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Edwin (Armani) Cruz, Lucilla Tejada

Thursday, 10 January 2008

Edwin (Armani) Cruz, 31, and his girlfriend, Lucilla Tejada, 36.
Both face felony drug possession and numerous weapons charges.
The arrests came after several weeks of investigation by the NYPD's Bronx gang squad.
Police said Cruz and Tejada are not gang members, but identified them as part of a larger drug organization with the drugs and weapons meant for distribution on the streets of upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
"This was a substantial bust," said Deputy Chief Robert Boyce, commander of the Citywide Gang Unit. "I think we put a nice dent in this operation."
Officers descended on the home at 3343 Sedgwick Ave. at 8:35 a.m., cops said, catching Cruz and Tejada while they were still sleeping. They were arrested without incident.
Police found the heroin, wrapped in red cellophane, stuffed in an empty vacuum box in the living room. Seven handguns were stuffed in a black book bag, and two others were found in a drawer, police said..
"These are high-quality, expensive guns," Boyce said. "[Cruz and Tejada] are not ordinary drug pushers."
Police also seized drug paraphernalia, along with 25 rubber stamps for marking glassine envelopes used to hold street-level amounts of heroin.
Among the "brand names" for the heroin packets were "Survivor" and "Mercedes-Benz."
Police said Cruz has an arrest record on charges of robbery, criminal possession of a weapon and felony possession. His parole ended in August 2006.
Tejada has no criminal history, they said.
The weapons consisted of two 9-mm. handguns, three .40-caliber handguns, one .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, one .32-caliber Taurus handgun, one Ruger and one Mac-11.

Raja Sarwar

Raja Sarwar, 40, Judge Phillip Richards said: “I don’t think many Valleys takeaway owners drive around in such cars.a Porsche and B.M.W
“And it is ironic that a man who gives pop to some children out of the goodness of his heart, is providing other young people, indirectly, with heroin and cocaine.”
Prosecutor Michael Matherlees said the married father could have had drugs with a street value of up to £400,000 pass through his hands.
He was caught after police operation Phoenix put two city properties he was renting – at Stacey Road, Roath, Cardiff, and Lock-keepers Court, Blackweir Terrace, both in Cardiff – under surveillance between March and July last year.
Both were said to be “safe houses” where he stashed his supplies.
They watched him going to and from the addresses, sometimes just before or just after meeting up with people, before finding nearly a kilo of heroin and 50 grams of crack cocaine, worth more than £160,00, which equates to approximately 14,800 street deals, together with a large amount of other drugs paraphernalia, at his properties.
Mr Matherlees said: “It was clear to the officers that he was involved in the supplying of class-A drugs and was leading a good lifestyle.”
Heroin and cocaine were later found in a holdall the police saw another man trying to burn, at the rented flat in Lock-keepers Court and at Sarwar’s home address at Ynysddu, Pontyclun, where there was also almost £4,000 in cash. After arrest, he admitted he had been involved in drug dealing for four months and pleaded guilty to 10 offences.
In court he was described by his barrister David Leathley as ‘a good loving father and husband’ who ran a successful fast food business for almost a decade, employing four staff. Judge Richards said: “These drugs cause immense harm, misery and sometimes death.”

He also said there would have been a jail sentence of 11 years if Sarwar had denied it and been convicted after a trial.
Detective Chief Inspector Debbie Cooper, from the Regional Task Force, said: “Raja Sarwar lived a life of luxury through selling heroin and crack cocaine.
“He thought he could get away with leading this lifestyle while destroying the lives of so many people by supplying heroin and crack cocaine in our communities.
“But he was wrong. He was caught thanks to the months of dedicated work under Operation Pheonix.
“His sentence sends a strong message to criminals that the police will continue in our fight to remove drugs off our streets and send those involved to prison for a long time.”
The Regional Asset Recovery team has carried out an investigation and that hearing will follow.

Shawn Anthony Vassel

Shawn Anthony Vassel, also known on the street as Buck or Buckshot, is now charged with the Dec. 2 slaying of Husam Dagheim, 27, who was shot in his car in a parking lot outside the Coliseum cinemas near Square One while his girlfriend watched in horror.
Police said earlier that they suspect Dagheim was targeted in a drug-deal ripoff.
Tristan Palmer, 19, surrendered to police last month and is charged with second-degree murder.
Norm English, head of the Peel Regional Police homicide squad, said a third suspect is still being sought in Dagheim's killing

21-year-old American, identified only as W, and eight other foreign nationals. Also among the arrested was a foreign English teacher who worked at a p

native English speaking instructors being arrested for the use of banned drugs.
A group of foreign drug traffickers including a native English teacher at a primary school were arrested on Wednesday. Yeonsu Police Station in Incheon, 40 kilometers southwest of Seoul, said it apprehended a 21-year-old American, identified only as W, and eight other foreign nationals. Also among the arrested was a foreign English teacher who worked at a primary school.
They are charged with having distributed cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy to foreign workers and students here, according to the police, who added W grew marijuana in his room using flowerpots.
They sold the drugs to foreign instructors and students, the police said.
The latest roundup comes just several weeks after other foreign instructors were arrested for drug offenses. In December, a Canadian instructor at an elementary school in Incheon was arrested for smuggling marijuana and an American instructor at a school in Suwon was also arrested for the use of ecstasy.
On Nov. 12, a 23-year-old native English teacher was sentenced to two and a half year in prison on charge of smuggling drugs through an international package service.
The National Police Agency (NPA) said more than 11,000 crimes involving foreign nationals were reported in 2006, up 24 percent from the previous year's 8,392. The agency said more than 8,800 cases were uncovered in the first eight months of 2007. The total for the year has not yet been released.
Around 2.4 percent of all crimes reported are illegal drug distribution, consumption and production. And the ratio is on the increase year after year,'' a police officer who refused to be named told The Korea Times. ``The actual number involving undetected cases could be much higher.''
According to the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, a total of 226 foreigners were arrested on drug charges last year, almost double the 116 reported in 2006.
Chinese nationals made up the largest group with 58 in 2007, followed by U.S. citizens with 35 and Filipinos with 31.
The Ministry of Justice introduced new visa regulations for language instructors from Dec. 15 as part of efforts to prevent foreign nationals with criminal records and health problems from being employed here at schools and private institutions.
Under the program, foreigners applying for an E-2 Visa _ a must-have visa for native language teachers in Korea _ are obliged to submit a criminal background check and health data including HIV-AIDS and drug-test results.

Budimir Kujovic appeals

Budimir Kujovic appeals Thursday before the Bulgarian court of appeal in the city of Plovdiv against his arrest.
The trial will be closed for media and security measures will be very tight, authorities told reporters.
Serbian national Kujovic was arrested on December 30 on suspicions of masterminding a drug smuggling channel after Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin.
The arrest caused a scandal that jolted Bulgaria's Interior Ministry, which had issued Kujovic a Bulgarian passport although he had a 10-year ban to enter the country.

Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia

Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia's beach house in Brazil's Santa Catarina state fetched more than $1.1 million, while a second home in an upscale beach town near Rio de Janeiro sold for $910,000
A small ranch in Brazil's southeastern Minas Gerais state drew $370,000, according to the Web site of auctioneer Judicial Electronic Auction.
Still for sale are the swank Sao Paulo mansion where Ramirez Abadia was arrested last August and a plot of land in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state, worth a combined $1.5 million.
Bids were taken simultaneously online and in an auditorium in Sao Paulo, and buyers' identities were not released.
Ramirez Abadia _ nicknamed "Chupeta," or "Lollipop" _ is accused of leading the powerful Norte del Valle cartel. In 1996 he was convicted on drug charges in Colombia, and was freed from prison in 2001.
His re-arrest last year in Brazil followed a two-year investigation into Colombian drug traffickers who send large amounts of cocaine to the U.S. and Europe.

He is now being held in a federal prison in Mato Grosso do Sul state while Brazil's Supreme Court considers a U.S. request to extradite him on drug and racketeering charges.

David Shawn Grant

Wednesday, 9 January 2008

David Shawn Grant pleaded guilty to seven counts of dealing cocaine and will serve 25 years in prison, with two years suspended.

Jefferson County Prosecutor Chad Lewis met with Grant, 42, and his lawyer, Jeff Flores, at the Jefferson County Jail, where Grant has been lodged since his arrest in late October. Grant accepted the plea agreement in court Monday afternoon. Sentencing will be at 1 p.m. Feb. 5.
Grant, of 3818 Papermill Road, was one of the biggest cocaine dealers in Jefferson County, according to a police affidavit filed in the case.
Grant admitted to selling cocaine to confidential informants seven times between Feb. 28 and April 10, 2007. Four counts were A felonies, while three were B felonies. As part of the deal, the sentences for all seven counts will be served concurrently, Lewis said.
"It's a strong step in January to keep us on the current task of ridding our community of drugs," Lewis said.
Grant was to face trial on three different cases involving cocaine. As part of the plea agreement, the state will drop the two other cases.

Ba Khan

Security officials at the Torkham border crossing have seized more than five kilograms of heroin on Tuesday.
One and a half kilograms of heroin were recovered from a couple while crossing the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan, officials said. The Afghan national, named Ba Khan and his wife were taken into custody on charges of smuggling the narcotics. The woman was later freed while the man remained locked for further investigations. Another three and a half kilograms of heroin, packed in packets of a popular detergent powder making company, were seized from a handcart.
People crossing the border usually hire handcarts to carry their baggage, as they had to walk nearly half a kilometre distance before reaching the taxi stand. sudher ahmad afridi

31-year-old Montreal man

arrest of a 31-year-old Montreal man Monday near Steel Mountain on the province’s west coast.
The man was pulled over for speeding on the Trans Canada Highway and a subsequent search of his vehicle resulted in the seizure of 80 pounds of marijuana. The vehicle was searched by RCMP police service cog, Cak.
The seized marihuana equates to 120,000 marijuana cigarettes.
The accused faces charges of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and is being held in custody for a bail hearing.

Olga Escobedo Strom

Olga Escobedo Strom was stopped in a car, after leaving a known drug house. Officers found found a bag of heroin as well as marijuana inside the vehicle. Police say the 41-year-old teacher helped destroy the drugs before police could pick them up off the floorboard.

Parents told News 4 they planned to speak to the principal to find out more about the teacher and her arrest.

"The school's gonna do everything to make sure that the high quality of teaching and learning continues in that classroom," said SAISD spokesperson Carmen Vasquez-Gonzales.

Teachers at Crockett Elementary said Strom is an excellent teacher and cannot believe she was arrested for having drugs.

"The children are the one's that are going to feel it the most by not having their teacher there on a regular basis," said Vasquez-Gonzales.

For now, a substitute teacher has taken over Ms. Strom's class. Strom has been put on administrative leave, pending the outcome of this investigation.

The principal of the school is also sending letters home to the parents, telling them about the arrest.

14-year-old girl, who apparently died following use of cocaine

14-year-old girl, who apparently died following use of cocaine on Sunday, was being buried in Ptolemaida yesterday a 20-year-old woman was hospitalized in Alexandroupolis after allegedly taking the same drug.
The 20-year-old was unconscious but stable, according to doctors. She was hospitalized on Monday night after she passed out in the car of her 29-year-old boyfriend. He was questioned by police but then released as there was no evidence of him having supplied her with drugs.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old man believed to have supplied the 14-year-old girl from Ptolemaida with cocaine was given extra time to prepare his testimony. He is due to appear before a magistrate tomorrow.
Protesters yesterday staged a rally outside Ptolemaida Town Hall, calling for the creation of drug advisory and rehabilitation centers in the area.
Studies show that Greek schoolchildren do not usually purchase drugs directly from dealers but through middlemen who are often their acquaintances. “These are often friends or relatives of the pupils,” according to a spokesperson for the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA). “They tend to target kids who get a hefty pocket money allowance,” he said.
Cocaine is known as the “rich person’s drug” as it is relatively expensive – up to 90 euros a gram.
The bulk of cocaine entering the Greek market is smuggled in over the border with Albania, while some also comes from Bulgaria or from Turkey via Aegean islands such as Lesvos, Kos and Rhodes. Batches are also smuggled in from the Black Sea region and the Middle East, destined for Piraeus. Once in Greece, the bulk of cocaine is handled by the Albanian mafia, police told Kathimerini.

Yong Long Ye

Yong Long Ye, alleging he imported drugs from the U.S. and Southeast Asia and exported it across North America and to Australia.
One of Mr. Ye’s alleged associates operated a greenhouse on the outskirts of Vancouver that was jammed with 9,000 marijuana plants. Pat Fogarty, a police officer who oversaw the investigation, described being in the greenhouse as “like walking in a forest.”

Marc Emery

Emery is scheduled for an extradition hearing. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency wants to take him across the border and try him on charges relating to the marijuana seed business he ran flagrantly and successfully in Vancouver for years.
A conviction for selling seeds to U.S. customers would likely land him in prison for a number of years. That's an outcome he publicly dreads, but has been courting for ages.
His arrest almost three years ago at the request of the DEA is payback for all the embarrassment he's created. After years of advocating legalized pot, smoking joints in front of TV cameras and making a pile of money selling seeds around the world, he was busted and his business was raided by Canadian police acting on the request/order of the DEA.

Extraditions are based on a treaty in which Canada and the U.S. agree to deliver suspects across the border when the offence is considered a crime in both countries. A judge will take a look at the evidence and probably conclude there's a case to be made against Emery.
The federal justice minister can intervene and there are routes of appeal, so the case will likely continue for years.
Selling marijuana seeds might be a crime in both countries. But in Canada, and particularly in B.C., it's considered a trivial offence, on a par with jaywalking. The law is enforced haphazardly and rarely.
Emery went out of his way to get arrested countless times in B.C. and was snubbed by the authorities. He listed his occupation as marijuana seed vendor on his income tax returns.
His Vancouver shop was a fixture on the dope scene. Vancouver police politely looked the other way while various major U.S. media showed up and did profiles on the wondrous Canadian attitude toward pot. He led the B.C. Marijuana Party into several elections and no one raised an eyebrow.

Robert Brown ,Danielle Jones

Niagara Regional Police have charged two St. Catharines residents after recovering large amounts of drugs stolen from an animal hospital late last month.
Police investigating a Dec. 20 break-in at the Skyway Animal Hospital on Welland Avenue discovered $35,000 worth of powerful drugs had been stolen.
The drugs, including liquid hydromorphine and phenobarbital tablets, are used to treat humans as well as animals, but are extremely dangerous.
On Dec. 29 police arrested, Robert Brown 29, on an unrelated matter.
Police allege he had a number of items stolen from the Skyway Animal Hospital.
On Jan. 4, police searched a Duke Street home and recovered more of the drugs.
Police charged one resident and are seeking an arrest warrant for a second person.
St. Catharines resident Danielle Jones, 23, is charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, possession of a controlled substance, and failure to comply with an officer in charge undertaking.
Robert Brown remains in custody following his Dec. 29 arrest and faces charges of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and possession of a controlled substance.
Investigators believe a number of stolen drugs were distributed before police made arrests.

southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari has confiscated 167 kg of heroin during an operation in the region.

Police department in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari has confiscated 167 kg of heroin during an operation in the region.
The department said on Wednesday that Turkish policemen stopped a truck in the Yuksekova town of Hakkari Province where they found the drugs hidden in a secret place under the truck.
The department added that nine suspected smugglers were arrested during the operation.
Last week Turkish police confiscated more than 300 kg of heroin and hashish, detaining 34 suspects.
Turkey is a key transit route for smuggling drugs from Asia and the Middle East to markets in Western Europe.

Terrance Wayne Tucker

Terrance Wayne Tucker, 42, was found mortally wounded in the rear of 371 Maryland St.
City tax records say the residence is owned by Malcolm Amos. Police sources said he is the younger brother of Hells Angels associate Harold Amos, who is currently serving a nine-year prison term on a 2006 gun and drug conviction.
Police would not comment on Tucker's connection to Malcolm Amos or a possible motive for his killing. No one has been arrested and police still had the house sealed off Monday.
Tucker is the latest in what appears to be an almost unbroken string of killings linked either to street gangs, drugs or both.
Eight people, including eight-month pregnant Joanne Hoeppner, have been killed since last March. She was shot to death in her Magnus Avenue home last week. In Hoeppner's and four other slayings, police have yet to make an arrest -- an unprecedented number of cases for city police to still have unsolved.
Police declined Monday to comment if the violence is connected to gang war over the drug trade.
Const. Jacqueline Chaput said senior officers are looking at what's driving the violence and how police can address it.
Police Chief Keith McCaskill said last week one of the reasons contributing to the violence is that many people are too frightened to talk to police to report crimes or provide information to investigators.
Tucker was found behind the house at about 4 p.m. Friday with a gunshot wound to his upper body. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at hospital.

Huy Quach

Huy Quach, 33, a leading senior constable at a police station in Melbourne's east, is accused of four counts of rape, 11 drug offences and a charge of perverting the course of justice.
Quach also faces two counts each of misconduct and offering bribes or commissions.
The four counts of rape are against three alleged victims, one a woman police say was bipolar and at risk of suicide.
Documents before the court also outline 10 drugs charges involving ecstasy, methamphetamine and cocaine.
Sen-Constable Quach, who was stationed at Box Hill, is accused of trying to supply cocaine to a minor in Hawthorn last April.
Two charges allege he corruptly offered a bribe of beer to a senior constable to show favour to or withdraw a penalty notice against someone.
The court heard yesterday police needed extra time to prepare a brief of evidence because telephone intercepts have yet to be transcribed.
The charges are the result of a six-month investigation by Victoria Police Ethical Standards Department.
Yesterday, Magistrate Greg Connellan remanded Quach, who has been suspended from duty, in custody to appear in the same court today for a bail application.
A committal mention is scheduled for May 2.

Paul Akred

Paul Akred went on a spending spree after his partner, Kirsty Lamb, asked him to deposit £660 in her bank account last month.
But Akred, of Park Avenue, Barrow, kept the money and used her bank card and details to withdraw an additional £160, Furness Magistrates’ Court heard on Monday.
Prosecuting, Mr Philip Bates said: “Kirsty Lamb reported him missing in the early evening that day and was concerned for his welfare. But it began to dawn on her what had happened. When he got back, he was arrested on suspicion of theft.”
Mr Bates said police discovered Akred was carrying heroin, which he claimed was from a few weeks before his arrest.
Akred pleaded guilty to stealing £820 on December 7 and possessing heroin on December 8.
Defending, Mr Mike Graham said: “This is the result of a traumatic time they have both gone through together.”
Presiding magistrate, Mrs Sue Brunton, adjourned the case until January 28 for a pre-sentence report.
She said: “We are looking at all options for your sentence.”
Akred was granted unconditional bail.

Corey Arkee “Candy Man” Platt,Shane Keith Chancy,Donna Kristine Lanigan-Kaiser,Barbara Jeanette Allen,Vincenzio James Capizzano,Tracy Lynn Stopa,

Corey Arkee “Candy Man” Platt, 31, 324 San Marie Drive, Punta Gorda
Shane Keith Chancy, 34, 12774 SW Kingsway Circle, Lake Suzy
Tracy Lynn Stopa, 34, 12774 SW Kingsway Circle, Lake Suzy
Vincenzio James Capizzano, 26, 1440 Harborview Road, Charlotte Harbor
Barbara Jeanette Allen, 22, 735 Conreid Drive, Port Charlotte
Donna Kristine Lanigan-Kaiser, 34, 635 East Virginia Ave., Punta Gorda arrested
The drug deal was supposed to take place at a BP gas station at 3666 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, but was changed to the Circle K parking lot at 23292 Harborview Road, Charlotte Harbor when one of the suspects said his supplier would meet them there, the sheriff’s office said.
It happened at 3:20 p.m., when undercover detectives met with occupants in a Ford Explorer at the Circle K when a Hyundai pulled into the parking lot. The money and crack were then exchanged and traffic and K-9 units then arrested the three men and three women being arrested.
Chancy, Capizzano, Stopa and Lanigan-Kaiser were all charged with sale and delivery of crack cocaine. Lanigan-Kaiser was also charged with possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia; Platt was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia; and Allen was charged with possession of Xanex.
Chancy, who initiated the drug deal with undercover detectives in the Explorer, was additionally charged with possession of Vicodin, possession of methadone, possession of drug equipment. He was also charged with sale and delivery of Endocet and possession of Endocet stemming from a Nov. 9 drug sting at the same BP gas station.
Both vehicles were seized for forfeiture.

Budimir Kujovich

Budimir Kujovich, has been issued a Bulgarian passport despite being banned to enter the country.
"It is absolutely abnormal to issue a Bulgarian passport to a Serbian national, whom we claim to be a drug-trafficking boss," senior prosecutor Boris Velchev fumed on Wednesday in his first comment on the controversy.
"This way Bulgaria granted free access to Kujovich to the whole European Union," Velchev added.
Kujovich was issued a Bulgarian passport as part of a secret police operation, in which four tons of heroin were supposed to be seized in Bulgaria on their way towards Western Europe.
Interior Ministry Secretary General Ilia Iliev, who allowed issuing the passport, submitted his resignation at the end of November after months of waiting in vain for the heroin to cross the border.
Iliev then explained that he quits because he was tricked into signing a document, which breaches the regulations of the Interior Ministry.
A month later, Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin and police arrested Kujovic as the alleged boss of the traffickers.
After the arrest, Iliev finally revealed details about the operation and the tons of heroin, saying that the breaking of a channel for drug smuggling was after all successful.
After the scandal with the fake passport was unveiled, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov announced the case will be thoroughly checked and those officials who overstepped the law will be sanctioned.

Deputy director of the police in the town of Razgrad, Todor Dimov was dismissed for exceeding his rights in relation to the case. Claims that he was just a scapegoat in the scandal appeared in the media..

Kujovich was imposed a 10-year ban to enter Bulgaria in 2005 after being accused of running

Tony Mokbel

As his extradition fight wanes, lawyers for the murder accused have flagged plans to use the charter in their attempt to keep Mokbel out of Australia's courts.
Tony Mokbel will use the State Government's new human rights charter in a bid to escape a long prison sentence in Australia.
Mokbel's lawyer, Mirko Bagaric, who has co-authored a book on the charter, said Mokbel shouldn't be tried in Victoria because of his high profile.
If he is extradited, Mokbel's defence team will argue the charter forbids his being tried in Victoria because he is already considered guilty in the minds of potential jurors.
"What we'll be saying is, Tony can't get a fair trial in Victoria," he said.
Mr Bagaric said the charter would make it tougher for the courts to reject the argument.
"Usually, a court could say the community good outweighs the risk that he would not get a fair trial.
"This shifts the balance firmly in favour of the accused," he said.
The charter, which took full effect this month and looks set to be adopted nationally, enshrines the presumption of innocence in the law.
Mokbel, who remains in an Athens jail after his arrest in Greece last June, is running out of options in his extradition battle.
He absconded on bail before he was convicted of serious drug charges and was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court in his absence to a minimum of nine years' jail.
Australian courts, including the High Court, have knocked back his arguments against extradition.
If his final appeal in Greece fails on March 4, his team will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
If that doesn't work, they will use the new charter to bolster an argument that an accused person shouldn't be tried where jurors might be prejudiced.
Mokbel is wanted in Victoria on more than 20 charges, including two of murder.
A Department of Justice consultation paper says police were not convinced of the need for the charter.
Mr Bagaric said it would clash with some laws, such as tough graffiti laws, that conflict with an individual's right to free speech.
He said judges would have the power to declare a law incompatible with the charter.
It would then be up to Parliament to decide if the law should be changed.

Laguna Estate: J. E. L. and A. B. were charged and appeared in court on 9th January 2008.

As a result of a drugs operation codenamed ‘Billabong’, officers of the Crime Division of the RGP assisted by the Customs Dog Section, search warrants under the Drugs (Misuse) Act were executed at a bar and four residences within Laguna Estate and a further residence in Lower Castle Road.
At one residence in Laguna Estate, officers discovered 18 Slabs of Cannabis Resin weighing approximately 2.575kg. The occupier of this residence J. E. L. dob was arrested for the possession and possession with intent to supply these drugs.
At another house in Laguna Estate, officers found approximately 14.5 grams of Cannabis Resin and arrested the occupier A. B. dob for the unlawful possession of these drugs.
A further three persons were arrested on suspicion of being knowingly concerned in the supply of controlled drugs and were bailed out pending further investigation. Approximately £20,000 in cash was seized from two of the locations searched.
J. E. L. and A. B. were charged and appeared in court on 9th January 2008.

Kameron Baszler

Kameron Baszler, 26, pleaded guilty to a dozen counts of identity theft and one count of aiding in the escape of 28-year-old Tyler Duane McPherson from the Lane County Sheriff’s Forest Work Camp last year. She has used meth since her early teen years
McPherson was sentenced last week to 11 years in prison for 14 counts of identity theft. He also was convicted of similar crimes in Nevada, committed after his escape from the work camp, according to court records.
Baszler was named in all but three of the 26 theft counts lodged against McPherson, Deputy Lane County District Attorney David Montgomery said.
“They worked essentially as a team,” Montgomery said.
Baszler would approach a clerk or owner of a small store for help in making a purchase, giving McPherson an opening to steal the clerk’s purse or backpack, according to court records. The two then used the victims’ checks, cash and identity papers to get money for drugs, according to court records.
Baszler, the mother of six children,. Her children are with a relative or under state foster care.

81-year-old Australian woman has been charged with growing and supplying cannabis

81-year-old woman has been charged with growing and supplying cannabis after police launched a series of co-ordinated raids targeting an alleged drug ring that included her son.
The woman, from Young in central NSW, agreed on Monday afternoon to attend the town's police station, where she was charged and later released on bail.
Her arrest follows a series of raids on six properties in Young and Canberra on December 12 in which six other people were arrested, including the woman's 42-year-old son.
A number of the other people arrested were involved in the supply of drugs other than cannabis and were refused bail.

Billy Ray Hale

Billy Ray Hale, 38, from Whitesboro pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance-cocaine and was sentenced to six months state jail.

Derrick Richards

Derrick Richards, 48, from Grambling, La., was sentenced to 270 days in state jail for failing to comply with the terms of his probation previously granted for possession of controlled substance-cocaine.

Tiffany Michelle Bowen

Tiffany Michelle Bowen, 27, from Sherman pleaded guilty to delivery of controlled substance-cocaine and was sentenced to 21 months state jail.

Amanda Parker

Amanda Parker, 30, from Denison was sentenced to four years in prison for failing to comply with the terms of her probation previously granted for possession of controlled substance-cocaine.

Rudy Lee Adcock,

Rudy Lee Adcock, 39, from Porum, Okla., pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance methamphetamine and was sentenced to seven years in prison

Willie Bernard Jackson

Willie Bernard Jackson, 40, pleaded guilty to three felony drug charges — distribution of cocaine; distribution of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a public school (Susie Dasher on U.S. Highway 19); and use of community facility in a drug transaction.
Superior Court Judge Stanley Smith sentenced Jackson to 25 years; 12 in prison, followed by 13 years on probation.
At the time of his arrest in 2006, Jackson was on parole from the Department of Corrections. Jackson’s record with the state goes back to 1987 with multiple convictions for robbery, armed robbery and narcotics violations. His probation was revoked and he awaited the 2006 drug charges from Wayne State Prison.

Martin Flores Cardenes,Martin Romero Flores,Luis Angel Romero Flores,Antonio Jose Flores Perez,Victor Manuel Rios Herrara,Jose Felipe Carbajal Magana,

Arrested were Martin Flores Cardenes, 30, charged with possession of cocaine; Martin Romero Flores, 18, charged with trafficking more than 50 grams of heroin; Luis Angel Romero Flores, 24, charged on federal gun charges; and Jose Flores Perez, 39, Jose Felipe Carbajal Magana, 31, Victor Manuel Rios Herrara, 24, and Antonio Carbajal Magana, 23, who are all being held on a federal detainer for being in the country illegally.
At least one of the suspects has been identified as a member of a criminal street gang, county police spokesman Cpl. Trinidad Navarro said.
The county’s SWAT team and drug unit officers, along with agents from the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, concluded an investigation into the distribution of heroin to drug dealers in New Castle County on Tuesday afternoon with a raid at an apartment in the Red Clay Creek Apartments, at Grafton Drive and Greenbank Road.
When officers and agents executed a search warrant at the targeted apartment, they seized 95 grams of pure heroin, a small amount of cocaine and a .380 semi-automatic handgun.
The six occupants in the apartment, who were all in this country illegally, were arrested.
ICE agents discovered through an investigation that the heroin was being shipped through a southern city from an undisclosed location overseas and earmarked for distribution on the streets locally from Mexico.

Johnson Fayiah

Johnson Fayiah, a 26-year-old passenger on the flight, was arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle the Class A drug and was remanded in custody at Antrim Court this week.
The three previous cocaine seizures all resulted in the arrest of Amsterdam passengers.
In October, a 56-year-old Dutch man was accused of smuggling £30,000 worth of the drug. Another Dutch national was arrested off a flight in early December and accused of importing £30,000 worth of cocaine.
A Londonderry man was arrested in mid-December after travelling back from Holland. He is accused of trying to bring more than £2,000 of the drug in.
John Whiting, the assistant director for criminal investigation in HM Revenue and Customs, said the seizures are one part of "protecting our communities from the violence and corruption that always accompanies the trade in illegal drugs".

Jared A. Wright

Jared A. Wright, who is serving a seven-month sentence in the Navajo County Jail in connection with the case, recently was guarded by Frank Arvizu, a controversial figure in Operation Lively Green, a federal corruption investigation.
Arvizu, an FBI informant who posed as a member of a fictitious drug cartel, helped orchestrate the sweeping sting operation that ensnared dozens of military personnel, police officials and even prison guards.
The informant also was involved in one of the sting's more bizarre chapters, when FBI informants and drug runners hosted strippers and prostitutes while staying in Las Vegas, according to court records.
Wright's attorney and another Marine connected to the case were alarmed by the coincidence, though the situation appears to have been resolved.
Wright, who worked as a sergeant out of the Marines' Midtown recruiting office, began serving his time after being sentenced in November for transporting roughly 65 pounds of cocaine in February 2003.
Federal prison officials transferred Wright to the Navajo County Jail in Holbrook from a facility in Florence, where he had begun serving his sentence. Wright also has to pay $3,000 in fines, equal to the amount he was paid to run the drugs.
The former Marine told family and friends last week that Arvizu was working at the jail and had confronted him, said Marine Sgt. Jeff Edwards.
Edwards recently had military charges against him in connection to Operation Lively Green dropped, though officials are in the process of separating him from the service. The Tucson native worked with Wright in the recruiting office, where they became friends.

raided several properties and believe they dismantled a criminal methylamphetamine syndicate.

After a five-month investigation involving the Australian Crime Commission and the NSW Police Force's drug squad, officers raided several properties and believe they dismantled a criminal methylamphetamine syndicate.
Police have arrested five bikers during a raid on a drug laboratory in Sydney's north west.
Five men aged 57, 50, 48, 43 and 27 - were charged with drug offences. All are alleged to be members or associates of different outlaw motorcycle groups.
Police they found a clandestine laboratory, drug manufacturing equipment and chemicals at Annangrove. Specialist drug squad detectives dismantled the laboratory.
During subsequent searches at other properties in the north west, police also found a second laboratory, as well as $130,000 and weapons.
NSW Police Force Drug Squad Commander Detective Superintendent Greig Newbery said the supply of illicit drugs would not be tolerated.
"We will allege that this operation has led to the dismantling of a criminal syndicate involved in the illicit drug trade," he said.

"The people charged are alleged to be members or associates of bikie gangs and yesterday's operation is part of this organisation's ongoing focus on OMCGs.

"We believe these arrests will significantly impact on the distribution and supply of methylamphetamine in Sydney and New South Wales."

John Black Tibbs

John Black Tibbs a jury that spent six weeks listening to the story of John Tibbs’ days as an enforcer for one of the biggest drug merchants in Boston deadlocked on whether he killed 17-year-old Tennyson Drakes and seriously wounded two of Drakes’ friends.
In a better world, justice might have had more to do with what a street assassin like John Tibbs truly deserved. But in Courtroom 907 yesterday, it had everything to do with the few minutes that Anna Worrell and her aunt, Maureen Worrell, were given to remember a good and decent boy who had been reduced to memory.
Two months ago, a jury that spent six weeks listening to the story of John Tibbs’ days as an enforcer for one of the biggest drug merchants in Boston deadlocked on whether he killed 17-year-old Tennyson Drakes and seriously wounded two of Drakes’ friends.
Monday morning, as a new jury was being selected, Tibbs decided to cop to manslaughter. It wasn’t so much a matter of conscience as convenience. Tibbs already is doing 27 years on a federal murder and racketeering charge.
As a result of that federal sweep of prominent Boston gangbangers, Marlon Passley, the man who was initially convicted of gunning down Tennyson Drakes, was set free on the brokered testimony of John Tibbs’ drug boss.
Eddie Mills told the feds how he and Tibbs had cruised down Nelson Street on a motorcycle one night in August 1995, looking to kill members of the rival RSO/Corbett Street crew. Tennyson Drakes, an honor roll student at Dorchester High and bound for Wentworth, had the misfortune of standing on the corner of Nelson and Corbett streets when the duo came looking for blood.

Ronald Hayes,

Ronald Hayes, 38, of Roosevelt, watched undercover video of drug sales in the area, he said aloud: "I already know my fate. That's why I'm here."17 suspected drug dealers caught peddling narcotics on tape in sting operations on Terrace Avenue and Bedell Street in Hempstead had two choices offered to them by Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice: Go straight -- and go free -- or go straight to jail.

Fermin Ramos, Alexis Correa

Fermin Ramos, 20, and Alexis Correa, 26, both of Brunswick Street, as well as Gilbert Stackhouse, 43, of Montgomery Street, were arrested on drug charges just before 8 p.m. Monday, reports said.
After watching Stackhouse buy drugs from Ramos and Correa, cops stopped him at Montgomery and Monmouth streets and found he had two bags of suspected heroin, reports said. Correa, with eight bags of suspected heroin, was arrested at York and Brunswick streets, reports said.
Ramos was busted nearby and found with two bags of PCP, four bags of marijuana, and 33 bags of heroin down the back of his pants, reports said. While being processed, Ramos threatened the officers, saying he would have revenge, officials said.

Dafydd Ian Clack

Dafydd Ian Clack, aged 20, of Abercerdin Road, in Evanstown, pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, four counts of attempted burglary, two counts of theft and two counts of vehicle interference.admitting a string of offences while suffering from drug and drink-induced psychosis.
Prosecutor Stephen Donaghue told Cardiff Crown Court how Clack had entered the Gilfach Goch health centre in the early hours of September 2 by smashing the glass in the front door before making off with a computer monitor.
While on his way home to Abercerdin Road, Clack abandoned the computer monitor on a grass verge, and was then seen trying to enter several houses on Glannant Road, Coronation Road, and Heol Parc, including one belonging to 72-year-old Glenys Jones.

Cynthia Hunter and dried cat urine

Cynthia Hunter, 38, in Brandon, Fla., in October, and she remained in jail for 50 days until a lab finally concluded that the "methamphetamine" in her purse was really dried cat urine that she had legally purchased for her son's science project.

Robert Anthony Delvillar

Robert Anthony Delvillar was sentenced in federal court for new convictions of distribution of crack cocaine and being a felon in possession of firearms.
The U.S. Attorney's offices says Delvillar sold five firearms and distributed more than 50 grams of crack cocaine to a confidential informant.
When doing so, Delvillar was on supervised release for a prior felon-in-possession of a firearm conviction. A judge gave him an additional 20 months for violating terms of his supervised release on top of the 110-month sentence.

Tonya Bell

Bell, 50, of Oxon Hill, Md., pleaded guilty in October to multiple counts of aggravated assault while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon, along with a charge of cruelty to children. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Herbert Dixon gave Bell the maximum sentence allowed under the plea agreement she reached with prosecutors.She injured nearly 50 people when she plowed her car through a street festival while high on crack cocaine was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday.
According to prosecutors, Bell had gone on a crack binge in the 24 hours before the street festival, consuming $700 worth of the drug. She then placed her 7-year-old daughter in the back seat of her station wagon and headed toward Unifest, a church-sponsored street festival in southeast Washington.
At speeds of up to 70 mph, Bell made two passes through the area, knocking people to the side and under the car. A police officer who tried to pull her over said she was laughing as she drove. Her station wagon was finally stopped when officers crashed their scooters under the vehicle and a man jumped through the window to put the transmission in park.

Barnum Haitshan

Barnum Haitshan, a former Arizona Department of Corrections officer, was one of dozens of corrections officers, military personnel and other federal and state officials ensnared in Operation Lively Green, a federal corruption investigation.
Haitshan, 36, ran 20 kilograms — roughly 44 pounds — of cocaine in March 2003, according to his plea agreement.
In sentencing Haitshan last week, U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson also ordered he pay $4,000 in fines, equal to the amount of money he was paid to transport cocaine. He will have to serve probation upon his release.

Jessica Saenz, David Wixon, Michael Fagan, Shawn Mantz, Jamie Perkins, Garrett Weishaar, Glen Dale Berry, Gregory Chattam, Jesse Ian Adcock, Schylur W

The people who had warrants issued are: Jessica Saenz, David Wixon, Michael Fagan, Shawn Mantz, Jamie Perkins, Garrett Weishaar, Glen Dale Berry, Gregory Chattam, Jesse Ian Adcock, Schylur Watson, Felisha Mahoney, Wanda Steward, Laramie Miller, Genna D. Wooten, Rachel A. Whitlock, Autumn B. Wooten, Kimberly Sartin, Joseph M. Reynolds, Patricia Dickey and Michael Rowe.Some of the individuals who are on the list to be arrested today have drug-related history, said Owens. There are also some burglary warrants that go along with the drug arrests.

Raul Leon ,Ricardo Martinez ,Joshua Cruz ,Cesar Abarca ,Richard Valenzuela ,Salvador Perez,Thomas Durkin ,Eduardo Gonzalez-Gallegos ,George Fernandez

Mexican Mafia Convictions
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts as to seven defendants who were charged with participating in a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) conspiracy involving the Mexican Mafia, aka "La Eme," prison/street gang. During the trial, which began on October 15, 2007 and lasted more than two months, the Government presented evidence of numerous racketeering acts committed by the defendantsUnited States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts as to seven defendants who were charged with participating in a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization ( RICO ) conspiracy involving the Mexican Mafia, aka “La Eme,” prison/street gang. During the trial, which began on October 15, 2007 and lasted more than two months, the Government presented evidence of numerous racketeering acts committed by the defendants, including: murder, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, conspiracy to interfere with commerce through threats of violence, and conspiracy to launder drug proceeds.

Edwin Sanchez,Edgar Nieves, Jorge "Fat Georgie" Morales, Rivera, Ardilla, Jones and Estrada

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Edwin Sanchez, 34, of Laurel Heights, Shelton.
That's what Sanchez agreed to when he pleaded guilty Monday to operating for at least a decade what Assistant U.S. Attorney Alina Marquez Reynolds called "Bridgeport's most lucrative heroin trafficking operation."
The prosecutor said Sanchez obtained heroin from people like Gilberto Rivera, a former Latin King official; Jorge Orlando Ardilla and others in New York. She said he then distributed it to people like Luke "Mega" Jones, and Frankie "The Terminator" Estrada, both of whom ran violent drug trafficking rings in the P.T. Barnum housing project.
Rivera, Ardilla, Jones and Estrada have been convicted in previous unrelated cases and are serving lengthy federal prison terms.
Also pleading guilty Monday were Edgar Nieves, 36, formerly of Broadbridge Avenue, and Jorge "Fat Georgie" Morales, 33, formerly of Hollister Street, both in Stratford. The pair was described by federal prosecutors as the top lieutenants in Sanchez's operation.
Reynolds and Assistant U.S. Attorney Harold Chen told Senior U.S. District Judge Alan H. Nevas that they will recommend 30-year

TAMMY STREET

39, from Sherman, pled guilty to Possession of Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine and was sentenced to two years in state jail, probated four years, and a $1,200 fine.

TROY HESS

32, from Sherman, pled guilty to Possession of Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine and was sentenced to two years in state jail, probated four years, 50 days in jail as a condition of probation, and a $250 fine

JODY GORDY

37, from Denison, pled guilty, without a plea agreement, to Possession of Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine and was sentenced to eight years deferred adjudication probation and $1,000 fine.

DOMINIQUE CARROLL

35, from Denison, pled guilty to two cases of Possession of a Controlled Substance - Methamphetamine and was sentenced to 8 years in prison on each case. Carroll also pled guilty to Fraudulent Possession of Identifying Information and was sentenced to two years in state jail.

EMILY PRITCHARD

,37, from Denison, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance-Cocaine and was sentenced to twelve months in state jail

JEFF LENIN MASK

41, from Denison, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance-Cocaine and was sentenced to 18 months in state jail, probated for three years, and a $1000 fine.

CAROLYN DENISE PATTI

30, from Denison, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance - Methamphetamine and was sentenced to seven years deferred adjudication probation and a $1000 fine.

VICTORIA DANIELLE NASH

20, from Denison, pled guilty to Robbery and Prohibited Substance in a Correctional Facility-Cocaine and was sentenced to six years deferred adjudication probation and a $750 fine on each case.

PENNY LYNN PECOR,

42, from Sherman, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine and was sentenced to five years deferred adjudication probation and a $1000 fine.

STACY JO NORTON

32, from Katy, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine and was sentenced to five years deferred adjudication probation and a $1500 fine.

RANDY LEMASTER

21, from Van Alstyne, pled guilty to Delivery of a Controlled Substance-Alprazolam to a Minor on School Premises and was sentenced by the Judge to five years deferred adjudication probation and a $1000 fine.

SHANTEL LATRICE RYAN,

33, from Arlington, pled guilty to Possession of Marijuana and was sentenced to five years deferred adjudication probation and a $2,000

TERRELL WAYNE RHYNE

, 38, from Denison, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance - Methamphetamine and was sentenced two years in state jail, probated for four years, and a $1,500 fine.

CARLA RENA TURNER

41, from Gordonville, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance - Methamphetamine and was sentenced to two years in state jail, probated for four years, and a $1,500 fine.

RAYMOND JOSEPH SMITH

18, from Cartwright, OK, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance - Methamphetamine and was sentenced to two years state jail, probated for four years, and a $1,500 fine.

JAMES MICHAEL WILLIAMS

53, from Denison, pled guilty to Possession of Marijuana and was sentenced to two years state jail, probated for five years, and a $1,000 fine.

ASHLEY SHARDA WILLIAMS

from Sherman, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver- Cocaine, Prohibited Substance in a Correctional Facility, and Tampering with Evidence and was sentenced to four years in prison. Williams also pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance - Cocaine and was sentenced to two years state jail, and for failing to comply with the terms of probation previously granted for Forgery of a Financial Instrument.

KENNETH DEAN MAYES

, 37, from Pottsboro, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance - Methamphetamine and was sentenced to 15 years in prison and a $2,500 fine.

Ahmed Judge,Jevon Lewis, Mack Jones

Ahmed Judge, 31, Jevon Lewis, 33, and Mack Jones, 35. They are the last of seven men indicted in 2006 on charges of running a continuing criminal enterprise beginning in 1993 on Atlantic Avenue in South Camden. The sidewalk drug market generated such traffic among buyers that some members of the organization had to direct traffic, Carrig said.
Judge and Lewis also are charged with a using a gun and carrying out the October 2001 murder of Kenneth Fussell, shot three times as he was unlocking the door to his apartment on Chelton Avenue. The federal prosecutors said they will show Morales deducted $50,000 from a debt Lewis owed him for delivery of drugs to cover the killing.
Lewis then subcontracted the killing to Judge without knowledge of Morales, Carrig said.
Judge also faces state charges for the murder.
With almost no concrete evidence -- no wiretaps, no surveillance photographs, no hand-to-hand sales of drugs -- federal prosecutors are hoping to get convictions primarily with Morales' testimony. Morales' guilty plea to charges that could mean seven life terms if he had not struck a plea bargain, was secret until less than a year ago.
Morales struck such fear among his underlings, investigators have said, that none of the co-defendants were willing to plead guilty, fearing retaliation but not aware he had made his own deal with the U.S. Attorney.
The three defense attorneys raised questions at the preview of the government's case, challenging Morales' credibility and the lack of such basic prosecutor's tools as fingerprints on the handgun used to kill Fussell.
David Rudenstein, representing Lewis, acknowledged that his client made his living selling drugs, but said he was just one of dozens of street-corner dealers who purchased their supply from Morales. That supply came from New York and Arizona, all attorneys agreed.
Morales was so proud of the quality of his cocaine, said Justin Loughry, attorney for Mack Jones, that he killed one dealer in April 2001 because he represented a lower-quality drug as coming from Morales.
Loughry said Morales, whose whereabouts are being kept secret by federal agents, has been "cleaned up" by the prosecution.
"He will try not to sound like a thug. He will try to convince you he's honest and sincere, a changed man with a commitment to tell the truth," said Loughry.
But as soon as Morales was released from state prison in 2002 after serving a sentence for drug conspiracy, Loughry said, he violated his parole by contracting murders and consulting with his suppliers.
"He was selling drugs and murdering people in Camden, going to counseling and therapy as a condition of parole. He's a consummate expert at telling lies," said Loughry of Morales.
Rocco Cipparone, attorney for Judge, said that while ballistics tests show the gun used to kill Fussell was found by police in a field 30 yards from where Judge was hiding several blocks minutes after the shooting, they cannot put the gun in Judge's hand.
Judge told police he was hiding because he had been shot at that night. The trial is expected to last at least six weeks.

Anthony Terry

Anthony Terry, father of the 14-month-old-boy. He appeared yesterday in Lima Municipal Court for an initial appearance on a charge of trafficking in drugs.
Judge Rickard Workman denied Terry's request for a personal recognizance bond, setting bond instead at $50,000. Authorities said additional charges are possible. Terry will be arraigned Jan. 11, and a public defender will be assigned to his case.
Family members for Terry were outraged yesterday at the bond amount and stormed out of the courtroom.

submarine capable of smuggling up to 12 metric tons of cocaine

Colombian marines seized a makeshift submarine capable of smuggling up to 12 metric tons of cocaine through the Pacific to Central America, making it one of the largest such craft found, authorities said.
The nearly completed fiberglass submarine, found in a rural area in south Narino province, had space for four crew members, the Navy said in a statement.
Colombia's Pacific coast has become a key transport route for traffickers looking to access commercial sea lanes north to Mexico and the United States. Guerrillas, paramilitaries and traffickers often fight to control Pacific drug routes.
Rudimentary submarines and submersible containers dragged behind container ships are among the more inventive transport methods used by traffickers. Since 2005, Colombia's navy has captured 11 homemade submarines.

Canadians: Robert Michael Steinebach,Candice Maree Brayton

Robert Michael Steinebach and 24-year-old Candice Maree Brayton were arrested at the Brisbane International Airport yesterday after arriving on a flight from Hong Kong.
It is alleged the pair were trying to import between six and 10 kilograms of cocaine which was found in the false bottom of a suitcase.
Brayton appeared briefly in court this morning and was remanded in custody until a further committal mention hearing next month.
Steinebach denies any involvement but his application for bail was refused to allow federal police more time to establish his connection to Brayton. He is due to again face court via video link on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Northern Territory police have arrested two men at Darwin Airport for alleged drug possession.
Police say an estimated 65 grams of cannabis was found in a 22-year-old man's bag as he tried to board a plane for Groote Eylandt yesterday.
A 48-year-old man was found to have 35 grams of the drug hidden in his pockets on the same flight.

The 22-year-old will face court in Darwin this afternoon, while the 48-year-old will appear in Alyangula Court next week.

Brandie G. Montgomery

Brandie G. Montgomery, 28, last lived in an apartment along Cherry Street near Anderson Park. Prosecutors formally charged her Thursday with the class A felony manufacturing cocaine, narcotic or meth, class C felony neglect of a child, class D felony maintaining a common nuisance, and the class A misdemeanor taking child or endangered adult to nuisance.
Montgomery, who was initially arrested Dec. 26 on the allegations, was released from jail Thursday. She had told authorities during an appearance in Floyd County Circuit Court that she intended to go to an inpatient drug rehab program upon her release.
The alleged incident that led to Montgomery’s arrest happened Dec. 22, according to a probable-cause affidavit. One of her neighbors called police complaining of a strong odor coming from Montgomery’s apartment. Witnesses said Montgomery had told them her daughter knocked over a bottle of ammonia and they should leave their residence, but not call authorities or the landlord. She then purportedly left the premises on foot, records say.

Nathan Zavodny

Nathan Zavodny.Zavodny pleaded guilty to delivery of a controlled substance in connection with the distribution of methamphetamine in the Columbus area. He was one of a dozen people arrested in a roundup of suspected drug dealers in late-September.
Delivery of meth is a Class II felony, punishable by a maximum of 50 years imprisonment and a minimum of one year imprisonment.
Platte County Attorney Andrea Belgau told the judge that Zavodny had walked out of an out-patient drug treatment program last month and was not a candidate for probation. “Your prolonged drug abuse (from the age of 11) and your meth use have spun your life out of control.”

Patrick Kimball

Patrick Kimball of Eliot, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday to two misdemeanor counts of drug possession. Prosecutors say that in November, an officer helped Kimball pour gas into his car, then got in and helped start it up.
While in the car, the officer says he saw a bag of marijuana in plain view. Police say several more bags were found in a later search of the car and of Kimball.
Prosecutors asked for a 1-year jail sentence with six months suspended. A sentencing hearing will be held in one month.

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