Chaka Khan just won temporary custody of her 10-year-old granddaughter because the child's parents are drug addicts -- this according to legal docs obtained by TMZ.
Chaka filed a petition for appointment of guardianship last week -- claiming she has already "assumed on a day-to-day basis the role of the child's parent fulfilling both the child's physical and… Continue
According to The Daily Reflector, all charges that stem from an incident last November in Greenville, NC, including trafficking marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, were dropped against Wiz due to an error at the time of his arrest.
Along with nine of his colleagues, Wiz was cuffed last November, following a performance at East Carolina University, when… Continue
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.
Eight illegal immigrants from Mexico were arrested on drug trafficking charges after federal and Las Vegas law enforcement officials seized 212 pounds of drugs worth an estimated street value of $5.7 million in the largest methamphetamine bust in Nevada history, authorities announced Thursday.
Police also seized $280,000 in cash, six guns and nine vehicles used for… Continue
The FBI and NYPD busted a ruthless Fordham drug gang Wednesday morning, rounding up suspects in the Bronx, Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico.
The takedown of the "Creston Ave. Crew" was the result of a lengthy investigation documenting the sale of at least 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and at least five kilograms of cocaine from 2004 to the present.
A Mexican drug gang spray-painted a pointed message for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents next to a school on Friday: "Gringos (D.E.A.), We know where you are and we know who you are and where you go. We are going to chop your [expletive] heads."
Unfriendly messages aren't a new phenomenon in the drug war-torn parts of Mexico, but it is unusual for them to… Continue
If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill on Tuesday that requires benefit recipients to undergo drug testing.
Applicants for the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program who test positive for illicit substances won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they… Continue
Meet 41 year old Dexter White.
Dexter has made into the mugshot hall of fame after calling 911 to report his drug dealer had gave him incorrect change.
Upset and obviously high as hell, the South Carolina man called police on April 29th to complain about his unsatisfactory transaction and was promptly arrested.
A kindergarten teacher in Mexico is being hailed as a hero after a video surfaced showing her ordering her students to take cover and sing songs while suspected cartel gunman executed five people outside their building. In the video, the teacher, who has not been identified, calmly instructs her little ones to lie on the ground and stay down after… 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
Members of a notorious Mexican drug cartel stormed a remote jungle ranch in Guatemala and slaughtered 27 people, beheading 25 of them, authorities said.
The massacre, which stretched from Saturday into Sunday, took place on a coconut farm in the lawless region of Peten province, a porous region on the Mexican border known as a gateway for drug… Continue
Florida police believe a pair of starving children was left to fend for themselves in a tent outside their mobile home by their own parents.
The 3- and 4-year-old girls were discovered dirty and desperate for food and water at their Lake Butler home last week by a woman who knew the couple, authorities said.
The parents, Mark and Kathy Tucker, have been… Continue
Authorities busted a dozen members of a drug ring that sold more than $70,000 in heroin to undercover cops in a leafy Brooklyn neighborhood, officials said.
Edwin Perez, 32, and two of his closest associates - Francisco Perez, 33, and Jose Trinidad, 42 - were the main suppliers for Park Slope drug dealers, authorities said. They were collared on… Continue
Shyne Disses Rick Ross.
DJ Superstar Jay caught up with Shyne in a candid interview and dropped a few freestyles that seem to feel like he's getting that rust off him.
He also expressed his likes for some of the newcomers and had this to say about Drake.
"I think the Drake kid has serious potential to go down in the history of rap.… Continue
A city cop was charged with with attempted burglary and conspiracy Tuesday for an alleged plot to swipe nearly $1 million from a convicted drug dealer's former apartment.
Shawn Jenkins, 43, faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of conspiring to raid the Inwood pad with a police informant in May 2009.
Jenkins - who was being secretly taped -… Continue
A minor traffic stop cost a pair of suspected drug traffickers $4 million in stashed cash.
Armando Guzman, 42, and Francisco Javier Cruz, 44, were pulled over by Tennessee state troopers over the weekend as they drove their 2005 Freightliner tractor-trailer westbound on Interstate 40, authorities said in a statement Wednesday.
Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, who won a Grammy Award a week ago, was convicted Tuesday of brokering a cocaine deal with an undercover drug informant. A Tampa, Fla., federal jury found Banton guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine after deliberating 11 hours over two days.
Banton, born Mark Myrie, reached the zenith of his singing career… Continue
TAMPA, Fla. — Fresh off a Grammy win, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is set to stand trial again in federal court in Florida.
Jury selection will begin Monday in Tampa. Banton is accused of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover officer and faces up to life in prison.
The jury deadlocked in his first trial in… Continue
An international perfume dealer was arrested in Manhattan and accused of laundering more than $25 million for Mexican drug cartels, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Vikram Datta was busted during a meeting with an undercover agent on Saturday after a months-long investigation.
Datta used his perfume stores in Texas, Arizona and California to launder… Continue