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‘death party’: Drugs, the American Way, January 2019

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of January 2019:

South China Morning Post: Mexico’s new president declares ‘drug war’ over

The Guardian:Mexico’s murder rate broke new record in 2018 as drug war drags on

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

Off the coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden, the USN captured  4,700 kilograms of hashish, 24JAN2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

It was the second Gulf of Aden hash capture, by the USN, in the past four weeks. The hash boat crew were allowed to sail away after the drugs were confiscated.

U.S. Coast Guard photo, 04JAN2019.

U.S. Coast Guard came across this drug ‘fast boat’, somewhere in the Pacific, 04JAN2019.

New York Times: Former Mexican President and Barack Obama buddy, Enrique Peña Nieto, accepted $100-million bribe from drug lord

U.S. counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids

U.S. News & World Report: Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket Among Women

Many Addiction Centers Lack Anti-Opioid Meds

Journal of the American Medical Association: Medical marketing increased substantially….especially DTC (Direct To Consumer) advertising for drugs…only two countries allow DTC drug advertising, New Zealand and United States

ALABAMA: Student busted with guns and drugs on High School campus

man arrested for trading teen girl for drugs

Knives, drugs, more found in Marshall County Jail crackdown

ALASKA:  Federal taxpayers giving Juneau Police Department $2.5-million, the police admitted the drugs war is all about making money for the cops: “Those interdictions are now our bread and butter, whether that’s postal or on the airlines or through the ferry.”-Jeremy Weske, JPD drug unit

Woman indicted for bringing meth, heroin on flight to Juneau

What do drugs in Alaska have to do with President Trump’s ‘border crisis’?

ARIZONA: Nogales border officers make record 254-pound fentanyl bust

Meth, cocaine, heroin: Most gets smuggled through ports of entry.

16 arrested across Pima, Cochise counties

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sabrina Candiaflores, 22JAN2019.

In Yuma, the USMC tried to convince high school students not to get intoxicated by having them play fun games with vision impairing ‘beer goggles’ on, 22JAN2019.

ARKANSAS: 8 Pounds Of Meth In Washington County

3 pounds of meth found in apartment

Nine arrested 

Co-founder of youth outreach program confesses to federal drug and gun charges

CALIFORNIA: For proof how commonplace drug smuggling has become in the leftist liberal Blue State; dumb repeat offender drug traffickers get arrested for a traffic violation, then while in jail openly reveal their latest major drug trafficking op!

Australian and U.S. cops capture record-setting 1.7 tons of meth worth $1.29 billion

mass drug overdose killed one person and sent more than a dozen to hospitals

new phase of opioid epidemic

New Opioid Laws

Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment 

Californians so addicted to prescription drugs that veterinarians must counsel pet owners on pet drugs

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

COLORADO:  Lawmakers so addicted to prescription drugs they want to directly import cheapo foreign made stuff

Despite ganja being legal in the state, cops raid 50 ‘blackmarket’ marijuana growers…since 2014 at least 350 illegal mary-jane growers have been raided by police

Again, despite legalized marijuana, prison population is expected to skyrocket due to drug crimes

Police report record number of cops shot while doing their job, it coincides with an increase in property crimes, specifically stolen vehicles, and if you look at the map of cop shootings you’ll notice it’s along a metro-area drugs trafficking corridor  (so much for legalized marijuana)

CONNECTICUT:  U.S. Postal Service captures 60 packages of cocaine shipped to Connecticut from Puerto Rico

A defense lawyer for a police sergeant accused of running a drug factory out of his home, has withdrawn a request to exclude the public and the press from the courtroom

judge dismisses opioid lawsuits against drug makers

Doctor pleads guilty in compound medicine case 

DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing

131 drug incidents in one week!

Two men busted for attempting to sneak drugs into Delco prison

Opioid Overdoses Up In 2018

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Despite being acquitted of drug crimes, court decides to keep the more than $13-thousand dollars in cash the thieving cops took from the man, because he can’t prove it’s his cash!

FLORIDA: For the second year in a row, cruise ship passengers arrested on drug charges

man says 3 syringes found in his butt aren’t his

Police dog exposed to ecstasy powder 

Cocaine making a deadly comeback

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray, 31JAN2019.

31JAN2019, five miles east of Haulover Inlet, a Coast Guard ‘smallboat’ intercepts a fishing boat that turned out to be hauling about 130 pounds of cocaine.

USCG District 7 Photo, 07JAN2019.

07JAN2019, at U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, personnel test seven kilograms of cocaine captured by Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection agents. The drug smugglers were also smuggling illegal immigrants.

GEORGIA: Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana

26 suspects arrested

15 arrested in $3.5M meth ring bust

Truck carrying $10M worth of liquid meth busted at repair shop

Doctor’s husband accused of prescribing drugs in wife’s name while she’s sitting in jail

Two mothers accused of selling drugs near elementary school

$1M of narcotics from shipping container 

local ‘Smoke shops’ selling illegal drugs to teens

GUAM: Drugs found in Postal Service priority mail packages

HAWAII: Marijuana use in workplace increased

Hawaii County Police Department reveals a few details of massive cop crimes involving drugs and other things, so far seven cops suspended, one forced into early retirement, two fired! Cop crimes include stealing drugs from evidence locker, assault of a juvenile suspect, and falsifying traffic tickets.

6 things to know about new flu drug Xofluza

IDAHO: man admits to eating cocaine while being chased by police

drug lab explodes inside Idaho Falls residence

Idaho Falls juvenile arrested with 500 doses of LSD, marijuana

Fourth state level prison cop pleads guilty to smuggling drugs into prison

Judge orders partial release of state prison lethal injection documents

Journalism professor banned from University of Idaho for allegedly admitting to using meth and threatening  access to guns

Example of why first time drug offenders SHOULD NOT make a plea deal in Idaho; harsher sentencing!

new DUI law requires first-time offenders to install ignition locking devices

ILLINOIS: Madison County Sees Record 109 Drug Overdose Deaths in 2018

Mayor, State Senator jailed on drug charge

Food-truck gun deal leads to Chicago drug case

Drugs company executive gave Illinois doctor lap dance while promoting drug

INDIANA: a rural Indiana town descends into drug addiction

10 indicted in drug running between Indiana and Mexico

Death doctor run out of Tennessee for causing deadly overdoses, is now working in Indiana

infants suffering from drug crisis

IOWA: Mayor, and her husband, caught with 18 marijuana plants during search for shooting suspect

Meth, cocaine overdoses rise

Iowa’s growing dependence on China for pharmaceutical drugs

Faulty muffler leads to drug arrests

KANSAS: parents arrested after child tests positive for meth

CVS pharmacist, husband charged with prescription drug crimes

Johnson County mom is accused of hosting parties where minors were served alcohol

KENTUCKY: teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana

The fall of a Kentucky-Mexico drug gang

Grandpa says he sold meth to save son from Mexican cartel

Fatal drug overdose leads to a bartender facing federal drug charges

Connecticut based drugs maker Purdue appeals order to unseal OxyContin records to Kentucky Supreme Court

 man had 2 ounces of meth ‘stuffed inside his butt crack’

LOUISIANA: ‘star agent’ for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) now on trial for essentially ‘faking’ drug busts, after three-year investigation that has roiled the federal law enforcement community

Undercover bust: 168 arrests!

Pharmacist fatally shoots robber at drug store

MAINE:  Police seize drugs and cash at Oxford hotel

Residents now turning to gun ownership to protect themselves from druggies: “He was standing on our porch and kept yelling for help. The only thing that separated us was the glass on the front door. In my 35 years, I never felt the need to own a gun to protect my family until we moved to Presque Isle. I guarantee that if he had broken the glass on that front door, there would have been shots fired.”-Jonathan Guerrette, complaining to city councilors, interestingly the deputy police chief admitted they’ve known about the druggie problem in certain neighborhoods ‘for many years’ yet gave a plethora of excuses why nobody was arrested, supposedly the state law enforcement is going to get involved  

Death leads to discovery of meth lab

MARYLAND:  Washington County sees sharp increase in drug, alcohol deaths

Baltimore to No Longer Prosecute Marijuana Possession Cases

More Than 300 Bags Of Heroin, Cocaine & Meth Found In Car

MASSACHUSETTS: What does 2019 have in store for marijuana

Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat

Suspect was operating ‘very significant’ drug ring while out on $200K bail

Leftist Liberal Mayors Visit Safe Injection Sites in British empire Canada

New Yorkers head to western Massachusetts to buy pot legally

MICHIGAN: Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction

Michigan lists pain drug Gabapentin as controlled substance

Life of high-tech savant cut short by drugs

Recreational marijuana is legal, but Lansing’s largest employers don’t allow it

More employees than ever test positive for marijuana

More than half of Michigan medical marijuana users admit to driving while high

Macomb County had 380 drug-related deaths in 2017, in desperation local government agencies are now ‘deputized’ under a new federal government program called FANTOM (Federal Anti Narcotics Team Of Macomb)

MINNESOTA:  man allegedly holds drug-fueled ‘death party’ for wife

Man dies of opioids at experimental homeless shelter

Dakota County drug bust nets 45 pounds of meth, 15 kilos of cocaine

MISSISSIPPI: 8 arrested 

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take property?

State Highway Patrol Admits: Police officers high on duty or test positive for drugs

Retired pharmacists arrested for operating an illegal pharmacy out of his flower shop

MISSOURI: Shoes, package of cookies lead to drug bust at taxpayer subsidized Amtrak station

Two homicides linked to $8.5 million meth trafficking ring 

Seven fugitives captured during drugs sweep

Cops Find Stolen ATV, Gun, Meth And Dead Bald Eagle 

MONTANA:4 died in due to fentanyl disguised as less-dangerous drugs

man, daughter accused of running ‘dark web’ drug operation

Woman says meth testing patch gives false positives (it wouldn’t be the first time a drug test was faulty)

In the sparsely populated state a new report says even more taxpayer funded drug treatment centers are needed

NEBRASKA: Busted Omaha drug operation sounds like fiction, except it wasn’t

DEA captures 4,737 pounds of marijuana, 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 27 pounds of heroin over six months

Drug-dealing cases against CBD oil shop owners

Killing was the result of ‘Attempted robbery of a drug dealer’

Woman dealt heroin, meth from home where she ran daycare

NEW HAMPSHIRE: One dead, two in critical condition after taking drugs

NEW JERSEY:  Local cops fail drug tests!

Medical marijuana can now be used to treat opioid addiction

NEW MEXICO: 15 lbs. of meth and 2,000 fentanyl pills smuggled by ‘family business’

U.S. Border Patrol captures 115 illegal immigrants with marijuana 

Drug addiction so bad there is now a new museum dedicated to drug abuse

NEW YORK: Syracuse University football wide receiver arrested along with 14 others as part of a federal drug bust

“Highly organized drug delivery service” netted about $50,000 weekly in drug addicted NYC

Legal drugs Middlemen Got Big Markup in New York

NORTH CAROLINA: 27 arrested in Bladen County

Illegal immigrants, including MS-13 gang member, charged in 2 kilo drug bust

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Corinne Zilnicki, 08JAN2019.

Off North Carolina’s coast, on board an HC-130 Hercules, U.S. Coast Guard personnel operate radar and cameras to detect suspicious boats.

NORTH DAKOTA: drug raid in Fargo, in connection to heroin O-Ds across two counties

Burleigh County cop gets prison time for stealing drugs

OHIO: The Union County Drug Free Coalition honored the Ohio National Guard Counterdrug Task Force as the 2019 Community Champion Award: “We are grateful to the Ohio National Guard for their commitment to the health and safety of families in Union County.”-Rich Baird, superintendent of North Union Schools and chair of the Union County Drug Free Coalition

Overdose deaths falling throughout Ohio, but not in Franklin County

nightclub owner pleads guilty to drug crimes

Drug-fueled wave of kids taken from homes peaks 

OKLAHOMA: Police find 18000 pounds of suspected pot during traffic stop

Sheriff frustrated with relaxed drug laws

24 serving life without parole for drug trafficking

new emergency rules for medical marijuana

OREGON: Operation Wildfire

Man with criminal history, including running one of the largest drug gangs in the state, continues to commit crimes yet is released from jail, all charges dropped

PENNSYLVANIA: Drug deaths are rising in Coal Country and treatment is hard to come by

77 suspects arrested 

PUERTO RICO: FBI says there’s a “crisis of violence” in Puerto Rico

USCG photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 30JAN2019.

29JAN2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 2-hundred pounds of cocaine off the coast of Arecibo.

RHODE ISLAND: Illegal immigrant gets 9 years in prison for major drug trafficking ring

Suspended Firefighter admitted to Police He Was Doing Cocaine

SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson University football players suspended for failing drug test

64 suspects charged, many still wanted, in Spartanburg County

Doctors and cops come out in opposition to legalized marijuana, calls it “the most dangerous drug” in the U.S.

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: seizing vehicles in drug cases. Mistakes still happen.

SOUTH DAKOTA: chief justice calls for reform in handling of drug cases

Multi-state drugs gang tries to rip-off Mexican cartel?

South Dakota charges ingestion of drugs separately from possession, meaning someone can be charged with a crime if a blood or urine test comes back positive for marijuana or other drugs.

Wisconsin woman driving rental car from Colorado says South Dakota cop unlawfully captured the suitcase full of drugs in the car

grandmother faces felony child abuse, drug charges

TENNESSEE: Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school

12 Arrested On Drug Charges In Franklin County

Thousands of fake Viagra, Cialis pills confiscated 

New opioid laws

State cop assigned to protect governor was on prescription painkillers, repeatedly fell asleep on job…..supervisors knew about his problem with prescription medication, and that his “pattern of behavior was allowed to continue for months without any knowledge of the THP command staff”

TEXAS: Cops invade home, shoot and kill military veteran husband and his wife, several cops wounded,  (next it’ll be revealed that one of the invading cops has a documented history of lying about drug raids, and apparently it’ll be three months after the cop invasion before investigators even search the crime scene for evidence, evidence that will counter the official police version of the story)

A six month multi-agency investigation resulted in nine people being arrested for piddly amounts of drugs

UTAH: Illegal immigrant drug smuggler has been deported eight times, caught yet again

Defense attorney who smuggling drugs into prison, sentenced: “I never dreamed in a million years that I would be an addict.”-Tony Miles

387 drug dealers arrested in Operation Rio Grande

Two drug busts in one day yield combined $2 million worth of meth and cocaine

Public Employees Receive taxpayer funded Transportation and a $500 Cash Bonus to Purchase drugs in Mexico

U.S. Virgin Islands: New governor signs bill legalizing medical marijuana

Virgin Islands was source of heroin shipped to Michigan

VIRGINIA: drug case against actress involved in Me Too Movement

dozens of arrests after hundreds of indictments

WASHINGTON: Sodo District; drugs and RVs

overdose spike in north Seattle

drug and alcohol counselor arrested for selling drugs

‘christian’ university student, accused of murder, in more trouble after being caught doing drugs in the courtroom 

Washington DC:   millions of dollars’ worth of heroin seized 

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Workplace drug overdoses increasing

WEST VIRGINIA:  teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens

 teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs

A 7th Special Forces Group soldier and a West Virginia National Guard Special Forces soldier pled guilty to trying to smuggle marijuana from Columbia 

WISCONSIN: ERs fight drugs with drugs

Shopko owes drugs supplier $67-million

woman convicted of smuggling drugs into prison

WYOMING: Restaurants accused of ‘laundering’ drug money

Drugs, the American Way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”

“The whole thing is cuckoo nuts….What country are we living in?”: Drugs, the American way, December 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of December 2018:

Southwest of of Malpelo Island, Colombia, U.S. Coast Guard personnel capture bales of cocaine dumped by a drug boat they were chasing, 02DEC2018.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel assist Costa Rican Drug Police (Policia Control de Druga) in cataloging 1.7 tons of cocaine captured on a ‘fishing boat’, 05DEC2018.

U.S. Coast Guard captured this boat, full of drugs, 242 miles southeast of Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 30DEC2018.

New York Times: The never ending failed War on Drugs has resulted in police becoming de facto prosecutors, even without formal charging authority, and in violation of the Constitution

NBCNews: Legal marijuana made big promises on racial equity — and fell short

The proven to be a failure DARE program (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail  VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E.  Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure) is now trying to claim victory, boasting that teenaged drug use is down, oops, except in regards to marijuana use, which is going back up.  So teenagers are just switching drugs.

ALABAMA: Three people arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into prison by dropping backpacks full of contraband next to the prison fence

Two people arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into two different prisons

Dozens Arrested in MPD Drug Sting

After being arrested for drugs, a now former small town police chief also charged with first-degree sodomy, first-degree rape, incest and distributing an illegal substance to a minor

ALASKA: Is testing student athletes for drugs and alcohol effective?

31 years of Alaska drug arrests revealed

ARIZONA: Photos: Border busts 2018 

50-foot-long drug tunnel discovered in Nogales

Meth Seizures Triple in Arizona

Prison time, mental illness, drugs all commonalities in Phoenix

ARKANSAS: police chief arrested on evidence tampering, drug charges

Little Rock-based Drug Enforcement Administration agent accused of taking bribe to shield dealer

CALIFORNIA: TV news-man found dead in hotel room, news media avoids mentioning drugs but anonymous 9-1-1 caller said it was an “overdose”, local news media loving firefighters call it “a medical emergency”.

18 of the Biggest Border Busts of 2018

San Quentin Deaths Come Amid Increase in Drug Overdoses at Prison

Born on drugs: Babies from addicted moms are increasing

The legalization of marijuana is actually helping drug gangs to sell drugs illegally

Who is dying of drug overdoses? Not who you might think

California’s anti-gun laws did nothing to stop illegal drug dealers from buying a rocket launcher

Million-dollar bra?  Woman allegedly smuggles black tar heroin in undergarment

USS Vandergrift off-loads 8.5 tons of cocaine at Naval Base San Diego, 19DEC2018.

Video of British empire Royal Canadian Navy Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Edmonton off-loading 5-thousand-1-hundred pounds of cocaine in San Diego, 07DEC2018:

COLORADO: Social media helps police bust drug gang

Despite marijuana being legal in Colorado, a supposedly legitimate businessman asked for a hidden compartment to be installed in a Dodge Charger, which turned out to be stolen, then federal level cops where tipped-off who then discovered an organized drug gang operating across the U.S.  More proof that if you legalize something it doesn’t mean it will end crimes associated with it.

CONNECTICUT: teacher fired over medical marijuana card

State fines Avon Old Farms nurse for inappropriately prescribing drugs

Connecticut led investigation of generic ‘cartel’ expands to 300 drugs

Police claim ‘significant’ drug bust was the result of the way a driver parked his car at a highway rest stop

DELAWARE: Teacher with history of alcohol arrests pleads guilty

Man Arrested With 7800 Bags of Heroin

In the small state, 112 drug incidents reported in one week

FLORIDA:  Mexican drug lord guilty of smuggling 12,000 kilos of cocaine into Florida

‘Operation Crazy 8’ nets 21 arrests in painkiller drug trafficking ring

13 charged, 20 pounds of meth seized in ‘Operation Polar Pop’

‘Operation Dry Ice’ nets 17 suspects, more arrests

Detectives clean up with 30 arrests in Operation City Sweep

18 members of the “Bird Gang” arrested for drug dealing

man beats up girlfriend because she won’t share her drugs

narcotics cop caught leading meth ring

GEORGIA: Fentanyl is the deadliest drug in America, Atlanta based CDC confirms

Cotton candy or meth? ‘Failure of the system’ leaves innocent woman jailed

Jacksonville supplier, 23 others indicted in drug ring bust

Craving for hot wings leads to huge drug bust

GUAM: Expired license plate leads to meth bust

Cocaine resurgence

Man complains about barking dogs, gets busted with drugs

Woman caught smuggling drugs into prison

Man with Chinese name, accused of drug dealing in Nevada, captured in Guam

HAWAII: Thousands of Hawaiian teens admit to injecting illegal drugs

Man stabbed in front of Waikiki hotel in botched drug deal

Federal investigation focuses on local pain clinic

IDAHO: Four students at the Mormon owned Brigham Young University-Idaho were arrested after police discovered large amounts of marijuana, cocaine and THC cartridges

State Police capture 8-hundred pounds of illegal marijuana in rural eastern Idaho

Retired Boise christian priest blames depression and drugs for child pornography crimes

A 3rd prison guard pleads guilty to drug trafficking crimes

Many of Idaho’s opioid users prescribed unsafe drug combos

overdoses killed 14 out of every 100,000 Idahoans in 2017

Near the LDS controlled town of Rexburg a man high on LSD went naked into a convenience store 

ILLINOIS: Chicago-native ‘El Chapo’ cocaine distributor describes national U.S. drug-selling network

10 suicides and 10 O-Ds in just one county in 2018

Doctors caught forcing “hundreds” of kids with ‘normal’ behavior problems to take powerful antipsychotic drugs!

INDIANA: HIV outbreak: ‘Hope is alive’ in drug-ravaged town

Infants suffering from drug crisis

18 arrested in Adams County

IOWA: teacher arrested, accused of being drunk at school

meth problem leads to harsh prison terms

woman sentenced after trying to use a Pop-Tart to sneak meth into jail 

felons arrested again

Meth treatment admissions rising

KANSAS:  teacher arrested for trafficking meth

Man bitten by his illegal pet cobra, gets arrested for drugs

Illegal drugs sold out of barbershop just five blocks from police HQ

A once free life saving drug will now cost you $375,000 a year

KENTUCKY: Meth floods Northern Kentucky

Taxpayer funded city employee arrested on drug trafficking 

Court rules secret OxyContin papers should be released

Doctor that was proven to be on drugs while performing surgeries somehow gets his medical license back!

LOUISIANA: Local police chief proves Facebook is Fake News Central after admitting that his own post about meth containing zika virus was a lie!  He now claims it was just a stunt to grab people’s attention!  In truth it was a piss-poor failed attempt to catch meth users by telling them to “Please bring all of it to your local Police Department and they will test it for free”. It was also revealed that other police departments across the U.S. have made the same feeble-minded attempt to catch meth users.

failed drug test rate exceeds national average, officials blame Texas

Woman tried to smuggle drugs to boyfriend in Gretna jail

Guard at Angola Maximum-Security Prison Arrested for meth

Recently retired assistant warden at Angola caught on recording explaining to other prison employees how to sneak drugs into the prison!

MAINE:  the drugs most prescribed in Maine

Idiot outgoing gov’na continues to blame ‘black’ and ‘brown’ skinned people for the state’s drug crisis, even though the majority of Maine’s druggies are ‘white’

Welcome to the Church of Safe Injection

MARYLAND: Cop went from a decorated commander to stealing drugs

State Retirees Join Together To Keep Prescription Drugs

MASSACHUSETTS: drug bust nets 40,000 bags of heroin, 490 grams of cocaine

State senator O-Ded on drug used to execute prisoners

You May Be Denied Life Insurance For Carrying Naloxone

Already complaints of racism regarding the new marijuana law!

MICHIGAN: new marijuana law brings confusion

Carfentanil Eyed as a Deadly Culprit

Did the cops do the dirty work of a drug dealer hit-man?

MINNESOTA: most common drug offenses aren’t for opioids – they’re for meth

Opioid epidemic is driving thousands of children into foster homes

1900 pain pills stolen by nursing facility employee

MISSISSIPPI: overdose deaths associated with ‘fake’ drugs

sheriff arrested for drug trafficking, witness retaliation

MISSOURI: Woman admits to being on drugs when she killed 

Owner of youth basketball association busted for drugs

Using CBD products? Beware risk of positive drug test

MONTANA:  U.S. postmaster in Miles City sentenced for meth-ring involvement

NEBRASKA: woman arrested in largest drug bust in Stanton County history

record drug seizures by State police

increase in drug busts

Charges Against CBD Shop Owners Dropped

What is driving the meth crisis?

NEVADA:  death row prisoner sought deadly drug for suicide

NEW HAMPSHIRE: National Guard Joins state Department Of Education for new war on drugs in classrooms

2 face charges in death of child exposed to illegal drugs

NEW JERSEY: Heroin bust in Logan ‘historical’ 

17 charged as drug dealers 

8 residents charged in drug bust

Man Who Won Lottery Twice Arrested on Drug Charges

NEW MEXICO: Bodies found on mesa are those of missing teen boys, “drug deal that may have gone bad”

Newborn drug dependency on the rise

Drug smuggler arrested at high school basketball game

woman sold prescription painkillers out of her home

NEW YORK: Popular Celebrity Spot Shut Down After Drug Bust

How a 9-1-1 call can turn into a felony, or, why you shouldn’t help a drug addict to kick the habit

Man, 62, Killed in West Village Drug Deal Gone Wrong

Sadist cops force hospital to physically probe man’s rectum for drugs despite an X-ray already showing no drugs; “The whole thing is cuckoo nuts……..What country are we living in?” (no drugs were found during the court ordered rectum rape)

NORTH CAROLINA: $5M worth of cocaine

24 arrested in large-scale drug trafficking operation 

22 alleged drug dealers arrested in the ’12 Days of Christmas’ drug bust 

18 people face charges 

 teacher, coach charged with selling drugs at school

100 pounds of pot

NORTH DAKOTA: drug-fueled naked display at church

OHIO: new state rules for prescription of opioids

7 charged after drug bust

Akron is the new supply hub for illegal drugs

 Cellphones in prisons enable drug deals

OKLAHOMA: councilman arrested after drug bust

police officer arrested on drug charges

prison worker charged after maximum security shakedown

Food Truck Owner Busted For Drugs

Cops find drugs hidden inside woman

Drug Dealer Allegedly Killed Customer With AR-15

OREGON: Three Storage Units Full of Drugs

Cops ignorantly declare victory in the never ending drugs war after arresting 29 people

firefighter arrested on drugs, weapon allegations

‘Magic mushrooms’ may soon be legal

PENNSYLVANIA: School districts can’t handle medical marijuana

Authorities Uncover $8 Million-a-Week Drug Operation

State health department gives away thousands of Naloxone-Narcan overdose-reversal kits

Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse

Mayor kills self with opioids

18 arrested in ‘Operation K-O’d’

PUERTO RICO: A Illinois police detective joined the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to secretly help a gang of drug dealers in Puerto Rico 

52 bales of cocaine 

Drug dealers accused of assassinating New Jersey bank executive

RHODE ISLAND: Rite Aid pays piddly state fine for ‘over-dispensing’ drugs

cafe owner arrested on drug charges

three years old boy eats cocaine

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Three Clemson University football players fail the NCAA drug test

Teens wounded after drug deal goes sour

23 people arrested in time for xmas

Twenty-seven gang members charged 

assistant principal busted on drug charges 

Despite statewide prison lockdowns, prisoners used dairy farm, bakery, and State House to smuggle drugs

SOUTH DAKOTA: first female-led anti-meth rally in prison

TENNESSEE: teacher charged with meth possession

death row prisoners want electrocution instead of lethal drugs

nurse gives lethal dose of wrong drug

doctor charged with ‘massive opioid fraud distribution’

12 suspects arrested

TEXAS: After five years of selling illegal drugs, cops finally shutdown Mexican drug op

Sadistic ‘christian’ dominated state uses faulty drugs from company known to be fraudulent. Prisoners Said The Drug Burned As They Died: “I can feel that it does burn. Burning!”-prisoner said as he died

‘criminal’ cops made more than $50 million from seizing people’s property. Not every cop-victim was guilty of a crime.

Power crazed cops Point Gun at Woman’s Head During Raid, turns out they raided the wrong house!

UTAH: Five people accused of trying to smuggle drugs to prisoners

defense attorney who smuggled drugs into jail is arrested again

How will the Medical Cannabis Act impact employee drug testing?

VERMONT: 15 suspected drug dealers arrested following an uptick in opioid overdoses

U.S. Virgin Islands: U.S. Coast Guard personnel off-load 2-thousand pounds of cocaine (and three smugglers) in Saint Thomas, 14DEC2018.  Apparently it was captured after a ten hours chase of drug ‘fast boats’.

VIRGINIA: 19 charged 

WASHINGTON: High school students struggle with addiction

drug bust snags dealers linked to Mexico

Washington DC: Who needs school cops when tax funded school districts are hiring drug dealers to be ‘violence interrupters’? (and yes, they still employ school cops)

WEST VIRGINIA: U.S. population death spiral starts with O-Ds in West Virginia

Legal drug maker poured 3-Million opioids into one small town in just 10 months!

Study says federal Drug Enforcement Administration not doing anything to stop massive drug problem in West Virginia

WISCONSIN: Woman hides dead body in drug house

Woman accused of operating a drug house

Man shoots self because the drugs told him to

Mother faces drug charges after newborn dies 

Columbia County panel O-Ks jail-based drug treatment

WYOMING: Baby tests positive for meth

Drugs, the American Way, November 2018: ‘WAR ZONE’

‘war zone’: Drugs, the American Way, November 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of November 2018:

Germany based drugs maker Bayer getting the hell outta the animal health business, as well as selling-off Coppertone and Dr. Scholl’s, 12-thousand jobs worldwide gone due to investor pressure!

Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk cutting 1,300 additional jobs, blaming the U.S. economy

New York Times: ‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ Overdose Deaths Set a Record 

Marijuana Legalization Threatens Dogs’ Collars

Business Insider: Mexican cartels make billions in the U.S., but “In most cases, individuals hired to transport drug shipments within the United States are independent, third-party contractors…”

Coast Guard crews are capturing record amounts of cocaine

Wall Street Journal:Pfizer to Raise Prices on 41 Drugs

ALABAMA:  CBD products illegal in Alabama

doctor charged with 103-count indictment

Blue Cross changes opioid coverage

Drug thefts at area pharmacies…linked

Woman arrested in largest heroin bust in Marshall County history

Three arrested at state prison for smuggling drugs and guns

County sheriff pleads guilty to corruption, drug charges

ALASKA: A month after being implicated in a massive drug smuggling operation (see October’s report), the National Guard turns over 2 tons of ‘Take Back’ drugs 

Soldier at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson dies from mystery drug poisoning

Heroin Disguised as Christmas Package

School employees find package of meth hidden in food shipment

man arrested at airport with suitcase full of meth

drug overdose data from 2013-2017

ARIZONA: Fentanyl Found In All Kinds Of Drugs

Massive O-Ds force Tucson police boss to push for treatment programs

Chapo may be on trial, but his Sinaloa cartel still doing huge U.S. business

7 arrested in connection with Yavapai County marijuana grow

Border Patrol Seizes 30 Pounds of Meth

Border officers seize $812K worth of drugs in Nogales

Celebrities help drive rise in rehab tourism

ARKANSAS: Medical Marijuana Growers Say it’ll be Ready By Spring 2019

Two doctors linked to opioid deaths

political consultant charged in child porn case used meth

Faked drug deal led to shooting

man who revealed illegal police raids now faces felony charges 

CALIFORNIA:  Drugs maker Pfizer issued a shutdown Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice (WARN) for its San Mateo County factory, 1-hundred jobs gone in February 2019!

Two more blood pressure drugs recalled for potential cancer risk

Couple who lost home in wildfire get pardons for drug crimes

GHOST drug SHIPS WASHING ASHORE ON SECLUDED NAVY BASE! Navy officials accuse San Diego officials of doing nothing to stop it

Fire Hits ‘Rehab Riviera,’ Putting Addiction Care in Jeopardy

County sheriff’s deputy arrested for staging a fake drug bust in order to steal and sell the drugs himself

51 years old cop sentenced to 17 years in prison for providing armed escort for drug dealers

over $140000 in illegal drugs in East Bakersfield

COLORADO: Denver is latest city pushing for 1st U.S. illegal drug injection site

Denver Might Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that prescribed anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic medications make it easier to kill yourself: “…those who used a psychotropic drug in an attempt were 70% more likely to have prescribed access than patients who used other methods in their attempt.”-Talia Brown,  Colorado School of Public Health

Colorado State University organic chemists invent way to use phosphorus to make new drugs

CONNECTICUT:  16 charged in connection with drugs sales in Bridgeport area

Groton Youth Survey Overestimated Drug and Alcohol Use

drugs kickstart motivation in rats suffering from apathy

Suspected drug dealer arrested for 2nd time in a month

Doctor accused of illegally selling prescriptions, marijuana

DELAWARE:drug company Incyte wins ‘spying’ case

Police arrest 35

Drug hallucinations inspired Claymont killing

drug company jacks-up price of O-D rescue drug naloxone by 600%!

Bayhealth pharmacy employee charged with drug thefts

FLORIDA: Drugs pusher Bristol-Myers Squibb issued a WARN for its Tampa ops, 69 jobs gone in January 2019.

Honduran President’s Brother, Arrested in Miami, Is Charged With Drug Trafficking (Honduras is one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants)

FEDS ACCUSE 39 white GANG MEMBERS OF ARMS, DRUG TRAFFICKING

12-year-old gave out THC-laced gummies

cruise ship crew members tried to smuggle cocaine

Seminole County million-dollar heroin, fentanyl drug gangs

Crawfordville Pharmacy prescription drug theft

U.S. Coast Guard delivers 18.5 tons of cocaine to Port Everglades, 15NOV2018.  The illegal drug was captured off the U.S. Pacific coast.

GEORGIA: woman sues over faulty (but commonly used) police drug test that said cotton candy was meth, she spent three months in jail as a result

20% of those killed by cops test positive for meth (remember, the test has been proven to be faulty)

Fulton Co. jail officer charged with smuggling drugs

metro Atlanta postal workers sentenced for taking bribes to deliver cocaine

drug linked to at least 22 deaths

Operation Vanilla Gorilla charge over 40 white supremacists ‘Ghost Face Gangsters’: drug trafficking,firearms

GUAM: Drugs, $540K seized in raids

burglary leads to drug bust

Feds accuse woman of selling drugs near school

Murder, drug cases dismissed by Supreme Court due to violation of the Right to a speedy trial, but charges can be refiled 

HAWAII: Man Who Got Meth Parcel at Airbnb Pleads Guilty

IDAHO: Four people arrested in Fort Hall following investigation in Montana

Boise joins national lawsuit against opioid manufactures

Police use flash-bang grenades in south Boise drug trafficking arrests

Idaho Falls man sentenced for trafficking 28 pounds of pot

Idaho Drug Trafficking Suspect Identified as Previously Deported Illegal Immigrant

9 crimes, including drug dealing, in Idaho automatically place teens in adult court.

Boise State University wasting federal tax dollars on RADAR center in hopes of warning locals in Boise about cyber-security, suicide and drug addiction.

ILLINOIS: Men caught with RV packed full of $400-thousand in cash-drug money

Priest Who Served Time for Drugs Removed From Ministry Again

More arrests in connection to taxpayer funded Amtrak drug smuggling

Drug-induced homicide on the rise in McHenry County

INDIANA: 120 people charged in Johnson County drug bust

Indiana sues Purdue Pharma over opioid drug addiction costs

Fatal quadruple shooting in Indianapolis was a marijuana robbery

IOWA:  $2.8M of marijuana in southwest Iowa

Methamphetamine is making a comeback across Iowa.

teacher arrested for meth, marijuana

KANSAS: woman sold drugs to pay bondsman

the owner of L&H Auto Sales accused of working with illegal immigrants to sell cocaine

Hit-and-run driver found with list of drug buyers on arm

It’s easier to get drugs on the street than beer

Strip club closes after drugs bought with food stamps

KENTUCKY: ‘Crystal meth by the pound.’ 

Bullitt County sheriff ‘had my back,’ drug dealer testifies

Bullitt County sheriff acquitted of aiding drug trafficking

TV news investigation reveals doctor suspended for being on drugs

Here’s how Mexican cartels funnel drugs into Louisville

Kentucky ranks fifth in the nation for 2017 overdose deaths

LOUISIANA: 12 arrested for drugs in Jackson Parish

Cops arrest 49 people in three days

Pain management Doctor Guilty Plea in Drug Test Kickback Scam

woman arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into prison

After mom overdoses, son shoots wife, carjacks and kills a man; then gets shot to death

Prisoner pleads guilty to plotting with prison guard to smuggle drugs

Suspect in horrific human trafficking case allowed to get treatment for drug addiction

MAINE: Nine arrested 

Activists hang banners calling for safe injection site 

MARYLAND: 22 People Arrested

A veteran Narcotics Officer wants an End to the failed War on Drugs after arresting his own daughter

MASSACHUSETTS: Opioid Epidemic Cost state taxpayers $15.2 Billion In 2017

Federal court orders sadist Massachusetts prisons to help prisoners fighting opioid addiction!

MICHIGAN: Marijuana will be legal in Michigan on Dec. 6

employers still can fire you for smoking pot

Heroin is most common drug offense in Michigan

State Police wraps up roadside drug testing pilot program (remember, police drug tests have been proven to give false positives)

Federal grand jury charges 10 men with cocaine conspiracy

MINNESOTA: Minnesota man accused of running Oregon-to-Wisconsin drug network

University of Minnesota doctor in conflict over connection with opioid maker

MISSISSIPPI:  What happened to the 12 respected professionals accused in $400M compound pharmacy scheme?

Federal court rules county violated woman’s Right to a speedy trial after she was jailed 96 days without ever seeing judge

Drunk Man Crashes Truck Into Courthouse to Report Stolen Drugs

MISSOURI: Missouri made medical marijuana legal, but most doctors don’t want any part of it

paramedic admits stealing drugs from ambulances

Woman looked pregnant, actually carried 4 pounds of heroin

MONTANA:  Local health care experts revamp efforts to treat drug-exposed newborns

Flathead reservation pharmacy fined $95K for disappeared opioids

USDA and U.S. Forest Service conduct ‘Take Back’ operations in Montana  (once again proving the drugs came from the government)

Child Protective Services prevents some addicted pregnant women from being honest

Christian run Rescue Mission in Billings will no longer take in intoxicated homeless on cold nights

NEBRASKA: $105K seized yet no arrests 

14-Year-Old Takes Plea Deal in Drug Deal Slaying

Nebraska Attorney General reminds sellers of CBD oil: His office believes it’s illegal

NEVADA: Undercover operation breaks up Lake Tahoe drug ring

16 arrests made in Las Vegas 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: prison chaplain allegedly smuggled drugs to prisoners

Methamphetamine Use By Pregnant Women

NEW JERSEY:   Sun Pharma issued a WARN for its Cranbury location, 96 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.

New Jersey Sues Pharmaceutical Company

82 drug arrests at notorious apartment building

19 charged in federal drug bust

desserts laced with drugs

NEW MEXICO: Escape from New Mexico’s ‘war zone’

Medical pot can disrupt job searches in New Mexico

NEW YORK: cops sentenced after admitting to conducting illegal drug raids 

$1.3 million in cocaine in airport suitcase 

Claims that video shows cops set up people to be busted for drugs

Known drug kingpin, with long criminal record, finally arrested after flooding Staten Island with new killer heroin

32 Staten Island public schools do not have a drug prevention program

firefighter, saved from apparent overdose, faces drug charges

Bronx Opioids Action Plan

NORTH CAROLINA: Drug cartel killed teacher thinking he was DEA agent

man killed, possibly fed to hogs for stealing cocaine

Five postal workers charged with stealing drugs from mail

Vehicle crash at childcare center suspected to be drug related

NORTH DAKOTA: increased crime rate could be tied to opioid epidemic

OHIO: Signs of a Shifting Drug Crisis

Ohio votes against de-felonizing drug possession

daily drug death toll of 14 second highest in U.S.

OKLAHOMA: Co-author of the state’s medical marijuana measure says there’s a conspiracy to radically change the voter-approved law.

Nine arrested

clemency for 22 female drug possession offenders

Oklahoma has the highest rate of women’s incarceration in the nation.

16 arrested

Police Arrest Seven

OREGON:  Candy from trick-or-treating tests positive for methamphetamine

nurse charged with drug trafficking 

Oregon Takes 1st Major Step Toward Legalizing Psychedelic Mushrooms

3 million heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl doses seized 

PENNSYLVANIA: Mac Miller Overdosed on Fentanyl and Cocaine

32 arrested

Pennsylvania to get $10 million from Bloomberg in fight against opioid deaths

Junior high teacher charged with dealing drugs from her home

dealers sold up to 1-thousand bags of heroin a day 

RHODE ISLAND:  ‘Operation Street Sweep’ nets 24 on drug charges

Rhode Island remains the only state to screen prisoners for opioid use, and to offer drug treatment 

Police Seize at Least $1 Million Worth of Heroin

Rhode Island set to open first behavioral health emergency center

Grand jury indicts 41 people 

SOUTH CAROLINA: Women arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into prison

13 arrested

17 people charged with prison drug smuggling

High school assistant principal arrested for drug crimes

SOUTH DAKOTA: Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force seizes record amount of drugs

Meth takes toll on South Dakota women

High school coach arrested for drunken driving, drugs

TENNESSEE: Hospital patient dies after nurse gives lethal dose of wrong drug

Eighteen indicted on TennCare drug fraud charges

DEA will teach local doctors, dentists and veterinarians how to stop ‘drug diversion’

38 arrested

addiction consultant fatally overdoses

TEXAS:  Houston-based pharmacy is supplier of state’s execution drugs

Almost 6000 pounds of drugs discovered 

14 arrested

Student had 100-plus tabs of LSD 

UTAH: Utahns legalize medical marijuana as LDS Church opposes

Utah cops claim successes despite growing drug epidemic

Insurance company sending Utah customers to Mexico to buy drugs

Most Utah jails don’t help drug addicts

Feds blame Utah’s growing drugs, criminal activity on undocumented immigrants

Opioid makers spent nearly a million dollars bribing Utah doctors

student hospitalized after allegedly smoking from THC pen

VERMONT:  needle exchange isn’t just giving out syringes, it’s handing out buprenorphine

The roots of Vermont’s drug problem

Anti-addiction drug Suboxone tops Vermont’s taxpayer funded public prescription spending list

governor inflated his record on reducing opioid treatment

Prescription-drug DUI case shows odds against the poor

VIRGINIA: Operation House of Cards arrests 22 people

Thirty-four indicted

18 arrested

Virginia-based Kaleo increased the price of its auto-injectable overdose-reversal drug EVZIO from $575 to $4,100

WASHINGTON: Spokane Valley drug house where 20 detained in SWAT raid

Where do the drugs that land on Seattle streets come from?

Why CBD suddenly is everywhere

300 percent spike in HIV infections among straight IV users

Washington DC: FDA approves powerful new opioid despite warnings of new opioid carnage

First FDA-approved cannabis-based drug now available

WEST VIRGINIA: West Virginia again leads nation in drug overdose deaths

To understand U.S. life expectancy decline, start in West Virginia

Kindergartner brings drugs to school

WISCONSIN:  New $1 (one dollar) Fine For Marijuana Possession

Seven drug deaths suspected

Health Care employee charged with stealing drugs

CBD ‘gold rush’ could mean big business for Wisconsin’s hemp industry

driver kills three Girl Scouts after ‘huffing’

WYOMING:  Over 300 Pounds of Pot Seized

Man arrested after pushing a dolly loaded with seven pounds of ganja down U.S. Highway 30 east of Cheyenne

Drugs, the American Way, October 2018: “NOW YOU TELL ME WHO THE ENEMY IS!”

Coffee thru the Mail is just as bad as illegal drugs?

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Millions of U.S. citizens have family and friends employed by the U.S. military and deployed to other countries, now imagine millions of ‘care packages’ being sent to those military personnel.  I remember guys getting books, music cassette tapes (remember those?), cookies, candy, but I don’t remember anybody getting drugs or coffee.  Coffee?

Turns out that sending coffee to military personnel overseas is just as ‘illegal’ as sending illegal drugs.  Not just coffee, but prescription drugs and even food supplements are banned, yet people still do it and they get caught.

Here’s some links to websites about sending care packages to military personnel:

Tips for Sending Care Packages to the Military Overseas

Military Guide to Shipping Packages

 Army Care Package Prohibited Contents

However, there are groups out there trying desperately to get some good high grade coffee to military personnel suffering from that old Army Coffee-itis: Help Us Ship Coffee to Troops in Afghanistan

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, JULY 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.” 

 

“the rise of big box stores”: U.S. Food Crisis, July 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of July, 2018:

Farmers are using artificial intelligence to force cows to be more productive

Goldfish Crackers recalled over salmonella 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALASKA: We can’t survive more cuts to Alaska king-salmon quota

ARIZONA: In Tucson, after only ten months Classic Spaghetti Western Steakhouse shutdown, the owner saying that even though the food is great the sales are not, and he has other restaurants to worry about.

CALIFORNIA: DW Berry Farms suddenly laid off 380 strawberry pickers, apparently without warning!  The J.M. Smucker Company issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco ops, 1-hundred jobs gone by Halloween! Apple Gilroy-Apple By The Bay-Applebee’s issued a shutdown WARN for its Milpitas location, 51 jobs gone in September.   Ingredient provider Ingredion issued a layoff WARN for its Stockton ops, 65 jobs gone by October.  Upscale restaurant Hakkasan issued a shutdown WARN for its West Hollywood location, 99 jobs gone by the end of September.  P.F. Changs issued a shutdown WARN for its El Segundo restaurant, 94 jobs gone by the end of September.    In Vista, after 40 years popular Village Cafe shutdown so the owners can retire.  In Bakersfield, the Sweet Factory shutdown its Vally Plaza Mall location.  Struggling Chipotle shutdown its San Louis Opisbo, Higuera Sreet, location.  Marie Callender’s shutdown its 40 years old ‘flagship’ restaurant in Los Angeles, because the landlord demanded a new lease that doubled the rent!  In San Francisco, after 28 years Castro’s Harvest Ranch Market shutdown, the owner blaming lack of sales and greedy landlords:  “If you can’t make any money, there’s no sense in keeping it open. We did our best and we negotiated with the landlord, and it didn’t work out.”-Gilles Desaulniers

FLORIDA: In Deerfield Beach, after 17 years Marlee’s Diner suddenly shutdown after failed restaurant management deals forced the owner to sell the property to a developer.  Evil Cerberus Capital owned Albertsons-Safeway issued a mass layoff WARN, 452 grocery workers jobless by the end of August!  Food service contractor Aramark issued a mass layoff WARN, 428 jobs in Miami gone in August!  After 34 years Betty’s Laughing Horse Tavern shutdown, the property was sold.

IDAHO: Chipotle shutdown locations in Twin Falls (open less than one year) and Chubbuck (open less than two years).

Farm worker impaled by baling spike

Future Treasure Valley farmers face a tough road

Six wildfires ignited in Boise region, on July 4 holiday

Idaho-based Lamb Weston trying to deliver fries that stay crispy longer

Quigley Farm annexed for major property re-development (gentrification)

ILLINOIS: In Chicago, Howells & Hood Restaurant issued a shutdown WARN, 133 jobs gone by October due to the business being sold!

INDIANA: In Newburgh, after being brought back to life in 2014 Pizza Chef shutdown for good because the owner wants to try a different food venue. In Evansville, after four years Cisse’s Bread Bakery shutting down in August “because of the time the bakery is taking away from family.”  Grocery store Wesselman’s shutting down when the inventory is gone, blaming ‘big box’ competition. Also in Evansville, Schaum’s Pizzeria suddenly shutdown. In Greenwood, after 45 years Hampton’s Market shutdown due to “the rise of big box stores”Monarch Beverage issued a shutdown WARN for its Wine Division, 94 jobs gone by the end of August.

KENTUCKY: In Owensboro, after 44 “fun” years The Bakers Rack shutdown, the owner said she wants to “go out on top”.

MAINE: Border Patrol Stops Canadian Fishermen in Disputed Waters

MARYLAND: Giant Food shutting down its store in Windsor Mill by mid-August, calling the store “outdated” but also admitting they have too many newer grocery stores in the area.

Some residents will pay more for water

MASSACHUSETTS: Without warning, the new owners of America’s oldest candy company (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) shutdown its Necco factory in Revere: “Round Hill Investments was very excited to acquire Necco’s historic brands and to be part of their national resurgence. After careful engagement and consideration, however, the firm decided to sell the brands to another national confection manufacturer and today announced the closure of the operations in Revere, Massachusetts.”

In Boston, after four years restaurant Bisito shutdown its Burlington Mall location, local news media say its the third restaurant in the mall to shutdown this year.  In Worcester, after 89 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Mrs. Mack’s Bakery shutdown, the owner saying her health problems might force her to move back to Ireland.

MICHIGAN: Ken’s Fruit Market shutdown its two years old Wyoming location to “focus on our other locations” because “this one isn’t doing as well”.  In Detroit, after 19 years restaurant Andiamo shutdown, the owner saying in the past six years too many new restaurants have opened, meaning the local restaurant market can’t support them all.

MINNESOTA:  Coburn’s-Save-a-Lot Food Stores shutdown its Saint Cloud, West Division Street, location due to low ‘customer count’ and the fact the company is spending money remodeling other Save-a-Lot stores in the area. Coborn’s also suddenly shutdown its grocery store in Montevideo, 59 jobs gone.  In Duluth, Grizzly’s Wood Fired Cooking shutdown with short notice, the restaurant and a car dealership on the property are being torn down after the city approved a redevelopment plan.

MISSOURI: In Saint Louis, the owner of Porana Pasta shutdown his Washington Avenue location, blaming crashing sales on declining activity at the nearby convention center.

NEVADA: A 15 years old Dairy Queen in Northwest Reno shutdown, the aged owners (who claim they’ve worked with Dairy Queen since they were teenagers) say that for health reasons they’ve been advised to reduce their stress by reducing the number of restaurants they own. Local news media said the shutdown came as a shock to the employees.

China builds giant indoor vertical farm just east of Las Vegas 

NEW JERSEY: In Parsippany, Cups Frozen Yogurt That’s Hot shutdown.  Italy owned food service company HMS Host issued a WARN for its ops in Trenton, 287 jobs gone by mid-September!

NEW YORK:  In Albany, after 42 years, and failed attempts to sell the property, Grandma’s Pies & Restaurant shutdown.  In Great Neck, after only four months Ren Wen Noddle Factory shutdown, the owners saying “Based on your feedback, we will be temporarily closing this location to readjust”.  In Larchmont, after 40 years La Riserva shutdown. In NYC, after less than two years the pro-veggie restaurant Hemlock shutdown.  Gourmet Management issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC Penn Station TGI Fridays, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Haagen Dazs, Tim Hortons & Beer Cart Restaurants, 92 jobs gone by mid-October due to lost lease.  Chipotle issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC corporate office, to happen between now and March 2019.  Also in NYC, Union Square Catering Facility blamed the bad economy for issuing a shutdown WARN for its The Coffee Shop, 150 jobs gone by mid-October!  Food service contractor Compass Group issued a shutdown WARN, 84 jobs gone due to losing a contract with Credit Suisse.

NORTH CAROLINA: Greensboro base The Fresh Market announced it will shutdown 15 stores across the U.S. “for a variety of reasons unique to each retail location”.  Four years old The Fresh Market store in Charlotte on the shutdown hit list.

607 poisonous plants of North Carolina

NORTH DAKOTA: State sues Dakota Access oil pipeline over farmland ownership

ethanol plant to explore use of barley feedstock

ND State University accused of negligence after dozens of farm research animals were crushed to death! (the future farmers of America?)

OHIO: In Mason, after 56 years Angilos Pizza shutdown, the owners saying “Mom and I are tired, we work full time jobs and run Angilo’s.”  In Mount Adams, after 55 years Celestial Steakhouse forced to shutdown after the landlord suddenly leased the location to a competing food venue!

OREGON:  In Salem, after 22 years Croissant & Company shutdown after failed attempts to sell, and even give away, the restaurant!

Wheat Farmers Fight to Stop Substation Fire

fire crushes wheat farmers during bountiful harvest

Feral pig population plummets

PENNSYLVANIA: In Allentown, two Grain & Centro restaurants were shutdown with short notice, it’s blamed on the “challenging” design of area, local news media pointed out the restaurants were located in the failed Neighborhood Improvement Zone where dozens of restaurants have come and gone since 2014. J.M. Smucker Company issued shutdown WARNs for its Sewickley and Meadville operations, 131 jobs gone by between the end of August and the end of September!  France owned food service company Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for its St. Luke’s Hospital Allentown Campus ops, 67 jobs gone by the end of September.

SOUTH CAROLINA: In Greenville, DishOut Cafe & Catering shutdown because the owners were making more money with their new taco joint.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Lawsuit over prison food going to court

New breed of salmon to be stocked

North American Manure Expo

TENNESSEE: On Oak Ridge Highway, after five years Archer’s BBQ shutdown due to lack of profits, the owners saying “businesses have to be profitable to survive.”  The Fresh Market store in Hendersonville shutting down, 61 jobs gone by August.

TEXAS: In Houston, after 72 years Kegg’s Candies suddenly shutdown its retail store, as well as its chocolate factory, due to the “slow economy”.  Also in Houston, El Tiempo Cantina forced to shutdown its Montrose location so that apartments can be built.  In Austin, after 65 years The Frisco (the last of the Frisco Shop/Night Hawk chain of restaurants) shutdown. In Beaumont, after three years Wood Fired Grill-Backyard Dance Hall shutdown, the owner blamed lack of  sales on the current “entertainment and dining landscape”.

UTAH: McDonald’s soda spiked with synthetic heroin

VIRGINIA: In Richmond, after 22 years Nacho Mama’s shutting down in August, the property has been sold.

WASHINGTON: Farm equipment plows into Fairfield fitness center

Washington DC: financial aid offer to farmers criticized as tax-funded ‘welfare’

WEST VIRGINIA: CKE Restaurant Holdings shutdown its Hardee’s in Oceana due to lack of sales, local news media said local customers were interested only in the breakfast menu.

WISCONSIN: After less that two years of operations, New Jersey based Schuman Cheese suddenly laid off 51 people from its ‘new’ Imperia Foods factory in Fall Creek, local news media blames it on automation.  The Fresh Market issued a shutdown WARN for its stores in Fox Point and Brookfield, 102 jobs gone in August!

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, JUNE 2018: “A THOUSAND PAPER CUTS”

“a state of near death.”: Drugs, the American Way, July 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of July 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

On 01 July, somewhere in the eastern Pacific the U.S. Coast Guard captured a drug boat, three smugglers and 2,263 pounds of cocaine.

ALABAMA: Drug roundup results in 40 arrests; 30 cars seized

19 Arrested as Part of “Operation Street Sweeper”

ALASKA: Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Drug and Money Laundering Crimes

33 pounds of meth in backpack

Shooting in Mountain View started with fight over drugs

ARIZONA: 12 arrested in 13-month investigation

Border Patrol seize $1.4M in illegal drugs in tractor-trailer from Mexico

Union Pacific train derailment turns into drugs crime

New prosecution policy targets marijuana backpackers

ARKANSAS: Prisoners want information on execution drug

Prisoner dies of suspected overdose

Pulaski County Circuit Judge admits to rude and unprofessional behavior during Drug Court hearings

Drug crimes so numerous that taxpayers forced to build New State Crime Lab in Northwest Arkansas

CALIFORNIA: “Medical students, residents and even doctors in practice don’t recognize the addictive potential of benzodiazepines. There’s been all this awareness on opioids but very little focus on benzodiazepines and yet people are dying from them.”-Anna Lembke, Stanford University Medical Center, about the Next Drug Crisis

In San Diego, the U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded 8.5-U.S. tons of cocaine on 16 July.

DEA Arrests Eight People Linked to Coachella Valley-Based Meth Gang 

Doctor and His Assistant Charged in Scheme to Illegally Distribute Prescription Drugs and Commit Health Care Fraud

Demi Lovato hospitalized for apparent drug overdose

COLORADO: Man Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Growing Marijuana on an Island in the Colorado River

Legal marijuana caused emergency room visits to skyrocket?

Despite legal ganja, Colorado still has an illegal immigrant run black market marijuana problem 

Just because you legalize ganja it doesn’t reduce other drug crimes as A Surge In Meth Use In Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery

CONNECTICUT: Hartford Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Crack

10000 bags of heroin seized in Hartford

10 arrests in Waterbury area

9 Arrests During Thompsonville Crackdown

Cop contaminated by Dangerous Drug: “This officer, from all we can understand, merely picked up a packet of drugs. That’s all it took to send him into a state of near death.”-Sergeant Chris Fry, Meriden Police

DELAWARE: Nearly Half of Overdoses Were in Sussex County

FLORIDA: 

On 03 July, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Tactical Law Enforcement Team South, captured a drug boat and more than 7-U.S. tons of cocaine.

Miami-Dade County Resident and Haitian Immigrant Charged with Cocaine Trafficking in South Florida

Four Foreign Nationals Indicted for International Cocaine Smuggling

Dark Web Vendor Sentenced to 108 Months in Prison for Narcotics Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges

new opioid-prescription law

Synthetic marijuana K2 most prevalent drug in Florida

Drug-smuggling operation at Florida jail uncovered

‘excited delirium’ 

GEORGIA: 18 homes raided in drug busts across Gwinnett County

Meth, cocaine are the most commonly seized drugs

Majority of those killed by cops tested positive for drugs

Judges across Georgia are releasing non-violent drug offenders

Deadly drugs ending up in counterfeit pills

GUAM: Woman pleads guilty to selling meth to U.S. military personnel

Attorney General employee sentenced to 3 years for smuggling drugs into prison

Recycling center ‘finds’ five pounds of cocaine

HAWAII: Drastic drop in drug supplies for hospitals

Opiate and cocaine use is climbing among workforce

medication drop-box program launched

IDAHO: Idaho State Police, Lewiston Police Department, Nez Perce County Sheriff’s Office and Nez Perce Tribal Police Department conducted a seven hours long vehicle stop & search op resulting in six felony drug charges, 25 misdemeanor drug charges and made one outstanding warrant arrest.

State senate candidate confronted cops with knife during drugs search

Major court case screw-up as jury member admits they know (and possibly hated) accused meth dealer defendant, resulting in an unfair conviction!

Nampa police arrest 20 for drugs in one week!

Who’s tracking opioids in the Treasure Valley?

ILLINOIS: Overdose deaths on the rise in Winnebago County

6 charged in drug-trafficking ring, including 2 previously acquitted

$1M coke, meth bust

Operation Fat Chance: More than 50 people facing criminal charges  for heroin and fentanyl sales on Chicago’s West Side

INDIANA:  police jail 129 in 6-day drug take-down event!

police seize orange ecstasy pills featuring Trump’s face

$750K worth of drugs, guns and cash seized 

IOWA:  Meth, marijuana, opioid tests rising at crime lab

Decorah parents charged with possessing meth around kids

Two major drug bust arrests in one week for Clear Lake

Two hospital nurses charged with drug theft

Halfway house prisoner accused of selling drugs

KANSAS: Increase in violent crimes comes with growing drug problem

Mexican Drug Cartels Sending Drugs Directly To Kansas

Drugs maker Cingulate Therapeutics raised $16-million

Prescription drug with marijuana to be sold in Kansas for the first time

KENTUCKY: Mexican illegal immigrant Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Methamphetamine

Drug Overdose Deaths up 11.5 Percent

Boyd County 3rd in state for OD deaths; suicides also up

Couple accused of kidnapping kids, having drugs, owning pet squirrel

LOUISIANA: Massive drug bust yields 221 felony charges!

more than $14,000 in marijuana seized

Drug roundup leads to 13 arrests

prison employee accused of trying to smuggle drugs in a sandwich

100-plus officers, K9s at Angola after drugs kill 2 prisoners

Amid Ringgold drug turmoil, residents pray

MAINE: State cop Accused of Selling Drugs makes Plea Agreement

$200000 worth of crystal meth

Operation SOS could mean harsher sentences for drug dealing

School district wants to punish “who are knowingly in the presence of prohibited substances”.

MARYLAND: U.S. Navy Academy’s biggest drug bust involving taxpayer funded students!

2472 Bags of Heroin From Worcester County Home

MASSACHUSETTS: Revere Men Sentenced for Oxycodone

Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Smuggle Opioids Into Prison 

Fentanyl-Laced Heroin, Cocaine, $60K Seized in Drug Raid

Fire Call Results in Unlikely Stoughton Drug Bust

MICHIGAN: Residents Sentenced for Oxycodone Distribution 

Woman Sentenced for Pill Charge

MINNESOTA:  Controversial ketamine trial sparks ethics complaint

Law officers nab 7 in what they say is first fentanyl operation in Duluth

Woman’s Airbnb home becomes drug-dealing venue

Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms

MISSISSIPPI: Rankin County Man Sentenced to Five Years for Cocaine

Traffic stop leads to $2.5 million drug bust

Woodlands Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center nurse arrested for stealing drugs

MISSOURI: Details of Years of Drug Trafficking, Homicide, and Deadly Drug Overdoses at Clinton-Peabody Housing Complex

Drug crimes so bad that taxpayers forced to spend and extra 37% on funding for the 2nd Judicial Circuit’s Drug Court program!

Psychotropic Drugs Given To Missouri Foster Kids

Drugs maker TrialCard hiring 225 people to take drug orders

MONTANA: Men Sentenced to Federal Prison on Drug and Gun Charges

HIV on the rise in drug users 

Special anti-drug Highway Patrol team seizes record amount of drugs in first year

Drugged up fugitive buries alive five months old baby

NEBRASKA:  11 pounds of heroin strapped to man

168 pounds of marijuana

Drug company accuses taxpayer funded Nebraska Prisons of lying about what it was going to do with $20-million worth of killer drugs!

NEVADA: Las Vegas Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Distribution of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone

Nevada prison execution connected to Drug company accusing Nebraska Prisons of lying about planned use of drugs.

Bail set at $1.5-million USD for two Canadians caught trafficking drugs

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  What to do with a sudden increase in federal taxpayer funding to fight opioids

New Drug Enforcement Surge to Focus on Hillsborough County

K-9 Units Sniff Out Drugs in Prisons

NEW JERSEY: Mercy County drug bust nets heroin, guns and cash

More than 8 people are dying from overdoses each day

Operation Red Raider: 21 Busted 

NEW MEXICO: State Police Officer Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges, accused of using drugs from evidence lockers to influence females, could lead to dismissals of 68 pending drug cases because the arrested cop probably falsified evidence against innocent people!

NEW YORK: Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy

Clifton Park Doctor Arrested for Unlawful Drug Distribution

Suspected leader of Queens-Based Meth gang Arrested

Drug Bust At Blue Heron Festival

An NYC bathroom set up to stem overdoses

NORTH CAROLINA: doctor wrote phony Oxyco prescriptions

Operation East to West results in 25 arrests

Day-care raided in massive drug bust

15 Arrested On Drug Charges

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher must surrender license because of drug charges

Drug crimes continue rise

new anonymous drug texting tip line

1/2 pound of meth

OHIO: drug dealer gets life sentence

Shooting victim arrested on drug charges

spike in drug-related deaths 

highest overdose rate in nation

OKLAHOMA: Mayes County deputy fired after stealing meth

Woman accused of bringing drugs into state prison

Changes to marijuana laws

Woman faces multiple life sentences

OREGON: High demand for legalized ganja turned out to be overblown, prices crash due to lack of buyers!

Dog detected meth, Adults charged with child neglect

$45000 worth of MDMA

Astoria-based Coast Guard crew aids in $260 million drug capture

PENNSYLVANIA:  Pittsburgh Man Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison for Trafficking Heroin and Fentanyl Derivative

Man gets Probation for selling Oxycodone

Bad drug batch hospitalizes more than 100 in Philadelphia area

PUERTO RICO:  Nationwide legal drug shortage; partly due to hurricane in Puerto Rico

New Zealand news media reveals U.S. police love their state, or territory like Puerto Rico, being designated a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area because it forces U.S. taxpayers to give the cops an extra $3.1-million to $14.6-million USD each year!

RHODE ISLAND:  ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students

“Three people are accused of running a drug house and holding another man against his will to steal his Social Security disability checks.”

SOUTH CAROLINA: Taxpayers spent $5-million USD on covert state police unit that was supposed to target drug dealers but was actually going after migrant workers!

police chief arrested on drug charge

pill gang used bitcoins, ‘dark web’

‘Operation The Heat is On’ drug roundup

SOUTH DAKOTA:  man sentenced to 25 years

man indicted in ‘darknet’ undercover operation

Mother sentenced to 40 years for toddler son’s beating death, after drinking alcohol and taking pain medication

TENNESSEE: Top Narcotics Officer Placed Under Investigation, calls into doubt dozens of drug convictions

Tipton County Public Defender’s investigator arrested for buying marijuana

Nashville warehouse distributing drugs illegally

New laws on the books to fight opioid epidemic

60 Pounds Of Pot Found At Nashville Airport

TEXAS: Federal Jury in Waco Finds Leader of Cartel Del Noreste and Nephew of Los Zetas Leaders Z-40 and Z-42 Guilty on All Charges

35 arrested

Coke, meth and booze: The flip side of the oil industry 

These guys smuggled pot to Dallas AFTER they’d been arrested 

UTAH: Girl tied to boys’ deaths charged with distributing drugs

teacher convicted of sex with minor charged with selling drugs

battle over pot pits the Mormon Church against its own members

County jail accused of giving newly arrested drug addict (and father) the drugs he used to kill himself with

VERMONT: 10 arrested

Royalton cop who stole heroin from police evidence room goes to prison, for a piddly six months!

Drug use so bad taxpayers forced to hire 9 More ‘Drug Recognition Experts’

Ganja ‘gifting’ is illegal

More bad news on the marijuana law

Metal dealers caught up in drug crimes

VIRGINIA: 

At Fort Belvior, scientists with Northwestern and Cornell Universities, in conjunction with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, spent 2.6-billion of your tax dollars finding a way to manufacture drugs faster, and to make the drugs take effect faster; Glycosylation Sequence Characterization and Optimization by Rapid Expression and Screening.

1,538 people died in Virginia from a drug overdose

Man Dies After Choking on Bag of ‘White Powder’ 

Prisoners to get treatment for addictions

WASHINGTON: Drug bust at Paradiso Festival

Moses Lake cops find fentanyl disguised as prescription medicine

Feds arrest 11 in alleged heroin, meth trafficking ring

Man acquitted of killing toddler sentenced for drug charges

Drug dealer takes customers hostage for failing to pay

Female prisoner sneaks meth and heroin into jail inside her body

Washington DC: Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Phencyclidine (PCP) 

“U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in Fargo on Thursday, July 26, that many American Indian tribes are in free fall due to overdose deaths involving opioids.”

WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston Doctor Arrested for Illegal Distribution of Opioids Resulting in Death

7 Arrested After Drug Raid in Huntington

deaths of despair

WISCONSIN: Man arrested in heroin bust worked for ‘christian’ YWCA

Rock County Jail nurse arrested on drug charge

Fatal drug overdoses in La Crosse County climb 

81 grams of drugs found inside woman’s body

Heroin deaths at all-time high

Chippewa Indians join War on Drugs

WYOMING: probation officer pleads guilty to drug charge

Nurse Indicted for Unlawful Distribution of Drugs Resulting in Death

UPS (United Parcel Service) employee admits to stealing drug packages

Colorado pot finds its way to northeast Wyoming

DUI arrest rate is among the highest in the country

‘The Dream Market’: Drugs, the American Way, June 2018

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

drug bust at tire shop

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

Operation Dry Water 

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

Woman sold Rx drugs

Dover police nab fugitive; hotel room yields crack, heroin, ecstasy

Woman Found With 65 Bags of Heroin

Semi-truck driver puller over for not using headlights at night, police find heroin, crack cocaine, various drug paraphernalia, and cash.

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!

IDAHO: Convicted of the Iran-Contra conspiracy (which included cocaine dealing) USMC Colonel Oliver North gave speech at GOP convention at Idaho State University.
 ILLINOIS:  K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in Chicago    Video, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:

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

MICHIGANDemocrats 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’

Operation Shark Tank

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

Drug arrests increase

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

Feds bust 25 people

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!

PENNSYLVANIAMom, 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?

‘Kristen’s Law’

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

Meth Remains A Big Problem

Nineteen accused in Claiborne County

Man Accused Of Selling Drugs While pushing baby In Stroller

Heroin Overdoses Increase

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

Corpus Christi store owner pleads guilty to ‘cutting’ diet supplements with “unapproved foreign drugs”.

‘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’

Emery County, 11 arrests

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%

Operation Purge, 11 arrests

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

High school students caught giving sex drugs to classmates, school officials criticized for lack of disciplinary action.

WYOMING:  Deadly drug found in Casper

Casper Police discover local families with small children are packing into motel rooms so the parents can do drugs!

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

Total Gun Ban Fail: Mexico’s elections prove gun bans don’t save lives!

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What’s happening in Mexico is proof that if you ban individual ownership of guns you make organized crime more powerful.

A ‘crisis management’ company called Etellekt reports that since Mexico’s election campaigns began at least 132 candidates and campaign workers have been assassinated by organized crime, assassinations have hit 22 of Mexico’s 31 states!  This is in a country that has a near total ban on individual ownership of guns, in fact there is only one legal gun shop in Mexico and it’s run by the military!

By wait, there’s more!  The Mexican government’s Secretaría de Gobernación admits that 2018 is the on its way to being the deadliest year for Mexicans; 4-thousand-381 homicides just in the month of May!  More than 25-thousand people murdered in 2017!  (not all killed with illegal guns, but the majority of killings were with illegal guns)

According to Mexico News Daily, three more assassinations took place at the end of June!

GUN BAN FAIL: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST U.S. GOVT. EMPLOYEE IN MEXICO!

TOTAL GUN BAN TOTAL FAILURE: MEXICO!

WORLD WAR 3, NORTH AMERICAN FRONT: UNITED STATES IS ‘THE’ DRUG LORD IN MEXICO’S DRUG WAR?

WORLD WAR 3, NORTH AMERICAN FRONT: TENS OF THOUSAND OF MOSTLY CHRISTIANS KILLED IN THE NAME OF U.S. INSTIGATED FALSE FLAG DRUG WAR IN MEXICO!  MORE DEATHS IN MEXICO THAN IN SYRIA?

Mexico’s Drug War, another front in the Control through Chaos game

RED HORSE & FALSE WAR ON DRUGS IN MEXICO:  PREPARE FOR U.S. INVASION

Take Back Day: Drugs, the American Way, April 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of April 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

The official National Drug Take Back Day was 28APR2018, proving that the government is behind the drug epidemic (why else would they call it ‘Take Back Day’ if they aren’t the source of the drugs?).  Since National Drug Take Back Day began in 2010 more than four million kilos (nine million pounds) of prescription drugs were given back to the government, I mean turned in on National Drug Take Back Day across the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) reports that for fiscal year 2017 they captured 269,790 pounds of cocaine; 384,230 pounds of marijuana; 5,721 pounds of methamphetamine; 1,089 weapons, $26.1 million USD in cash, and captured 37,009 illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that drug overdoses (O-D) killed 63-thousand-632 people in 2016, compared to 40-thousand-2-hundred vehicle deaths and 38-thousand gun deaths.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner blamed Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Google, Yahoo and Bing for enabling the opioid epidemic.

Official Department of Defense opioid video explainer:

Alabama: The six months old Alabama Drug Task Force received a piddly $64-thousand USD federal taxpayer funded grant.  After only six months of operations the Drug Task Force boasts of capturing illegal and prescription drugs along with 145 guns.  A Dothan Police sergeant was arrested for illegal possession of drugs as well as theft!  Gulf Shores Police arrested two men on marijuana charges, the two men turned out to be cops from Taliaferro County, Georgia!  The Heflin Police Department reports arresting five people and capturing 34-kilos (75-pounds) of drugs, adding that anti-drug ops are ongoing and more arrests are expected. Bay Minette Police Department arrested at least 20 people in taxpayer led anti-drug ops: “These arrests took place as the result of citizen complaints…    These enforcement efforts are ongoing and will continue. We want to thank the citizens for providing us information and tips to act on.”-Bay Minette press release

Alabama Public Radio: Benzodiazepines: America’s ‘Other Prescription Drug Problem’

Alaska: State Troopers arrested a Fairbanks resident allegedly in possession of meth, shrooms and ganjaState Troopers, and the federal DEA, also found two kilos (five pounds) of heroin inside the engine compartment of a Chevy Tahoe that was being shipped in from Thermal, California. Drug dealers were also arrested, but the DEA noted that the dealers were conducting counter-surveillance ops, meaning they suspected the cops had been tipped-off.  Nine people indicted for trying to smuggle methamphetamine, heroin and Suboxone into the Lemon Creek prison, using code words like ‘soup’, ‘movies’ and ‘painting’.  A woman in Eagle River reported to police that she got robbed by her friendly neighborhood drug dealer.  She says when she got into the dealer’s car, to buy ganja, he robbed her instead.   Samoan Customs report they arrested a man who came from Alaska, along with $26-thousand worth of meth, supposedly to attend a funeral in the tiny island nation.

Anchorage Daily News: Alaska fentanyl overdose deaths more than quadrupled in 2017

Arizona: The possible first overdose in The Grand Canyon State involving an opioid drug more powerful than fentanyl; carfentanil.   A man was found dead in his car, “The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s report confirmed the presence of carfentanil, yet the source of the carfentanil remains unknown…”  The Canadian Centre for Addiction says “The equivalent of one gran of salt of Carfentanil is enough to kill a human being.”  Carfentanil was originally used to tranquilize elephants.  A group of doctors revealed that Arizona’s new drug law actually punishes doctors for prescribing alternatives to opioids, and allude that the British empire maker of Suboxone bribed state lawmakers to create the pro-opioid law!  The U.S. Border Patrol says they captured a Mexican smuggling 121.5-kilos (268-pounds) of marijuana and meth across the border using two horses. A woman was arrested as she and her three children were trying to cross the border, because one of her children had two pounds of cocaine strapped to her body.

Arkansas:  The Land of Opportunity has the second highest rate of prescription drug over-prescribing at an average of 114.6 opioid prescriptions per 1-hundred people!  A federal judge ordered the temporary shutdown of Cantrell Drug Company due to the U.S. FDA accusing the company of selling adulterated drugs throughout the U.S.   The chairman of the Anthropology Department at the University of Arkansas arrested by the DEA for buying prescription drugs illegally and illegal possession of guns!   Benton Police credit good neighbors for helping to shutdown a drug dealer, who was captured with methamphetamine, LSD, mushrooms, marijuana, prescription pills, unknown powders, and stolen guns: “Definitely a shocker. We never considered this to be a hot spot for any kind of drug dealing.”-Anthony Natale, concerned neighbor

California: Menlo Park based Kaiser Family Foundation says opioid addiction treatment, for employees of ‘large’ companies with insurance, cost $2.6-billion USD in 2016, compared to $273-million in 2004!  The federal DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) considers the city of Thermal to be a major illegal drug distribution center for the United States.  Six Californians arrested for trafficking 22.6-kilos (50-pounds) worth of meth, smack and coke between Washington state and Alaska. A now former U.S. Border Patrol agent sentenced to six years in federal prison after getting caught smuggling meth and coke from Mexico!  A member of the drug gang MS-13 revealed in a federal court, in New Jersey, that the MS-13 drug distribution operations are run out of the Calipatria State Prison in California!  One prisoner at the Mule Creek State Prison killed and 11 others required medical treatment after taking an undisclosed drug.  Riverside, Inyo and Mono counties, along with Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, began experimenting with ketamine for pain relief: “It will be used for pain control in lieu of our current medication which is Fentanyl. Fentanyl is an opioid-based narcotic, and due to the ongoing opioid crisis nationwide, emergency medical services have been faced with finding alternatives.”-Greg Kunkel, Emergency Medical Services

South China Morning Post: 100 Chinese-run ‘pot-growing’ houses seized in one of the largest residential drug busts in U.S./California history 

Crew of the USS Zephyr rescue smugglers from a burning drug smuggling ‘stealth’ boat from Columbia, 07APR2018, the drug boat was sunk

Colorado:  According to Colorado Health Institute 912 Coloradans died from drug use in 2016, more than those who died from cars and guns combined!  Between 2001 and 2016 there was a 756% increase in heroin deaths!  The DEA reports that almost 907-kilos (2-thousand pounds) of prescription drugs were given back to the government, I mean turned in on National Drug Take Back Day in Colorado!

Connecticut: 19 people indicted for selling cocaine, fentanyl and heroin: “…this drug trafficking organization, which used multiple sources of supply, has been responsible for the distribution of significant quantities of heroin and cocaine in Connecticut.”-John Durham, U.S. Attorney

Delaware: The state Department of Health and Social Services confirmed at least 71 people died from drugs, so far this year.  There was a 12% increase in overdose deaths in 2017.

Florida: An immigrant from South Africa was arrested in a Honda minivan full of drugs, police were paroling the Vero Beach area due to increased burglaries. In Miami, police raided two strip-clubs, arresting dozens of strippers for dealing drugs, as part of ongoing Operation Neon Lights.  Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over a Chevy Tahoe to find unknown pills and heroin, and a nine years old boy. The vehicle had been involved in a hit-&-run accident, a female passenger had been arrested three previous times on felony drug charges. The Hillsborough County Sheriff reports a local high school student was killed while trying to buy marijuana and that the dealer confessed to shooting the student.  In Wakulla County a mom is awaiting trial for making her two years old smoke meth: “The toxicology results concluded that the 2-year-old tested positive for both methamphetamine and amphetamines and the findings were ‘chronic’ rather than ‘acute’.”-Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare (based in Florida), along with Canadian Navy ships, captures $390-million worth of cocaine and ganja during the months of March and April

Georgia: DeKalb County Drug Task Force arrested two women after finding meth, marijuana and drug selling equipment in a hidden compartment in their car.  It was revealed that ten immigrants were arrested for operating a massive $1-million USD meth distribution op in the counties of DeKalb and Gwinnett.  A now former teacher/cheer-leading coach at Northwest Whitfield High School arrested for possession of illegal opioids and having sex with students.  A doctor lost her medical license after threatening to slit her own employee’s throats, as well as committing actual acts of violence, she surrendered herself to police.  Two other doctors, and a hospital CEO, indicted for illegally prescribing pain meds.
Hawaii:  The Hawaii Police Department raided a home in Puna, finding heroin, meth, marijuana and cash, however, local news media says it’s the second time this year the same home has been raided finding the same type of drugs.  Diagnostic Laboratory Services reports that the new work-place drug testing rules of the U.S. Department of Transportation has resulted in a 50% drop in Hawaiian workers testing positive for opiods.  Mmmm
Idaho:  Idaho Department of Correction employees, prisoners and contractors arrested; five prison guards, one prisoner, one contract nurse and another person charged with drug trafficking, among other crimes, after a two years investigation by the FBI!  Mormon dominated Idaho is blaming Mormon dominated Utah for a 958% increase in heroin trafficking: “Every single day someone’s ‘tripping’ to Utah and bringing back heroin. Five years ago we were seeing almost none, and now it’s the biggest problem we’re seeing in southeast Idaho.-Lieutenant Clint Skinner, Idaho State Police, Pocatello office
Illinois: For some reason Chicago based American Medical Association (AMA) is opposed to limiting opioid prescriptions  Synthetic Ganja (K2) being blamed for at least three deaths and causing more than 1-hundred people to suffer bleeding: “Each day we’ve seen the number of cases rise. Synthetic cannabinoids are unsafe. They are not regulated and people don’t know what chemicals may be in them, like rat poison.”-Nirav D. Shah, Illinois Department of Public Health

Indiana: In Clark County a mom confessed to using her toddler children to make sex videos, which she sold to get money to buy drugs!   State Police pulled over a mom for driving too close to other cars, they found heroin, methadone and the mom’s one year old daughter in the car.   State Police also report 794.6-kilos (1-thousand-752 pounds) of prescription drugs were given back to the government, I mean turned in on National Drug Take Back Day in Indiana!

Iowa: A local pharmacist accuses CVS Pharmacy of gross over-billing of taxpayers for prescription drugs supplied to prisoners.  In one example he said that CVS charged Wapellow County $5-thousand for drugs that should’ve cost $1-thousand.   Iowa set a record for give your drugs back to the government day, I mean National Drug Take Back Day; more than six U.S. tons (5594-kilos or 12,333-pounds) of prescriptions collected, breaking the record set last year!

Kansas:  The U.S. FDA ordered Epic Products to recall its ‘over the counter’ male sexual enhancing drug because it contains actual prescription strength erectile dysfunction drugs sildenafil and tadalafil.

Kentucky: The supposedly highly educated gov’na blamed teacher strikes for causing children to be raped and become drug users: “Children were harmed, some physically, some sexually, some were introduced to drugs for the first time, because they were vulnerable and left alone.”  He supposedly apologized for the implication.

Louisiana: The state Legislative Auditor discovered that more than 25-thousand prescriptions went missing from the state Board of Pharmacy’s Prescription Monitoring Program!  The audit was prompted by a sudden increase in overdose deaths.  Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office, along with state and federal police, arrested 12 people in possession of meth, marijuana, pills and AK-47 assault rifles.

Maine: National Guard armories were used during the National Drug Take Back Day.

Maryland: A Prince George’s County special ed teacher was among 27 people busted for drugs in Maryland and Washington DC, federal cops say the drug ring had been selling heroin, cocaine and crack-cocaine since 2016.  In Frederick County a smaller drug gang was busted, six people arrested.

Massachusetts: The state Supreme Judicial Court dismissed nearly 8-thousand drug cases after it was shown that an employee of the contracted drug testing lab falsified results and was even using the drugs captured during drug raids! Also, the court vacated more than 22-thousand drug convictions because a different contracted drug lab basically did the same thing!!!

MichiganA study by the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Appriss Health reports a 30% increase in O-Ds (overdose deaths) from 2013 to 2015, with Detroit and Grand Rapids suffering the most deaths. 

Minnesota: 29 members of what police call a ‘multi-generational drug gang’ were arrested in Hubbard County, for selling meth, prescription drugs, hash oil and Mary-Jane.

Mississippi: Three Adams County Sheriff’s deputies went to eat lunch at their fave restaurant only to end up busting two men and a woman making a Xanax drug deal right outside the restaurant window!   A man was arrested using a former, but still marked, Newton County Sheriff’s cop car to traffic marijuana.  When cops raided the man’s home they say they found 31 types of marijuana. The man apparently bought the cop car at a government auction, however, it is the responsibility of the government agency to remove all police markings from the vehicle which, for some unknown reason, was not done.  Jackson Police report they’re arresting people who are driving to states where marijuana is legal, buying a crap-load and smuggling it into Mississippi.

Missouri: McLean County Sheriff’s Office reports arresting a woman who had ecstasy in her bra, heroin in her car and a locked and cocked pistol in her vagina!  As many as 8-hundred people in Saint Louis area died from opioids last year.  In just the past six months Saint Louis County reports 14-thousand cases of people trying to get multiple issues of prescription opioids, a clear case of doctor involved prescription drug addiction: “Even if you set aside the fact there are quite a few people who have genuine pain management needs, clearly there is over-prescribing going on.”-Faisal Khan, Saint Louis County

Montana:  A social worker at Meadow Hill junior high arrested for having meth, heroin and psilocybin mushrooms in her residence, but wait, there’s more. Officials with Missoula County Public Schools are so paranoid they used taxpayer money to hire a company to clean the now former social worker’s office at the junior high, due to fears over her “…personal drug activity.”  In Missoula County, a woman who worked with infants at the YMCA Learning Center arrested after building a ‘meth smoking den’ in the laundry room! The overwhelming smell of meth gave it away, despite her attempt to use a vent fan.  17 people arrested in Billings for meth related crimes as part of a new version of the national Project Safe Neighborhoods.  It should be noted the Project Safe Neighborhoods was originally a federal anti-gun operation launched in 2001.

Nebraska: The daughter of the mayor of North Port, and another woman, arrested while driving a Chevy Tahoe full of 46.7-kilos (103-pounds) of marijuana!

Nevada: According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The Silver State has the highest rate of psycho-stimulants O-D deaths; a 32% increase from 2015 to 2016: “I’ve been doing this job six and a half years, and for the last three of four years, we’ve seen the numbers rising. It unfortunately doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon.”-Jamie Ross, PACT (Patient Access Community Treatment) Coalition

“The number one drug seized by all of our task forces is meth.-Keith Carter, Nevada High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

New Hampshire:  The state experienced its largest ever fentanyl drug bust involving 20 different federal, state and local agencies resulting in 45 indictments and more than 30-kilograms (66 pounds) of fentanyl captured.  The drug gang involved originated in Massachusetts.

New Jersey:  The FBI arrested a Paterson cop for dealing heroin, crack cocaine, powder cocaine and marijuana since 2017, even using a city police car in a parking lot right next to the police HQ to do so!  One report says that from 2015 to 2016 at least 16-thousand people in New Jersey had to be revived with Narcan A convicted immigrant drug dealer was able to order his girlfriend’s murdered while he was in a New Jersey prison!

New Mexico: 14 people in Las Cruces arrested, 16 indicted, for trafficking cocaine, heroin and meth across four states.  In Las Vegas, a man who wanted some meth got mad when the female dealer told him she needed more money, he chopped her with a machete, she survived, he’s in jail.  And possibly as a result of such crazy drug crimes, the West Las Vegas School Board considering making it mandatory for school employees and student athletes to be tested for drugs, including prescription drugs: “In light of the recent events of what’s happened at schools, I think that anybody, or any teacher, any administrator who may be using a prescription medication or may be using narcotics, poses a safety threat to the school.”-Ambrosio Castellano, board member

New York: A NYC drug bust revealed nine kilos (20-pounds) of drugs in an apartment oven and couch, and $600-thousand USD in cash inside a Lamborghini.  The state Comptroller’s Office says 63% of counties couldn’t adequately Take Back drugs because they don’t have enough drug drop boxes, and five counties don’t have any drug Take Back boxes.  A doctor facing charges of killing six people with overdoses of opioids has somehow gotten another job at another clinic!  80% of New Yorkers blame doctors for the opioid epidemic, 70% blame the government.

North Carolina:  A local TV station revealed that illegal drug dealing has become such big business that state lawmakers created a special tax, called the Unauthorized Substance Tax, and drug dealers are actually paying it!  Perhaps in response, the federal government declared operation Take Back North Carolina: “The stakes are so high, the risk is so great that I almost don’t care what the cause is, we just got to stop the problem.”-Robert Higdon Junior, U.S. Attorney

North Dakota: A Burleigh County Sheriff’s Deputy now in jail after getting caught stealing cell phones and meth right outta the police evidence locker.   It turns out the cop doesn’t have a good work record, being rated unacceptable and getting reprimands.  A female University of North Dakota student arrested for attempting to sell drugs on campus.

Ohio: Official video report National Guard Counterdrug Task Force Airman who lost her brother to opioids:

Oklahoma: The state Bureau of Narcotics held a public meeting at Southern Tech about Current Oklahoma Drug Threats, one news report said only 13 people attended.  The DEA arrested a retired Edmond cop for money laundering and selling illegal steroids out of his home and through local businesses, for at least three years. At least two other people were also arrested. Police say the operation involved drop-shipping, PO Boxes for fake companies, PayPal accounts, bank accounts under fake names, and auto-shops.

Oregon:   In another case involving a Chevy Tahoe from California, two men finally pled guilty to using the upscale Sport Utility Vehicle to traffic cocaine and marijuana from California to Alaska. They got caught in Medford, in April of last year, as they were driving the drug-stuffed SUV up to Alaska.  Their sentencing scheduled for June.  News reports say a ‘secret’ federal drug raid in Portland almost backfired. The DEA is confiscating discovered drug stashes without the dealers knowing, and intentionally making it look like another drug gang stole the merchandise (under what is called a ‘delayed notice warrant’), however, it almost went bad when an innocent storage warehouse manager almost got killed by upset drug dealers. 

Pennsylvania: State Police report that for the first quarter of 2018 they captured almost $6-million USD worth of drugs, and for all of last year they captured $41-million worth of illegal drugs!  According to a study released in November 2017, drug deaths in Pennsylvania are expected to increase by 70% over the next seven years!

Puerto Rico:  Perhaps because of its crashed economy and damage caused by back-to-back hurricanes, the island territory is now a distribution point for drugs from South America heading towards the United States.  Last year a record 29887-kilos (65,890-pounds) of narcotics were captured! 

Personnel off-load $13-million worth of heroin from Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon in San Juan, 18APR2018

Rhode Island: In comparison to other states, only 11-kilos (25-pounds) of drugs were turned in on National Take Back Day.   After years of increases in prisoner opioid addictions Rhode Island began screening prisoners for opioids and treating them for addiction, which proves drugs are easy to get in prison. A local TV station discovered that drugs from China and Mexico are being shipped in via the U.S. Postal Service. 

South Carolina: Two ‘guests’ of the Department of Corrections get to spend yet more time behind bars after they were caught running a multi-state drug dealing op right outta their prison cell!  On top of that, 14 now former prison guards, nurse, groundskeeper and service workers now indicted for drug smuggling and their connection to prison riots that left seven prisoners dead!  In yet another case involving prison guards, prisoners at Broad River Correctional Institute claim guards (who were also members of drug gangs) were forcing them to buy drugs and have sex!  Some taxpayers are blaming increased prison guard crimes on the state’s so called prison reforms!  The now former Walhalla Police Chief facing charges of extorting drugs from his own personnel!  

South Dakota: Police report increased trafficking of ganja from Minnesota, the most recent involved 38.5-kilos (85-pounds) found in a Toyota Tundra from Minneapolis/Saint Paul.

Tennessee: The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office tipped off by U.S. Postal Inspectors, which resulted in the captured $1.3-million USD worth of Xanax (Alprazolam).

 

Texas:  57 ‘white’ gang bangers arrested for kidnapping and selling meth.  A 46 years old man was convicted of beating young children, including his own, into packaging meth for him to sell.

Utah: Two men facing charges of making fake prescription drugs (fentanyl) and selling them online, making $2.8-million USD in less than a year.  Orem Police arrested a man from California with $1.5-million worth of meth.

Vermont: The tiny state of Vermont (with 30-thousand estimated addicts) got 32-million tax dollars to fight opioids: “Vermont was one of the first states to receive and benefit from this program because I could argue that we were prepared for it. Our little state could use it and make the program work.”-Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator

Virginia: State Department of Health reports a ten years high in drug O-D deaths, 1-thousand-534 in 2017!  Fentanyl caused more than half the deaths.

Washington: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) intercepted a package shipped from Seattle to Yalobusha County, Mississippi.  It contained 5.8-kilos (13-pounds) of pills, THC oil and ‘weed’.  But wait, the man arrested for the postal crime claims there’s still 2-kilos (5-pounds) of weed in the mail!

Washington DC:  The CDC reports that DC is number one in the country for drug O-D deaths, a 106.9% increase from 2015 to 2016!  The U.S. Surgeon General begging all citizens to carry the anti-overdose med naloxone!  The FDA banned the sale of bulk powdered caffeine.

West Virginia: Perhaps because of guilt, drug maker Pfizer (through its Pfizer Foundation) gave the state half-a-million dollars to help treat drug addicted moms and their babies!  The CDC says West Virginia has the highest rate of babies born addicted to drugs!  West Virginia also broke its record for drug O-D deaths, 909 in 2017!

Wisconsin:  Drug addiction causing a doubling of children being pushed into the state’s foster care system, since 2010.  27669-kilos (61-thousand pounds) of pills were collected on Take Back Day.

Wyoming: A repeat offender was caught, as he was entering prison, with a bag of opioid pills shoved up his butt.

KGAB: Why Wyoming Drug Traffickers Are So Stupid

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, March 2018: ZOMBIES ARE FOR REAL! “THE FENTANYL…IS ENOUGH TO KILL EVERYONE…SEVERAL TIMES OVER.”

Zombies are for real! “The fentanyl…is enough to kill everyone…several times over.”: Drugs, the American Way, March 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of March 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

“What makes construction so vulnerable to this epidemic is the physical nature of the work. Injury rates are 77% higher in construction than other occupations, and the financial incentive to get back to work before their bodies are healed is leading many down a path that can ultimately lead to abuse and even death.”-Jill Manzo, Midwest Economic Policy Institute

Visit Marijuana Business Daily to find out the latest in legalized MaryJane.

TheFix: “…the drug crisis costing the U.S. economy $1 trillion since 2001.” 

It’s now painfully obvious that the President Reagan imposed, police administered, taxpayer funded DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program not only didn’t work but in some cases actually increased drug use, based on a review of dozens of studies going back to 1991.  

2017 saw a steep decline in the number of drug crime exonerations (people wrongfully convicted of drug crimes and sent to prison, then found to be innocent afterwards).

Gummy Bears are being used to turn your children into literal zombies.  They’re being laced with THC, Melatonin (which is legal in the U.S. but illegal in many other countries) and deadly Flakka.

Alabama: Eufaula Police and state Department of Corrections now conducting random drug searches of Eufaula City Schools.

 “We’re not here to see how many people we can lock up. Our goal must be to see how we can make people feel safe.”-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, during speech to National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives in Birmingham, 23MAR2018

Alaska: Anchorage Police reported that an addict tried to buy drugs from a dealer who apparently decided to rob the addict of his cash. Also, Anchorage Police reported three separate shootings during one weekend leaving one man dead, three people wounded, believed to be in connection to illegal drugs.  In Sitka, a couple had their children kidnapped, and then the husband was pistol whipped, the wife shot in both legs by what police are calling drug gang “enforcers” from California and New Mexico: “Their sole purpose here, in our town of Sitka, based on what I’m gathering during the course of this investigation, is that they’ve come here to create hate and discontent, and to intimidate local people who live here, and to work as the muscle behind the drug trade.”-Lieutenant Lance Ewers, Sitka Police

Arizona: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (aka Border Patrol) captured 135 pounds (61 kilograms) of ganja, and arrested two teenagers in Nogales.  At the San Luis crossing, a U.S. citizen was captured with more than eight pounds (3.6 kilograms) of meth strapped to his body. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office captured a Texas resident who was driving a car filled with nearly 50 pounds of cocaine and more than 27 pounds of marijuana.

Arkansas: A now former Jacksonville cop is facing charges of stealing drugs from police evidence lockers and illegal drug possession, he claims it was because of back-pain caused by a work injury.  U.S. DEA and FBI arrested ten people in Benton and Washington counties, accused of dealing heroin, cocaine and meth. In Little Rock, a drug dealer was attacked by prospective buyers, he told police they put a bag over his head and beat him with a shotgun.

KTAL: Hempstead and Nevada Counties crack down on illegal drugs

California: Visalia cops arrested three people; a man and a woman with criminal records  were in possession of illegal guns (so much for California’s gun bans) and methamphetamine (a third suspect was given a simple ticket for suspicion of possession of drugs), in a separate case the third arrest involved a man who broke probation and is accused of selling meth.  In Santa Rosa, a man with a criminal history was arrested for illegal possession of a pistol, narcotics and meth.

Video of U.S. Coast Guard capture of ‘stealth’ drug boat:

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: 114 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN SAN DIEGO!

Colorado: Parker Police personnel hospitalized after exposure to what was thought to be fentanyl, but turned out it was cocaine and meth.

The Denver Post: Colorado cited this drug rehab center operator 50 times in 3 years and it’s still in business.

Connecticut: In Wallingford a woman crashed her vehicle, police found 570 bags of heroin in the vehicle.

Delaware: State police found 3-thousand-127 bags of heroin in a house, two people arrested and their money confiscated by the cops. 

Florida: Sarasota police arrested a man after he attacked them by punching, kicking and biting them, he was high on spice (synthetic marijuana).

Fox News: Florida’s 2016 ‘Officer of the Year‘ arrested after feces, guns, drugs allegedly found in his ‘disgusting’ home

Ocala: When it comes to opioid-related deaths, Marion has the dubious distinction of being near the statistical top among Florida counties

Government Technology: A Florida Drug Case Could Set Precedent for Facial Recognition

Georgia:  University of Georgia football associate equipment manager arrested for spying on people and possessing marijuana.
Hawaii:Hawaii Police Department cop (now on leave without pay) suspected of stealing cocaine and hashish from the evidence room.  The investigation began in 2017, the Hawaii County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney refused to handle the case due to “conflicts of interest”Kauai Police arrested a man and woman for possession of meth and marijuana.
Hawaii News Now: The reemergence of crack
Idaho: NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), once again snobby residents of Pocatello are shitting themselves over a proposed (and much needed) drug rehab center. This isn’t the first time. As usual the reasons given against a drug rehab center are property values and public safety.   Local news media reported that the nearest drug rehab is a several hours drive, on the west side of the state in Boise.  Speaking of drug crimes and Pocatello, over a three days period Pocatello cops arrested several people for possession of meth, heroine and prescription painkillers (that weren’t prescribed to the individual).  The arrests were the result of police responding to ‘disturbances’, traffic hazards and even a car crash.   Also, a passenger in a car was arrested as a result of a warrant, Pocatello police say when they went through his backpack they found meth, heroin and a scale. Still in Pocatello, a man pled guilty to distributing opioids which resulted in death, he’ll be sentenced in July, and for those snobberies in Pocatello rallying against a drug rehab center the federal judge handling the case stated “Our nation is in the midst of an opioid epidemic and Idaho is not immune from it.”  In the city of Idaho Falls, three homes targeted for drug busts, eight people arrested along with their stash of 30 pounds of ganja, guns, cars, and $47-thousand USD in cash (of course law enforcers get to keep assets for resale, but not for long, see below).  Staying in Idaho Falls, a missing iPhone resulted in a marijuana bust, police say the owner of the iPhone was able to track it to a home and when police entered they found two adults allegedly with more than a pound (more than half a kilo) of ganja.  Also, a man wanted on six warrants was captured after a high-speed chase, one of the charges is possession of drug ‘paraphernalia’.  In another case, police say a suspect was on drugs when he charged and pepper sprayed a cop before being shot.  Still in Idaho Falls, to show you how addicted Idahoans are to prescription opioids, local news media freaked out about a national shortage of the doctor issued killer and went running to Eastern Idaho Medical Center to find out if there was any opioids available, an official explained “There is a nationwide shortage of injectable opioid medication…….The pills are available but the IV form is not.”  (to find out why there’s a shortage of injectable opioids read MARIA: MOTHER EARTH SAYS ‘NO MORE DRUGS FOR YOU, HUMANS!’) An alleged drug smuggler couldn’t handle the snowy roads in Fremont County, and crashed his car.  Sheriff’s deputies found more than ten pounds of marijuana and methamphetamine in the car.   Idaho hiding execution data as University of Idaho professor is suing the state Department of Correction for refusing to make public (by law) its use of execution drugs.  An Idaho judge ruled that murder suspects can be forced to take drugs against their will in an apparent attempt to avoid the suspects claiming they’re mentally unstable, after another judge previously ruled the suspect mentally incompetent.  The state Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a woman accused of possession of meth, because it was revealed the prosecutors never proved the ‘substance’ found with the woman was indeed meth!   Boise police say a man they arrested for being a ‘peeping tom’ also had meth. Some state lawmakers want to ease up on Idaho’s tough illegal drug laws.

The Spokesman-Review: Otter signs unanimously-passed civil forfeiture reform bill into law

Illinois:  Porch Pirate Search Warrant Turns Up Accused Meth Dealer.  A family is suing the pharmaceutical industry for their child being born addicted to opioids, yet they also admitted the mom was addicted to illegal heroin  Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 164 Illinois construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!  In Decatur, police claim a drug bust (that happened almost a year ago) led to the arrest of a drug dealer who turned out to be ‘out on bond’ from a recent illegal use of a gun charge.

Indiana:  Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 83 Indiana construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!  Zombies are for real, and they’re being created with KD (marijuana, tobacco, or spice sprayed with insecticide): “Their movements are slow and lethargic, a lot of drooling and a loss of function. We find them with their clothes off, eating the grass, pulling dirt out of the ground and trying to put it in their mouth….  We find people passed out with it still in their hand. That is how fast it has an effect on them…… for some reason they are willing to do because we get the same people using over and over again…..We send them off to the hospital to get checked out and within two hours they may be back out there on the street doing it again. We have had the same person multiple times in one day.”-Captain Chris Major, Indianapolis Fire Department

Iowa:  Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 32 Iowa construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!  In Iowa City, a man was stopped for driving too fast, police say his car was loaded with marijuana, cannabis oil, marijuana edibles, marijuana wax, ‘suspected’ meth, prescription drugs and all the equipment used in selling it.  In Council Bluffs, police arrest mother who would do drugs, threaten children with knives.

Kansas:  Apparently Geary County Sheriff’s personnel and Junction City cops have been pulling over drivers for the sole purpose of accusing them of running drugs.

KWCH: 43 people arrested in Ford County drug bust

Kentucky: Trussville police arrested a man and woman for trafficking methamphetamine, pills and marijuana.  State police say drugs caused the death of a woman found behind the Swan Pond Baptist Church. In Graves County, complaints led to the arrest of two parents, the police bust revealed large amounts of synthetic drugs and Hydrocodone.   State Police crime lab shows the number of samples testing positive for meth more than doubled from 2015 to 2017.  In Richmond, police found a man barely dressed, standing in the street armed with knives and yelling. After being detained police found Suboxone and what looked like meth.  The man claimed he thought what he had was aspirin, and cocaine that he claimed he found in a trash can.

Louisiana: From March 21 to 24, across the state 20 people were arrested/charged with some type of drug crime.  In Baton Rouge, police accuse a 49 years old man of killing his 76 years old girlfriend after he smoked synthetic marijuana (mojo).  He claims god spoke to him and told him to kill her.  In March, a Vietnamese-American pled guilty in federal court to trafficking more than 1-thousand kilos (2,205 pounds) of marijuana.  He and his girlfriend were arrested last year after police intercepted a shipment coming from California.

Maine: Lewiston police arrested an immigrant in possession of crack cocaine and $1-thousand-4-hundred USD in cash.

Maryland:  A mom spending 30 years in prison for the 2015 death of her baby, due to her heroin addiction, the father spending 15 years for failing to seek medical help for the child.  An autopsy showed the child was starved, then beaten to death.  Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB) Interfaith Center is set to start hosting a weekly Alcoholics Anonymous group, in an attempt to stop skyrocketing addictions.  NSAB Chaplain Christilene Whalen said “It was a decision that was easy to make.”

Massachusetts: In a case involving a ‘lifelong drug dealer’, the U.S. Attorneys Office says some people are being forced into drug dealing through indebtedness.  In Lawrence, a multi-agency investigation resulted in the arrest of a mother-son drug dealing team, accused of selling heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.  After numerous complaints of drug dealing and child sex crimes, a Scituate man was finally arrested.

Michigan Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 160 Michigan construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!

Minnesota:  Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 54 Minnesota construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!  National Guard Staff Sergeant Benjamin Kroll recognized by law enforcement for his part in the new war on drugs: “In 2016 I saw an exponential amount of overdoses taking place within Hennepin County and I wanted to see if those occurrences would have any links to anything that would happen in 2017. So in January of 2017 I started mapping everything that happened throughout the year in Hennepin County and as I did it, I started seeing patterns and trends in certain areas that got the attention of a lot of our partners.”

Mississippi:  Former Hattiesburg police officer sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for drugs A man with a criminal history was arrested for drug dealing after a massive investigation by multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Local news media speculated that more arrests were pending due to the fact that just about every federal law enforcement agency, including Postal Inspectors, are involved in the investigation.  The Lumberton Police Chief suspended with pay after video was posted showing him supposedly smoking marijuana.

Missouri: Talk about deadly police incompetence resulting in a drug bust; three cops were responding to a 9-1-1 call, but were sent to the wrong address which turned out to be a meth house, one cop was killed, two wounded as a result.   Was the 9-1-1 dispatcher on drugs?

Montana: State crime lab chemist charged with stealing meth! He was turned in by his brother-in-law, prosecutors used the suspect’s Fitbit to prove he was using meth.  A now former Fort Peck Tribal cop confessed to stealing cash and drugs from the evidence room.  He was caught on security cam, police say his actions also compromised investigations into more than 24 other cases.  Missoula Police made four drug arrests in two hours, suspects with warrants and in possession of meth.

Montana Standard: The building housing Butte’s new taxpayer funded $42-thousand USD drugs incinerator caught fire 

Nebraska:  A stupid woman thought she could sell marijuana on social media, of course the police responded to her advertisement.  In Lincoln County two men circling neighborhoods with their car, and flashing the headlights, were stopped by police who accuse them of illegal possession of a pistol, and meth.  In Buffalo County, an adult male and a juvenile male were arrested and accused of illegal possession of a pistol, cocaine, marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms and THC concentrate.

Nevada: In Las Vegas, a shoot-out at an apartment was apparently the result of a man looking to buy drugs.  The potential drug buyer was killed by the resident, who was wounded while apparently defending his family from the irate drug buyer.  A man arrested in Reno for selling meth, guns and stolen property is also wanted in California for murder.  A ‘house of ill repute’ had its license suspended in Elko, after a bartender was arrested for selling meth in the brothel.

New Hampshire: In Swanzey, a multi-agency drug bust went down, at least two people arrested, one of the suspects jumped out a window before being caught, police say they found heroin/fentanyl and crack-cocaine.  In Groveton, a woman is facing drug dealing charges after her alleged buyer ODed and died right in the suspected dealer’s home.   A now fired Manchester undercover police detective created a backlash as many drug crimes convictions/cases are now being reviewed and even dropped.  The undercover cop was involved in heroin/fentanyl investigations and now many of the cases he worked on are under suspicion.  The only public info about his firing is that he was fired for “misconduct”.  So far 35 pending cases have been dropped and 34 convictions are under review.  Perhaps the cop’s misconduct is that he was setting innocent people up for drug crimes. 

New Jersey:  31 charged in drug ring in 2 states, foreign country.  In the past four years a pro-medical marijuana user has questioned law enforcers from at least 70 departments about the state medical marijuana law and found the majority of cops don’t even know about the law.  Little Egg Harbor police arrested six people; two arrested for possession of meth after a vehicle stop, the other four were arrested after a search of a house revealed heroin, MDMA, meth, prescription drugs and marijuana.

New Mexico: A stupid woman tried to get out of jail by telling police she had a doctor’s prescription for meth (methamphetamine).  You can have a prescription for amphetamine, but not illegal methamphetamine.  The state Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) now allowing cops to spy on family data in the CYFD system due to increased cases of child abuse  connected to drug use.  CYFD created a Law Enforcement Portal that cops can access anytime.

KRQE News 13: Kid gets caught hiding drugs for mom during traffic stop

New York: Police claim they’ve taken down the largest drug gang in Suffolk County; six people arrested, four illegal pistols captured, $362-thousand USD in cash, 3-thousand-250 grams of cocaine, 475 grams of heroin, 4-hundred grams of crack.  A New York City policewoman (NYPD) pled not guilty to using drugs, exclaiming “I do not do drugs.”  She claims she failed a drug test because of the chemicals used on her hair weave.  Another NYPD cop-woman accused of operating her own drug house and illegal gun selling in Bronx, she and her boyfriend were busted by state and federal cops who found heroin, cash and illegal guns.  DEA says the arrest of the NYPD cop was in connection to a larger drug/gun running gang that extends from New York to Mexico.

North Carolina:  Drexel Elementary locked down during drug bust near the school, seven people arrested for trafficking meth.  In Carter County, 15 people arrested, 63 people indicted as a result of a multi-agency/multi-state investigation. Police captured heroin, meth, Suboxone, cash and even a Harley Davidson.   A stupid Whiteville woman got caught trying to sell drugs during her DWI trial, during a courtroom break she went out to the parking lot and sold Suboxone to an undercover cop!   For proof government is the source of drugs, the state Attorney General announced a ‘take back’ event called Safe Kids NC Operation Medicine Drop.  You can only ‘take back’ something if you are the original source/owner of that something.  

North Dakota: In Fargo, some burglars robbed a drug house and even though they left a trail of marijuana baggies (apparently to where their car was parked) police haven’t found them.  For proof police are the source of drugs, 5-hundred pounds of prescription drugs were collected in Grand Forks on “Take Back Day”You can only ‘take back’ something if you are the original source/owner of that something.  

West Fargo Pioneer: Word of ND’s immunity in overdose cases getting out slowly

Ohio:  Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 380 Ohio construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!  Three Texans arrested for trying to mail $1-million USD worth of fentanyl, from Ohio to Texas.  After numerous complaints, Akron police arrested two men and captured fentanyl.  At a Vigo County rest area a man was arrested for possession of marijuana, meth, heroin, Suboxone and illegal possession of a pistol.  About seven months after a drug bust went down an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper is now fired after it was discovered he was laundering drug money.  According to the U.S. Attorney the state cop “…used his position as a law enforcement officer to provide…information, intervene in criminal cases…..provide…..ballistic vests and….alibi….” to protect drug dealers.  In mid-March a major fentanyl bust went down: “The fentanyl seized last night is enough to kill everyone in Toledo several times over.”-Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio 

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: OHIO NEW OPIOID GROUND ZERO, BLAME BITCOIN?

Oklahoma:  Centerton Police arrested three people and say they captured drugs and illegal guns, during a traffic stop. After a ‘tip’ Oklahoma City Police arrested two women and a man, all accused of illegal possession of guns, and three pounds of meth, an abused (starved) dog was found in the garage.  A multi-state-federal investigation resulted in 12 people being indicted for drug crimes, mainly in Adair County, going back to 2014.    She was arrested last year and confessed to possession of heroin, methamphetamine and prescription drugs, but finally a now former Holmes Park Elementary School teacher had her teaching certification revoked.  Reports say she was caught when she posted on social media how she was using heroin and selling taxpayer school property to fund her habit. 

Oregon: Police across the state have stopped conducting field testing of suspected narcotics over fears of potentially fatal  fentanyl exposure.  After a shooting in Portland, and a tip from a prisoner, the owner of Cash or Collateral Entertainment is wanted for illegal possession of guns, $150-thousand USD in unexplained cash and more than 1-thousand prescription pills, all kept at numerous locations across the state.  It was also revealed that the owner of Cash or Collateral Entertainment had been under federal police surveillance since 2016. 

Pennsylvania: In Logan, police arrested a man who stole a gun and then used it as cash to buy an as yet to be identified drug (heroin?).  Police were alerted after the owner of the pistol reported it stolen, and then the strung-out druggie called emergency medical services for help and confessed he had stolen the pistol to buy drugs.  Reading police busted a drug gang that had racked up an estimated $20-million USD in drug sales in the past year.  Police had the gang under surveillance, but made their bust after overhearing plans by the gang leader to intentionally kill people. 15 gang bangers arrested: “They were getting ready, they were starting to roll and we stopped them before they got really moving. They had no thought, no qualms about committing murder or killing someone that was in their way.”-Reading Police Chief Andres Dominguez

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA CRACKS DOWN ON PILLS!

Rhode Island: A doctor now serving 51 months in federal prison for accepting bribes from the pharmaceutical industry to push opioid drugs on unsuspecting patients. The doctor, and specific drugs companies, are now being sued by the victims.

South Carolina:  In Berkeley County 25 people arrested for drugs in just one day.  Police captured cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, marijuana, methamphetamine, hydrocodone, alprazolam, ecstasy & suboxone strips, and two stolen cars and two stolen guns.  The Paid Family gang indicted for trafficking marijuana allegedly from U.S. Army personnel at Fort Lewis in Washington state! 

The Post and Courier: Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson shifted $10,000 from his office’s drug seizure account to a credit card he used for travel and hotels in South America

South Dakota: The Sioux Falls Police Chief told the city council that methamphetamine and opioid use is fueling an increase in violent crime, and said marijuana was being used to ‘gateway’ people to potentially deadly meth.

U.S. News & World Report: Spike in Pine Ridge Reservation Homicides Tied to Meth

Tennessee: A fight at a South Knoxville pawn shop resulted in police raiding a house where they say they found a marijuana growing op, along with other illegal things like meth, counterfeit money, and guns (the guns being illegal because the suspect has a criminal history).  The fight at the pawn shop was the result of employees refusing to sell the suspect a gun.  In Nashville, 40 pounds of marijuana found in luggage on  an Alaska Airlines plane.

 

Texas: In Austin, a man stopped for driving intoxicated was arrested after cops found a stolen pistol, marijuana and meth in the car.  In College Station, a man was arrested and accused of selling LSD, MDMA, THC concentrate, marijuana and prescription drugs.  In Seguin, city police and the U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) busted 16 people for selling drugs, the city police chief said the drug-gang was providing “…large financial support for prison gangs, so the likelihood that they are related to the Mexican Mafia and/or other prison gangs is very strong.”  The American Enterprise Institute estimates that the opioid crisis is costing Texas taxpayers $706 USD per person!  A man videoed a Central Texas Adult Day Care bus driver smoking meth while driving the bus: “I was pissed, so I called the Round Rock police…!”   

Utah: When police went to a restaurant, in Price, to eat they discovered something else was on the menu; they observed people known to them as drug dealers working outside the establishment.  In fact, it became clear that a drug deal was going down right in front of the cops-on-break. One man was arrested in possession of heroin and meth, another man arrested in possession of meth. But wait, there’s more!  The cops were suspicious that this was the tip of the iceberg and search warrants for multi-counties were obtained and resulted in the capture of more drugs and the arrests of two more people.  In Saint George, a mom breastfed her baby after she took heroin, the baby stopped breathing, the baby was hospitalized, the arrested mom kept her stash in the baby’s diaper bag.  It turns out that the biggest drug trafficking bust in Utah’s history (so far), back in 2016, was the result of a gang out of British empire controlled Canada (THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND IS A DRUG DEALER, U.K. BANK REGULATOR SAYS SO!).  The 2016 drug bust in Utah resulted in five people in Canada arrested this month.  

Vermont: The health department says in 2017 there were 104 deadly drug overdoses; 93 of them involved a prescription opioid.  State Police came across a pregnant woman injecting heroin at the Springfield Park and Ride.  A now former Royalton Police officer who stole heroin from a police evidence locker for a woman he was dating, changed his not guilty plea to guilty. 

Virginia: After an eight month multi-state-federal investigation 44 people charged with cash/gun/drug crimes, in connection to heroin trafficking out of New York.  A now former Hampton Police officer, and Medal of Valor recipient, was arrested in Idaho in connection to drug gang operating in a Hampton fitness center. 

Washington: Moses Lake Police Department found an ounce of methamphetamine, half an ounce of heroin, and over 100 prescription pills in a house.  Of course they took (by law) two vehicles and $3-thousand USD in cash for themselves.  Port Gamble S’Klallam, Suquamish and the Jamestown S’Klallam tribes suing the pharmaceutical industry (including Israel’s Teva) saying they were overrun with opioids.

Washington DC:  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to hire 100-thousand more people for the sole purpose of inspecting packages for illegal drugs.   A Veterans Affairs study reported that opioids are no better than acetaminophen (tylenol) or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDS, aka ibuprofen, aleve, etc) drugs at treating pain! In fact, after a year on opioids patients reported an increase in pain!

West Virginia: After a two year multi-state investigation police searched more than a dozen properties, seizing 12.5 kilos of cocaine, 11 illegal guns, more than $100,000 in cash, and nine suspects indicted; five of them Mexican citizens, two citizens of El Salvador.

Wisconsin:  U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a 109% increase in opioid overdose cases pouring into Wisconsin hospitals, from July 2016 to September 2017.  More than 8-hundred people died from opioid overdose in 2016.  Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 92 Wisconsin construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015, costing the state’s economy $524-million USD!  In La Crosse, three people arrested and accused of selling cocaine, heroine, marijuana, and meth.  One of the men arrested has drugs-crime records back to 2006.  An Eau Claire woman is facing charges of forcing two children to have sex with adults in exchange for drugs. The ‘trafficked’ children were also shot-up with meth hundreds of times, allegedly this crime went on for nine years before being discovered! 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Three totes full of medication stolen from a delivery van in Kmart parking lot

Wyoming: In Jackson a woman was found face down at table in a bar.  It turns out she was the victim of the Date Rape Drug benzodiazepine and opiates.  Police say she was lucky that another bar customer got suspicious and called for help.  In sparsely populated Teton County, Saint john’s Medical Center reported three opioid deaths, so far: “As a practicing physician here, I’d never seen heroin here until about two years ago. I was so shocked that I even sent a note to the county attorney and law enforcement because I was really stunned to see it.”-Brent Blue, county coroner

U.S. ally Philippines: Philippine police kill 13 drug suspects in daylong raids

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: COAST GUARD CAPTURES ‘SUSPECTED’ DRUGS

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, February 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: U.S. BORDER PATROL PROMOTES TRUMP’S WALL!

GUN BAN FAIL: POLICE BEHIND SKYROCKETING GUN VIOLENCE IN ANTI-GUN BRAZIL!

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: RECORD # U.S. WORKERS WHACKED ON SMACK AS “…THE SYSTEM IS STACKED AGAINST THEM.” NATIONAL GUARD IN “HIGH OPERATIONS TEMPO”

GUN BAN FAIL 2016: ANTI-GUN NYC COPS CAUGHT TAKING BRIBES FROM JEWS FOR GUNS! GUN RUNNING OUTPACES DRUG DEALING?