Drug Crimes

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Fed Pursuit of Hacktivist Aaron Swartz vs. Pursuit of Big Banks Highlights Tragic Imbalance

The theft of a few million articles from academic journals can carry a sentence of 35 years in prison. Meanwhile, big banks can rig interest rates affecting the entire global economic system, launder money for international drug cartels, illegally foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, an ... More >>

BEEZ IN THE TRAP

2012’s hottest dance trend keeps going

Former NYPD Officer Nicholas Mina Headed To The Hoosegow For Selling Guns To Drug Dealers

A former NYPD officer who pleaded guilty last month to charges that he stole several NYPD-issued firearms from fellow officers and sold them to a Queens drug kingpin was in court today, where he was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison.Additionally, former Officer Nicholas Mina -- who claims h ... More >>

Former NYPD Officer Nicholas Mina Cops Plea; Admits To Stealing NYPD Guns And Selling Them To Drug Dealers

A former NYPD officer admitted in court today that he stole several NYPD-issued firearms from fellow officers and sold them to a Queens drug kingpin over a six-month period earlier this year.The plea deal accepted by former officer Nicholas Mina, 32, includes a 15-year-prison sentence when he's sent ... More >>

El Velador: Life in the Necropolis

Natalia Almada illuminates the aftermath of Mexico's drug-war violence

Hammer Officially Dropped On Prescription Drug Traffickers; Sweep Nets Nearly 100 Arrests -- Including Two Doctors

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies dropped the hammer on the illegal prescription drug trafficking biz this morning in a sweep that netted nearly 100 arrests, including two doctors and one nurse practitioner.The most arrests occurred on Staten Island, where law enforcement officials s ... More >>

Assembly Members Want To Criminalize Fake Weed (Real Weed Still De-Criminalized In New York)

Members of the New York state Assembly want to criminalize fake marijuana that's often sold at head shops and tobacco stores -- which seems hilarious considering real marijuana has been de-criminalized in the Empire State since 1977.Governor Andrew Cuomo already has banned synthetic marijuana (meani ... More >>

Gangsters Love Scarface, 'Tough Life'

Today in El Diario, that newspaper at your bodega you always wondered about... Two recent crimes involving Scarface have left many wondering whether the gangster world is nostalgic about the movie, the Spanish-language daily reports.

Worst Criminal Ever Leaves $667,000 Worth Of Cocaine In Full View Of Cops

​The spin on this story at Hero Cop-loid the Daily News is all about the "quick-witted" and "eagle-eyed" rookie cops involved in this weekend's surprise bust of 29 kilos of cocaine on a street corner in Inwood. Kudos to them; that's a huge coup for 4 p.m. on an otherwise-uneventful Saturday pa ... More >>

"Drug Loo" Automates Rectal Drug Removal, Grossly

​Think of the grossest thing you can come up with. No, not that. Not that either! Ew, dude. Yes, the grossest thing is reaching up into a drug mule's rectum and removing drugs they've stored there in an attempt to smuggle them hassle-free through airports. Thanks to modern technology, the good pe ... More >>

Accused Oxy Dealers Allegedly Sold Pills From an Ice Cream Truck

via Roadsidepictures​On the heels of the news that the amount of oxycodone prescriptions filled in New York doubled between 2007 and 2010 comes the report of a Staten Island operation that allegedly sold the painkiller from the back of an ice cream truck. Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget B ... More >>

Robbers Allegedly Used Onions to Torture, Teary-Eyed Victims Insist

"Oh God, not the bloomin' onion. Anything but the bloomin' onion!"​A Queens-based robbery syndicate is accused of torturing their victims by stuffing their heads into bags filled with smelly onions. The Daily News reports that Erick Mejia and his crew were allegedly responsible for a number of ... More >>

Sex Parties and Pot Debase Katharine Hepburn's Park Bench

​There is a really strange, only-in-New-York-type sentence in today's New York Post and it conveniently includes sex, drugs and Katharine Hepburn, all in one place. Here, just read it: "A Manhattan park bench donated by the late actress' heirs has become a recent hotbed for raunch and pot, wit ... More >>

Terror Plot: DEA Stings Seven in International Scheme to Use Drug Money to Buy Weapons for the Taliban

Seven men alleged to be narcotics and weapons traffickers in West Africa and Eastern Europe have been indicted in federal court in Manhattan for a plot to move tons of heroin and cocaine from Afghanistan to the United States, and using the proceeds to purchase weapons for use by the Taliban, federal ... More >>

Fake Cocaine Is The Worst Drug Ever

​Eighteen Long Islanders were busted for selling cocaine this week. Nothing strange about this typical drug bust, except that they were also arrested for selling fake cocaine. The New York Post reports that "the group had in its possession 26 ounces of fake cocaine, made up of a combination of ... More >>

Man Busted With 513 Pounds of Pot After Running Red Light

Merry Christmas, someone: A lot of pot.​It really is all about the little things. For example, when you have 513 pounds of marijiuana in your minivan, don't run a red light. Make sure you signal properly. And, definitely don't run from the cops -- they hate that. These are all lessons we can l ... More >>

Santos Party House, Shuttered Since Thursday Over Drug Charges, Will Reopen Tomorrow

​So says the beleaguered club's Twitter account, a statement confirmed by a club spokesman who tells us that, starting tomorrow, "we're officially allowed to be open." Closed Thursday night in a police raid over third party drug charges that date back to June, July, and August, Santos will hav ... More >>

Feds Bust 20-Year Drug Ring for Funneling Pot to New York

​The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York just announced charges against 50 suspects for their roles in a "massive" marijuana trafficking ring that has funneled "ton-quantities" of pot from Florida and California to New York since 1990.

Over the Hedge: Investment Banker Busted Farming the Green

​Here's a hilarious story coming the internet's way from Zombie Forbes/Slant: an executive at a billion-dollar hedge fund was caught running an extensive marijuana farm out of her house. Her boyfriends insists the cops have it all wrong; they're just farming goats, he claims. Clients of the Co ... More >>

Paris Hilton Arrested For Cocaine Posession, Has a Drug Problem or At Least a Fame Problem

​It's been a minute since we've heard from Paris Hilton in any big way, but it's not for her lack of trying. In July, at the World Cup, she was allegedly detained for holding a bit of weed; she was subsequently released without charges or publicity. (It was a holiday weekend, and the World Cup ... More >>

Staten Island teacher struck by stoned model dies in hospital

​Daniel Kelley, the special education teacher who was struck Tuesday by a car driven by a Brooklyn woman under the influence of painkillers, an anti-anxiety drug and a sleeping pill, died this morning in Staten Island University Hospital. He was 23 years old.

Clip Job: Kesey Reappears, Is Busted

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 27, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 2 Kesey Reappears, Is Jailed in California Ken Kesey has been busted. The elusive novelist, who returned from exile in Mexico two weeks ago to remain in the U.S. "as a fugitive and as salt in the woun ... More >>

Sanitation Commissioner's son ducks his sanitation job

​The News says they've obtained personnel records showing that John Doherty Jr., son of Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, has been cited 12 times and had 128 hours of wages docked for unapproved absences from the job. The citations resulted from Doherty failing to document an emergency wit ... More >>

Get Your Cuchifrito, Your Cocaine

Calle Luna restaurant in Jersey City has not only been doing big business in pernil and pasteles (which Eating in Translation thought were particularly fine), but it's also allegedly been peddling cocaine, to the tune of $35,000 each week. An investigation of the drug ring operating out of the resta ... More >>

THE HIGH LIFE

See  Pineapple Express the way Mother Nature intended

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

What comes after meth-lab/bodega?

FAMILY BUSINESS

Francis Ford Coppola restores two of his classics

When Cops Go Bad Does the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Even Notice?

NYPD Busts Ass

Were police really busting a drug ring when it rounded up Mr. Black's colorful crew?

The Fudgitive

Crack maker to cake baker: One sweet tale of a drug kingpin's decade on the lam

New Jack Comeback

Can a series of six-minute web films revive Barry Michael Cooper's storied career?

Welcome to Florida. Here's Some Cocaine.

'Al Otro Lado'

Name Games

Cause for concern, wonderment: Leader of the free world calls the Russian leader Pootie-Poot

This Made Ashcroft Gag

Translator keeps blowing 9-11 whistle on FBI; U.S. Keeps shutting her up

Drug Through the Mud

A Way Station For Dope, Haiti Again Gets The Wrong Kind Of Interference

Junkie Retread

Traffic's crowded with ideas, but imaginative gridlock keeps them from going anywhere

Carnival of Roles

Almost Famous

HarperCollins Author Kidnapped in Colombia

The Real Top 25

The Worst of the Best in College Football

Tulia Blues

How the Lingering Effects of a Massive Drug Bust Devastated One Family in a Small Texas Town

A Time for Mercy

Rabbi Gets Probation for Medical Marijuana

Trade-Offs

Drug Ballads

Drug War Goes on Trial

Mexican Banker Sues 'Narco News'

NYPD Storm Troopers

A Drug Bust at the Wrong House—Again

The Night Shift

Undercover in New York’s 'Compton East'

Sweet Release

The INS Finally Frees Lulseged Dhine, But Other Immigrant Detainees Fight On

Freedom Fighters

An Unlikely Group of Prisoners' Relatives Battles the Rockefeller Drug Laws