A former felony prosecutor in Eastern Kentucky has admitted soliciting sex and methamphetamine from people and using his authority to help them in court. Scott Blair, who resigned as commonwealth’s attorney for Perry County after he was arrested April 12, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in London to a charge of honest services wire […]
May 8—A search of a man’s car on May 3 resulted in the discovery of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other items related to the sale of narcotics, according to the Yuba Sutter Narcotic and Gang Enforcement Task Force (NET-5). At about 7 a.m. on May 3, agents with NET-5, with assistance from the Sutter County Sheriff’s […]
A career criminal is facing drug and weapons charges after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested him in Macon. On Monday, April 29, following a 6-month investigation, the GBI, assisted by Georgia State Patrol, stopped an SUV with Tavish Faulks, 32, inside. During the traffic stop, agents seized about 9 ounces of suspected methamphetamine, 100 […]
Law enforcement officials have seized several pounds of methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in a drug raid at a house in South Austin, according to a federal criminal complaint. Joshua James Calvo of Austin was charged with possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin, the […]
Forsyth County deputies say they have arrested a man they’ve been investigating for more than a month. They say in early April they learned that drug trafficking may have been happening at a home on Fields Ford Road. Investigators learned that a man renting a room in the home, 47-year-old Billy Benefield, was using a […]
Apr. 25—THOMASVILLE- Thomas County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics/Vice Department, in conjunction with the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia State Patrol, made their largest methamphetamine bust to date, taking 4 kilos of meth, valued at nearly $100,000 off the street last week. According to reports, agents were tipped off that two individuals, later identified as Dylan […]
Apr. 24—LIMA — With the birth of his third child just weeks away, a tearful Divante Hall on Wednesday asked for a delay in the implementation of his prison sentence on drug charges so he could witness the event. Hall apologized to the court and his family and asked Allen County Common Pleas Court Judge […]
Apr. 24—ALPINE — A Mexican national was sentenced in a federal court in Alpine to 120 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. According to court documents, Marcos Kenedy Ledezma Campos, 35, attempted to enter the Presidio Port of Entry when, during inspection, agents extracted 69 bundles from the gas […]
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Greeneville Police Department (GPD) arrested a man on Saturday after initially stopping him for a suspected window tint violation, the department reported. According to the report, GPD stopped a man and one female passenger on Tusculum Boulevard for a suspected window tint violation and discovered the driver allegedly had no […]
Two men were arrested after drugs were found on them after leading a Carroll County deputy on a pursuit. On Wednesday, the CCSO said Deputy Archie Barber tried stopping a car speeding down the road. As the suspects continued speeding away from the deputy, a bag was thrown out of the car. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV […]
A 20-year-old South Carolina man was arrested on multiple charges a month after a shooting, the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department said. West Columbia resident Korey Muller was taken into custody after shooting at a woman following an argument, the sheriff’s department said Thursday in a news release. Muller was charged with attempted murder, possession of […]
Apr. 13—As of Thursday, eight of the defendants were arrested on Oahu, Kauai and Hawaii island. The indictments were handed down April 4 and unsealed following the arrests. Nine people have been indicted by a federal grand jury over an alleged years-long drug trafficking conspiracy run by the Mexican mafia out of a California prison […]