US Treasury imposes financial sanctions against 2 Mexican drug cartel leaders
Two leaders of the La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, who were indicted in 2017 on charges of conspiring to import and distribute heroin in the United States, face financial sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department as fugitives believed to be living in Mexico, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Rodolfo Maldonado Bustos, 59, […]
Sanctuary County Nixed 20-Year Jail Sentence For Illegal Immigrant Drug Dealer, Released Him Despite Detainer
Maryland law enforcement officials suspended a prison sentence for an illegal immigrant convicted of drug distribution and then ignored a detainer request for him, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE agents apprehended Nahun Ventura Ortiz-Isaguriz, a twice-deported Honduran national living in the U.S. unlawfully, the agency announced in a press release on Thursday. […]
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 to Uphold Conviction of Drug Mule Caught with Meth at Southern Border
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against a drug trafficker who was fighting his conviction by arguing that expert testimony by special agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) violated the Federal Rules of Evidence. In 2020, Delilah Diaz was stopped at a checkpoint on the US-Mexico border. Border Patrol agents searched her vehicle and found […]
Bumbling drug dealer’s smuggling plan blows up in his face when he stashes meth, fentanyl in grenades
His drug smuggling plan really did fail. A South Carolina drug dealer was sentenced to 18 years in prison this week for trying to transport methamphetamine and fentanyl inside hollowed-out grenades last spring. Corey Gerald Bell, 36, was stopped in May 2023 by a Greenwood County Sheriff’s deputy who noticed Bell’s taillight was broken. According […]
Mexican cartel worked with US-based group linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug money: DOJ
The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that a five-year investigation has revealed that Mexican drug cartels worked with a U.S.-based group with ties to underground Chinese banks to launder drug trafficking funds. a press release The Department of Justice said Operation Fortune Runner uncovered a money laundering network linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel that […]
Midtown Manhattan’s shelter-lined ‘8th Ave. Corridor’ plagued by open drug use: ‘Strip of despair’
Locals say a section of Midtown Manhattan has become a “city of despair” where drug addicts inject drugs, smoke marijuana and sleep beneath the feet of commuters and tourists. “There’s a lot going on around here,” one store owner told The Post about the so-called 8th Avenue neighborhood near Penn Station, which is home to […]
Jury Convicts Border Patrol Agent Of Taking Bribes To Let Drug Smugglers Into US
A jury convicted a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent on June 10 of accepting bribes to let drug traffickers smuggle narcotics into the United States, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Leonard Darnell George was found to have worked with two different criminal enterprises to allow unauthorized individuals into the country, according […]
Trump triples down on ‘cognitive, drug test’ before debate with Biden
‘The Big Weekend Show’ panelists react to former President Trump’s rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday. Subscribe to Fox … source
Drug overdoses surge in some states: frightening numbers ‘are people’s lives,’ expert says
According to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States is expected to reach 107,543 in 2023. While that figure is frighteningly high, it actually represents a 3% decrease when compared to the all-time high of 111,029 deaths reported in 2022. The […]
Former Jeffrey Epstein cellmate, bodybuilder ex-cop turned drug trafficker, sentenced
A man accused of racketeering suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in federal prison has been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for masterminding a brutal 2016 quadruple murder that killed a man who owed him drug money and three passersby. According to federal prosecutors, Nicholas Tartaglione, 56, and a group of bodybuilder co-conspirators tortured and […]