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Posted on May 16, 2012 By admin
Federal agents said a drug smuggling case in which TSA screeners allowed luggage with drugs inside through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport represents a serious security breach. A man ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By admin
Drug operators running an online narcotics marketplace through a virtual network facilitated sales of illegal drugs to 3,000 people in 34 countries and every single state in the United States, ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2012 By admin
A rise in deaths from black-tar heroin overdoses in Redlands, California in late 2010 led police to an investigation that has resulted in the indictment of 20 people who made up a large group of drug ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2012 By admin
Long Beach, California police arrested three men after finding drugs and a marijuana-growing operation at a home that later caught fire. Police were on the 1900 block of Caspian Avenue, searching for ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 By admin
An Orange County, California gang member was convicted of special circumstances murder of a man during a botched drug sale . According to the Orange County district attorney's office, Robert Reil, ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2012 By admin
Around $100 million worth of PCP was seized this week in Los Angeles and Culver City in what police described as a major bust of a national drug trafficking organization. Police said they discovered ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2012 By admin
A routine traffic stop led Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to an estimated $1 million worth of marijuana and nine arrests. LA Sheriff's Deputies pulled over Harry Kaladjian, 29, at about ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By admin
drug crime A Los Angeles Police Department narcotics squad has made an end-run around the city's fumbling efforts to regulate medical marijuana . They have shut down every marijuana dispensary in ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By admin
Local police and federal agents arrested more than 100 suspected gang members throughout San Diego County as part of an investigation into racketeering , firearms trafficking and drug distribution ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By admin
San Bernardino County district attorney’s office requested a court-approved injunction to crack down on a Rancho Cucamonga street gang that uses the downtown area as its gang turf. The ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By admin
An investigation that lasted for a month resulted in five arrests and the seizure of more than $200,000 in marijuana in Orange County, California. Anthony Mave, of San Clemente, was arrested in ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2012 By admin
In San Diego, California, former drug kingpin Benjamin Felix pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges. This marks the end of a decade-old case that targeted ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that Jose Alberto Marquez was sentenced to life in prison, based on his federal jury trial conviction for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2011 By admin
L.A. City prosecutors have charged two men with violating an injunction prohibiting gang and narcotics activity on Los Angeles' skid row. This represents the first legal action since the ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Jerry Kastler
Three men were arrested after the United States Border Patrol said was an attempt to smuggle over 1,400 pounds of marijuana worth about $729,000 into the United States aboard a 25-foot panga boat. Two ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By admin
In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities to ban the marijuana dispensary stores. The ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, in the second phase of Operation Supernova, an investigation into Ventura County’s largest street gang, three gang members have been arrested on federal drug ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By admin
A medical marijuana advocacy group has sued the United States attorney general and other federal prosecutors in Northern California. They are asking a federal court to stop raids and threats of ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By admin
A federal indictment in Los Angeles has charged 14 people that includes an 88-year-old doctor and two operators of a Los Angeles clinic, with running an illegal insurance fraud scheme to obtain and ...
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Posted on Oct 10, 2011 By admin
In Oakland, California, Desean Gardner was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for his role as the leader of a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute crack cocaine throughout the San Francisco ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By admin
A federal judge sentenced a drug-dealing doctor, Al Bussam, who was once California's top prescriber of narcotic painkillers and other abused prescription drugs to seven years in a federal prison. ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By admin
The San Diego FBI office announced the arrest of 26 people with ties to the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Over 250 police and federal agents from San Diego County participated in the arrest. They were ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2011 By admin
United States Border Patrol Agents intercepted a tractor-trailer rig that was loaded with 14 tons of marijuana heading for the Los Angeles area. This seizure is believed to be one of the largest ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney in San Diego, California announced that Luis Carlos Barragan was sentenced to serve 168 months in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal drug crime in February ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By admin
A Compton, California man bound for Japan has been charged with federal drug trafficking after Transportation Security Administration officials at Los Angeles LAX Airport discovered almost 5 pounds of ...
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