NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.-Deangelo Mitchell is being charged with manslaughter after his brother, Wayne Mitchell ate cocaine that was hidden in Deangelo’s buttocks and died of a drug overdose. Wayne ate the cocaine to save his brother Deangelo from being charged with drug possession and Deangelo is now charged with involuntary manslaughter for his brother’s death. […]
There are several theories about why drug related violent crime, which peaked in the late eighties and early nineties and then drastically fell after the mid-nineties into 21st century. While some claim the drop is due to increased penalties for crack cocaine and the War On Drugs, The Atlantic reports that it is due to […]
PARIS (AP) — A French court ruled Wednesday that former dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to Panama to serve time for past crimes, more than 20 years after being ousted and arrested in a U.S. invasion. The elderly former Panamanian strongman hasn’t seen his homeland in more than two decades, years he spent behind […]
NEW YORK — A woman testified in a police corruption trial that the Brooklyn South Narcotics police squad would give her crack cocaine and force her to perform sex acts on them. The woman, Melanie Perez, said that she was introduced to other cops and even received a Christmas gift for her efforts. The trial […]
NEW YORK-Melanie Perez testified that police would give her crack cocaine and force her to perform sex acts in a recent police corruption trial in New York City. The trial has revealed a lot of allegations against the Brooklyn South Narcotics squad, including a former officer who testified that police would plant drugs on innocent […]
Recent findings reveal that some laced cocaine likely contains levamisole, a veterinary drug used for de-worming livestock, that will make your flesh rot off. According to the Department of Justice, some 70 percent of cocaine (most of it distributed in and around New York and L.A.) is cut with levamisole. Time reports that the average user […]
TAMPA, Fla. A Florida judge declared a mistrial Monday in the drug case against four-time Grammy winning reggae singer Buju Banton. The jury, which was deliberating since Thursday, had sent a second note to the judge claiming they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict. Banton was charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine […]
