Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996
Arrests for simple marijuana possession in the United States fell to nearly a two-decade low last year, according to new statistics released Monday by the FBI. The number of arrests for marijuana...
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Cops In Brooklyn Recover Loaded Illegal Handgun, Marijuana & $700; Woman...
NEW YORK — (NYPD News) — Cops in East New York, Brooklyn arrested a woman and recovered a loaded handgun, more than 10 pounds of marijuana and $700K last Friday. Officers from the 75th Precinct...
View Article17 Arrested, Firearms Seized Following NYC Drug Gang Investigation: Sales...
NEW YORK — (Press Release) — New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced today the arrest 17 individuals as a result...
View ArticleMan Arrested at Seahawks Game After Asking Cops to Return His Briefcase Full...
SEATTLE — Police arrested a 19-year-old man on Sunday for drug trafficking after he approached police working a traffic post outside the Seahawks game, and asked if they’d found his missing...
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Border Patrol Beagle Retires After 17,000 Busts
Jasper is adjusting well to retirement with the exception of digging through the garbage and expecting a treat when he positively alerts. JAMAICA, NY — (CBP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...
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7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found...
For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries...
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NYPD Cops Discover Marijuana Grow House In Bronx Apartment; No Arrests
NEW YORK — (NYPD NEWS) — Emergency Service Unit officers responded to a 911 call of a strong odor of marijuana and chemicals coming from 1962 University Avenue in the Bronx late Monday morning. After...
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Cops raid an 81-year-old woman’s garden to take out a single marijuana plant
Margaret Holcomb, an 81-year-old woman from Amherst, Mass., grew a single marijuana plant in her garden, tucked away behind the raspberries. She used it to ease the ailments of old age: glaucoma,...
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Tinted Windows Traffic Stop Leads NYPD To Significant Drug Seizure
HARLEM — (NYPD News) — Police officers in East Harlem seized nearly five pounds of marijuana after a car stop early last Friday morning. Sergeant Hom and Police Officers Perez, Raleigh, Bellavoix and...
View Article4 Gangster Disciples Collectively Sentenced to more than 30 Years for Robbery
Memphis, TN – Four members of the Gangster Disciples have been sentenced to more than 30 years for attempting to rob a convenience store and a drug dealer. Two of the defendants were previously on the...
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Bronx Finest Arrest Man In Possession Of Numerous Illegal Guns
NEW YORK — (NYPD News) — Cops in the Bronx arrested a man in possession of three loaded handguns and narcotics on Thursday. The 46 Precinct Field Intelligence Officer and members of the Anti-Crime team...
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More than a Quarter-Million Dollars in Narcotics Found Floating off the Shore...
WASHINGTON — Persistent cross-border drug smuggling by transnational criminal networks is having an unintended consequence as illegal narcotics are washing up on shores and discovered floating off the...
View ArticleGallup: Support for marijuana legalization surges to new highs
A new Gallup poll released Wednesday shows 60 percent of American adults now say that marijuana should be legal, the highest level of support in nearly a half-century of polling on the question. The...
View Article19 Charged With Gun Trafficking, Bank Larceny And Weapons Possession In NYC
News Release / Separate Indictments Stem from Long-Term Investigation that Exposed Multiple Criminal Schemes; Defendants Reside in New York, South Carolina, Connecticut and Elsewhere Acting Brooklyn...
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4 charged after ton of marijuana seized from boat in Long Beach
LOS ANGELES – Four Southern California men were charged Wednesday with a federal drug trafficking offense in relation to the seizure of approximately one ton of marijuana that was discovered Tuesday on...
View ArticleEl Salvador’s security forces are now involved in more shootouts than Mexico’s
MEXICO CITY — Nearly every day in El Salvador, police have what they call “enfrentamientos” — or confrontations — with the powerful street gangs that blanket the country. Another word for this is a...
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Parents injected children with heroin as ‘feel good medicine,’ police say
A Washington state couple is facing numerous charges after police said the parents kept their three young children in a home littered with rat droppings and drug needles and injected them with heroin,...
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Mad Stone Bloods Gang, 4 guards accused of schemes in 3 prisons
CHARLOTTESVILLE – Gang members and four corrections employees are facing federal charges in connection with wide-ranging criminal schemes over the last decade to smuggle drugs into Virginia prisons and...
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Ohio man gets probation for beating his wife’s heroin dealer with a baseball bat
Edwin Sobony II had had enough. It was December 2015 and Sobony’s wife was on heroin, which she got from her cousin, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Sobony had asked the cousin, Larry Jewell, to...
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Smuggler plunges SUV with drugs into river, swims back to Mexico
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas – A reckless drug smuggler purposely drove his vehicle into the Rio Grande on Tuesday, leaving behind over $1 Million in marijuana. The incident occurred when Rio Grande City...
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