Man accused of trading dad's car for $50 in crack

Authorities arrested a man they said tried to trade his father's car for $50 worth of crack cocaine. Deputies arrested the 39-year-old man around 4 a.m. Wednesday after his 74-year-old father reported that his Lincoln had been stolen. When deputies arrived at the father's home, they saw the son walking up the street. They determined that the car had been sold for drugs.

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Police: Mass. woman hid 19 bags of crack in bra

A woman was arrested after admitting to police that she hid 19 bags of crack cocaine in her bra. Sandra Sanborn was charged Sunday with possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute following a tip to Quincy's police drug unit.

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Attorney general wants review of cocaine sentences

Attorney General Eric Holder sought support Wednesday for erasing the gap in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine crimes, a disparity that hits black defendants the hardest.

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NY man arrested buying drugs with slaughtered pig

It was a simpler sort of drug trade.

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Administration seeks change in crack sentences

The Obama administration joined a federal judge Wednesday in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine.

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Mass. officer finds crack inside sack of dog food

Finding a bag of dog food in a car carrying a dog is not unusual. But a sharp-eyed Massachusetts state trooper knew something was awry when he noticed a plastic bag inside the sack of food in the back seat of a car he pulled over on the ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike to Interstate 290 in Auburn on Monday night.

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Man blames crack habit for theft of beer cans

A Waterford man told police his crack cocaine habit drove him to steal nearly 250 empty beer cans from a 7-Eleven store.

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Drug Sentencing Guidelines Take Effect

Marsha Cunningham was no drug dealer. But when authorities busted her boyfriend in the 1990s for selling crack and powdered cocaine, they also arrested her on a crack possession charge.

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Crack-Vs.-Powder Disparity Is Questioned

During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that notion is under attack like never before.

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Woman, 83, Forced to Smoke Crack in Scam

A woman forced an 83-year-old housemate to smoke crack cocaine so she could steal personal information to get a credit card and run up more than $3,000 in charges, authorities said.

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Woman Tells Cop She Bought 'Bad Crack'

A North Carolina woman was arrested after complaining to a police officer that the crack cocaine she had just purchased wasn't very good, authorities said.

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80-Year-Old Paroled on Crack Charges

An 80-year-old man convicted of dealing crack cocaine was paroled Thursday after spending three nights in jail.

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Members of a brazen Brooklyn crack gang raked in more than $500,000 in taxpayer money by repeatedly suing the city for civil rights violations, records show.

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A 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.

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Experts warned, however, that the danger of relapse means permanently kicking the habit probably requires ongoing care. A senior U.S.

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Kermit Washington shot his father, Joe, 79, as he was folding clothes and his mother, Johnnie, 76, in her bed Tuesday, prosecutors said.

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Authorities arrested a man they said tried to trade his father's car for $50 worth of crack cocaine. Deputies arrested the 39-year-old man around 4 a.m. Wednesday after his 74-year-old father reported that his Lincoln had been stolen.

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Two of the unlikeliest franchises of all time talk crack, guns, and Beyonce. I think I might have to borrow this issue from somebody. Oprah: Because drug dealers were your role models. There wasn't a teacher or a lawyer or a nurse or a doctor or an accountant in the neighborhood?

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Mikeal's mother has had at least 11 children removed from her care. The day after Mikeal's body was discovered, his mother was arrested for possession of crack cocaine and sentenced to three years in prison.

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Windows 7 Ultimate has been cracked.

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An Olympic medal-winning swimmer exposed more than he bargained for when he dove into a pool wearing a bodysuit that split seconds before the start of his race.

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Calderon in Mexico has the resources (from the US) money, man power and the equipment to chase the narco gangs out of Mexico. Out to where, nobody asks, never mind, Calderon is considered to be a monumental success in the war on drugs.

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Police have arrested a Clearwater woman they say claimed she was robbed but actually was given fake crack during a drug transaction.

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Three people are under arrest after deputies found drugs and a sawed-off shotgun in their home, according to a report. A baby was also inside the residence.

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Are Some Palm Pre Screens Defective? Multiple Reports Indicate an Emerging Problem

Palm USA's recently released touchscreen Palm Pre represents the companies best last hope for a resurgence, due to strong competition from both Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's Blackberry line of smart phones.

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It began with a call from a worried husband. It ended with Miranda Peters-Ortiz, his 33-year-old wife, arrested on charges she took her 3-year-old daughter on a crack-fueled, fast-food robbery run turned police chase, reports Florida Today.

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Tampa police say a woman, who wanted money for drugs, got angry when a business owner told her to scram. So she tried to torch his window tinting business.

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A 39-year-old woman was arrested Sunday on a child neglect charge after she left her five children alone in the middle of the night to go to a motel to smoke crack, officials said.

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The largest ever study of cocaine use around the globe was carried out in the early 90's by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) and funded by the UN Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), but under pressure from the US its publication was suppressed when …

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Dealing with Hard Nuts to Crack!

Best example is our boss. Say one was absent for a day, then he won't accept or understand (act like can't understand) at all the reason and think they are telling some story. He would ask for the reason many times, to see whether he/she deviate from the earlier reasoning.

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A Fort Pierce police officer noticed Jessie Bernard Bryant after a he got a tip that a man in his mid-30s wearing gold chains and a beige shirt had a cigar tube full of crack.

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District Attorney Tony Lawrence was granted a temporary order Friday that allowed local, state and federal authorities to temporarily shut down a convenience store, where personnel were allegedly selling crack cocaine and marijuana over the counter to customers.

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FORT WALTON BEACH - A woman driving down Lovejoy Road was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia - including a Brillo pad.

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"Is it really copyright infringement if all you're doing is redirecting one of your own domains to an official government one? The Alaska attorney general doesn't seem to understand the complications of DNS, but he does know one thing: Sarah Palin ain't no crack ho."

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So you invite your boyfriend to stay the night and what does he do? Smokes crack in the apartment.

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After years of frustration under Reagan-era drug laws, a Senate subcommittee hearing today parsed the fine line between crack and powder.

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Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge has been closed after a crack was found in one of its metal hanging rods.

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