Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of June 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
Trump proves he’s a Great Reneger by commuting sentence for Kardashian-backed drug offender.
Associated Press: British empire Canada drug smuggler used helicopter to fly marijuana into Washington and Idaho, then pick-up cocaine from California.
CBS News: Ex-DEA agent says Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and taxpayer funded Congress
CNN: Cocaine and heroin supplies hit ‘record highs’ globally
National Geographic: Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine
Center For American Progress: Ending the War on Drugs
Vox: Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for U.S.
Los Angeles Times: Mexico sent in the army to fight the drug war
New York Times: Drug Dealers Targeted in nation wide Sweep of Illicit Online Marketplaces
Forbes: Drug Use Rankings Show Big Surprises And Even Bigger Problems
ESPN: NBA player high on drugs when he killed himself and his wife in car crash
Science News: narcolepsy may play a role in opioid addiction
New study says Superbug infections rising among injection drug users
ALABAMA: Heroin, cocaine, illegal guns, silencers, $16k seized
37-year-old Chilton County drug dealer gets life in federal prison
Mobile Police raids capture drugs, illegal guns, 7 suspects
Opelika Police find 4 pounds of drugs
Rise in major crimes taxing on Florence Police
“Pieces of meth all through that house.”–Monroe County 10 people drug busted
Trio accused of shooting man in retaliation for theft of cash, meth
2 women charged with using illegal drugs while pregnant
A judge dismissed drug charges against 55 people and recalled 20 arrest warrants supposedly because of the incompetence of the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office!
ALASKA: The state Department of Public Safety released drug seizure statistics from March through May.
Troopers now posting monthly drug seizure data
10 years in prison for meth, heroin distributor
Attorney accused of slipping drugs to prisoners
Anchorage police arrest dozens in ‘Operation Midnight Sun’
ARIZONA: CBP Arrest 3 Foreign Women for Drug Smuggling across the U.S./Mexican border
CBP arrests Tucson woman for trying to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S.
CBP arrests foreign man for smuggling meth and heroin from Mexico
Naked Man killed by federal officer tested negative for drugs
Arizona seeing increase in DUI drug arrests
$2.5-million of meth confiscated during traffic stop
Former registered nurse accused of stealing narcotics
Yavapai County Attorney’s Office gets $5-thousand state taxpayer dollars to attend state drug summit
Large number of work-release prisoners test positive for dangerous drugs
Man with ankle monitor caught transporting drugs in Phoenix
CVS creates unwanted drugs drop-off sites
Man arrested after calling police to have his illegal drugs tested
Hashish Not Included in Medical Marijuana Law
ARKANSAS: Raids in Hope yield cars, drugs
Central Arkansas drug court a disaster
Ex-judge called on to scrutinize central Arkansas drug court
Arrested men face federal drug charges
Caregiver arrested, faces drug charges after abandoning her patient
37 pounds (16.7 kilos) of pot outside west Little Rock
Ex-Bryant school employee arrested in drug-fraud case
Drug fund tapped by bribed lawmakers
COLORADO: 6 Questions About Colorado’s Interest In Suing Opioid Drug Makers
El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy facing felony drug charges
El Paso County sees increase in drug deaths
El Paso County won’t join federal opioid lawsuit
Pikes Peak Library district arms itself against overdoses
CONNECTICUT: Drug deal leads to shooting
13 people arrested for drug trafficking in Hartford
Ellington prison, I mean High School locked down for drugs
Mystery heroin overdoses in Waterbury
K9 uncovers cocaine during Bristol traffic stop
2 men arrested after 160 bags of heroin found in car
Drug factory shut down in Bridgeport
Nursing home Director Caught Stealing Patient’s Drugs
Cell phone crime leads to drug arrest
Artists install drug spoon sculpture outside pharmaceutical headquarters
Connecticut’s New Drug Pricing Law
DELAWARE: Prescription Drug Assistance Program Restored
1,306 Heroin Bags found in Laurel
Investigation yields vast amount of drugs
Visitor to Smyrna prison arrested on drug possession charges
Dover police nab fugitive; hotel room yields crack, heroin, ecstasy
Woman Found With 65 Bags of Heroin
FLORIDA: Ex-NFL player arrested on drug charge
A French citizen pled guilty to Oxymonster (Oxycodone and Ritalin) trafficking through the ‘dark web’ site known as the Dream Market.
$2-million USD worth of marijuana captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.
5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port Everglades.
Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government. The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed. Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.
As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!
Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:
INDIANA: He Sold Drugs for $225. Indiana Took His $42000 Land Rover.
6 arrested after drugs, explosives found
1 current Indiana University football player, 1 former player arrested for drugs
4 prison officers sickened by suspected drug fumes at Indiana jail
Indiana and Kansas troopers make interstate drug bust
Police Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative says using drugs to stop using drugs works good
mother of prisoner charged with trafficking drugs
Police find drugs in mom’s diaper bag
IOWA: man sentenced in mail-order drug case that killed woman
Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic
Police screw up? Without explanation charges of meth possession were suddenly dropped against a man pulled over for an expired registration, Worth County Attorney’s Office would only say “it was in the interest of justice.”
Drug bust at Viking Lake State Park
KANSAS: Walgreens opens Safe Drug Disposal kiosks in Wichita
KENTUCKY: How a McDonald’s receipt revealed a celebrated Louisville cop was really a drugs criminal! (I wonder how many innocent people are in prison because of this guy?)
LOUISIANA: California-based drug ring ran drugs into New Orleans, involved “corrupted agents, subcontractors and employees” and threatened the safety of airline passengers.
“Operation Meltdown” results in 26 arrests in Bienville Parish
Man freed from drug-related life sentence immediately rearrested
Former U.S. attorney/New Orleans DA accused of supplying drugs to prisoner
Prescription drugs in Louisiana are exempted from state sales tax, but new legal medical marijuana will be taxed!
MAINE: Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) stopping people in Maine and New Hampshire, make at least nine drug busts and arrest two illegal immigrants.
Family Loses Second Son In Less Than A Year To Drug Addiction
Report shows drug deaths remain high and fentanyl on the rise
Attempted overdose leads to large drug bust
police dog credited with finding 120+ grams of cocaine
Drug treatment for drug addiction?
Drug convicts Still Face Lifetime Ban from SNAP (food stamps) even after completing their prison/probation time, end up back in prison for stealing food!
MARYLAND: Raids of four homes in Hagerstown led to drugs and 11 arrests
Drug addiction treatment one key to revitalizing Hagerstown
Freddie Gray’s sister gets probation for bringing drugs into prison
Maryland Prisons Reverse Policy after failed attempt to stop drug smuggling
man and woman found guilty in heroin O-D death
MASSACHUSETTS: Drug Busts In Lawrence Net Huge Score
More dying from overdoses of fentanyl-laced cocaine
Brockton Gang Unit detectives witness drug deal
100 overdoses, 25 dead, in Fall River
‘Targeted acts of violence’ in Fall River
Drug Overdose Uptick In Waltham
Worcester County emerging as marijuana central
Mother Charged With Drugged Driving in Crash That Injured Her 2 Kids
Drugmaker Eisai to close Andover research site, lay off employees
MICHIGAN: Democrats introduce plan to repeal drug liability law
Michigan ranked fourth in nation for drug problems
alcohol still No. 1 addictive drug
Michigan is hiring prison contractor known for smuggling drugs to prisoners!
Female Detroit doctor has license suspended for over-prescribing drugs
Libraries now the front lines of Michigan’s opioid war
Mail-order pharmacy system delays meds for some patients
MINNESOTA: Fentanyl in Minnesota
Mexican drug cartel ‘flooded our market’ with meth
police to stop arresting people for selling small amounts of marijuana
Minneapolis police ordered EMTs to inject suspects with rape drug, secret ‘official policy’ changed after being caught!
MISSISSIPPI: ‘Operation High Life’
Federal judge shuts down Delta Pharma for distributing dangerous drugs
woman charged with prescription fraud
multi-million dollar pharmacy fraud scheme
MISSOURI: Man accused of deadly shooting over prescription drugs
Twenty-two indicted in undercover Boonville drug bust
Opioid-related deaths in Missouri grow
MONTANA: Already record number of meth labs shutdown, so far this year!
Blackfeet Tribe bans convicted drug dealer from reservation
Fort Peck Indian Reservation fatal heroin overdoses
Drugs possible motive in Missoula shooting
Saint Ignatius School Board unanimously voided the contract with school bus contractor, after the owner was charged with smoking meth on buses.
Former Billings police clerk accused of stealing drugs from evidence locker
NEBRASKA: Drug use has gotten so outta hand in the predominantly ‘christian’ plain states that the U.S. DEA has opened a new Division Office in Omaha. Agents operating out of the office will cover Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
NEVADA: Our Big Pot Feature
20 charged in Reno drug trafficking and gun case
Nevada’s First Report on Compensation & Samples Distributed by Pharmaceutical Sales
13 arrested in FBI probe of meth trafficking
NEW HAMPSHIRE: 2017 was deadliest year for overdoses
Will Soon Have Millions More tax-dollars to Fight the Opioid Crisis. But Where Will it really Go?
Opioids cause 21% increase in child abuse
NEW JERSEY: 70 pounds (31.7 kilos) of drugs seized
Drug dealers still a problem despite 12 arrests
Massive Amounts Of Heroin, 10,000 bags moved per week, In Monmouth County
election worker accused of being on heroin
Ocean County cop stole cocaine, gets 3 years
meth deal in parking lot of Buffalo Wild Wings
NEW MEXICO: Smuggling is a growing border problem
Over $1 million in heroin, cocaine found in wrecked car at immigration checkpoint
Drug addicts killing innocent victims caught on home video
Seizures of deadly fentanyl soaring
Almost 40% of women in prison are there because of drugs
NEW YORK: County prisoners charged with smuggling drugs
Nassau police officers arrested in drug probe
11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini
Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Mexican Meth+California+U.S. Postal Service+New York=Operation Meltdown
NORTH CAROLINA: More than 100 arrested in Johnston County drug bust
Dozens arrested in WPD drug round-up
Police officer charged with drug possession
city councilman arrested in drug bust keeps his taxpayer funded job
College football signee arrested on drug charges
NORTH DAKOTA: Police incinerate pounds of drugs after big busts: “We’re getting better at it.”-Leutenant Troy Hischer, North Dakota Highway Patrol
Now former deputy fails drug test, again!
Major traffic stop ganja bust unusable as evidence because of incompetent deputy, who claimed his only reason for being suspicious of the driver was that he was driving 2-mph under the speed limit, which is not a crime!
OHIO: Fentanyl seized in local drug bust called enough to kill millions
Record Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in Cuyahoga County
Officers arrest 22 during Warren drug sweep
Cocaine worth $3.4 million seized
‘Haunted Farm’ turns out to be Mexican run meth house.
Columbus health department giving heroin users fentanyl test strips
OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Users Can’t Possess Guns
Prisoner pleads guilty to running drug operation from prison
Investigators trying to figure out how prisoner got drugs
Claremore doctor indicted for drug distribution
New trend; cattle rustling for drugs!
OREGON: Task Force Arrests Suspect in Southern Oregon Drug Trafficking
55 people arrested in downtown Portland
Angry taxpayers forced to save known drug house from foreclosure!
Rogue Area Drug Enforcement (RADE) finds heroin and meth in local park
Employers warning they’ve run-out of employees who can pass a drug test!
PENNSYLVANIA: Mom, Son Accused of Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine, Fentanyl & Marijuana
Retailers experiment with blue colored lights to Prevent heroin Use in store toilet rooms.
Study reveals that Pennsylvania coroners are not able to identify drugs used in O-D deaths! Which explains why Pennsylvania led the U.S. in unreported opioid deaths!
The opioid overdose crisis is hitting all of Philadelphia
RHODE ISLAND: $1M worth of fentanyl seized in drug bust, 3 people arrested including a man from Dominican Republic
Pawtucket police seize $100K in marijuana
Drugs to be used to treat alcohol addiction?
SOUTH CAROLINA: Police continue illegal ‘no knock’ home invasions!
Prisoner caught running ‘multi-stage’ drug trafficking op from state prison.
Pile of powerful pills found on the street
man tricked into life in prison for nonviolent drug crime
Officers stopping for water make unexpected drug bust
Cop with six years on the job resigns after failing drug test
SOUTH DAKOTA: Fentanyl hits South Dakota with deadly force
A now ex-cop blames his meth use on the U.S. Army’s anti-malaria vaccine!
8 pounds of heroin, 2 pounds of fentanyl in traffic stop
TENNESSEE: Metro Schools teacher arrested for meth use
Nineteen accused in Claiborne County
Man Accused Of Selling Drugs While pushing baby In Stroller
Big expensive camping RVs used to traffic drugs from Oregon to Tennessee.
TEXAS: Taxpayer funded immigrant prison contractor accused of injecting children with date rape drug!
20 charged in West Texas drug conspiracy
Alabama man arrested with nearly 5 pounds of meth
‘Affluenza Mom’ Fails Drug Test
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.
OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? OBAMA!
UTAH: meth hidden in package of ‘snacks’
True reason why marijuana is illegal in Utah: Mormon Church’s Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Investment
Woman attempts to drug husband because she “didn’t want to deal with him”.
VERMONT: 25 arrested in Washington County
Act 86 Will Not Change Vermont National Guard Drug Policy
Despite legalized marijuana employees can still be fired for using it
VIRGINIA: National Guard soldier high on drugs steals armored personnel carrier.
Police push confidential informant program as drug offenses jump 42%
WASHINGTON: Seattle based Amazon jumps into drug business with PillPack acquisition
Seattle officials propose mobile safe injection site
Spokane dentist indicted on federal drug charges
Authorities arrest about three dozen in Western Washington drug busts
The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.
Washington DC: The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.
FDA approves first cannabis-based drug
Government issues warning about Nuetexta pushed on the elderly by pharmaceutical company
WEST VIRGINIA: Feds indict 31
21 arrested in multi-agency drug sweep in Wayne County
Taxpayers turning apartments into drug treatment centers for women under Project Hope for Women and Children (this proves there is no hope for men?)
WISCONSIN: International drug deal in Door County
meth use grows in Wisconsin, DOJ warns of “Altered State”
Older adults overlooked in opioid abuse epidemic
Wawautosa nurse practitioner indicted in major federal drug take down
Trucker was on drugs before crashing into school bus
WYOMING: Deadly drug found in Casper
Entire family accused of dealing meth
drug treatment gaps drive Wyoming’s prison problem
Wyoming man caught trying to traffic meth from Mexico
Female prisoners used vaginas to traffic meth inside county jail
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: U.S. Air Force says “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”
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