BOSTON – A Milton man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday on a drug trafficking charge, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Brandy Soto-Lara, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to four years of supervised release in addition to the prison time. Lara pleaded guilty in October to one […]
Something must have smelled fishy to feds who busted a man at Kennedy Airport on charges of trying to smuggle more than 18 kilos of cocaine inside bags of frozen jumbo shrimp. Zacharie Scott, 22, was caught with the illicit packaged prawns inside his two suitcases at the Queens airport on Friday morning, the feds […]
Customs officers seized 116 tonnes of cocaine in the port of Antwerp in 2023, setting a record for the second year in a row, Belgian authorities said. Demand for cocaine is growing rapidly across the EU, and governments blame the drug trade for outbreaks of violence in major port cities like Antwerp, Rotterdam in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors urged a judge on Tuesday to reject Hunter Biden’s efforts to dismiss the gun charges against him, revealing that investigators last year found cocaine residue on the pouch the president’s son used to hold his gun. In pressing for the case against President Joe Biden’s son to proceed, prosecutors said […]
(KRON) – Hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several unregistered handguns were found in a search warrant, the Marin County Sheriffs County’s Office announced Saturday. Marin County Specialized Investigative Unit detectives conducted a search warrant at a San Rafael residence on Jan. 4. Hayward resident arrested for allegedly stealing over $7K from Colma business Alson Conkey, […]
A total of eight men were taken into custody in connection with a widescale narcotics delivery service operating in parts of the Southland. Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Street Team detectives first learned of the delivery service operating in parts of Ventura and Los Angeles counties in July, authorities said in a press release. Their […]