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?”
During the week of 13 May, U.S. tax dollars were spent conducting the ‘Securing our Borders against Traveling Terrorists’ symposium in the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. It was touted as the first collaborative global counterterrorism alumni workshop.
Department of Homeland Security fabrication and storage yard for border wall fencing, near Yuma, known as Arizona Primary Replacement Barrier.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspects ‘Normandy’ vehicle barrier near El Centro.
Taxpayer dollars spent on temporary ‘processing’ shelters for illegal immigrants near the town of Donna.
Officials from U.S. Department of Defense, and Homeland Security, inspect National Guard personnel serving on border patrol duty, 11MAY2019.
Nevada Army National Guard ends lease of Camp Stead after 50 years. The land is owned by the city of Reno and was leased at one dollar per year, but don’t think it saved state taxpayers any money. Official reports say the state Military Department spent millions of tax-dollars, including $4-million in just the past ten years, upgrading the property. The lease was allowed to expire because the property is part of the Reno-Tahoe Airport, and the Federal Aviation Administration says the land must be used for airport operations.
For proof how paranoid NYC is, taxpayer dollars being spent on having New York Army National Guard conduct Operation Empire Shield “…patrolling through Penn during a Multi-Agency Super Surge, a mission where multiple law enforcement agencies have a very strong show of Force and work in a Unified, collaborative Effort to share intelligence, best practices, relevant information in a Unified effort to detect, deter and defeat terrorism.”
12MAY2019, U.S. Army personnel help conduct a survey of locals during operation Beyond the Horizon, a yearly exercise ostensibly to build capacity for response to major disasters.
Apparently taxpayer funded live music is part of preparing for natural disasters, as demonstrated by this multi-national military band taking part in this year’s Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation.
U.S. and British empire Australian navy officers inspect a taxpayer funded construction site in Tuy Hoa, 06MAY2019, as part of the expensive Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation conducted in the Indo-Pacific every year.
Whatcha gonna eat after the disaster? U.S. Army and Navy personnel inspect a poultry operation in Vietnam, 09MAY2019.
Malaysian first responders and British empire Royal Air Force Reserves personnel take part in a disaster response exercise during the U.S. led Pacific Partnership 2019.
U.S. military personnel help rebuild a school as part of Pacific Partnership 2019, in an effort to enhance regional ‘interoperability’ and disaster response capabilities.
U.S. Navy personnel practice mass-casualty disaster response on a Timorese, 26APR2019.
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is encouraging residents to stay vigilant as part of Tsunami Awareness Month. April was chosen as the month to honor and remember the hundreds of lives lost during the worst tsunami event in Hawai’i’s recent history. The 1946 April Fool’s Day tsunami was caused by an 8.6 earthquake near Alaska: “Earthquake-generated tsunamis can reach Hawaii within just a few hours at speeds of nearly 500 miles per hour!”-Jeff Daniels, former Honolulu District Emergency Management Chief