Cops smashed three drug rings Wednesday that ran a blizzard of cocaine to upstate New York, authorities said.
More than $1 million in coke was seized and 39 people were arrested as a result of “Operation Southbound,” a nine-month probe of drug-running from New York City and Buffalo to Cortland, Syracuse, Watertown and the areas around Fort Drum.
LAGOS, Nigeria — A man was arrested at a Nigerian international airport after cops said he arrived toting roasted chicken with an unusual stuffing: $150,000 worth of cocaine.
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Mitchell Ofoyeju said Monday that suspect Vincent Chegini Chinweuwa arrived at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport this weekend from Sao… Continue
Authorities found more than 7,000 pounds of marijuana floating in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Orange County, Calif., on Sunday. The pot was packed into 160 bales atop a crate near Dana Point, and is estimated to be worth at least $3.6 million, according to CBS Los Angeles. A boater first spotted the suspicious bales floating about 15 miles from shore around noon on…
From the outside, 610 Morris Park Ave. in the Bronx looked like a nondescript apartment building — but on the inside, it was one big marijuana farm, police said.
Authorities raided the five-story building in the Van Nest section early Tuesday afternoon, pinching three people and confiscating more than 1,000 pounds of pot, police…
A rare yellow pear-shaped diamond is expected to fetch $11-15 million at auction next week, and the buyer will have the chance to name it, Sotheby's said Wednesday.
The so-called Sun-Drop Diamond is described as fancy vivid yellow — the highest color grading — by gemstone experts. It is the largest known diamond of its kind, at 110.3 carats.
Carmelo Anthony and his Miami Heat pal Dwyane Wade were the life of Tenjune's fifth anniversary party on Friday. According to the insider, the pair got 12 bottles of Ace of Spades champagne for their table "at $2k a pop. The ballers' pal LeBron James attempted to be more low key by wearing a hat pulled low over his head as he joined the duo. A couple tables away, Celtics'… Continue
An Israeli diamond dealer was robbed of more than $2 million of the precious gems by a group of cunning crooks who pulled off an artful heist in north Hollywood Thursday night.
The bandits tracked the gem peddler as he drove in his car and used two vehicles to intentionally cause a wreck - trapping the man and his jewels.
American and Honduran authorities intercepted a large haul of cocaine that drug-runners were trying to smuggle into the U.S. aboard a submarine-like vessel, the Coast Guard said Monday.
The big stash of blow - worth about $180 million on the street - was inside a semi-submersible craft that was seized in the Caribbean Sea July 13, authorities said.
This was one bag of cat chow that really delivered.
Authorities busted a top Florida real estate agent after discovering that he was attempting to smuggle $30,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine - in a bag of cat food.
Robert Morris, 48, was charged with drug trafficking and resisting arrest Wednesday after he claimed a FedEx box stuffed with about 260… Continue
A major drug kingpin, caught leaving a Times Square hotel with $1.3 million in cocaine packed in two suitcases, and 10 other narco traffickers were under arrest Friday following a 10-month wiretap probe, officials said.
Ricardo Gonzalez-Santiago was the prime target in the investigation into a crime ring responsible for distributing drugs across the city, officials… Continue
An 18-year-old in Virginia is accused of stealing $92 worth of milk from a Walmart in North Stafford, Va. -- while dressed as a cow.
Police told Potomaclocal.com that Jonathan Payton donned the costume, then got down on all fours and crawled into the store. He then grabbed a cart and headed straight to the milk aisle, piled the milk into the cart and rolled out of… Continue
A group of Malaysians posing as tourists was busted in New Zealand after authorities found nearly two pounds of methamphetamine stashed in each of their shoes.
Officials said the 10 traffickers were posing as an innocent tour group in order to try to throw cops off their scent.
But police at Auckland Airport got suspicious after checking the group's schedules… Continue
A teenager was brutally stabbed to death in the Bronx Saturday for trying to get a $10 refund after he was kicked out of a party, the teen's sister said.
"They killed my brother over $10," Starleena Vargas, 20, of Hunts Point, said. "My brother didn't deserve to die over $10."
Cops said they found Damien Martinez, 17, with a stab wound to the chest when… Continue
Social networking giant Facebook is now valued at $50 billion, thanks to an investment from one of Wall Street's biggest names and a Russian investor, according to a report.
Goldman Sachs and a Russian firm, Digital Sky Technologies, combined to invest $500 million into Facebook, which was recently named the Internet's most visited site.
A Cornell University student was busted with $150,000 worth of heroin over the weekend, the latest in a string of high-profile drug busts at prestigious universities.
Keri Blankinger, a 26-year-old senior, was caught apparently looking to deal nearly six ounces of uncut smack in a hotel parking lot on Sunday morning, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.
Police in Las Vegas are searching for a brazen helmeted gunman who strode into a casino on Tuesday and swiped $1.5 million worth of casino chips, all in a matter of minutes.
The thief, captured on video wearing a black motorcycle helmet with the visor pulled down and black gloves, rode up to the Bellagio casino and parked his bike outside at about 3:50… Continue
There was real drama in the Theater District as the feds busted a heroin mill two blocks from the Great White Way and seized $6.5 million in drugs. The raid ended with four arrests - three men and a woman - and netted 13kilos of heroin inside a duplex apartment on W. 43rd St., Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said.
The bust was the result of tips gleaned from a wider probe of heroin mills around the city, officials said… Continue
Give that dog a bone!
The keen nose of a Customs and Border Protection dog at Kennedy Airport sniffed out more than $1.4 million worth of heroin and cocaine on a passenger who had just arrived on a flight from Santo Domingo last week, authorities said.
Bernardo Garcia was busted trying to smuggle the narcotics last Saturday when Dex, a Belgian Malinois, signaled to Customs andBorder Patrol agents that his schnoz had picked up a scent,… Continue