January 3, 2019 Meth, cocaine overdoses rise as Mexican cartels sidestep anti-opioid crackdown Cartels are producing and smuggling more cocaine and meth as the U.S. cracks down on opioids.
January 3, 2019 Colombia’s peace agreement bloodied by distrust, drugs - and the Venezuelan regime With a potent push of instability from neighboring Venezuela and its own internal struggles, Colombia’s Nobel-winning peace process with is on increasingly feeble ground.
December 31, 2018 Louisiana police department offers to test meth for Zika virus You can never be too safe, even apparently with your meth.
December 30, 2018 Deputies post message on drug suspect’s Facebook page: ‘you lost your phone while running from the police’ South Carolina deputies who were unable to chase down a fleeing drug suspect caught up with the man on his Facebook page.
December 28, 2018 Three charged in attack at phony 'gender reveal' party in 2017 that left 1 dead, 8 wounded: police Three men were charged Wednesday in 2017 fake gender reveal party shooting in Ohio that left one woman dead and eight wounded, police said Monday.
December 20, 2018 Chicago DEA ‘double agent’ accused of secretly working with murderous Puerto Rican gang A Chicago DEA agent could spend the rest of his life in prison after being busted by federal authorities for allegedly helping a Puerto Rican-based gang traffic drugs and guns – and then joining the agency to help them cover it up.
December 18, 2018 El Chapo’s 'rage-filled' attorney: There isn’t a case I can’t win It was a career that sparked in childhood after seeing Paul Newman star in 1982’s “The Verdict." And now, almost four decades since seeing the critically-acclaimed legal drama, New York City criminal defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman has some critical acclaim of his own as the man flanking and fawning for the world’s most notorious drug kingpin: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
December 12, 2018 Massive haul of meth, cocaine, heroin seized at US-Mexico bridge A drug bust at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas earlier this week exposed nearly $7 million worth of narcotics at a cargo facility.
December 11, 2018 El Chapo’s beauty queen wife disses media’s ‘unfair’ caricature of her drug-lord husband in rare interview Emma Coronel Aispuro, the 29-year-old wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and the mother of their twin 7-year-old daughters, claims the media is giving her husband a bad rap: she said in a new interview that he’s normal and ordinary, and not an infamous horror media fabrication.
December 9, 2018 3 Sonic Drive-In employees arrested after ecstasy pill found in kid’s meal, police say Three employees at a Texas Sonic Drive-In were arrested after an ecstasy pill was found in a kid’s meal given to a 4-year-old boy, police said.