged domestic assault against his girlfriend, Elizabeth Barclay.Baez died after slumping over during police questioning Saturday had five times a lethal amount of cocaine in his system when he went into a seizure, authorities said today.
Debode responded to the couple's Hidden Valley apartment, near Five Mile Road and East Beltline Avenue NE, and Baez was cooperative while talking about accusations that he fought with Barclay and damaged her car Thursday night.Baez sat in the back of a patrol cruiser and became incoherent after seizing and slumping over on his side on the seat. An ambulance arrived about five minutes later and took the suspect to Spectrum Health Butterworth campus, where he was pronounced dead.
Kent County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Cohle said today the man had a high level of the drug in his system.Police were unsure how Baez ingested the cocaine, but Stelma believes it was moments before he submitted to questioning.
Elvert Mark McFarlane and Leon Isaac Ramoon
Social inquiry reports and medical information indicated that Ramoon was mentally impaired, while McFarlane was mentally ill.
McFarlane, 21, was of normal functioning, the magistrate summarised. But he had been diagnosed as manic–depressive; when depressed he got upset and violent.
He was before the court for assault causing actual bodily harm in addition to two charges of supplying cocaine to an undercover police officer.
The supply took place on two successive days in September 2005. Both times the officer paid McFarlane $25 for a rock quantity at a location in East End. McFarlane pleaded guilty.
She said two things concerned her – McFarlane’s mental illness that needed to be treated and his propensity for violence. Local hospital facilities were not appropriate for his situation.
For other charges, including the assault and a failure to provide a specimen, the magistrate imposed concurrent sentences.For offences involving the taking of 17 lobsters on one day, being more than the limit of five and during closed season, the sentence was six months consecutive.
Ramoon, also 21, had pleaded not guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to supply. Police officers testified that they saw him place a small object in the gas tank area of a vehicle parked outside a bar. After speaking to him about it they recovered the object, which proved to contain cocaine.The magistrate found him guilty.
Olayemi Olawunmi Olajumoke, 37 years, was arrested on December 29 at about 2 p.m. during the screening of passengers on Emirate Airline flight to Bombay in India.
According to the public affairs officer of NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, the cocaine was carefully concealed in the inner lining of a skirt inside her luggage.
Olajumoke, who hails from Ijebu-Igbo in Ogun State, lives at No. 30, Ogundele Street Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos. She claimed to have been given the drug by one Akin whom she said was introduced to her by a Nigerian she met in India who called to tell her that one Akin will give her a parcel to deliver to him.
“Akin called me at the airport and gave me the clothes inside black polythene bag which I immediately kept in my armpit. I later kept it in my luggage. During search, it was discovered to contain cocaine. I did not know that it contains hard drug,” she said.
British Customs officers have found hollowed-out coat hangers, which can each hoard cocaine worth £5,000, converted buttons, curtain beads, shoes and suitcases.
Converted padded bras stuffed with up to £50,000 worth of cocaine is the latest inventive way smugglers are trying to get drugs into the UK. modified lingerie contains secret pouches and can only be discovered if a trafficker is strip-searched or asked to go through a scanner. Tins of fruit juice have been used, where cocaine powder is dissolved into a solution, replacing the original liquid in the tin. A new label is put on after the side is punctured to put drugs inside.Drug mules are also swallowing drug filled condoms, each containing 12 grams of cocaine. The plastc bags, shaped like sausages, could be deadly if they exploded in the trafficker's stomach.Drug-filled plastic containers in the shape of sausages are ingested .According to customs officials the drugs are mostly coming from West Africa.
Paul K. Dmitrinski, 19, of 17 Brookview Drive, was arrested after a party on Nov. 23 at 11:27 p.m. on charges of facilitating a drug/underage alcohol house party and violating bail conditions set by Superior Court in September that apparently stem from drug arrests for allegedly selling ecstasy.
On Dec. 26, Dmitrinski was given a Feb. 4 trial date to face the charges pertaining to the drinking party. He was free on $2,500 personal recognizance bail. As part of bail conditions he is to refrain from alcohol and drugs and associating with anyone under 21 who is using alcohol and must comply with a 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.
In October, Dmitrinski was indicted on four felony drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation last summer. There are three indictments on sale of a controlled drug, ecstasy, and one indictment for possession of a controlled drug, ecstasy.
Johnathan Wade Smith, 21, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of a controlled substance, trafficking in morphine and hydrocodone, possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana and violation of probation.
Umi Azlim, 24, a Universiti Malaysia Sabah graduate in Biological Science, was detained at Shantou airport on Jan 29 after immigration officers found 2.98kg of heroin on her. Umi Azlim is among 37 Malaysians convicted of or awaiting trial for drug-related offences in China.
She was given the death sentence in May and is not allowed to appeal for two years.
Mohamad Lazim Jusoh, a mechanic with Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON), from Kota Baru, and wife Umi Slaia Ibrahim, a goreng pisang seller were allowed to visit their 23-year-old eldest daughter on Hari Raya Aidiladha at the Shantou Detention Camp.
According to the father, Umi Azlim was lured by an Internet job advertisement that offered high income for sending goods overseas.
“Her job was to send goods overseas like an international courier,” he said.
Arturo Sanchez, and he was arrested for bootlegging. When they got him down to the jail, he was found to have over two grams of powder cocaine in his possession.”
Sanchez, 57, was found to be in the United States illegally, and an immigration hold was placed on him. His bonds were set at $15,000 for possession of a controlled substance and $2,500 for bootlegging.
Officers were later dispatched to the East Texas Medical Center regarding a gunshot wound — which was determined to have occurred at the Button Bush location.
“There appears to have been a verbal argument at the residence between two Hispanic males in reference to one of them owing the other money. One of the suspects went outside, grabbed a rifle and came back with it into the residence,” Franklin said. “A struggle ensued over the rifle and it went off, accidentally shooting somebody in the hand.”
According to Franklin, the victim and the other residents in the building were very uncooperative.
Romero, 29, allegedly sold about one-quarter ounce of cocaine. The task force recovered the cocaine and about one-quarter ounce of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and approximately $620 in cash.
San Luis Valley authorities have arrested Adrian William Romero, a Denver resident, on suspicion of selling cocaine. The arrest was the result of an undercover operation conducted by an agent of the San Luis Valley Drug Task Force. The agent and Conejos County Sheriff deputies made the arrest in Conejos County .
National Police were tipped off by the US and Costa Rican marine patrollers in the northwestern Guanacaste province that there was a suspicious boat off the coast of Playa Flamingo.
Upon seeing the authorities on their way, the boat crew threw all of its cargo overboard, set fire to the boat, and ran towards the mountains. Despite all of these efforts, the crew was caught and six 20 kilogram packages of cocaine were found floating out at sea.
The National Police spotted the packages high out at sea and were the ones that followed the trails of candy wrappers and plastic bottles high into the mountains to catch these drug traffickers. The Columbian men were found in a rocky area with a GPS device, satellite phone, cash, machete, suitcases, their passports, and a bag of provisions. All five were arrested and ordered six months in preventative detention
The seizure of about 4.6 tons of marijuana by the U.S. Coast Guard just before Christmas on Dec. 22 marked a new record for Costa Rica. An old ship toting the valuable cargo was found off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica near Panama on its way from Colombia with an estimated $106 million in marijuana. Nobody was arrested in this incident as the crew abandoned the ship and could not be found. The drugs are now awaiting destruction by police officials in Heredia.
In a second drug bust just before the end of the year, about 15,000 marijuana plants were uprooted in Talamanca, on the southern Caribbean coast. These plants are destined to meet a similar end.
The year end totals show that about 63 people were arrested per day through 2007 for drug related activity. The majority of these were small offenses with less than 400 people being arrested for actually dealing drugs. This number includes 94 foreigners.
Authorities from the Drug Control agency noted that a large number of tips came in from outside the agency to help bring the drug dealers to justice.
Rondell Freeman, alleged member of the Gangster Disciples, was arrested as part of a joint investigation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Chicago police and the IRS, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's office.
Freeman allegedly headed up a high-volume drug organization that controlled much of the crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana sales in the Cabrini Green Homes at 714 W. Division St. According to the criminal complaint, his trafficking organization operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week and brought in a minimum of $8,500 per day.
Freeman, aka "Fall" and "Nightfall," 31, of Chicago and other Gangster Disciples -- a total of 16 were being sought by ATF and IRS agents -- were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday, according to the release. They were to appear in U.S. District Court at 2 p.m. before U.S.The alleged co-conspirators supplied Freeman with drugs, helped prepare and package drugs, sold drugs, collected and counted money, and served as lookouts for police, the affidavit alleges. They include Robert Freeman, Clint Linzy, Terrence Sewell, Brian Wilbourn, Robert Freeman, Senecca Williams, Reginald Booker, Syble Mcclutchey, Daniel Hill, Lance Olden, Deshawn Simmons, Marcell Thomas, Darnell Williams and Demarquius Williams
Zackre Montague said he was offered J$200,000 to fetch cocaine and agreed to do the job because he was in desperate need of the money. He pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics. He was later sentenced to three years in prison and fined GYD$10,000(USD$49). Montague checked in his suitcase on a Caribbean Airlines flight to Jamaica via Port of Spain.Massiah said CANU officers who were on duty noticed that Montague was acting in a suspicious manner at the internal scanner and approached him.
Based on his response to their questions, Massiah said, he was taken to the external scanner where he was asked to point out his suitcase. He pointed out a black suitcase to the officers who, on checking the interior, discovered two tins. They were searched and the cocaine was found.
Gregory Fisher, 40, and Tammy Fisher, 46, both of Airport Road in the Town of Chenango, with misdemeanors for endangering the welfare of a child and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, and a violation for unlawful possession of marijuana.
Read more...Reggie Peters,was angry at himself for using crack cocaine after 15 months of abstinence,he shot through a wall at the West Oakland duplex he managed, the bullet striking and killing Bobby Jones in an adjacent room, police said.
Peters, 37, who lives in San Francisco and at the Oakland duplex, was arrested on suspicion of murder in the killing of the 50-year-old Jones, whom he considered a friend and who he tried to help after the shooting, Basa said.
The shooting happened about 6:44 p.m. Sunday at the duplex in the 800 block of 37th Street. It was the fourth fatal shooting since late Saturday night in Oakland and brought the homicide count for 2007 to 126.
Police said Jones was with some relatives and friends in his apartment and they had been socializing most of the day. Jones was in a bedroom when he was shot and was pronounced dead at the scene, surrounded by family members, police said.
Mindy McCready, who was sentenced in September for violating probation from a 2004 drug arrest, has been released from jail.
The 32-year-old country singer was released Sunday morning, said a clerk at the Williamson County jail.The violation occurred in July when McCready was accused of scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest at her mother's home in Fort Myers, Fla.She still must serve two years' probation
Ulysses Jones, 45, will appear in court in January, according to a release from Sheriff Chuck Arnold.
Jones, of 422 South Hall St. in Kenton, was arrested last Friday. Jones has been charged with unlawful possession of a Schedule II drug with intent to deliver, attempted introduction of a contraband into a penal facility and driving on a revoked or suspended license, the release said.
Jones is presently being held in the Crockett County Jail on a $50,000 bond. He has a preliminary hearing set for 9 a.m. Jan. 15 in Gibson County General Sessions Court in Trenton, the release said.
Jones has worked as a correctional officer for Gibson County since September 2006, the release said.
Kristi Jo Guess confessed to taking the pain medication after she was confronted by authorities with videos of her opening packages.
She is scheduled to be sentenced by federal Judge Curtis Collier on April 3. Guess could also be ordered to pay a fine of up to $250,000.
Nick Churchill, 33, of Fenelon Falls faces nine charges including charges of unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance and impersonating a police officer.
Read more...Ryan Shotlander, 21, was charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Read more...Van Su Bui, 30, of Mississauga, Hoa Trung Nguyen, 42, of Toronto, and Tri Nguyen, 24, of Mississauga, have each been charged possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and production of marijuana. All three were held in custody for a court
Read more...Richard Joseph Bye, of Charlotte Street, is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking in cocaine, possession of a controlled substance, proceeds of crime and two breaches of recognizance.
Read more...Philip Graham Reddick of Albert Street, is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking in crack cocaine, possession for the purpose of trafficking in marijuana, breach of an undertaking, and possession of proceeds of crime.
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