Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced in New York for his conviction on charges that he enabled drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tons of cocaine into the United States. Judge P Kevin Castel sentenced Hernandez to 45 years in a US prison. A jury […]
A South Shore man was arrested after police say officers found him with a “large amount” of cocaine following a crash in a Dunkin’ drive-thru earlier this week. Alex E. Neumeier, 28, of Halifax, was arraigned Thursday in Quincy District Court on charges including trafficking in Class B drugs over 100 grams, operating under the […]
A boater found 65 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $1 million floating in the Florida Keys, the U.S. Border Patrol said. The packages, which had pictures of a bald eagle on the front, were found around noon Saturday when “mariners in a private vessel found a package containing approximately 21 individually wrapped kilograms of […]
BERLIN (AP) — German investigators announced Monday that they seized cocaine worth 2.6 billion euros ($2.78 billion) from several container ships and arrested seven people in what they called the biggest ever cocaine find in the country. Prosecutors in the western city of Duesseldorf said they confiscated the 35.5 metric tons (39 U.S. tons) of […]
Illegal drugs worth as much as $45,000 if sold on the street were seized when members of the Berks County Drug Task Force served search warrants on a West Reading man, his car and his residence, investigators reported Friday. Eric E. Delacruz, 36, was arrested late Thursday morning when he arrived in front of his […]
A North Carolina man and woman were arrested after police said they found a bag of cocaine hidden inside a cheeseburger during a traffic stop. De Anthonie Trey Vion Taylor, 23, is facing multiple drug charges, including possession with intent to manufacture sale and deliver a controlled substance, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance, […]
An Indiana woman has been taken into custody after authorities discovered 61 pounds of cocaine in her possession at a Chicago airport. Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division consensually searched luggage at Chicago Midway International Airport that allegedly belonged to 27-year-old Chania R. Logan from Indianapolis, according to a DEA press release. She […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A Tornillo woman was arrested and charged with possessing two bundles of cocaine that were hidden where three children were sitting in her vehicle, according to the El Paso County Constable’s Office Precinct 6. Genoveva Carrillo Esparza, 27, was stopped by a deputy constable for a traffic stop at around […]
A Macon man has been sentenced to serve 18 years in federal prison for possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute it. Antonio Jenord Whitehead, 37, was sentenced to serve a total of 216 months in prison. He will serve five years of supervised release when he gets out of prison. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News […]
Jun. 7—ROCHESTER — A pair of Rochester men were arrested Thursday for possession of “significant amounts” of fentanyl and cocaine, according to the Rochester Police Department. According to RPD, shortly after midnight on June 6, 2024, officers conducted a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 52 near 85th Street Northwest and executed warrants on the subjects […]
Scuba divers made a surprise discovery during a dive in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida Keys. The divers found 25 individually wrapped packages of what’s believed to be cocaine. Each package included a fake Nike logo. Read: Florida Supreme Court upholds Gov. DeSantis’ suspension of former State Attorney Monique Worrell This happened on Wednesday […]
A 44-year-old woman in San Bernardino County was arrested on child abuse charges just hours after investigators said she left her three young children alone for hours while she smoked cocaine at another location. The ordeal began May 31 when deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department conducted a welfare check at a short-term […]