Drug News

Price of cocaine is up, dealers are outsourcing, and smuggling is changing By Peter HermannBaltimore Sun reporterJune 19, 2009 “Here’s some new news about drugs in Baltimore:•A kilo of cocaine now costs $32,000, up a full $10,000 from 2006. Bulk quantities of the drug are more expensive here than in Washington, where a kilo costs…

Reporter: Kim Holland “She may have been a sweet old lady, but Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputies said she was also selling heroin. Deputies arrested Mary Padilla, 70, Wednesday night, after they said she sold heroin to an undercover informant.” View Article: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/crime_krqe_albuquerque_deputies_arrest_grandma_2990_06181300

“Missy Giove, a retired world champion downhill mountain biker, is facing charges of conspiracy with intent to distribute hundreds of pounds of marijuana. She and two others are in custody, following an investigation began in Illinois and ended in the Saratoga County town of Wilton.” View Article: http://www.wten.com/global/story.asp?s=10556469

An agreement is reached to limit drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border, a move intended to end the turf war between the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. By Josh Meyer June 19, 2009 “In an effort to plug a hole in U.S.-Mexico drug enforcement, the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security…

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls says Jose “Carlos” Hernandez Salazar was taken into custody Tuesday in central Ohio. He says Salazar was among the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Top 10 most wanted fugitives.” View Article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0WDlwTydMf8PEcfK8vUanqSU2UwD98TE42O1

By MARK STEVENSON – 10 hours ago “Mexico levied organized crime and drug charges Thursday against seven mayors, the former state attorney general and 19 other officials in the western state of Michoacan for allegedly aiding a drug cartel.” View Article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMi5B2USfJStXxfqgWWr2xjRYpOgD98TGOVG0

Vancouver task force struggles with fallout of crackdown on cartelsMay 30, 2009Linda Diebel, STAFF REPORTER “While the U.S. Attorney General’s Office calls the Mexican drug cartels a “national security threat” and says 230 American cities have been infiltrated, the port city of Vancouver may be Canada’s first to feel the fallout from the crackdown on…

“VANCOUVER — Deep in the jungles of Peru or Colombia, a kilo of cocaine can be bought for as little as $3,000.By the time the lucrative white powder makes the 7,000-plus-kilometre journey to the streets of Vancouver, a kilo is worth as much as $30,000.It is that huge increase that fuels the greed of B.C.-based…

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 “Mexico’s navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a…

Two children were found in the a meth lab operation in their grandmother’s home, according to cops in in Tangipahoa, LA. Embedded video from CNN Video