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El Chapo $5 Million Heroin Bust – Yes, It’s Still Happening
Even though El Chapo is behind bars, this hasn’t stopped his drug network from making progress. Recently three alleged drug dealers were arrested with a whopping $5 million worth of heroin between them. Some of the packages were even branded “El Chapo”, according to officials. The New York Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Bridget G. Brennan, said:…
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Drone Crashes Carrying Too Much Meth to the U. S.
As if the U. S. Border Patrol didn’t have their hands full enough catching drug smugglers trying to get across Mexican and U. S. borders, now drones are in play. The drone, carrying 6 pounds of Meth crashed into a parked car alerting police in Tijuana. According to the BBC, “Authorities are investigating where the…
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Heroin and Meth on the Rise According to U. S. Report
The U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has issued a report called the National Drug Threat Assessment Summary. This report states that use of heroin and methamphetamines is on the rise in the United States. According to the L. A. Times, “… the amount of heroin seized at the southern U.S. border increased 232% between…
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$80 Million Prescription Drug Theft Ring Broken Up
Today the FBI broke up a prescription drug theft ring in Florida that swiped at least $80 million worth of medication. There were 22 people charged in this raid on the East Coast. One of the biggest drug heists was in Connecticut in 2010. According to Fox News, “The thieves hit warehouses and stole tractor-trailers…
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Hezbollah and Mexican Drug Cartels Push Cocaine into U.S.
It seems like the plot of a B-movie, but in fact worldwide organized crime knows no bounds. Recently, Hezbollah, the Mexican drug cartels, Colombia cocaine manufacturers and a Lebanese national have all been linked. A man named Ayman Joumaa who is currently at large is said to have connections to all of the above listed…
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All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Pounds of Drugs
For one of the Mexican drug cartels, smuggling two pounds of cocaine and two pounds of methamphetamines inside a vacuum cleaner into the U. S. sucked – literally sucked – this Christmas season. You see a Green Bay, Wisconsin woman received a Christmas present from her two kids which was a vacuum cleaner than had…