Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of May 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018
United States Naval Institute News: U.S. Navy admits at least 10 Navy SEALs were high on cocaine
Official Air National Guard video promoting the concept of prescription drug ‘Take Away’, “Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”:
NBC: Foreign cartels embrace home-grown marijuana in pot-legal states
ALABAMA: Walker County has the highest percentage of drug deaths relating to its population. Drug raid in Dekalb County captures 1.3-kilos (three pounds) of meth, 1.3-kilos of marijuana, 20 illegal guns, $30-thousand USD in cash and captured two men believed to be from Mexico. Three children were also found in the home, the raid was the result of “several months” of investigations. Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force conducted multiple raids, capturing 14 alleged druggies, 180-grams of synthetic marijuana, 100-grams of marijuana, several grams of methamphetamine, crack and heroin, four guns, one vehicle and $8-thousand-761 in cash. Marshall County Drug Task Force captured more than 50 people (they had warrants for 1-hundred) in one night, Sheriff Scott Walls says it’s the biggest round-up of druggies in the past 38 years: “The majority of these arrests are crystal meth, there are heroin cases mixed in with this. We’re living in a time where that seems to be the norm, where people are selling in their communities, and we have a lot of drug abuse, and this is the first step to solving some of those problems.”
What’s sad about the above statement is that these druggie round-ups have been going on ever since the Reagan Era of the War on Drugs, and as you can see it has had no effect on the reduction of illegal drug use. Also, local news media is publishing the names of the people captured, I mean arrested. In the United States you’re supposed to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in court, not by police, news media or by public opinion.
ALASKA: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy declared Alaska to be a high-intensity drug trafficking area, opening up federal level taxpayer funding to police. Federal prosecutors in Anchorage discovered a new tactic of drug dealers; intentionally getting captured. People are intentionally getting arrested in the hopes they can smuggle into prison drugs and illegal guns.
Alaska Public Media: Is meth back in Alaska? Or did it never leave?
KTVA: 7 accused in violent Sitka drug trafficking conspiracy
Daily News-Minor: Illegal booze, drugs smuggled into remote villages
The Marshall Project: Want to Escape a Criminal Past? Move to Alaska
ARIZONA: Merry Jane: Arizona Group Pushing to Legalize All Drugs in 2018
Reflections Recovery Center: Arizona Opioid Addiction Statistics 2018
KNXV: Two suspected north Phoenix drug dealers arrested
Arizona Daily Independent: Teens Turn To Drug Trafficking In Nogales
Arizona Daily Independent drug crime reports
AzCentral: 5 arrested on suspicion of running meth trafficking ring
DailyMiner: Kingman, Arizona & Mohave counties crime reports
Border Patrol agent sentenced for helping smuggle drugs into Arizona
ARKANSAS: Arkansas Online: Two people found in Cleburn County park die from O-D
In 3rd big bust in weeks, 200 pounds of pot captured
KARK: Multiple Arrests Made in Year Long Drug Investigation in Prairie County
KLRT: 4 Arrests Made in Ouachita County Drug Bust
KFSM: Arkansas Highway Police Seize 340 Pounds Of Marijuana
KTHV: Arkansas ranks 3rd in nation for Spring 2018 ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’
The state National Guard warns in this video that even exercise supplements are ‘drugs’:
CALIFORNIA: Several state National Guard Counterdrug Task Force personnel officially became DARE officers, even though the program has been proven, multiple times, to be a failure (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E. Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure).
U.S. News & World Report: Mexican Mafia Busted for Running Crime in LA County Jails
The Mercury News: Authorities arrest 85 people, seize drugs in major Orange County gang crackdown aimed at disrupting Mexican Mafia
BBC: Police find border drug tunnel from Mexico to California
Riverside police arrest 23 in undercover drug sting
New York Times: Needle by Needle, a Heroin Crisis Grips California’s Rural North
NPR: Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California
COLORADO: The Denver Post: Officials charge 37 people and seize 141 pounds of meth in drug bust spanning Colorado and two other states, The drug ring as been operating in Colorado since at least July 1, 2015
CONNECTICUT: NBC: Triple killings motivated by guns, cash and drugs
Meriden Record-Journal: Local Walgreens robbed of 3-thousand pills worth $60-thousand USD
RepublicanAmerican: Police find huge drug cache in Waterbury
DELAWARE: WDEL: Joint task force makes Wilmington drug bust
Delaware State News: drug reports
First State Update: drug crime reports
Delaware State Police: crime reports
FLORIDA: BuzzFeedNews: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami
Miami Herald: Florida cuts drug programs, costing hundreds of jobs
Pensacola News Journal: Santa Rosa County Sheriff captures more than 23 pounds of illegal drugs and 52 people during Operation Spring Cleaning
WJXT: Statewide, Operation Spring Cleaning captures 5-thousand people and 27-thousand pounds of drugs
TCPalm: Saint Lucie County captures guns, drugs and 17 people
WTXL: Suwannee County sheriff announces massive drug bust
WPLG: 6 arrested, 6 others sought by Miami-Dade police in drug bust
Coast Guard Cutter Resolute off-loaded almost 0.9 tonne (1 ton) of ganja in Saint Petersburg, 08MAY2018
NavyTimes: Coast Guard unloads 6 tons of seized cocaine in Florida
At Port Everglades, Coast Guard Cutter James off-loads almost 5.4 tonnes (metric tons/6 short [U.S.] tons) on 10MAY2018, all captured in the eastern Pacific
The Recovery Village: Florida’s Top 10 Counties for Drug Overdose Deaths
Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association: may 2018 patterns and trends of substance use
INDIANA: RTV: Indiana is one of the worst states for drug use
WANE: 1,500 Indiana drug cases a month … and rising
WLFI: Police respond to string of overdoses
WTTV: 15 people face federal charges in connection with drug trafficking ring that prompted Kokomo raids
The Herald Bulletin: ‘Clean Sweep’ nets 52 suspects, guns and drugs
IOWA: DesMoinesRegister: 20 years after the meth crisis began, Iowa’s addiction is worse than ever
Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy: Drug Trends in Iowa – May 2018
KANSAS: The Kansas City Star: Operation Triple Beam, 200 people arrested
KENTUCKY: USA Today: Kentucky football player charged with drug trafficking
Courier Journal: Mexican drug cartels saturate Louisville with deadliest meth ever
Louisville company wins FDA approval to produce opioid withdrawal drug
WDRD: Arrests, drugs and more than $1 million in cash during Operation Safe Haven
KFVS: More than $11000 of drugs seized
WAVE: Opioids infiltrate ranks of organ donors, rendering donations unusable
LOUISIANA: U.S. News & World Report: DEA orders Louisiana pharmaceutical wholesaler Must Stop Selling Controlled Drugs
The Advocate: Born addicted: Louisiana’s rate of newborns dependent on opioids is rising, pregnant women lack treatment options
The Times Picayune: Despite opioid crisis, Louisiana may cut drug treatment options
MAINE: Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to Kittery, after capturing 5896.7 kilos (13-thousand pounds) of cocaine in the eastern Pacific.
Bangor Daily News: Drug agents bust 9 in Aroostook County trafficking ring
Central Maine: Augusta police arrest 4 on drug charges
WABI: Center Street home drug bust in Bangor, 6 arrested
MARYLAND: WJZ-TV: Mother Arrested After 8-Month-Old Ingests Drugs
WTOP: Maryland curbs prisoner access to books, citing drug smuggling
MASSACHUSETTS: U.S. News & World Report: 13 Arrested in Bust of Major Drug Trafficking Ring
WBUR: Black Drug Users Grapple With Surging Opioid Overdose Death Rates
WWLP: 7 arrested, 3 wanted in Massachusetts drug sweep
MASS.gov: Current opioid statistics
MICHIGAN: MichiganLive: Michigan has 4th biggest drug problem in United States
DetroitNews: New Michigan opioid laws may mean longer prescription wait times
ClickOnDetroit: 3 pharmacists, 2 ‘recruiters,’ doctor charged in $9.6M prescription drug scheme
MINNESOTA: KIMT: 27 people arrested in Olmsted County
PostBulletin: Austin drug bust nets $100,000 worth of meth, cocaine
MPRNews: Federal taxpayer funded grant funds heroin trafficking investigations
MISSISSIPPI: Clarion Ledger: Feds charge 11 in multi-state ‘Operation Highlife’
MSNewsNow: Marijuana, $69000 cash seized in north Jackson drug bust
WTVA: Officers seize package containing drugs in Nettleton
U.S. News & World Report: Woman Arrested, Signed for Parcel Carrying Drug
MISSOURI: News Tribune: Jefferson City woman arrested in traffic stop turned drug bust
KOAM: Three Missouri Residents Arrested For Illegal Drug Activity
Missouri Sheriff’s Association: Major Drug Operation Nets 5 Arrests
Herald-Whig: Man dies after apparent meth overdose
MONTANA: KULR: Montana school bus provider accused of dealing meth
KXLF: Feds raid home in Deer Lodge as part of ongoing investigation
Missoulan: 48 marijuana plants found in Missoula warehouse
U.S. Food & Drug Administration: Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center fails inspection, “which put patients at risk.”
NEBRASKA: The Washington Post: Record drug bust finds enough fentanyl to kill 26-Million people (let’s call it chemical warfare, it’s definitely a weapon of mass destruction)
NEVADA: The Spectrum: Mesquite traffic stop turns drug bust
The Washington Post: Nebraska pushes to carry out the country’s first execution using fentanyl
NEW HAMPSHIRE: New Hampshire Public Radio: New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis
The New York Times: Drug Arrests at Immigration Checkpoint Violated Constitution
NEW JERSEY: NorthJersey: Drugs and prostitution: What might be next for New Jersey
LehighValleyLive: 2 arrested in P’burg police drug raid in Alpha
The Trentonian: $2 million drug bust
WPVI: NJ State Police arrest Philly duo, seize $2K in drugs
NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque Business First: New Mexico has the sixth biggest drug problem
New Mexico-Indicator Based Information System (NM-IBIS): New Mexico’s drug overdose death rate has been one of the highest in the nation for most of the last two decades
NEW YORK: A Venezuelan veterinarian is now in NYC facing federal drug charges after a 2005 drug raid in Columbus revealed the veterinarian was sewing up bags of liquid heroin inside puppies for transport to the U.S. The so called animal doctor was finally caught in Spain in 2015.
New York Post: Drug Bust reports
The New York Times: Overdoses From ‘Dangerous Batch’
Drug Abuse and Traffic reports
You’re Not a Drug Dealer? Here’s Why the Police Might Disagree
NYPD News: Narcotics Archives
NORTH CAROLINA: WNCN: NC drug bust highlights ‘meth highway’ as I-85
KABC: 90M worth of liquid meth found in semi-truck fuel tank
KTVD: Drug, gun bust leaves police looking for suspects
WECT: Smithfield Foods employees arrested in multi-agency drug bust
NORTH DAKOTA: KFGO: Guns, drugs, cash seized from Fargo home
Reservation drug bust nets $100,000 in narcotics
KVRR: Meth Archives
Grand Forks Herald: Drug reports
OHIO: KULR: Ohio Highway Patrol makes $3.7M heroin, meth bust
Cincinnati.com: Candidates say they’ve tackled heroin crisis. But it’s getting worse
OKLAHOMA: NewsOK: Addicted Oklahoma reports
News On 6: Two Men Caught In Canadian County Drug Bust
OREGON: KOBI: drugs Archives
KDRV: Suspected Drug Den in Medford
KOIN: Man gets 17 years for Mexico-to-Oregon drug trafficking
PENNSYLVANIA: PhillyNews: prosecutors are charging heroin dealers with killing their customers
KPMT: York City Police arrest 7 in connection to drug trafficking
PUERTO RICO: U.S. Department of Justice: Seven Puerto Rico Police Officers Arrested For Corrupt Activities Including Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations
Boston Globe: 10 charged in cocaine ring that brought drugs from Puerto Rico
RHODE ISLAND: The Sun Chronicle: Police arrest 49 people and seize 53 illegal guns and a large quantity of drugs during Operation Patched Out
SOUTH CAROLINA: WISTV: South Congaree drug bust nets thousands in heroin
Meth, money and Mercedes seized in major drug bust
GoUpstate: Operation Rolling thunder hits University of South Carolina
The Herald: 11 arrested in York County drug raid
The Washington Post: South Carolina anti-drug police unit admits to violating 4th Amendment Rights of U.S. citizens by conducting ‘no-knock’ home invasions!
SOUTH DAKOTA: KSFY: After being busted two years ago, a drug dealer finally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and then ten years of probation after that
TENNESSEE: WVLT: Four arrests in ‘one of the largest’ drug busts in Harriman
Knox News: raid seizes 10000 Xanax pills, 8 pounds of pot
Drugs land more women behind bars
TEXAS: Times Record News: Man kidnapped, part of finger chopped off by gang members in meth ring
KRGV: Bust at Donna Home Yields Drugs, 3 Arrests
KLTV: Drug bust takes dealer who sold to both kids, adults, off street
7 arrested in drug search in Van Zandt County
Star-Telegram: 10 schemed to load drugs, weapons and explosives on aircraft at DFW Airport
Corridor News: Texas Border And Port Narcotic Seizures, Arrests And Apprehensions For The Week Of May 2 – May 8
Your tax dollars at work tearing down ‘drug houses’ in Corpus Christi. Local elementary students were indoctrinated into the government’s latest vain attempt at looking like its fighting the War on Drugs by observing the National Guard knock-down known as Operation Crackdown, while chanting “Knock it down! Knock it down!” (as if it were some kind-o sporting event)
UTAH: KUTV: ‘This is a big one,’ feds announce Utah drug bust
KSTU: Meth ‘forgotten drug,’ seizures skyrocketing in Utah
KTVX: Flesh-eating drug may have made its way to Utah
Salt Lake Tribune: The cheap drug spice is on the rise in Salt Lake City — and it’s killing
Deseret News: New tenant arrested in large drug bust
VERMONT: CNN: Vermont law could allow state to import cheaper Canadian drugs
VIRGINIA: WSLS: 21 people arrested in ‘Operation Blue Thunder’
WASHINGTON: KHQ: Police seize 50 pounds of meth from truck after traffic stop
The Daily News: Three Lewis County drug busts in two weeks
CNN: Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids
Official video Coast Guard Cutter Active, home-port Port Angeles, cocaine interdiction somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 18MAY2018:
Washington DC: Perry Center Hosts Hemispheric Forum on Efforts to Address the Opioid Crisis and Transnational Organized Crime with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Read the Official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime report website. Read official Department of Justice (DoJ) crime report website.
WEST VIRGINIA: WSAZ: police find more than $40,000 in heroin
The Herald-Dispatch: Drug firms deny role in sparking opioid epidemic in WV
WVNews: Mason County man arrested after deputies find drugs, guns
WVVA: Monroe County indicted 19 people on 46 felony offenses
MetroNews: Two charged after drug overdose in Upshur County
Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA): West Virginia drug crime reports
WISCONSIN: Wisconsin State Journal: Madison man charged with selling heroin that killed drug purchaser
South Side drug search nets cash, drugs, gun
DoseOfReality: Native Americans in Wisconsin get $2.4-million USD to fight opioid addiction
WKBT: Wisconsin 3rd in nation with drug disposal program
WYOMING: CBSNews: U.S. Air Force admits Airmen guarding nuclear missiles in Wyoming used LSD
Idaho State Journal: Wyoming troopers seize $425000 worth of meth
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: More proof your government/police is behind drugs; TAKE BACK DAY, as Chinese news media reveal that China is behind major California drug ops!
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”
SUMERIAN LAMENT: HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!
THE NEW GREAT OPIUM WAR: MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! (thanks to United States?)
2012: Occupation of Afghanistan designed to raise the price of opioids