Recent Posts in Drug Crimes Category
Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By admin
Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down California medical marijuana dispensaries by sending letters that warn landlords to stop sales of the drug within 45 days or face the possibility that ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 By admin
A celebrity disc jockey and the heads of an entertainment company were among 14 people indicted in a cocaine ring where private jets were used to shuttle large amounts of the drug from Southern ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2010 By admin
A grand jury indictment was unsealed against eight alleged leaders of the Canoga Park Alabama street gang, who face conspiracy and extortion charges that could send them to prison for life. The ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 By admin
A man who prosecutors say made millions of dollars from a prescription drug scam in which he recruited destitute people with HIV to serve as straw patients was sentenced to eight years in prison by a ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2010 By admin
In Las Vegas, Nevada, federal prosecutors unsealed charges against 27 individuals for their involvement in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation in Nevada and Alaska involving ...
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Posted on Oct 29, 2010 By admin
A jury has absolved Anna Nicole Smith's doctor of prescribing excessive drugs for her but convicted her boyfriend and a psychiatrist of conspiring to use fake names on prescriptions, in a case that ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2010 By admin
A United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York, announced that Dr. Frank Boehm of Utica, New York, pled guilty in United States District Court in Syracuse to a felony information that ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2010 By admin
A Malibu, California man who fled the state after allegedly trying to bribe and then extort sheriff's deputies in Reseda by pretending they assaulted him in custody has been arrested in Hawaii. Robert ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By admin
The medical marijuana industry has been 'hijacked by underground' drug dealers, Lee Baca says as a suspect is charged in last week's triple murder in West Hollywood, which allegedly has ties to ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2010 By admin
Harold Yong Park allegedly murdered three men in a West Hollywood, California apartment. Los Angeles police say the case involves the robbery of several pounds of marijuana. Park had pot in his car ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By admin
Police raided the office of a Rowland Heights doctor suspected of improperly prescribing narcotics to patients. Her practice has been linked to at least eight overdose and suicide deaths in recent ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2010 By admin
There was applause this week when President Obama signed legislation cutting the federal penalties for possession of crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 is an overdue correction of a ...
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Posted on Jul 31, 2010 By admin
A former San Fernando Valley physician convicted of improperly prescribing powerful painkillers to drug addicts and undercover drug agents was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay a ...
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Posted on Jun 30, 2010 By admin
A Los Angeles County supervisor proposes ban on pot dispensaries in unincorporated areas. An aide says Mike Antonovich is concerned about crime and the outlets' effect on residents and businesses. ...
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Posted on Jun 30, 2010 By Goldstein Law Offices
Last week Wednesday, police report that they arrested a big rig driver in Los Angeles. According to police, the man was pulled over by deputies on Interstate 10 in Rancho Cucamonga. While searching ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2010 By Goldstein Law Offices
In Beverly Hills, it is reported that a defense attorney was arrested by law enforcement for drug crimes. Police say that the lawyer, Michael H. Inman, was arrested for suspicion of drug possession at ...
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Posted on Jun 9, 2010 By admin
Los Angeles is home to hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries, but concern over their proliferation has provoked a backlash. Police are cracking down on most of them. A new city ordinance limits ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2010 By Goldstein Law Offices
In Los Angeles, it is reported that both a pharmacist and an owner of a pharmacy received time in prison for their drug crime charges. The men, Richard Lacson and Cesar Cabrera, were sentenced after ...
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Posted on May 21, 2010 By Goldstein Law Offices
According to news sources, twelve people were arrested after they tried to distribute drugs in Chicago. The accused individuals allegedly tried to distribute 600 pounds of marijuana that was brought ...
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