Drug dealing

Rapper Casanova pleads guilty in NYC drug conspiracy case

May 11, 2022 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The rapper Casanova pleaded guilty to charges in a gang-related federal racketeering case that accused him of drug dealing and robbery, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The performer, whose legal name is Caswell Senior, was charged in a 2020 indictment against more than a dozen other members of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation gang.

Court: San Francisco can’t ban suspected drug dealers

May 3, 2022 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California appeals court ruled against an effort by San Francisco to ban four suspected drug dealers from a 50-square-block area in a city neighborhood rife with drug dealing and drug use.

Colombian man extradited to US to face narco-terrorism case

April 29, 2022 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian man was brought to New York to face charges Friday that he tried to broker deals for weapons with known drug dealing terrorist groups and hoped to murder a U.S. agent as a trophy.

Man convicted of neglect in South Bend boy’s shooting death

April 23, 2022 GMT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man has been convicted of child neglect charges stemming from the shooting death of his 1-year-old son by a 4-year-old sibling.

Woman who tried to hire hit man sentenced to 7 1/2 years

April 15, 2022 GMT

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a woman accusing to trying to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend to seven-and-a-half years in prison.

WLUK-TV reported Winnebago County Circuit Judge John Jorgensen sentenced 39-year-old Melissa Smith on Thursday.

San Francisco DA, others denounce mayor’s plan for police

By JANIE HAR December 21, 2021 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's top prosecutor on Monday pushed back on the mayor's call for increased policing to battle rampant drug dealing in one of the city's most vulnerable neighborhoods, urging her instead to put more money into housing and treatment that get at the root causes of crime.

Man sentenced to almost 4 years for trafficking meth

December 7, 2021 GMT

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A man accused of trafficking methamphetamine and was caught with six pounds of drugs at a Puyallup drug deal was sentenced Monday to almost four years in prison.

Omar Arellano-Hernandez, 28, will spend 46 months in prison for his drug dealing activity in Western Washington, according to the United States Department of Justice.

Federal grand jury indicts 16 for motorcycle club crimes

October 27, 2021 GMT

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted 16 men mostly from Northwest Indiana on charges they committed murder, robbery and drug dealing for Gary’s Sin City Deciples motorcycle club.

The 57-page indictment announced Wednesday alleges Sin City members and associates have operated a racketeering conspiracy since 2009 to traffic drugs and illegal firearms and terrorize rival motorcycle organizations.

Oklahoma appeals court reverses double-murder conviction

October 21, 2021 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday reversed the double-murder conviction of a Spencer man and remanded the case for a new trial.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued its 3-2 ruling in the case of Jamar Mordecai Simms, 27, who was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the 2016 shooting deaths of Kendre Smith, 25, and Chameeka Harris, 26.

12 pounds of fentanyl seized in San Francisco drug bust

October 21, 2021 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A drug bust by federal agents and San Francisco police netted 12.5 pounds (5.7 kilograms) of the deadly narcotic fentanyl and charges against 18 people suspected of supplying drug dealing operations in the city's troubled Tenderloin neighborhood, authorities announced this week.

‘White Boy Rick’ movie’s inspiration sues police for $100M

July 20, 2021 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie “White Boy Rick” filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking $100 million, claiming he was coerced into assisting police while just a helpless teenager.

Man who used children in drug dealing operation sentenced

July 15, 2021 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who used two children in his fentanyl selling operation has been sentenced to two years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Snolbert Ramirez-Sandoval, 24, a Dominican national living in Boston, was also sentenced Wednesday in U.S.

Arrests, seizures target Sinaloa drugs destined for Virginia

By MATTHEW BARAKATMay 26, 2021 GMT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A trafficking network that ferried drugs from the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico through California to multiple drug dealing organizations around the nation's capital has been dismantled, according to local and federal officials.

Police release details of Breonna Taylor investigation

By BRUCE SCHREINER, REBECCA REYNOLDS YONKER and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURNOctober 8, 2020 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police files released Wednesday show contacts between Breonna Taylor and a man she dated previously who was suspected of drug dealing, but raise new questions about what led narcotics investigators to the raid of her home that resulted in her death in a burst of police gunfire...

Full Coverage: Breonna Taylor

Hungary police seek drug dealing charges against 2 Dutch men

January 15, 2020 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian police on Wednesday recommended filing drug dealing charges against two Dutch men arrested in August at a popular music festival...

Boy, 10, Brings Home Pot; Caretaker Charged With Drug Dealing

James HalpinJanuary 17, 2018 GMT

KINGSTON — A borough woman is facing drug-trafficking charges after a 10-year-old boy who was in her care brought home a large bag of marijuana and a hydrocodone pill he found in a pink Batman bag, according to police.

Jury finds man not guilty of drug dealing

Renee BruckJuly 28, 2017 GMT

Jurors found a Madison man facing drug dealing charges not guilty on both counts - but did find him guilty of a lesser drug possession charge - after more than five hours of deliberation Thursday. The jury of 12 announced the decision to convict Benny Scott Cyrus, 42, of a Level 6 felony count of possession of methamphetamine following a three-day trial in Jefferson Circuit Court.

5 arrested at Country Hearth Hotel

Journal GazetteJune 1, 2017 GMT

Five people were arrested Wednesday night after Fort Wayne police were called to the Country Hearth Hotel in response to drug dealing.

According to police, officers were called to the hotel in the 2900 block of Goshen Road at 9:44 p.m.

Guilty plea on drug charges

Renee BruckMarch 31, 2017 GMT

A woman who was arrested earlier this month on drug dealing charges while out on bail awaiting sentencing in a prior drug dealing charges pleaded guilty and was sentenced in both cases on Wednesday.

Drug court grad among 4 arrested

Jamie Duffy | The Journal GazetteMarch 25, 2017 GMT

Perhaps the most telling things found in the dumpster trash recovered from a months-long drug investigation were the two "celebrate recovery/drug addiction" coins.

Alexander C. "Alex" McGrew, the 21-year-old facing multiple counts of drug dealing arrested Wednesday in a raid by the Vice and Narcotics unit of the Fort Wayne police, was lucky enough to be in drug court, according to court documents.

Deported US vets in Mexico hope for return under Trump govt

By MARIA VERZAMarch 9, 2017 GMT

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After manning a machine gun on a combat helicopter as a U.S. Marine during the liberation of Kuwait, Antonio Romo came back to the United States traumatized by the death and carnage he saw...

Alleged ‘major player’ in drug dealing arrested in Beaver Dam, police say

Bill Novak | Wisconsin State JournalNovember 16, 2016 GMT

A "major player" in drug dealing in Beaver Dam and Dodge County was arrested Monday night following a traffic stop.

Lacresha Lightfoot, also known as LA, was tentatively charged with party to the crimes of manufacturing/delivering heroin, manufacturing/delivering cocaine and delivery of a counterfeit narcotic, the Sheriff's Office said.

Man was dealing drugs with child in vehicle

By Den McLaughlin dmclaughlin@tnonline.comAugust 15, 2016 GMT

A Carbon County man was sentenced to a state prison term Thursday after pleading guilty before President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II to a drug dealing charge and admitting having his young child in the vehicle with illegal drugs.

Officers shoot, kill suspected Ohio gang ringleader

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSJanuary 27, 2015 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The suspected ringleader of a central Ohio gang facing more than 100 years in prison if convicted was shot and killed Tuesday after he opened fire on police, authorities said.