U.S. prosecutors charged a Honduran Congressman with using his position to help large-scale drug traffickers move cocaine from Columbia to Honduras and then into the United States.
New York police teamed up with Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) investigators to seize enough fentanyl and other dangerous drugs to kill up to 32 million people–270 pounds worth. The drug seizure became the largest drug bust in New York City history.
A U.S. district court judge sentenced a Texas man to serve 20 years in federal prison for his role in a large-scale fentanyl distribution ring where he sold up to 10 grams a day of a designer version of the dangerous synthetic opioid.
A Ford dealership in Ohio discovered marijuana bundles that smugglers apparently hid in a shipment of new Ford Fusions assembled in Mexico.
More than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials took part in “Operation Bad Company” which resulted in 30 arrests on drug and gun charges–several of the suspects were illegal immigrants.
New figures from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) show a sharp uptick in the amount of fentanyl that is ending up on streets throughout the United States.
Law enforcement officials in New York filed federal charges against 49 members of Bronx-based drug distribution organizations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents joined with the New York City Police Department and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents to bring in the alleged criminals.
A Mexican national who crossed the US-Mexico border into Texas is accused of trafficking five kilos of cocaine across three states before reaching her intended destination in Pensacola, Florida.
Top Hollywood producer-director Lee Daniels inflated “gun violence” numbers by 66 percent when he claimed that “33,000 people each year die from gun violence” during his speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night.
On April 11, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at the Gun Violence Prevention Discussion (GVPD) where she reiterated the false claim that approximately “90 people a day die from gun violence.”
