Lidcombe and Homebush arrests

Police arrested three men at homes in Lidcombe and Homebush, where they found the drugs as well as three firearms, a silencer, ammunition and magazines, precursor chemicals allegedly used in the manufacture of illegal drugs, and a number of MDMA tablets.All three were charged with...

Twenty people have been banned from visiting NSW prisons

Twenty people have been banned from visiting NSW prisons and some could face criminal charges following a crackdown on jail contraband. It's alleged the visitors tried to smuggle in weapons, drugs, cash and mobile phones. Justice Minister John Hatzistergos says they don't want to limit visits, but to make sure the prisons remain safe. “It’s important to sustain them whilst they’re in custody, particularly over the holiday period and also to assist...

Religious books = Coke

Drug smugglers used couriers to smuggle cocaine into Canada in religious books during the Christmas period have been smashed by customs officers at Pearson airport. Two drug mules were arrested in separate incidents this month after more than $850,000 in drugs were found in holy books packed in luggage entering the country on flights from the Caribbean, Customs officials confirmed. A 21-year-old visitor from Barbados was arrested after four kilograms...

Air Canada members of the Hells Angels Connection

Police believe the drugs originated in Mexico and that investigators were looking at a "strong link" to B.C. members of the Hells Angels.Air Canada spokesman John Reber confirmed that an airline employee has been suspended.Drug trafficking through the airports was so problematic...

Rolando Equihua-Estrella , Patricia Esquivel-Guerra

Agents arrested Rolando Equihua-Estrella inside the house. All three are suspected of drug trafficking.Federal drug agents have three people in custody for their alleged possession of 46 pounds of cocaine and $14,000 in cash that investigators believe to be the proceeds of drug sales, court records show.On Dec. 28, state police troopers arrested Javier Esquivel-Guerra and his wife, Patricia Esquivel-Guerra, after they allegedly were found with 11...

Kenneth Baker

Kenneth Baker, of the 6200 block of 12th Street Court East, who goes by the name “Dro,” sold an undercover officer crack for $100.As Baker was being searched, authorities say they found a baggie of leafy material that field tested as marijuana in the suspect’s front pants pocket. Baker was arrested on charges of sale of cocaine as well as possession of coke, pot and paraphernal...

Mac Arthur Dingess

A Belington man Mac Arthur Dingess is finally behind bars for selling crack cocaine after a three year long investigation.Sheriff Departments from three different counties all came together to bring down 65 year old Mac Arthur Dingess.On Saturday, Dingess was arrested for delivery of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver.Authorities from Barbour, Taylor and Tucker Counties were able to search his home after he sold crack to...

Mark Anthony Eggerson

Mark Anthony Eggerson , 23, of Utica, Minn., was booked into Winona County Jail on Friday after police allege he sold cocaine in a controlled buy. Prior to that, he’d been there for a litany of charges, including drunken driving and selling cocaine .Eggerson was charged Monday with four felonies that allege he sold cocaine to a police informant on four occasions in the past three months. The most serious of those charges carries a maximum penalty...

John Irizarry

John Irizarry, 44, of Schenectady, N.Y., and Leonard Rios, 37, of Brooklyn were arrested about 1:50 a.m. Saturday. State troopers working out of the Haverstraw barracks stopped them on traffic violations and found various drugs in the vehicle, police said. The two were driving a red 2003 Chevrolet minivan and heading northbound on the Thruway in Clarkstown when they were stopped. A subsequent investigation revealed the two had about two ounces of...

Patrick Toal

Patrick Toal, 20, of New City was arrested about 12:05 a.m. Saturday. He was stopped for a traffic violation while driving westbound on Route 202 in Haverstraw and was discovered with various drugs in his possession, police said. Following the stop, troopers from the Haverstraw barracks found about 2.5 grams of Psilocybin, commonly known as hallucinogenic mushrooms, 33 Vicodin tablets, a digital scale and a small quantity of marijuana. Toal was charged...

Justin Rouse

Justin Rouse, 19, of Hudson Falls, N.Y., was arrested about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. State troopers from the Haverstraw barracks stopped the vehicle he was in for a traffic violation and found more than 1.5 ounces of cocaine and a small amount of marijuana, police said. Rouse was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was arraigned in Clarkstown Town Court...

Sabrina Brown

Sabrina Brown, of Albert Terrace, Middlesbrough. fingerprints linked her to almost 200g of cannabis found at a Middlesbrough home.Brown admitted possession of a Class C d...

Marinaok Griffiths

Marinaok Griffiths, 39, admitted possession of the 184g of cannabis with intent to supply. She also admitted an identical charge for 208.6g of cannabis from July 28 last year, also relating to a search at her Parliament Road ho...

Elizabeth A. Watts

Elizabeth A. Watts, 29, was arrested on a Pulaski Circuit Court warrant. She was lodged in the Pulaski Detention Center on a $5,000/10 percent bo...

Tina S. Dye

Tina S. Dye, 40, of Janlyn Drive, Somerset, had originally received probation on a first-degree, first-offense drug trafficking char...

Trenda S. Brumley

Trenda S. Brumley, 38, of Harvey Street, Nancy, was cited for second-degree possession of a controlled substance and for possession of a controlled substance not in a proper contain...

Pamela M. Jones

Pamela M. Jones, 29, of WTLO Road, Somerset, was cited for possession of marijuana, third-degree possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance not in a proper container and operating on a suspended driver’s licen...

Jeffery L. Hudson

Jeffery L. Hudson, 45, of Dry Branch Road, was charged with trafficki...

Vertrees Brown

Vertrees Brown, 61, of Breezy Hill Drive, was charged with two counts of trafficking and possession of drug paraphernal...

Budimir Kujović

The leader of the gang, Serbian citizen Budimir Kujović, considered a major drug trafficker in the Balkans. He was said to have been involved in several drug laboratories and trafficking rings arrested in Bulgaria aged 39, was detained on December 30 in Plovdiv. He resisted arrest...

Henry Polanco

10 airline workers at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, appeared in federal court Tuesday on international drug smuggling and distribution chargeAuthorities say they've arrested 18 people in connection with a drug smuggling ring at JFK airport.The drugs were hidden in luggage on international commercial flights from the Dominican Republic to JFK, the complaint alleges.Once the luggage arrived, it was relocated to a "safe" area, hidden...

Umi Azlim Mohamad Lazim sentenced to death

Umi Azlim Mohamad Lazim has been sentenced to death by the Guangzhou High Court in China for trafficking in 2,983 grammes of heroin.Her mother, Umi Slaia Ibrahim, 45, said the family who did not get any news from her for one year and were shocked to receive a letter dated July 12 from Wisma Putra that her daughter was being held in China since Jan 19. She was sentened to death on May 15 and has two years from the date of conviction to lodge an appeal.We...

Man has been arrested following the death of Kevin Greening

A man has been arrested following the death of radio presenter Kevin Greening.The man, in his 50s, was held at the address in Wandsworth, south London, where Greening's body was found.He has been questioned on suspicion of possessing and intending to supply Class A drugs, and has...