Two Texas high school seniors who were discovered dead this month had fentanyl in their system, according to a toxicology report, and a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged for allegedly supplying drugs to the teens, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has announced.
Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday urged incoming Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to exert “stronger pressure” on the nation’s illicit drug industry during his upcoming administration, the Manila Bulletin reported.
Methamphetamine has recently become the center of Afghanistan’s “fastest-growing” illicit drug industry, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported on Tuesday, citing an original report by the Washington Post.
A federal judge sentenced a New York City prostitute to 30 years in prison after she distributed narcotics that caused the overdose deaths of two victims and gave drugs to two additional individuals who died following their encounters with her, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced.
Law enforcement along the United States-Mexico border and in California’s border communities are finding the deadliest of drugs, fentanyl, in just about everything from bags of Skittles to vaping pens.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is warning federal, state, and local law enforcement of an impending nationwide spike in fentanyl-related “mass overdose events” and reported the amount of the drug infiltrating into the United States in 2021 was enough “to kill every American.”
Author J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, is out with a provocative new television advertisement on Tuesday calling out establishment media outlets for claiming Americans who want to secure the border and stop the flow of illicit drugs are “racist.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) addressed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s comments to a “career criminal” drug “kingpin” in 2018, in which she stated that she “shared his frustration” with regards to not being able to give him a lighter sentence, adding, “And for this, I am sorry.”
Authorities in Louisiana say they have identified three persons of interest after locating a woman’s body that was stuffed in a plastic storage container in a pickup truck.
Number of Scottish cannabis users being hospitalised with psychiatric issues has soared since the drug was semi-decriminalised.
Perhaps the cocaine clampdown should start at the Palace of Westminster which makes Scarface look like The Muppet Christmas Carol…
President Joe Biden’s administration is rolling out a new plan to combat the rise in drug overdose deaths, including establishing clean needle exchange programs and providing fentanyl testing strips for drug users across the country.
Kabul-based drug addicts interviewed by the Pajhwok Afghan News Agency this week urged the Taliban terror group to “prevent the sale and purchase” of illicit drugs in Afghanistan.
Illegal immigration amounts to a “full-blown invasion,” said Bernie Moreno, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio.
Afghanistan has long been infamous for its opium poppies, but law enforcement agencies across the world are warning of a new boom in the Afghan drug trade fueled by methamphetamines.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said Thursday that he would support a 2021 amnesty.
Sen. Chuck Grassley seeks answers from Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general, about her stake in a family owned business that has “sold acetic anhydride to Mexican cartels, which is used to make high-grade ‘china white’ heroin and methamphetamine.”
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized some 59 properties worth an estimated £17 million after busting an organised crime ring importing massive quantities of heroin into Britain from Pakistan.
President Donald Trump said Thursday during the final night of the Republican National Convention, “Today, America’s borders are more secure than ever before.”
A man caught transporting £5.7m in cocaine bricks hidden in a van with secret compartments has been imprisoned.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) made renewed calls on Friday for amnesty for every illegal alien living in the United States and for abolishing enforcement of immigration laws.
British-born Grime Rapper Ceon Broughton had his manslaughter conviction overturned by the High Court on Tuesday, as the court found his providing a lethal dose of a hallucinogenic drug to his former girlfriend and his failure to seek medical attention
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police have dismantled what they describe as the biggest cocaine laboratory ever discovered in the Netherlands — hidden at a former horse riding school — and arrested a total of 17 people from Colombia, Turkey and the Netherlands.
Greek police have arrested a Syrian migrant carrying nearly 1,500 illegal pills near the Turkish frontier as the government is set to begin strengthening the border fence at Evros.
British authorities have arrested 746 suspects, seized tens of millions in cash, dozens of firearms and high-value cars, 2 tonnes of drugs, and even grenades in the country’s “biggest ever law enforcement operation”.
A Chinese court sentenced an Australian citizen to death for alleged drug trafficking, the Guardian reported on Monday.
A drone carrying illegal drugs into a prison in Belgium has crashed, with local authorities saying the crash was caused by the drone being overloaded.
French police arrested four individuals caught selling drugs and offering free hand sanitiser and medical masks with each purchase.
An Iowa woman was arrested after allegedly asking the cops to check her stash of narcotics for traces of the coronavirus.
The U.S. military has begun operations to stop the illicit flow of narcotics across the country’s southern border at President Donald Trump’s direction, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Wednesday at a White House briefing.
The British and Scottish governments will meet in Glasglow this week to hold summits on the public health emergency in Scotland.
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) – Danish police say they have arrested 27 people for suspected drug smuggling after finding some 100 kilograms of cocaine on a Bahamas-registered cargo vessel plying Danish waters.
During ABC News’s 2020 Democrat Debate on Friday evening, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, falsely claimed he never called for “decriminalizing all drugs,” though his website explicitly states that position as his plan for tackling the opioid crisis.
At his February 1 rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bernie Sanders promised an executive order to legalize weed on his first day in office.
Community members are offering support to six children whose mother was allegedly stabbed to death in an act of domestic violence in Mifflin Borough, Pennsylvania, last Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted expanded access for treatments employing the drug commonly known as “ecstasy,” or MDMA.
Newly elected Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made history as the first black to hold the post and the first GOP AG in decades.
Authorities seized almost 45 pounds of illegal fentanyl in Montgomery County, Ohio, during the week of October 21.
MPs have approved the recommendation from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to suspend Labour’s Keith Vaz from the House of Commons following an inquiry into his “coke and rent boys” scandal.
The U.S. Coast Guard announced that it seized 19 tons of illegal drugs worth millions in international waters.
