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A Guatemalan designated as one of the world's biggest drug kingpins has been convicted of cocaine importation and distribution charges.
Police in Naples are on the lookout for cocaine. Somehow, they lost their stash. A 2-gram packet was discovered missing this summer from a narcotics kit used in training. Two officers lost it in April, but they're unsure where. It could've been the police parking lot or an airport rental car, but the likely spot was a hotel.
A top Colombian kingpin who shipped billions of dollars worth of cocaine to the United States and ran a private army was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years in prison.
New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy.
A former high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 was arrested Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine — a livestock de-worming drug that might enhance cocaine's effects but has been blamed in at least three deaths and scores of serious illnesses.
Peruvian police expecting to find a shipment of cocaine hidden in a crate holding two live turkeys were surprised to discover the drug surgically implanted inside the birds.
Chances are there's cocaine in your wallet. Researchers looked at 234 bank notes from 17 cities in the U.S. and found that 90 percent had small traces of the illegal drug.
The boss of a Colombian cocaine cartel that smuggled some $10 billion worth of cocaine into the U.S. pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug charges that will send him to prison for at least 10 years.
It's pretty certain that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., didn't mean what he said.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' comment on crack cocaine cracked up the crowd.
Customs agents discovered an extra ingredient in a shipment of Colombian coffee: nearly a half-ton of cocaine.
A former University of Vermont fraternity president who helped run a cocaine ring from the organization's house was spared a prison term Monday by a judge who called him naive and a bit player.
Colombia's coca crop shrank by nearly a fifth last year while cultivation of the bush that is the basis of cocaine rose for a third straight year in Peru and Bolivia, the world's two other coca-producing nations, the United Nations said Friday.
Police say two suitcases carried by a woman who was about to fly from Chile to Spain were made of cocaine. Detective Leandro Morales at the Santiago airport says the drug "was not hidden in the luggage. This time the suitcases were the drug." Morales tells The Associated Press that the suitcases were made of a substance combining cocaine with resin and glass fiber.
Naples police say they have captured a Camorra mobster who was a top drug lord in cocaine trafficking with South America.
Air pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say it is not just smog that chokes people as they walk to work or stroll through the park. A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs — most prominently cocaine.
Former world cycling champion Tom Boonen drew a heavy fine from his team on top of his indefinite suspension after testing positive for cocaine a second time. His actions could keep him from the Tour de France.
The last town on a rutted dirt road in Peru's most prolific cocaine-producing highland valley, Union Mantaro has no police post, no church and no health clinic. Its 600 people lack running water and electricity.
Beachcombers found more than seashells while strolling on a Texas beach: two dozen neatly wrapped packages of cocaine. Jefferson County Sheriff's Lt. Troy Tucker said drug smugglers have been known to use freighters and the cocaine may have been kicked overboard to avoid detection.
The elderly man claimed he needed the oranges in his suitcase to keep up his vitamin C level, but Italian police soon realized the "C" stood for cocaine.
A Colombian who was one of the top financial managers and supervised money-laundering for a cocaine cartel accused of smuggling $10 billion in drugs into the U.S. was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison.
The Dutch defense ministry says one of its frigates and the U.S. Coast Guard have seized 350 kilograms (770 pounds) of cocaine from a small boat in the Caribbean.
Bolivia's interior minister says police have uncovered one of the country's biggest known cocaine processing factories.
Police said a man who left his house after it caught fire early Sunday didn't bother running to a neighbor for help. Instead, he drove about a mile on his all-terrain vehicle to a friend's house, but couldn't get anyone out of bed there. So he went to sleep in a boat parked on the property.
X-rays 'found £30,000 of cocaine' A man stopped at Belfast International Airport had up to £30,000 worth of suspected cocaine hidden in his body, Belfast High Court has been told. Prosecutors said seven packages of powder were found by hospital X-rays.
Sahara cocaine plane crash probedThe UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela.
New designer drug Mephedrone or MM-Cat being bought over internet |STUDENTS and clubbers are buying a new designer drug billed as "a cross between cocaine and ecstasy" over the internet. Drug experts are alarmed by the emergence of mystery drug Mephedrone - known on the street as MM-Cat, Plant Food, Meow and 4-MMC.
Warning of extra heart dangers from mixing cocaine and alcohol"I first took coke when I was 18 and at university.
Gang takes flour after drug sting goes wrong A gang made off with 80 kilograms of flour after police set up a drugs sting but went home before their targets arrived.
David Cross Snorted Cocaine 'Super Close to the President' He's a comedian, so who knows if he's joking or not, but David Cross is claiming he brought cocaine to the recent White House Correspondents' Association dinner and snorted it "maybe 40 feet from" the president.
High society: Britain's drug-taking clubbersIt's Friday midnight and, in the corner of a vast Manchester nightclub, I'm having an earnest discussion with Becky, a sensible, homely-looking woman in her mid-30s, who has two lines of cocaine and several Ecstasy tablets coursing around her bloodstream.
A Senate Bill to End Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Under current law, possession of five grams of crack cocaine (roughly the weight of two sugar cubes) triggers a mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence, while trafficking 500 grams (approximately one pound) of powder cocaine triggers the same sentence.
Power vacuum fuels vicious drug war" A young man with tattoos covering one arm rolls hundreds of marijuana joints in the half-light of a shack, perched on a hillside in a Medellin slum.
Corrupt former St. Louis cop gets year in jailA former St. Louis police officer who admitted stealing cash, planting drugs, charging an innocent man and lying to cover it up was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison.
Revealed: Drug users in Scotland spend £1.4bn every year to feed thir habitsSCOTLAND'S drug users are spending an astonishing £1.4BILLION a year to feed their habits. And the drugs scourge leaves the nation with a £3.5billion annual bill. The harrowing scale of the illegal drugs industry was revealed yesterday in a new Government report.
Vaccine may help treatment for cocaine addiction, study findsScientists in Texas who have completed early trials on a vaccine for cocaine dependence believe it shows promise in the treatment of addiction to the stimulant.
Son kills parents to steal $200 for cocaineKermit Washington shot his father, Joe, 79, as he was folding clothes and his mother, Johnnie, 76, in her bed Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Cocaine found at fire station - St. Petersburg TimesCocaine was discovered at a St. Petersburg Fire Rescue station last week, authorities said.
Police: Dad tells 4-year-old cocaine is candy - Crime & courts- msnbc.comA man avoids arrest by placing cocaine in his 4 year old childs pockets and tells the child it is candy, so the child goes out and shares teh so called candy with his other four year old friends in day care.
Cops: Boy, 4, Shares 'Candy' Cocaine -New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy.
NJ Police: Dad Tells 4-Year-Old Cocaine Is Candy - ABC NewsNJ Police: Dad Tells 4-Year-Old Cocaine Is Candy New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy.
Dad tells four-year-old cocaine is candy | abcactionnews.comNew Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy.
What charges Hardy will face in courtFormer WWE star Jeff Hardy will face the following charges during his first court hearing on Wednesday, September 30: - Felony possession of cocaine. - Felony drug trafficking of opium. - Felony possession with intent to redistribute a Schedule III drug (two counts).
Cocaine Found Hidden In Salinas Valley LettuceDAYTON, Ohio -- Two men were arrested in Ohio after cocaine was found concealed in a shipment of Salinas Valley lettuce, state troopers said.
Drug trafficking embraces suburban lifestyle: Drug distribution rings operate behind suburban disguise. By Steve Schmadeke and Oscar Avila. September 7, 2009In a neighborhood full of families, it was the children who apparently first noticed someone new had moved into the rented yellow-vinyl house on Joliet's far west side.
Pastor Jonathan Paul Ayers Killed in Georgia Drug StingATLANTA (Sept 4) -- Plainclothes officers shot and killed a small-town pastor when the 28-year-old father-to-be resisted efforts to question him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said.
When Cocaine and Monsanto's Roundup Collide, War on Drugs Becomes a Genetically-Modified War on ScienceAt the intersection of cocaine and Roundup in rural South America, Monsanto and the U.S. government are struggling to keep up appearances. That's becoming more and more difficult as the unanticipated hazards of genetic modification become clearer.
Tainted cocaine scare as three die in north America after drug cut with Levamisole | News | The First PostIs this the Cocaine Industry's 'Tylenol' Scare?
Investment Bankers Being Stalked By Their Coke Dealers -Then the stock market crashed, and people started losing [coke dealer] Sammy's number. But he didn't lose theirs. "It was a 646 number," says Nate, 26, who works at an investment bank; he got three calls from Sammy in one week.
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