City warned about dangerous batch of heroin after 26 overdoses in 4 hours
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that police in Huntington, W.Va., responded to 26 heroin overdose cases in a span of four hours on Monday evening. To get a sense of the scale of the outbreak,...
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Nashville Cop ‘slaps woman during arrest after being stuck by syringe hidden...
NASHVILLE, TENN — (MNPD) — South Precinct Officer Elizabeth Berry-Loucks has been decommissioned and assigned to desk duty after she was arrested by citation today on a charge of misdemeanor assault....
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U.S. Coast Guard Offloads 11 Tons of Cocaine in San Diego
SAN DIEGO – (USCG) — The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sherman offloaded approximately 11 tons of cocaine at Naval Base San Diego, Thursday. Several U.S. Coast Guard cutters seized a combined...
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Woman Tries to ‘Walk’ Drugs Across Border
TUCSON, Ariz. – (CBP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Nogales arrested a Mexican woman when she attempted to enter the United States on Aug. 16 with more than 5 pounds of...
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Mother accused in newborn’s death during meth-fueled search for lover
It was a frigid day in February last year when Samantha Green, high on methamphetamine, took her 19-day-old son through a muddy slough in Northern California, authorities said. That’s where the baby...
View ArticleTeen High on Drugs Hurls Himself Through Window of Stranger’s Home
STUART, FLORIDA — (News Release / Martin County Sheriff’s Office) — Early this morning, Martin County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 911 call at a residence on SE Orchid Street about the homeowner...
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NYPD Cops Recover Illegal Narcotics & Guns, Three Arrested
NEW YORK — (NYPD News) — Cops from the 10 Precinct recovered a guns and drugs after conducting a search warrant last Friday at a residence on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Officers from the...
View Article‘This is unprecedented’: 174 heroin overdoses in 6 days in Cincinnati
The original numbers were startling enough – 30 heroin overdoses across Cincinnati in a single weekend. Then they just kept climbing. Another 78 overdoses and at least three deaths were reported during...
View ArticleMiddle-aged parents are now more likely to smoke weed than their teenaged kids
Smoking weed is often seen as an indulgence reserved for the young and the reckless: kids get high, in the popular imagination, but by and large their parents don’t. But new federal data show a...
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Coast Guard offloads $33.9 million worth of cocaine and marijuana
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Heriberto Hernandez offloaded 2,367 pounds of cocaine at Sector San Juan Aug. 28 following the interdiction of a go-fast vessel north of Puerto Rico August 25. SAN...
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Trio strangled friend, then drove around with body disguised in hat and...
Joshua Rose needed a doctor, but the hospital is not where his young friends took him. Instead, the trio — two men and a woman — loaded the 21-year-old into a black Ford truck and drove past the...
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Brooklyn’s Finest Take Cache Of Guns Off Streets, Four Arrested
NYPD Housing cops arrest four people and recovered a cache of guns and illegal credit cards in an apartment in Brooklyn Wednesday. After an investigation into the location the Field Intelligence...
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Cops share shocking photos of adults who overdosed with a small child in the car
On Wednesday afternoon, a police officer in East Liverpool, Ohio, stopped a vehicle for driving erratically and made a shocking discovery: The driver was barely conscious. A woman was slumped across...
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11 SWAT officers sickened during drug raid
Amid the nation’s deadly and unrelenting opioid epidemic, U.S. law enforcement officers are shouldering an increasingly heavy burden – battling a booming drug market and responding to an endless string...
View ArticleNew study finds that medical marijuana may be helping to curb the opioid...
After states pass laws permitting medical marijuana, drivers in those states become less likely to test positive for opioids after fatal car accidents, a new study from Columbia University’s Mailman...
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Border Patrol Seizes More than $1.5 M of Fentanyl
OCOTILLO, Calif. – El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two men suspected of smuggling more than 33 pounds of fentanyl early Friday morning. The incident occurred at approximately 6:30 a.m.,...
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Mexican police found ‘homemade bazooka’ that may have launched contraband...
Federal authorities in Mexico have discovered a van outfitted with a makeshift bazooka, apparently intended to launch packages over the border with the United States, according to a statement from the...
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Loaded Mac-11 Submachine Gun Recovered In Queens
Police officers recovered a loaded Mac-11 submachine gun after responding to a shots fired call in Queens. On Thursday September 1, at 12:30 p.m., Sergeant Cruz, and Police Officers Cahill and...
View ArticleMaryland reports another sharp spike in overdose deaths
The number of Maryland deaths related to opioid overdoses surged to new highs in the first half of 2016, continuing a trend that has persisted despite state efforts to address the problem. Maryland’s...
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As overdoses surge, 2 accused of selling deadly heroin laced with elephant...
A man and a woman from Cincinnati, were indicted this week on charges of dealing heroin laced with carfentinal – the deadly animal tranquilizer officials blame for an unprecedented surge in overdoses...
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