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Feds: Man ended up on death's door after ingesting 87 or so coke pellets during cruise
FloriDUHMost 65-year-olds are downing vitamin supplements by the handful. Not this senior. Federal prosecutors say 65-year-ol Norman Mosch downed 2-pounds and 2-ounces of cocaine-filled pellets -- that's about 87 or so pellets -- during a cruise stop in...Tags: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Boynton Beach, Drugs and Medicines, Abdominal Pain
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Zabrocki appears triumphant after contentious campaign
Ed Zabrocki appeared to have handily won a ninth term as mayor of Tinley Park in unofficial returns Tuesday night after a contentious race in a village where politics are usually low-key affairs. "Fact won out over fiction," Zabrocki declared during his...
Tags: Elections, Matteson, Tinley Park, Chicago Elections, Politics
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LAPD's 'magic number' of 10,000 officers losing some luster
In 1989, then-Los Angeles Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky unveiled an audacious plan to boost the city police force by more than 25% to 10,000 officers. He couldn't have imagined that city leaders would chase that goal for nearly a quarter of a century...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Environmental Issues, Los Angeles Police Department, Wendy Greuel
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Return of Special Operations Division cuts into drug trade
The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.A renewed strategy to have an investigative unit focus on the city's illegal drug trade has paid off with dramatic results for the Lawrence Police Department, according to Chief John Romero. "We're talking about the confiscation of drugs with three...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Drug Trafficking, Heroin
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Daughters seek news of mom, missing 15 years
A desperate call, followed by a frantic, fruitless search. That was the last trace of Debra Young when she disappeared 15 years ago, another crack addict lost to the maze of drugs and mean streets. She also left five children, ages 1 to 12. Today, her...
Tags: Broward County Sheriff's Office, Lauderhill
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EDITORIAL: Feeling safer today
The Record, Stockton, Calif.The same thing that makes San Joaquin County a transportation hub -- evidenced by vast warehouse complexes sprinkled about -- also makes the county a crime hub. The county is crisscrossed with freeways making moving product easy, be it chocolate and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Drug Trafficking, Methamphetamine (drug), Heroin
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Operatives amazed by Stockton's drug trade
The Record, Stockton, Calif.An ATF spokeswoman hustled two of her agency's most experienced undercover operatives into a room on the second floor of the Stockton Police Department's Investigations Building, and quickly closed the door. The agents introduced themselves using only...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Drug Trafficking, Firearms, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Buffalo Police Housing Unit makes 9 arrests
The Buffalo NewsNine people were arrested recently by the Buffalo Police Department's Housing Unit, authorities said. Three men were facing gun and other charges after a traffic stop at Sycamore and Herman streets about 6:30 p.m. April 16. Larry Palmer, 22, of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Police Arrests, Drug Trafficking, Crimes
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Gangs exact bloody toll on Toledo
The BladeFirst of four parts When he was 8 years old, he wanted to belong. Other boys his age were joining soccer teams, studying for vocabulary tests. In bed by 9 o'clock. This boy, who was raised by his mother on Toledo's south end, instead braced for...Tags: Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, Fannie Mae, Gang Activity, Punishment
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Trafficking charges filed in Kalkaska motel room drug arrest
The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich.Suspects who face drug trafficking charges after a Kalkaska motel room drug bust only recently came to the area, authorities said. Traverse Narcotics Team Detective Lt. Daniel King said investigators found about 8 grams of heroin, 9.7 grams of crack...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Heroin
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A teen's quest for self-discovery in 'Maya's Notebook'
Whatever happened to magic realism? The question arises when dipping into "Maya's Notebook," Isabel Allende's bruising, cinematically vivid new novel. It's an exercise in gritty realism rather than the fanciful folkloricism that Allende has been known...Tags: FBI, Authors, Isabel Allende, Literature, Book
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Illicit drug prices in Baltimore fluctuate under DEA estimates
A group of alleged Black Guerrilla Family members met last December to discuss a robbery with a confidential source, who, unbeknownst to them, was working with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The price of cocaine in Baltimore City at that moment...
Tags: Theft, Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Trafficking, Methamphetamine (drug), Prices
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