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The combination of Mexican drug cartel super-labs increasing the purity of illegal drugs, and an ongoing prescription painkiller boom, is set to drive up overdose death rates in California.

A Virginia woman told authorities that she killed her six-year-old daughter with a shotgun to protect her from aliens, police said.

A California man who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and pimping charges in Orange County received a 31-year prison sentence, officials said.

A bill that would reduce drug felonies to misdemeanors for first-time possessions of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and other hard drugs passed through the Oregon state legislature on Thursday and is likely to be signed into law by Governor Kate Brown.

HOUSTON, Texas – Harris County sheriff’s deputies discovered about $1 million-worth of lollipops laced with methamphetamine while responding to a burglary call. The drug-laced candy appears to be designed for distribution to children, say authorities.

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.

Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers teamed up to bring an indictment for drug trafficking charges against seven near Lubbock, Texas. The indictments allege a conspiracy to operate a large-scale operation.

Law enforcement authorities announced multiple federal indictments following the completion of an early morning raid. The operation resulted in dozens of arrests of suspected drug and illegal gun dealers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials working in the Tucson Sector seized two vehicles, several illegal aliens, and hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of methamphetamine and marijuana.

Federal customs officers stopped a shipment of nearly 200 pounds of liquid methamphetamine hidden in the fuel tank of pickup truck crossing the border from Mexico into south Texas. The value of the drugs is estimated by law enforcement officials to be worth nearly $4 million.

A group of 80 defendants were charged in a case with members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concluded a targeted nationwide gang operation which was the largest ever conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Officers noticed something suspicious about a 47-year-old woman from Nogales, Arizona, as she attempted to enter the U.S. through the pedestrian border lines. Upon further inspection, officers discovered nearly 3 pounds of heroin strapped to her buttocks, worth an estimated $45,000.

An ex-science teacher stands accused of using his knowledge of science to launch an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing business, echoing the popular TV show, “Breaking Bad.”

Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, told reporters Monday that he could not yet accept an invitation from his American counterpart Donald Trump to the White House because he is unsure of whether he has the time to make it.

The language of “dramatic increases” and “soaring crime rates” common to public policy discussions seems inadequate for the meth epidemic in Bangladesh, where drug seizures in rural Islamic communities have increased by eighty thousand percent over the past nine years.

The government of Myanmar arrested a Buddhist monk on Tuesday for hiding over four million methamphetamine pills and a cache of “a grenade and ammunition” in his monastery. The incident highlights one of the world’s most sprawling drug epidemics in a nation former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has regaled as an Obama White House success story.

An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attorney based in Washington, D.C. was arrested for allegedly shipping methamphetamine from his apartment to Long Island, New York over the past few years.

Under pressure from Catholic leaders to put an end to a spate of extrajudicial killings against suspected drug criminals, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte insisted that priests and bishops should “use shabu,” the local name for crystal methamphetamine, to “understand” how devastating it is to communities.

A routine traffic stop for one Texas man turned into a nightmare when police mistakenly thought a half pound of kitty litter was methamphetamine.

Federal authorities seized nearly $7 million in crystal methamphetamine at two international border bridges in south Texas in one week.

Border Patrol agents working an inland checkpoint in southern California busted a Mexican national after finding 25 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in his car.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The number of newborn babies who have been exposed to drugs and alcohol in Louisiana has tripled since 2008, mostly due to the massive rise and popularity of heroin being trafficked into the state through the U.S. southern border.

More than $1 million worth of methamphetamine and cocaine were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the border between Arizona and Mexico during a one week period. The drug seizures came in seven separate incidents in the Tucson Sector.

Law enforcement officials in Fayette County, Texas, made a million dollar drug bust after a traffic stop on Interstate 10 between San Antonio and Houston.

A Florida man is suing the city of Orlando after Orlando police mistook the icing on a Krispy Kreme doughnut for methamphetamine and arrested him.

A Roswell, New Mexico man pleaded guilty in a federal court Wednesday to conspiracy and drug trafficking charges. The charges were part of a conspiracy that landed 41 people in jail for their roles in trafficking drugs in an area reported to be under the control of the Juarez drug cartel.

Troopers with the Department of Public Safety seized nearly $1.4 million worth of methamphetamine during two traffic stops in neighboring counties in the Texas Panhandle over the weekend.

Officers assigned to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Texas seized over $500,000 in drugs this week at international border crossings from Mexico.

U.S. Border Patrol agents working in south Texas discovered $7 million-worth of methamphetamine being smuggled through a checkpoint.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers seized nearly $2 million in narcotics and other drugs being smuggled into Texas from Mexico over the weekend.

Federal officers working an international crossing from Mexico into South Texas seized nearly $2 million worth of methamphetamine on Thursday.

TWIN FALLS, IDAHO — The tentacles of a Mexican drug cartel have reached into picturesque southern Idaho, as a Mexican man and a woman pled guilty in federal court after being indicted on charges of selling highly addictive meth.

An east Texas man told police he fell off the roof of a home while he was having sex with his neighbor’s wife. He told the officer he had sex with her because his wife had cheated with the woman’s husband.

A woman attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into Texas from Mexico by hiding the drugs under her clothing and those of her infant child. The discovery was made by Federal officers working at the Brownsville Port of Entry from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Elsewhere on the Texas border with Mexico, an additional $500,000 worth of methamphetamine and cocaine were seized in a separate smuggling attempt.

Federal officers seized 72 pounds of methamphetamine that was being smuggled from Reynosa, Mexico into Texas. The drugs were hidden in a Ford pickup truck being driving by a Mexican national.