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They paid $11,904.76 per kilo. About $11.90 per gram. Sounds about right...
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They paid $11,904.76 per kilo. About $11.90 per gram. Sounds about right...
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damn!!! 11.9/key when you buy @ over 100 keys? So, are you honestly telling me, that when the rapper young buck says in his songs he has keys for $10k each, he was lying?! Am I missing something here?! <lol jk, obviously>
phrozen, as always, thanks for the articles, please please please keep them coming, ditm articles seem to be slowing lately, I'm not liking it!
<<btw, if you have good sources where you find these links and want someone else to help find more, give me sources and I'll scout for more articles too>>
phrozen, as always, thanks for the articles, please please please keep them coming, ditm articles seem to be slowing lately, I'm not liking it!
<<btw, if you have good sources where you find these links and want someone else to help find more, give me sources and I'll scout for more articles too>>
phr
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I mostly use Google News, and search the papers I read(Philly Inquirer, Philly Daily News, NY Times, Washington Post, ...).
I mostly use Google News, and search the papers I read(Philly Inquirer, Philly Daily News, NY Times, Washington Post, ...).
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3 nabbed in 32G heroin bust in S. Phila.
DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News
11/29/07
Tony Soprano must be rolling over in his cannoli.
Undercover narcotics cops captured three young men who were transporting $32,000 worth of heroin in a minivan in South Philadelphia Tuesday night, said Narcotics Capt. Chris Werner.
Although the cops expected the suspects to be toting a sizable stash of heroin, they were surprised to find thousands of plastic packets that were going to be sold on the streets, all labeled "The Sopranos," Werner said.
The labels actually have nothing to do with the fictional mob family. Big-time drug suppliers sometimes will name their products to give them brand recognition and to earn repeat clients, said Narcotics Field Unit Officer Brian Myers.
"That's how an addict will know the heroin's good and where to get it. Heavy drug users remember what's good and will go back," said Myers.
He noted that in other parts of the city, dealers have used TV characters or movie titles as labels for their drugs.
Tuesday's bust resulted from an ongoing investigation into a large drug organization, Werner said.
Myers and his partner, Officer Rick Woertz, trailed Hanife Cook, 20; Terry Chambers, 22, and William Mahoney, 21, while they allegedly were transporting the 98.7 grams of heroin in a rented Chrysler Town & Country.
Highway Patrol officers stopped the minivan on Columbus Boulevard near Christian Street about 7:45 p.m. while a police helicopter watched overhead.
Cook, Chambers and Mahoney, all of South Philly, were charged with possession of narcotics with intent to deliver, Werner said.
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DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News
11/29/07
Tony Soprano must be rolling over in his cannoli.
Undercover narcotics cops captured three young men who were transporting $32,000 worth of heroin in a minivan in South Philadelphia Tuesday night, said Narcotics Capt. Chris Werner.
Although the cops expected the suspects to be toting a sizable stash of heroin, they were surprised to find thousands of plastic packets that were going to be sold on the streets, all labeled "The Sopranos," Werner said.
The labels actually have nothing to do with the fictional mob family. Big-time drug suppliers sometimes will name their products to give them brand recognition and to earn repeat clients, said Narcotics Field Unit Officer Brian Myers.
"That's how an addict will know the heroin's good and where to get it. Heavy drug users remember what's good and will go back," said Myers.
He noted that in other parts of the city, dealers have used TV characters or movie titles as labels for their drugs.
Tuesday's bust resulted from an ongoing investigation into a large drug organization, Werner said.
Myers and his partner, Officer Rick Woertz, trailed Hanife Cook, 20; Terry Chambers, 22, and William Mahoney, 21, while they allegedly were transporting the 98.7 grams of heroin in a rented Chrysler Town & Country.
Highway Patrol officers stopped the minivan on Columbus Boulevard near Christian Street about 7:45 p.m. while a police helicopter watched overhead.
Cook, Chambers and Mahoney, all of South Philly, were charged with possession of narcotics with intent to deliver, Werner said.
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phr
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They most certainly used a CI, and they probably pulled over the van for some BS traffic violation.
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Police Find Cannabis in Nunnery
Holy smoke! Police find cannabis in Nunnery
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana plantation by two men posing as gardeners for elderly nuns, police said on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, officers raided the nunnery in the village of Filiro, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki, and found more than 30 large cannabis plants in the enclosed garden.
"Two unknown men had told the two elderly nuns in the nunnery they would like to help them with the garden and then proceeded to plant the cannabis," a police official told Reuters.
"The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants," he said.
Police did not arrest the nuns and have launched a hunt for the culprits.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Sophie Walker)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204...ce_cannabis;_ylt=AghhgEMGj8gLtmqLO9fnzsus0NUE
Holy smoke! Police find cannabis in Nunnery
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana plantation by two men posing as gardeners for elderly nuns, police said on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, officers raided the nunnery in the village of Filiro, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki, and found more than 30 large cannabis plants in the enclosed garden.
"Two unknown men had told the two elderly nuns in the nunnery they would like to help them with the garden and then proceeded to plant the cannabis," a police official told Reuters.
"The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants," he said.
Police did not arrest the nuns and have launched a hunt for the culprits.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Sophie Walker)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204...ce_cannabis;_ylt=AghhgEMGj8gLtmqLO9fnzsus0NUE
phr
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Newark cop among 6 arrested in heroin drug ring
The AP
NEWARK, N.J. - Federal and state law officers said Wednesday they have busted a drug ring that laundered about $7 million from the sales of heroin.
The three-year investigation culminated in the arrest of six people, including several of the ringleaders as well as a Newark police officer, the Drug Enforcement Administration said. Four others remain at large.
Officer Michelle Davis, 35, was charged with money laundering, accused of helping a ringleader cleanse the cash.
In a statement, city Police Director Garry F. McCarthy said, "It is disappointing to me that a police officer willfully violates the very oath that they take. We will continue to have a zero tolerance for rogue police officers and corruption and they will be investigated fully."
Newark police had no immediate comment on her status with the department.
Authorities believe the ring operated in Essex and Union counties. Sports cars, semiautomatic weapons and $50,000 in cash were seized during raids that involved more than 100 officers in an operation called "Follow the Money."
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The AP
NEWARK, N.J. - Federal and state law officers said Wednesday they have busted a drug ring that laundered about $7 million from the sales of heroin.
The three-year investigation culminated in the arrest of six people, including several of the ringleaders as well as a Newark police officer, the Drug Enforcement Administration said. Four others remain at large.
Officer Michelle Davis, 35, was charged with money laundering, accused of helping a ringleader cleanse the cash.
In a statement, city Police Director Garry F. McCarthy said, "It is disappointing to me that a police officer willfully violates the very oath that they take. We will continue to have a zero tolerance for rogue police officers and corruption and they will be investigated fully."
Newark police had no immediate comment on her status with the department.
Authorities believe the ring operated in Essex and Union counties. Sports cars, semiautomatic weapons and $50,000 in cash were seized during raids that involved more than 100 officers in an operation called "Follow the Money."
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A more detailed version...
Agents arrest 6 after probe of North Jersey heroin ring
George Anastasia
Philadelphia Inquirer
12/06/07
NEWARK, N.J. - They had all the trappings of successful businessmen - nice homes, fancy cars and bulging bank accounts.
What they didn't have, federal authorities allege, was a legitimate source of income.
Capping a three-year investigation dubbed Operation Follow the Money, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced yesterday that it had shut down a multimillion-dollar North Jersey heroin-trafficking ring with the arrests of six individuals, including two men who were believed to be the driving force behind the operation.
A Newark policewoman, charged with making straw purchases to launder money for the group, also was charged.
"We knocked out their working capital and proceeds," said Gerard P. McAleer, special agent in charge of the New Jersey Division of the DEA.
McAleer said the organization moved about $2 million in heroin a month, primarily in the Essex and Union county areas, and generated about $7 million in profits annually.
He said the decision to track the financial end of the operation, including several money-laundering schemes, was part of an aggressive economic approach to combating drug traffickers.
The Internal Revenue Service and several other law-enforcement agencies also were involved in the probe.
Authorities identified Rasheem "Rosco" Small, 30, of Newark, and Abdullah "Rock" Myers, 33, of Cranford, as the principal targets of the investigation.
Each was charged with drug dealing and money laundering.
Small was described as the head of the heroin operation. Meyers, identified as a ranking member of a Newark-based set of the Bloods street gang, was accused of making major purchases and then using a network of distributors, including at least two other alleged members of the Bloods, to coordinate street-level sales.
Authorities arrested Small, Myers, policewoman Michelle Davis and three others during a series of raids yesterday in which $50,000 in cash, three handguns and five vehicles were seized.
Four other targets of the probe, including a New York man described as Small's main supplier, also were charged, but had not been located. They were listed as fugitives.
At a news conference here yesterday, authorities alleged that Small and Meyers had purchased properties and set up "legitimate" businesses as fronts, using drug proceeds.
Small opened a contracting company and Meyers started a trucking firm, but McAleer said neither appeared to have any customers.
Both men, however, lived well.
"They had all the bling that goes along with drug trafficking," said McAleer, describing jewelry, plasma televisions, custom-built motorcycles and other high-end vehicles - including a Porsche Cayenne SUV - seized in yesterday's raids.
Meyers, whose alleged gang operations were based in Newark, lived in a $600,000 home in Cranford.
Authorities said that Small had two personal bank accounts and that investigators had tracked deposits of $2.5 million into one and $2.27 million into the other.
Small's cars - often purchased through straw buyers - included a Mercedes-Benz SL500, a Range Rover and a Bentley.
Meyers owned a Lamborghini, a Dodge Viper and a Mercedes-Benz SUV at different times during the investigation, authorities alleged.
A wiretapped conversation cited in the criminal complaint made public yesterday detailed a discussion Meyers had last December about the possible purchase of a "James Bond Vanquish." The conversation included talk about a $72,000 down payment for the Aston Martin vehicle, which had a sticker price of $480,000.
Investigators also tracked Small to Atlantic City, where he allegedly used casinos to launder drug proceeds.
Between 2003 and 2006, the criminal complaint alleged, Small bought $3.1 million worth of casino chips. He gambled some, investigators said, but often would give other members of his organization the chips to cash in as winnings, sometimes even paying taxes on the earnings.
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Agents arrest 6 after probe of North Jersey heroin ring
George Anastasia
Philadelphia Inquirer
12/06/07
NEWARK, N.J. - They had all the trappings of successful businessmen - nice homes, fancy cars and bulging bank accounts.
What they didn't have, federal authorities allege, was a legitimate source of income.
Capping a three-year investigation dubbed Operation Follow the Money, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced yesterday that it had shut down a multimillion-dollar North Jersey heroin-trafficking ring with the arrests of six individuals, including two men who were believed to be the driving force behind the operation.
A Newark policewoman, charged with making straw purchases to launder money for the group, also was charged.
"We knocked out their working capital and proceeds," said Gerard P. McAleer, special agent in charge of the New Jersey Division of the DEA.
McAleer said the organization moved about $2 million in heroin a month, primarily in the Essex and Union county areas, and generated about $7 million in profits annually.
He said the decision to track the financial end of the operation, including several money-laundering schemes, was part of an aggressive economic approach to combating drug traffickers.
The Internal Revenue Service and several other law-enforcement agencies also were involved in the probe.
Authorities identified Rasheem "Rosco" Small, 30, of Newark, and Abdullah "Rock" Myers, 33, of Cranford, as the principal targets of the investigation.
Each was charged with drug dealing and money laundering.
Small was described as the head of the heroin operation. Meyers, identified as a ranking member of a Newark-based set of the Bloods street gang, was accused of making major purchases and then using a network of distributors, including at least two other alleged members of the Bloods, to coordinate street-level sales.
Authorities arrested Small, Myers, policewoman Michelle Davis and three others during a series of raids yesterday in which $50,000 in cash, three handguns and five vehicles were seized.
Four other targets of the probe, including a New York man described as Small's main supplier, also were charged, but had not been located. They were listed as fugitives.
At a news conference here yesterday, authorities alleged that Small and Meyers had purchased properties and set up "legitimate" businesses as fronts, using drug proceeds.
Small opened a contracting company and Meyers started a trucking firm, but McAleer said neither appeared to have any customers.
Both men, however, lived well.
"They had all the bling that goes along with drug trafficking," said McAleer, describing jewelry, plasma televisions, custom-built motorcycles and other high-end vehicles - including a Porsche Cayenne SUV - seized in yesterday's raids.
Meyers, whose alleged gang operations were based in Newark, lived in a $600,000 home in Cranford.
Authorities said that Small had two personal bank accounts and that investigators had tracked deposits of $2.5 million into one and $2.27 million into the other.
Small's cars - often purchased through straw buyers - included a Mercedes-Benz SL500, a Range Rover and a Bentley.
Meyers owned a Lamborghini, a Dodge Viper and a Mercedes-Benz SUV at different times during the investigation, authorities alleged.
A wiretapped conversation cited in the criminal complaint made public yesterday detailed a discussion Meyers had last December about the possible purchase of a "James Bond Vanquish." The conversation included talk about a $72,000 down payment for the Aston Martin vehicle, which had a sticker price of $480,000.
Investigators also tracked Small to Atlantic City, where he allegedly used casinos to launder drug proceeds.
Between 2003 and 2006, the criminal complaint alleged, Small bought $3.1 million worth of casino chips. He gambled some, investigators said, but often would give other members of his organization the chips to cash in as winnings, sometimes even paying taxes on the earnings.
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Drug-ring leader gets life term, dad gets 12 years
KITTY CAPARELLA
Philadelphia Daily News
12/07/07
Teddy Young was the man to see in Germantown if a dealer wanted to buy bundles of heroin to sell, authorities said.
Young, 37, bought 25 kilograms of heroin from a supplier in Philadelphia and two from New York city and oversaw a "cut" house where four workers diluted and repackaged the heroin - stamped "Midnight," "SUV" and "All Natural" - for resale throughout the city, according to authorities.
What was unusual for the ringleader of a $6.24 million heroin trafficking organization, employing 18 others, was that Young delivered the bundles himself to neighborhood dealers and picked up the drug proceeds from November 2000 to June 2002, authorities said.
If a dealer couldn't see Teddy, he might talk to his father, Theodore Young Sr., 74, who taught his son everything he knew about the drug business.
"We believe Theodore taught Teddy the acquisition, processing and trafficking of heroin," said assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Velez, who prosecuted the father-son team and co-defendant David Lee in a four-week trial last April.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Stengel sentenced Teddy to life in prison, and his 75-year-old father to 12 years behind bars.
Last May 2, the three defendants, all of Germantown, were convicted of conspiracy to deliver heroin within 1000 feet of a school - J. B. Kelly Elementary, on Pulaski Street near Hansberry - and related offenses. The ring's cut house operated near the school.
The trio also was found guilty of possession with intent to deliver more than 100 grams of heroin and use of a communications facility - for which Teddy was convicted of multiple counts.
The convictions were the culmination of a six-year investigation by local, state and federal drug agents.
Earlier, Lee, in his late 30s, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, after selling heroin at Chew and , said Velez.
Fifteen others, who served as street dealers, suppliers, cuthouse workers and facilitators, entered guilty pleas or were found guilty. Their sentences ranged from a year and a day to life imprisonment.
The 19th co-defendant, heroin addict Frank Robinson, 52, died in 2002, after serving as Teddy's "tester" to determine the opiate's quality. *
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KITTY CAPARELLA
Philadelphia Daily News
12/07/07
Teddy Young was the man to see in Germantown if a dealer wanted to buy bundles of heroin to sell, authorities said.
Young, 37, bought 25 kilograms of heroin from a supplier in Philadelphia and two from New York city and oversaw a "cut" house where four workers diluted and repackaged the heroin - stamped "Midnight," "SUV" and "All Natural" - for resale throughout the city, according to authorities.
What was unusual for the ringleader of a $6.24 million heroin trafficking organization, employing 18 others, was that Young delivered the bundles himself to neighborhood dealers and picked up the drug proceeds from November 2000 to June 2002, authorities said.
If a dealer couldn't see Teddy, he might talk to his father, Theodore Young Sr., 74, who taught his son everything he knew about the drug business.
"We believe Theodore taught Teddy the acquisition, processing and trafficking of heroin," said assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Velez, who prosecuted the father-son team and co-defendant David Lee in a four-week trial last April.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Stengel sentenced Teddy to life in prison, and his 75-year-old father to 12 years behind bars.
Last May 2, the three defendants, all of Germantown, were convicted of conspiracy to deliver heroin within 1000 feet of a school - J. B. Kelly Elementary, on Pulaski Street near Hansberry - and related offenses. The ring's cut house operated near the school.
The trio also was found guilty of possession with intent to deliver more than 100 grams of heroin and use of a communications facility - for which Teddy was convicted of multiple counts.
The convictions were the culmination of a six-year investigation by local, state and federal drug agents.
Earlier, Lee, in his late 30s, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, after selling heroin at Chew and , said Velez.
Fifteen others, who served as street dealers, suppliers, cuthouse workers and facilitators, entered guilty pleas or were found guilty. Their sentences ranged from a year and a day to life imprisonment.
The 19th co-defendant, heroin addict Frank Robinson, 52, died in 2002, after serving as Teddy's "tester" to determine the opiate's quality. *
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Bust in Billings, MT (LSD, MDMA)
http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=7415918
KULR-TV
updated 10:34 p.m. ET, Thurs., Nov. 29, 2007
Police served a search warrant at 1817 Rehberg Lane Friday. There they discovered 1,800 ecstasy pills, more than 2,000 hits of LSD, $6,700 in cash, a small amount of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
BILLINGS - A major drug bust on Billings west end has a South Dakota man sitting in the Yellowstone County jail Tuesday.
Twenty-six-year-old Robert Hauge is at the center of the investigation. Police served a search warrant at 1817 Rehberg Lane Friday. There they discovered 1,800 ecstasy pills, more than 2,000 hits of LSD, $6,700 in cash, a small amount of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
Billings Police, Yellowstone County Sheriff's Department, and U.S. Immigration and Customs all took part in the investigation.
Wonder why customs got involved. Theres more to this, I suspect.
http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=7415918
KULR-TV
updated 10:34 p.m. ET, Thurs., Nov. 29, 2007
Police served a search warrant at 1817 Rehberg Lane Friday. There they discovered 1,800 ecstasy pills, more than 2,000 hits of LSD, $6,700 in cash, a small amount of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
BILLINGS - A major drug bust on Billings west end has a South Dakota man sitting in the Yellowstone County jail Tuesday.
Twenty-six-year-old Robert Hauge is at the center of the investigation. Police served a search warrant at 1817 Rehberg Lane Friday. There they discovered 1,800 ecstasy pills, more than 2,000 hits of LSD, $6,700 in cash, a small amount of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
Billings Police, Yellowstone County Sheriff's Department, and U.S. Immigration and Customs all took part in the investigation.
Wonder why customs got involved. Theres more to this, I suspect.
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Bluelighter
Customs is involved because of MTs border with canada, i think
Madhatter4
Bluelighter
Wow 1800 hits of E and over 2000 hits of LSD!!!! Poor poor guy he is going to Federal prison for no less than 10 years
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More than 5 tons of pot seized in ICE raid
EL PASO, Texas — Federal immigration agents have seized more than 5 tons of marijuana and arrested four people in connection with the drugs, federal agents said Friday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized 10,907 pounds of marijuana in two searches Wednesday.
Investigators said the first seizure, 1,460 pounds of marijuana, was made after agents found the drugs hidden in a car being driven by 20-year-old Humberto Hernandez Jr.
Agents later served a warrant at a warehouse in the El Paso suburb of Horizon where they found 9,447 pounds of marijuana, ICE officials said.
Investigators said the drugs are thought to belong to a cartel in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso. The marijuana, with a street value of about $8 million, was to be sent to Chicago and New York for distribution, investigators said.
Hernandez, a U.S. citizen, and Mexican nationals Aaron Marquez Banderas, 25, Heber Martinez Garcia, 20, and Jorge Trejo Torres, 43, were all arrested on charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana.
All four men are being held at the EL Paso County jail without bond. Jail records do not show if the men have lawyers.
If convicted, the men face up to life in prison.
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EL PASO, Texas — Federal immigration agents have seized more than 5 tons of marijuana and arrested four people in connection with the drugs, federal agents said Friday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized 10,907 pounds of marijuana in two searches Wednesday.
Investigators said the first seizure, 1,460 pounds of marijuana, was made after agents found the drugs hidden in a car being driven by 20-year-old Humberto Hernandez Jr.
Agents later served a warrant at a warehouse in the El Paso suburb of Horizon where they found 9,447 pounds of marijuana, ICE officials said.
Investigators said the drugs are thought to belong to a cartel in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso. The marijuana, with a street value of about $8 million, was to be sent to Chicago and New York for distribution, investigators said.
Hernandez, a U.S. citizen, and Mexican nationals Aaron Marquez Banderas, 25, Heber Martinez Garcia, 20, and Jorge Trejo Torres, 43, were all arrested on charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana.
All four men are being held at the EL Paso County jail without bond. Jail records do not show if the men have lawyers.
If convicted, the men face up to life in prison.
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N.J. man gets prison for deadly heroin sold in Pittsburgh area
The Associated Press
1.4.08
PITTSBURGH - A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for supplying a batch of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin in western Pennsylvania in 2006.
Thirty-six-year-old Alfurgan Simon, of Newark, was convicted in July of conspiring to distribute more than 2.2 pounds of heroin and possessing the drug with the intent to distribute it.
At least 18 people died in Allegheny County from heroin laced with fentanyl, a drug that is legally used as a powerful painkiller for cancer patients.
Prosecutors say Simon's drugs were sold by a Pittsburgh ring from June to November 2006. The drugs were labeled "Get High or Die Trying" and "Burnout."
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The Associated Press
1.4.08
PITTSBURGH - A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for supplying a batch of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin in western Pennsylvania in 2006.
Thirty-six-year-old Alfurgan Simon, of Newark, was convicted in July of conspiring to distribute more than 2.2 pounds of heroin and possessing the drug with the intent to distribute it.
At least 18 people died in Allegheny County from heroin laced with fentanyl, a drug that is legally used as a powerful painkiller for cancer patients.
Prosecutors say Simon's drugs were sold by a Pittsburgh ring from June to November 2006. The drugs were labeled "Get High or Die Trying" and "Burnout."
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77-year-old charged as meth dealer
DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News
1.17.08
Maybe Melvin Fulton just isn't the retiring type.
At an age when many of his peers enjoy gardening and going for quiet Sunday drives, Fulton, 77, found an edgier way to keep busy, police say - by running an apparent methamphetamine lab out of his West Oak Lane basement.
Undercover narcotics cops bought meth from Fulton on Tuesday, and made another purchase at his home on Tulpehocken Street near Rodney yesterday, said Narcotics Field Unit Capt. Chris Werner.
Cops returned for a third time, with a search warrant, and found what appeared to be a meth lab in Fulton's basement, Werner said. Fulton - whose arrest history stretches back to 1968 - was charged last night with possessing and selling narcotics, Werner said. Even though Fulton "indicated that he was cooking meth" when the officers arrived at his house to make buys, the lab did not appear to be active last night, Werner said.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Fire Department were called to the scene because the lab could've posed a fire risk, Werner said.
Several neighboring houses were evacuated as a precaution, but the residents all later returned. Werner said investigators recovered drug paraphernalia and a World War II-era Japanese machine gun.
"He's less than cooperative," Werner noted. *
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DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News
1.17.08
Maybe Melvin Fulton just isn't the retiring type.
At an age when many of his peers enjoy gardening and going for quiet Sunday drives, Fulton, 77, found an edgier way to keep busy, police say - by running an apparent methamphetamine lab out of his West Oak Lane basement.
Undercover narcotics cops bought meth from Fulton on Tuesday, and made another purchase at his home on Tulpehocken Street near Rodney yesterday, said Narcotics Field Unit Capt. Chris Werner.
Cops returned for a third time, with a search warrant, and found what appeared to be a meth lab in Fulton's basement, Werner said. Fulton - whose arrest history stretches back to 1968 - was charged last night with possessing and selling narcotics, Werner said. Even though Fulton "indicated that he was cooking meth" when the officers arrived at his house to make buys, the lab did not appear to be active last night, Werner said.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Fire Department were called to the scene because the lab could've posed a fire risk, Werner said.
Several neighboring houses were evacuated as a precaution, but the residents all later returned. Werner said investigators recovered drug paraphernalia and a World War II-era Japanese machine gun.
"He's less than cooperative," Werner noted. *
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Ragingkids
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Nice
There would be nothing else more i would rather do at the age of 77, Besides the meth....
There would be nothing else more i would rather do at the age of 77, Besides the meth....
AfterGlow
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Colombia makes $540m cocaine haul
Story from BBC NEWS
2006/03/19 01:38:17 GMT
The Colombian authorities have seized a shipment of cocaine with a street value of $540m (£300m) on board a ship in the Caribbean port of Cartagena.
They found the cocaine, weighing 2.7 tons (2,700kg), in a disinfectant container during a routine inspection.
The police said the Italian-registered vessel was bound for Mexico.
Since January, three tons of cocaine have been seized in Cartagena, 1,100km (685 miles) north of the capital Bogota, police said.
It also comes less than a year after authorities seized 15 tons of cocaine valued at $3bn, in what was described as the single largest drugs haul ever.
The cocaine was thought to belong to the main right-wing paramilitary group, the AUC.
Colombian police estimate paramilitary groups control as much as 40% of the country's illegal drugs trade.
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Story from BBC NEWS
2006/03/19 01:38:17 GMT
The Colombian authorities have seized a shipment of cocaine with a street value of $540m (£300m) on board a ship in the Caribbean port of Cartagena.
They found the cocaine, weighing 2.7 tons (2,700kg), in a disinfectant container during a routine inspection.
The police said the Italian-registered vessel was bound for Mexico.
Since January, three tons of cocaine have been seized in Cartagena, 1,100km (685 miles) north of the capital Bogota, police said.
It also comes less than a year after authorities seized 15 tons of cocaine valued at $3bn, in what was described as the single largest drugs haul ever.
The cocaine was thought to belong to the main right-wing paramilitary group, the AUC.
Colombian police estimate paramilitary groups control as much as 40% of the country's illegal drugs trade.
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