Posted on Sat, Apr. 04, 2009BY SCOTT HIAASEN Miami Herald“Broward County has become the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market sprawling through the South and New England. In the last six months of…

By FRANK BAJAK – 22 hours ago “The vessels, hand-crafted in coastal jungle camps from fiberglass and wood, have become the conveyance of choice for large loads, humping nearly a third of U.S.-bound cocaine northward through the Pacific, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Nimmich, commander of the Joint Interagency Task Force-South based in Key…

Two city employees were charged with intent to deliver prescription painkillers such as oxycodone (Oxycontin), adderall and hydromorphone (Dilaudid). Stashes of the prescription drugs were found in a county vehicle that the employees had been using. By Aaron C. DavisWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 2, 2009; 12:41 PM “Two Prince George’s County public works…

A Bronx pizza parlor was found to be delivering more than just pizzas. Pizza boxes were found to be stuffed with up to $40,000 of cocaine.BY Jonathan Lemire DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERUpdated Thursday, April 2nd 2009, 3:41 PM“A Bronx pizza parlor that delivered drugs as well as calzones was busted and six people – including…

By Helen MurphyBloomberg NewsPosted: 04/02/2009 09:29:01 AM MDT“Mexican authorities arrested Vicente Carrillo Leyva, the alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel and one of the nation’s most-wanted traffickers, the Attorney General’s Office said today. Leyva was captured yesterday while doing his morning exercises near his Mexico City home, the office said in a statement on…