five month-long investigation into a drug distribution network resulted in drug and weapons charges this week for several Jersey Shore residents, including a Brick man who faces charges of leading the operation, Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford announced Thursday.As a result of the raids, authorities confiscated approximately 800 grams of cocaine, a 9mm handgun, a 25-caliber handgun, a Mac-10 submachine gun and approximately $50,000 in cash. The investigation included FBI and law enforcement...
In large part, South Florida sees the pain pill epidemic from the supply end – the long lines at the pain clinics, the occasional raids with doctors hauled away in handcuffs., the political battles over whether and how to regulate so-called pill mills.Shawn Clusky is at the other end of the oxy pipeline: Kentucky.Clusky first tried OxyContin at age 17 with his school buddies, shortly after the high-powered narcotic painkiller went on the market. He went from occasional user and seller until about...
The Border Security Force (BSF) Sunday recovered two kg of heroin and Rs.500,000 in counterfeit currency from near the international border in this Punjab town, an officer said.'During our regular patrolling, we have recovered heroin and fake currency from near the Bishambhar BOP (border outpost). So far no arrest has been made in this case,' Pankaj, BSF's deputy inspector general (Punjab frontier), told IANS.BSF troopers guard the 553-km international border in Punjab.Fazilka town falls in Punjab's...
Picard pleaded guilty last August to smuggling marijuana across the border between 2005 and 2007. Prosecutors say Picard and his network of drug runners delivered 100 to 135 pounds of pot each week to distributors in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and North Carolina.At least five other people involved in the scheme have been charged or sentenced.According to the Bangor Daily News, Picard's attorney said his client became involved in the scheme because he was addicted...
Officials say inmates at a Pennsylvania prison received drugs from the outside hidden beneath the postage stamps on their mail.Five inmates and six of their loved ones face charges in a sting dubbed "Operation Postage Stamp." Prosecutors said Monday the inmates' family and friends used stamps to cover up doses of a prescription drug available in the form of a thin film meant to be dissolved under the tongue.Prosecutors say the doses of Suboxone would be concealed under the stamps of letters and...
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