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A Seaford man was sentenced on Thursday to over five years in prison for having a gun and distributing heroin in Seaford. According to the Department of Justice, Bob Bennett pleaded guilty in May to possession with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of Title 21, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Tasked with investigating the thousands of people who have been murdered since President Rodrigo Duterte began his war on drugs, the Philippines' Commission on Human Rights now has another daunting challenge: a budget of just $20. The commission had initially requested $34 million for 2018 only to be awarded the massive reduction Tuesday by lawmakers, the BBC reports.
President Trump wants the wall to stop drugs from entering the United States, but the majority of drugs are smuggled through legal ports of entry. "Just to add on, tremendous drugs pouring into the United States at levels that nobody has ever seen before.
The concentration inside Mendez Boxing is palpable. Everyone in the basement gym is focused on the task at hand: shadowboxing before a corner mirror or sparring in the ring.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Wednesday to pursue cases against erring police officers after three controversial killings of youths. Mr Duterte said he has ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the killing of 19-year old Carl Angelo Arnaiz after he met his parents on Wednesday.
The importance of opposing the resurgence of emboldened KKK, Neo-Nazis and other hate-filled white supremacists that were on display in Charlottesville cannot be easily underestimated. Equally, if not more urgent, however, is the need to take advantage of the national disgust of hate groups by pivoting the public's outrage toward our system of structural violence that harms many, many more people of color than do the hate groups.
Tiesha Henderson, 30, pleaded guilty to a count of violating federal narcotics laws before United States District Judge David S. Cercone. Members of the Erie County Drug Task force found 67.27 grams of fentanyl while executing a search warrant at Henderson's residence in the 300 block of East 25th Street in Erie on March 15, 2017, according to information presented to the court.
The court says a marijuana odor did not justify reaching into a woman's underwear during a routine traffic stop. Last week the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that an Indianapolis police officer exceeded the limits imposed by the Fourth Amendment when she reached inside a woman's underwear to retrieve a blunt during a routine traffic stop.
Border Patrol agents in San Diego uncovered early Saturday a smuggling tunnel that they said was used to transit illegal immigrants into the U.S. - a rare tactic that suggests the drug cartels that control border traffic are searching for new ways to sneak people across. Agents spotted several illegal immigrants on the U.S. side of the border near the Otay Mesa port of entry just after 1 a.m. Saturday, and conducted a search of the area, looking for more people.
A protester holds a placard and shouts anti-government slogans, seeking justice for 17-year-old high school student Kian delos Santos, who was killed in a recent police raid in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, during a protest in front of the Philippine National Police headquarters in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines on August 23, 2017.
Jay Town, the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, told WHNT News 19 Friday that his office will increase cooperation with local law enforcement and aggressively pursue prosecution of violent crimes. "So the Department has its priorities: guns, drugs, bad guys, violent crime, opioids," Town said.
The front of each pill has Trump's coifed hair and pursed lips. The back bears a resemblance to his campaign signs, with five stars in a line across the top and the word "Trump" in the middle.
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, September 23, 2016 in New York City. New York State Attorney General Eric Scheiderman's office announced Friday that authorities in New York state have made a record drug bust, seizing 33 kilograms of heroin and 2 kilograms of fentanyl.
Faced with an unreceptive Legislature, advocates for marijuana legalization, guaranteed paid sick leave and a host of other bills are banking that you will embrace them at the ballot box - if the proposals make it there. Organizers so far have launched seven initiatives for the November 2018 statewide election and need to collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures to qualify.
A Lawrence, Mass., drug dealer will spend twelve years in federal prison after pleading guilty to selling heroin and fentanyl at Plaistow and Epping retail locations in 2015 and 2016.
Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were con... . A couple looks at flags, messages and candles placed after van attack that killed at least 13, in central Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017.
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Things were looking pretty bleak for Anthony Pisarski. A 2012 multi-agency raid on his SoHum property found more than 300 marijuana plants in a pair of greenhouses, loaded guns and hundreds of thousands of dollars in vacuum-sealed cash, along with almost $30,000 worth of gold and silver bars.
Governors in at least two states that have legalized recreational marijuana are pushing back against the Trump administration and defending their efforts to regulate the industry. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, a one-time Republican no longer affiliated with a party, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week asking the Department of Justice to maintain the Obama administration's more hands-off enforcement approach to states that have legalized the drug still banned at the federal level.
When a drug-sniffing dog found marijuana in a high school student's car in southwestern Montana, it started a statewide discussion on how much power school districts have to conduct random drug sweeps. Still, Helena Public Schools has no plans to back away from its policy calling for widespread searches, even though their legality may be in question.