Jean Robert Michel, 18, of 808 Wilson Ave., Cocoa. Charges: possession of cocaine, possession of paraphernalia.
Read more...Estella S. Musgrove, 39, of Lka 1418 Floyd Dr., Rockledge. Charges: disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest without violence.
Read more...Jonathan Alan Wester, 24, of 1205 Old Parsonage Road, Merritt Island. Charge: driving under the influence
Read more...Salena Christina Samonas, 20, of 1763 Fay St., Cocoa. Charges: carrying concealed firearm, possession of controlled substance.
Read more...Renee Lynn Lutz, 48, of 6000 Alden Avenue, Cocoa. Charge: driving whilst impaired.
Read more...Samuel Cabrales Jr., 31. About 15 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of $1,500 was found along with a digital scale and packaging material. Law enforcement also seized $100 cash and a 1991 Ford pickup. Cabrales is charged with second degree felony possession of cocaine and is being held in the Pennington County jail.
Read more...Lisa Nelson, 27, and Anastasia Narvaiz, 21, was searched. Law enforcement found 9.25 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $21,000, a small amount of methamphetamine, a scale and some drug paraphernalia. The couple forfeited $2,300 in cash. The pair have been released with a promise to appear after being charged with fifth degree felony possession of marijuana and fifth degree felony possession of methamphetamines
Read more...Armando Flores, 24, of Thief River Falls was arrested Dec. 21 after 6 ounces of marijuana with an estimated street value of $900, a digital scale, hydrocone tablets -- possessed without a prescription and $4,655 in cash were found in his residence. Flores has been charged with fifth degree felony possession of marijuana. He has been released with a promise to appear. Other charges are expected.
Read more...Clinton Earl Hazelwood, of 601 Alamance Road, with possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond was set at $10,000.
Read more...Donald Jeffery Beasley, 42, of 1917-F Morningside Drive, with possession of cocaine, maintaining a dwelling to keep or sell drugs, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $15,000.
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The first house is located in the GroveOak Community. The second is on County Road 482 in the Painter community.
During a search of the two houses, officers did not find Gilbert.
However, they did confiscate two stolen motorcycles, a laser transit, and a 9mm Taurus.
They say methamphetamine and marijuana were also found at the residences in addition to firearms and other potentially stolen items.
Investigators say they searched 53-year old Emery Darrell-Lee's home in Collinsville
Lee met drug task force agents at the door with a plastic bag full of trash from a recent methamphetamine cook.
Inside the home, agents say they found a gram of finished meth, and a half gallon of meth oil. 37-year-old Sue Michelle Dunn was also in the home at the time. She's facing charges for possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Lee is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance, and drug possession.
Dekalb County arrested Robert Fred ("Pete") Bishop yesterday.
Eleven people, including 6 minor children, were in the house at the time the warrant was executed at a house on Clements Road in Rainsville.
Bishop was charged with distribution of a controlled substance, and is being held at the DeKalb County Detention Center on $15,000 bond.
Further charges may be pending.
A sports bag with more than ten kilograms of heroin was found in a shop in the town of Balashikha in Moscow region. Managers at the store discovered the large bag in a rubbish container.
Narcotics experts said the bag contained Afghan heroin packed into ten plastic parcels.
Police suspect the heroin was en route to a gang operating in the region.
"The drugs might have been stowed in the rubbish bin for a recipient to pick up. But, for some reason, he failed to do it,” Ekaterina Kosova from Drug Control service said
Berelice Donaghey, 43, of Fishkill, N.Y., was arrested Wednesday by members of the New Milford police's Investigate Services Bureau. Police say the New Milford bureau had received information from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency that Donaghey had been falsifying prescriptions. Donaghey was charged with 10 counts of obtaining a prescription by fraud and was held on $50,000 bond pending a court date today, according to police. Police say the investigation is ongoing and additional charges may be pending.
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Greg Smith, name shows up in public documents that indicate he worked as a pilot in the past for an operation involving the FBI, DEA and CIA that targeted narco-traffickers in Colombia.The Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in the Mexican Yucatan in late September carrying close to four tons of cocaine was part of an operation being carried out by a Department of Homeland Security agency.The operation, codenamed “Mayan Express,” is an ongoing effort spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the sources claim. The information surfaced during a high-level meeting at DEA headquarters in mid-December, DEA sources familiar with the meeting assert. Those sources have requested anonymity out of fear they will be retaliated against by the government for revealing the information.
two women, aged 31 and 29 years, had aroused the suspicion of the Customs officers at the Sydney airport and during questioning admitted concealing drugs insides their bodies, according to an Australian Federal Police statement.Three African women carrying contraband drugs were recently caught by the law-enforcement agencies in Dubai and Sydney, Australia, according to sources
The Zambian women, part of the increasing phenomenon of Asians and African drug ‘mules’, were found to have swallowed capsules filled with heroin in the hope of flushing it out after reaching their destination safely. Dubai is just a transit point in the worldwide drug smuggling network. Because of the emirate’s tough anti-drug laws and zero-tolerance policy, Customs authorities in European countries do not usually suspect people travelling from or transiting through Dubai.
Olmeda's vehicle allegedly contained 500 lbs. of marijuana. Four months later, it was Officer Hiland who found the escaped fugitive.Officer Nick Hiland, Quincy Police Department says, "Officer Miller and I responded to the area of 7th and Oak. They said it would be the house behind the back porch tavern. A person came to the door and we advised him what the situation was. He said that we could come into his residence and he was just standing right there in the living room. We made eye contact and he just looked at me and put his head down. Officer Miller asked if I recognized him and I said yes. I'm glad we have them both back in jail."
Read more...Mollie Gower, 39, and Darrell Knighten, 36, were both charged with state jail felonies for delivery of a controlled substance for an amount under one gram.Collin Frisinger, 21, who was arrested in connection with delivery of a controlled substance after he sold the prescription medication Xanax to undercover officers, was charged with a state jail felony.
Read more...Candice Loecken, 28, was charged with one second degree felony for delivery of a controlled substance in an amount between 1 and 4 grams.
Read more...Tressa Stewart, 37, was arrested and charged with two counts for delivery of a controlled substance, each for an amount of methamphetamines between 1 and 4 grams.
Read more...Dewey Miller, 30, was arrested and charged with delivery of a controlled substance. The amount of methamphetamines in his possession — over 4 grams — brought his charge to a first-degree felony.
Read more...21-year-old visitor from Barbados was arrested Dec 11 after four kilograms of coke worth US $ 550,000 was found in the binding of a Bible and other books.
Another 21-year-old man who claimed to be visiting from St Vincent was arrested a day later arriving from Guyana with 2.5 kilos of coke worth about US $ 310,000 inside a Bible and in the false bottom of a suitcase.
"The covers of the Bibles are unglued or slit and drugs in flat plastic bags are placed inside," she said.
Giolti said officers became suspicious because the books were heavier than normal.
Both men have been charged with importing a controlled substance and are before the courts. They face deportation to the Caribbean if convicted, police said. Their names have not been released due to an ongoing probe.
Also two GTA women were arrested last week after six kilos of marijuana worth US $ 125,000 was found in coffee packs in their luggage arriving from Jamaica. Another woman was nabbed after arriving from St Vincent with four kilos of coke smuggled in Christmas candles.
Derrick Tyrell Harris, 20, of 3106 Abbott, was arrested and charged with felony trafficking cocaine by possession, felony tampering with evidence and possession of forfeitable property.
He was arrested when DPS detectives and narcotics unit agents, along with state police narcotics officers, served a search warrant at approximately 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police seized 4.9 grams of crack cocaine, with an estimated street value of $1,250.
Michael John Newton, of Dale Street, Ulverston, also turned up late for his appearance at Furness Magistrates’ Court (20) and was slapped with a £25 fine.
Prosecutor Mrs Lisa O’Loughlin told how the emergency services were called to Newton’s home on December 4 after a friend of his collapsed.
She said ambulance crews were accompanied by the police who seized weighing scales, foil with traces of powder on it and a further piece of foil that had been used to smoke heroin.
She said: “When questioned by police he admitted they were all his and were for personal use.
Mrs O’Loughlin added that he had several drug-related convictions, with the last being in June 2003. Newton pleaded guilty to possession of diamorphine on Decembe
He also pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis and this was taken intro consideration.
Vietnam has sentenced eight heroin traffickers to death, a court official said Friday, raising to more than 40 the number of drug smugglers to receive the death penalty over the past month.In the latest mass trial, the Hanoi people's court also jailed 29 others, 18 of them for life, for trafficking heroin across the country's mountainous north over two years.The report said traffickers had become more sophisticated and dangerous, with some ready to attack police with firearms and grenades.
Read more...Wendy Morse, 27, of Benmont Avenue in Bennington pleaded not guilty to two charges of violating her probation, a charge of cocaine possession second or subsequent and possession of a depressant at her arraignment on Monday. The cocaine possession charge is a felony.
According to an affidavit by Bennington Police Officer John Behan, police received information on Dec. 23 at around 2 p.m. that there was drug activity occurring on Benmont Avenue. Behan said a confidential informant told police that Morse had recently received a shipment of crack cocaine and that she had been selling it with another individual.
Mischa Barton was arrested early Thursday morning (December 27) in West Hollywood, California, for DUI and other charges, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. was charged with three criminal counts: driving under the influence, possession of illegal narcotics and driving without a valid license.
Police said Barton was being held on $10,000 bail, and TMZ.com later reported that she was released from the West Hollywood sheriff’s station shortly after 10 a.m. on Thursday morning
Barton was stopped just before 3 a.m. after police noticed her car had been weaving back and forth, crossing the traffic line that runs down the middle of North La Cienega Boulevard. Police further noticed the car’s driver failed to signal before making a turn.
Barton was taken into custody and transported to the sheriff’s West Hollywood station, where she was booked and processed. It was at that time that police learned the 21-year-old actress was an unlicensed driver, and that she was intoxicated, the sheriff’s department said.
John J. Romano, 36, of the 1700 block of South Spring Road and Worthy Davis, 19, of the 700 block of South East Avenue were charged with possession of marijuana, crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia at Walnut Villa Apartments in the 1000 block of Florence Avenue Dec. 21.
Read more...Raheim O. Holloway, 25, of the 600 block of East Mulberry Street was charged with resisting arrest, obstruction and possession of marijuana following a disturbance in the 200 block of East Oak Street Tuesday.
Read more...Jesus Solis and the homeowner, Gilberto Garza, being placed under arrest.The two men are in custody after San Juan SWAT officers raid a suspected drug house.Police say the homeowner is suspected of accepting stolen property for drugs.This operation was being guarded by six barking dogs.The suspects detained are awaiting formal charges.
The homeowner will be charged with possession of a controlled substance.
And, the second suspect will be charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Maryland State Police said a trooper stopped Jason Travis Warren, 22, near Wine Rack at 4 a.m. for clocking 57 mph in a 45 mph zone. The trooper smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle and saw several marijuana flakes on the carpet. A Berlin teenager were charged with possession of marijuana and Xanax after police said they found the drugs in their vehicle during a traffic stop early this morning for speeding, Both were charged and released.
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Mexican authorities who issued an arrest warrant for a top financier of the Sinaloa drug cartel uncovered the connection between the cartel and the purchase of two jets that took off from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport on separate dates. One jet was seized, and the other crashed in Mexico. A total of nearly 10 tons of cocaine was found onboard the jets, according to Mexican authorities.
Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in the Mexican Yucatan in late September carrying close to four tons of cocaine was part of an operation being carried out by a Department of Homeland Security agency, The operation, codenamed “Mayan Express,” is an ongoing effort spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the sources claim. The information surfaced during a high-level meeting at DEA headquarters in mid-December, DEA sources familiar with the meeting assert.
The operation also appears to be badly flawed, the sources say, because it is being carried out unilaterally, by ICE and without the knowledge of the Mexican government.Mexican law enforcers subsequently apprehended the two pilots of the downed jet. Neither one of them appears to be a U.S. citizen, according to Mexican press accounts.
‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, a ruthless and mysterious network of 155 families born in the rough hills here in southern Italy’s Calabria region, now dominates the European drug trade. By establishing direct ties with Colombian producers and building a multibillion-dollar empire that spans five continents, the syndicate has metamorphosed into one of the craftiest criminal gangs in the world, authorities say.
Over the last two decades, the syndicate has deployed its members to strategic locations along trafficking and distribution routes, in Colombia and Venezuela, Canada, Africa, Spain and as far as Australia. It takes orders from buyers in Europe (The ‘Ndrangheta, which is thought to have business assets worth at least $50 billion, grew as a protection racket in impoverished southern Italy after World War II and then began to make big money with kidnappings (including the abduction and grisly mutilation of the grandson of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty in 1973). The name comes from a Greek word meaning “virtue” or “heroism.”including other mafiosi) and brokers deals with the suppliers in Colombia.
An Orange County commissioner delayed the arraignment of Joshua Blackburn, 32, of Murrieta until Jan. 9, and set his bail at $4 million. If Blackburn posts bail, authorities must verify whether the money is legitimate.Blackburn broke into the evidence locker room of the CHP Santa Ana office around 4 a.m. Dec. 21, authorities said. He took the cocaine, worth roughly $1 million wholesale, and hid it, prosecutors said. All the drugs were recovered. California Highway Patrol officer made his first court appearance Wednesday on felony charges of stealing about $1 million worth of cocaine from a CHP evidence room.If convicted of all charges, Blackburn faces a maximum of 25 years and eight months in prison.
Calvin Ward stood before U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier two years ago, and was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute at least 5 grams of crack cocaine.Mr. Ward may be one of the first crack cocaine offenders to have his sentence reduced under a change in the federal sentencing guidelines.
LOWER SENTENCES
The U.S. Sentencing Commission estimates that thousands of crack cocaine offenders will be eligible for sentence reductions based on new retroactive guidelines. Below are the number of area defendants they estimate will be eligible.
* United States: 19,500
* Eastern Tennessee: 289
* Western Tennessee: 149
* Middle Tennessee: 59
Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission
Sidney Benner, 30, escaped Thursday from the county's detention center. He's believed to be in the Gallman area.
During his escape, Benner cut himself and left a blood trail. His jumpsuit was found less than a mile from the Sheriff's Department, officials said.
A woman and two youths were detained in Peru after the trio allegedly ingested capsules of cocaine and attempted to board an airplane to Argentina, a police official said Sunday.
The three were questioned at Lima's international airport Saturday night and taken to a nearby hospital, where they expelled capsules of cocaine, Police Gen. Miguel Hidalgo, director of the country's anti-drug unit, told The Associated Press.
Police declined to give the youth's ages or gender until an official report is completed, but radio reports said they were aged 15 and 17, and traveling with their 47-year-old mother.
Daniel Murphy, 40, a joiner, of Buchanan Road, Wallasey, was convicted of conspiring to supply cannabis between September 2005 and September 2006 and jailed for six years.
Gary Anthony Lynch, 45, a bricklayer, of Gorsey Well Lane, Runcorn, was jailed for 21 months.
And Mark Trevor Archer, 49, of Warburton Street, Stockton Heath, near Warrington, was locked up for four years. Both admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis;
Liam Wright, 23, of York Road, Connah’s Quay, admitted two counts of offering to supply cannabis and was sentenced to eight months suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.
The court heard how there were almost 2,000 cannabis plants squeezed into the upstairs rooms of the Saughall factory just over the Flintshire border in a semi-detached four-bedroom house owned by Archer.
Costa Rican agents made the largest marijuana bust in the Central American nation's history, seizing 4.85 tons of the drug found in an abandoned boat, police said Saturday.
The marijuana was discovered Friday during a patrol with the U.S. Coast Guard off the country's Pacific coast, Costa Rican police said in a statement.
The ship's crew fled, abandoning their 48-foot-long boat near the border with Panama, where they appear to have fled, police said. No arrests have been made.
Snyder-Cronkhite, 19, of Brazil on allegations of dealing in methamphetamine, burglary, false informing and possession of a controlled substance. He remained in the Vigo County jail Wednesday with bail set at $55,000. He can be detained until Friday while the prosecutor’s office decides what charges, if any, to file. Snyder-Cronkhite is scheduled for court at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Read more...Isaac E. Corbin, 27, of Terre Haute appeared on a warrant for dealing crack cocaine. Corbin allegedly delivered more than 0.2 gram of crack to confidential informants of the Vigo County Drug Task Force at an address in the 500 block of Second Avenue on two separate occasions in October. A warrant was issued Dec. 11 and Corbin was arrested Saturday. Corbin remained in the county jail Wednesday with bail set at $75,000.
Read more...Shawn Lee McBride, 22, of Terre Haute on allegations of possession of methamphetamine and an additional controlled substance and habitual traffic violations. McBride remained in the jail with bail set at $50,000. He can be detained until Friday while the prosecutor’s office decides what charges, if any, to file. He is scheduled for court at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Read more...Juanita Wilson, 57, of Terre Haute on two class-B felony allegations of dealing oxycodone, a schedule II controlled substance. Wilson allegedly delivered the drug to confidential informants from the Vigo County Drug Task Force on two separate occasions in September and October. Wilson appeared before Lewis in Vigo Superior Court Division 6. She remained in the county jail Wednesday with bail set at $75,000.
Read more...Brandon Shawn Bell, 20, of 13018 Chaddsford Terrace in Woodbridge was charged with possession of marijuana about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at U.S. 1 and Port Potomac Avenue, said Officer Erika Hernandez, police spokeswoman. An officer stopped Bell's vehicle and allegedly found the drug. He was released on a summons. His court hearing date was not available.
Gregory Meredith Sanders Jr., 23, of 13200 Bangor Place, Fort Washington, Md., was charged with possession of marijuana after a traffic stop at 12:22 a.m. on Tuesday, police said. Sanders' vehicle was stopped in the 4400 block of Evergreen Drive in Dale City. He was release on a summons. His court hearing date was not available.
Jauran Ashleigh Farley, 18, of 2139 Wessex Court in Woodbridge was charged with marijuana possession after a patrol car investigated a suspicious vehicle, police said.
An officer saw the suspicious vehicle near Adrift Court and Scuppers Lane in Woodbridge about 5:39 p.m. on Tuesday, police said. Farley was released on a summons. Her court hearing date was not available.
Fonte Pierr Todd, 24, of 2691 Penbury Court in Woodbridge, was charged with cocaine possession and driving under the influence about 1 a.m. on Monday, police said.An officer stopped Todd's vehicle at Antrim Circle and Cosgrove Way in Woodbridge. Todd was charged and held in lieu of a $15,000 bond. His court hearing date was not available.Sarah Christie Reyes, 30, of 6024 Oaklawn Lane in Woodbridge, was charged with possession of marijuana and driving under the influence about 2:50 a.m. on Saturday, police said
Peña was the vocalist for Zayda y Los Culpables a popular band that produced romantic ballads. Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the back she received the day before in a motel where she was staying.Although police said they they had no suspects or motive for the killing, it seemed a classic gangland-style slaying that has killed hundreds of people in Mexico this year.
She was fatally shot while recovering from a gunshot wound she received Friday at a hotel in Matamoros. Two others that were with Peña Friday were killed in the attack,
Sheriff’s deputy Alvaro Guerra, the liaison between county lawmen and the Tamaulipas State Police, confirmed late Monday that Mexican investigators contacted him regarding the 28-year-old singer’s slaying.
Sergio Gómez was kidnapped. Police found his body the next day. He'd been strangled and beaten. the savage murder of Sergio Gómez, one of Mexico's hottest singers, a headliner whose band, K-Paz de la Sierra, commanded $100,000 a show, twice the rate of other top bands was different. It has set off an unprecedented chain reaction in which at least half a dozen bands have canceled concert tours. Popular bands, such as the Duranguense act Patrulla 81, which backed out of four major shows, are terrified of coming to Morelia and the surrounding state of Michoacan.Gomez was killed hours after another singer, Zayda Pena, was killed in the border city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state.
Pena, 28, was shot by an unknown assailant in hospital where she was recovering from a previous gunshot wound. The motive behind her murder is also unknown.Several of the murders of musicians over the past year are believed to be tied to organised crime and drug-trafficking. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Mexico this year as drug cartels battle for territory and drug routes.
Charles Lynch of Arroyo Grande pleaded not guilty to charges in August. His trial is scheduled for the spring, he said.
In March, San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided Charles Lynch’s dispensary, Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers, at 780 Monterey Ave.
The business was the county’s only medical marijuana dispensary when it was closed down permanently after federal authorities contacted his landlord, Bob Davis. They told Davis his property could be seized if he continued renting it for dispensary use.
At least one victory for medical marijuana was won over the past year when Grover Beach police returned 20 grams of marijuana to Ken Parson in January, Koory said.
Parson was arrested in Grover Beach for possession of marijuana. But Koory argued that Parson’s prescription was allowed under state law.
Grover Beach police were required to return the marijuana to Parsons or pay a $5,900 fee.
Jack Fagin, 50, whose hometown was not released, was in court today to answer to charges of attempted trafficking in drugs.
Police accuse Fagin of trying to ship 15 pounds of marijuana here from Texas.
Assistant Hamilton County prosecutor Betsy Sundermann said Fagin already has a pending indictment for shipping 200 pounds of marijuana – worth $200,000 – when he was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Arrested after an undercover officer made a covert drug buy, were Johnathan L. Byler, 21, of 5086 Route 322, Windsor, and his brother, David S. Byler, 20, of 8369 Fortney Road in Windsor. Both men were transported to county jail.
Johnathan Byler was charged with trafficking in drugs (powder cocaine), and possession of drugs. David Byler was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia including digital scales. They were cited to appear in Western County Court on the charges.
Rev. Hugh King announced his resignation during Sunday services at the Guillemard Street church.Pensacola police arrested King on April 27 after stopping a Ford Explorer in which he was a passenger. Police reported finding a bag of cocaine in King?s pocket. The case is set for trial Jan. 14.
Raymond A. Baisi, wanted on a Yonkers drug possession warrant.
Baisi, of Eastchester, had just filled up his tank at a gas station when an officer saw the cracked windshield and pulled him over, Pelham Manor Detective Ken Campion said. His license was suspended, he was uninsured and his license plates didn't match his sport utility vehicle, which was unregistered, Campion said.
Baisi, 57, had crack cocaine on him and in the SUV, Campion said. He was charged with felony drug possession and several traffic and vehicle violations. He was being held Monday without bail at the Westchester County jail
Domenyk Noonan is appealing against a jail sentence for having a gun in his car, claiming he was "set up" by the police.
Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, a member of the Noonans gangland family, was stopped in a Jaguar car by police near Darlington in May and found with a handgun and five .357 Magnum bullets.A jury at Teesside Crown Court found the 41-year-old guilty of possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm without a certificate and having a firearm and ammunition in his possession.Lattlay-Fottfoy, who ran a security business, is the brother of murdered Manchester hardman Desmond Noonan, who was stabbed to death earlier this year.Both brothers had appeared in a controversial television documentary about the Manchester criminal underworld in which Desmond hinted he was responsible for 27 murders.
December, Noonan, who has changed his surname to Lattlay-Fottfoy, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years after he was found to have a handgun and five bullets in his car when he was stopped in Darlington.
He claims a man had planted the gun and ammunition in his car.
He is appealing after a jury at Teesside Crown Court convicted him of three firearms offences.
Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, is the brother of murdered Manchester hardman Desmond Noonan, who was stabbed to death earlier this year also a member of the Noonans gangland family, was stopped in a Jaguar car by police near Darlington in May and found with a handgun and five .357 Magnum bullets.
A jury at Teesside Crown Court found the 41-year-old guilty of possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm without a certificate and having a firearm and ammunition in his possession.
Both brothers had appeared in a controversial television documentary about the Manchester criminal underworld in which Desmond hinted he was responsible for 27 murders.
Dr Rudolf Peitel, who worked at Holme House Prison, in Stockton, was convicted in 1993 of trying to bring firearms into Germany from Pakistan.
Peitel, 57, later came to the UK to practise and took on roles through an agency.
The hearing concluded yesterday that the convictions meant Peitel's fitness to practise in the UK was impaired.
He was suspended from the medical register after the hearing yesterday.
The court heard how Peitel arranged for the gadgets - a single-shot gun that looks like a pen used by spies and assassins - to be posted to the home of a friend in Germany.
But Peitel was arrested and five ball-point pen guns were intercepted after he was reported to police. Peitel escaped with a fine of DM12,000 (£3,800) in June 1993.
Three years later, the father-of-one received a six-month suspended sentence after attempting to con a business partner out of DM55,000 (£19,000).
Paul Allan Firth and his partner Debra James in Oliver Street, South Bank, in the raids.In the first, officers found 60g, worth £600, in a child’s jacket pocket, with smaller amounts in the kitchen, said prosecutor Shaun Dodds.While the couple were on bail, the house was searched again almost seven months later.Another £500 of the drug was found in a pillow case, as well as scales, bags and phones.Firth, 35, and James, 39, each admitted two charges of possessing a Class B drug with intent to supply.Firth alone admitted the same charge for the third raid.
Read more...Dawson, of Gilpin Road, Thornaby, admitted possession of a Class A drug. 12-month conditional discharge
Read more...Kevin Tymon, 34, ran a “corner shop” with users sent to his home at Elm House Apartments in Stockton, said a Teesside Crown Court judge.
Prosecutor Sue Jacobs told how Tymon was involved in various exchanges of £5 wraps .
Police executed a search warrant at his home in Belle Vue Court, Stockton, and found 247g of the drug with a street value of nearly £10,000. Teesside Crown Court heard that Scott was on licence at the time.He was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
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Crack cocaine dealer Reginald “Shaggy” Johnson has been arrested.
The drugs squad had been working to bring him to justice for five years and now knew he was going to prison for a long time.Middlesbrough drug dealer Reginald "Shaggy" Johnson and two more cogs in the town's supply chain have been jailed for a total of 12 years.
Johnson was a "prime mover" who employed and deployed runners in a crack cocaine "family business", Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
"I am satisfied that you were the leader of this enterprise," Judge David Bryant told him, jailing him for five years. "You had a flourishing retail business dealing in crack cocaine over a considerable period with a considerable number of customers."
He told Johnson's 33-year-old girlfriend and drug runner Leanne McCaffery: "Yours was a lesser role but you were an enthusiastic participant in this drug dealing business."
She was imprisoned for four years, and Rhaul Warren, 21, for three years. Johnson and McCaffery, both of Essex Street, and Warren, of Falmouth Street, all admitted conspiring to supply Class A drugs between August 15 and December 1 last year.
Shafiq Aziz, Liaquet Ali and Damion Clenaghan, all of Middlesbrough.
Aziz, 3839 on Nov 24, of Fountains Drive, Ali, 49, of Clifton Street, and Clenaghan, 22, of Cobham Street, are jointly charged with conspiring with three others to produce cannabis between December 1 last year and May 22 this year.
Aziz is also accused of possessing a Class B controlled drug, amphetamine, and having custody or control of counterfeit currency.
In May, police swooped on 11 properties in Middlesbrough.
They discovered an “industrial scale” cannabis farm in a property in Longlands Road.
Earlier this week police carried out more raids in the town, including two business premises in Parliament Road.
Alan Horden, 49, was caught at his home in Somerset Street, Middlesbrough with 2.14g of heroin, worth £214 on the street
Read more...Scoon, , of Myrtle Grove, Thornaby, admitted two charges of supplying a Class A drug and two of possession with intent to supply.
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jailed Darren Elgey for four years.
Elgey, 37, of Yarm Road, was seen dealing heroin wraps in March and April this year.
Lindsey Robson and Carl Steele were not far behind him, said the judge, using various Stockton locations for dealing.
Some drugs and cash changed hands at 27-year-old Steele’s home in Shaftesbury Street and a nearby phone kiosk.
Robson, 26, of Waverley Street, took part in some of those deals in the “regular retail market”, and in more drops with her “on-off” boyfriend Elgey.
Elgey, Robson and Steele all admitted conspiracy to supply heroin.
Elgey and Robson also admitted possession of heroin with intent to supply from April 12, when they were caught at a home in Wellington Street with 10 wraps of the drug.
Judge Spittle jailed Robson and Steele for three years each.
Steele’s girlfriend Joanne Dowd, 27, also of Shaftesbury Street admitted being concerned in drugs supply. For her “lesser role”, the judge jailed her for 18 months.
Japanese death sentences: Noboru Ikemoto, 75, who was hanged in the western metropolis of Osaka, and Seiha Fujima, 47, and Hiroki Fukawa, 42, who were executed in Tokyo, a justice ministry statement said.
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four men were hanged for drug trafficking in the city of Bojnord in the Northern Khorasan Province in Iran.
The court order for one the convicts, who had criminal record of dealing drugs, adultery and smuggling alcohol, was executed in public. The three others were hanged in the prison area.
Morocco's justice minister says his country is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment.
The country has 11 crimes that carry the death penalty. Since 1973, only two of 133 people sentenced to death have been executed, the last in 1993. Abolition of capital punishment would help Morocco acquire advanced status with the European community, Moroccan officials have said
Vietnamese court sentenced eight people to death for smuggling heroin, raising to 35 the number of people put on death row within two weeks for trafficking the drug.
A court clerk says a 10 day Hanoi trial found 26 drug smugglers guilty of trafficking or selling a total of more 50 kgs of heroin.
Eight defendants received life terms, and the others were jailed for between 15 and 20 years. The 35 year old female ringleader was among those sentenced to death by firing squad for trafficking more than 36 kgs of heroin between 1998 and February 2006.
The gang had brought the heroin from the northern mountainous Son La, Hoa Binh provinces, near the Lao border, to sell to users
a gang of six people were given sentences ranging from death to 15 years in jail for trafficking drugs, according to a ruling handed down by a court in northeast China's Liaoning Province. According to the investigation of the Jinzhou Intermediate People's Court, Hao Chen, the ringleader, and Bai Yingna bought 330 grams of methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice", in southern Guangdong Province in December 2006 and then sold the drug in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province.
In March this year, Hao, together with Bai and her boy friend Han Tao, went to Guangzhou and bought 900 methamphetamine tablets, also known as "Yaba", from a person surnamed Duan. The next day, they bought more than 400 grams of "ice" and 400 Yaba tablets from a person nicknamed "Gan Hong", with the aid of another two accomplices Feng Zhiyong and Lao Guixin. The day after, they bought 497 more grams of Yaba tablets from Deng Jianlin.
The court sentenced Hao Chen and Han Tao to death and life imprisonment for trafficking 1,380 grams and 1,050 grams of ice
Two of the people were identified by their first names Ghassem and Zahra.
Ghassem The names of the other four people were not provided, either were details of their alleged offences
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