SAN DIEGO - Tons of marijuana were seized after the feds uncovered a drug-smuggling tunnel that ran from a kitchen in Tijuana, Mexico, to warehouses in San Diego.
The passage, which was the length of seven football fields, was equipped with a rail car, fluorescent lighting and a ventilation system.
U.S. authorities followed a trailer from one of the warehouses to a Border Patrol checkpoint in Temecula, where they seized 27,600 pounds of…
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Right before going back to his home away from home in Arkansas, ‘The Incarcerated,’ better known as T.I. was on a mission to prove that not only was he a flawed saint, but that his flaws were beyond his control.
Nowhere did he make that point louder than in his cover feature interview for Vibe Magazine’s December/January issue.
On the drug habit he only discovered on the day of his probation revocation trial.
I had a lot of work…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on November 23, 2010 at 11:30am —
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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…
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United States border police involved in one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history discovered a 600-yard drug smuggling tunnel that was part of a sophisticated operation used to transport tons of marijuana between Mexico and southern California, authorities said Wednesday.
The tunnel was equipped with a rail system, lighting and air vents, stretching the length of six football fields underground…
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T.I.'s wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor drug possession charge, after she was caught with ecstasy and arrested along with her husband T.I., in Los Angeles on September 1st.
Both T.I. and Tiny were arrested on the Sunset Strip, after the rapper made an illegal U-turn.
When police stopped the rapper's Maybach, they allegedly smelled the odor of burnt marijuana and searched the vehicle's…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on November 2, 2010 at 12:40pm —
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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to file a felony drug charge against T.I. stemming from his arrest last month on the Sunset Strip.
According to a charge evaluation worksheet released Monday, deputies found four ecstasy pills on the 30-year-old rapper from Atlanta.
T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was on supervised release after serving 10 months in prison for federal weapons charges when he was arrested…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on October 26, 2010 at 11:57am —
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Police arrested three college freshmen after campus cops discovered they had converted a Georgetown University dorm room into a clandestine drug lab.
Cops and school officials said the students were using the room to create dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful hallucinogenic that is said to cause visions of alien encounters and trigger horrific, near-death sensations.
Early reports misidentified the room, located on the top floor of…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on October 25, 2010 at 11:35am —
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Rapper T.I. had his probation revoked by a federal judge today and was sentenced to 11 months in prison.
T.I. was busted last month on felony possession of a controlled substance ... while he was on probation for a 2009 federal gun possession conviction.
T.I. told the judge he needed help for drug addiction and begged not to be sent back to prison.
We're told one of the officers from Wednesday's jumper incident testified on…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on October 15, 2010 at 9:43pm —
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Eminem To Discuss Drug Addiction On "60 Minutes" tonight.
Slim Shady will appear on "60 Minutes" and he discusses his bought with drug addiction.
Eminem was interviewed by Anderson Cooper as he discussed his addiction to pain killers as well as his success in the music industry.
CBS's "60 Minutes" featuring Eminem will air tonight at 7 p.m. on the…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on October 10, 2010 at 11:47am —
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A mistrial has been declared in the drug case of Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton, who alleged attempted to purchase five kilos of cocaine from an FBI informant last year.
According to reports, the 12 jurors could not reach a verdict after four days of deliberating Buju Banton's guilty, prompting U.S. District Judge James Moody declare a mistrial.
The reggae singer, born Mark Myrie, was arrested in December of 2009, after surveillance…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on September 27, 2010 at 10:53pm —
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Parents are being urged to raid their medicine cabinets for unused prescription meds today in an effort to curb teen drug abuse.
New York's first-ever drug amnesty - designed to keep Oxycontin and Vicodin out of the hands of young people - will take place at more than 70 locations in the city, Westchester and Long Island.
"We have an epidemic of prescription drug abuse on our hands," said John Gilbride, special agent in charge at the…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on September 25, 2010 at 2:27pm —
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A fed-up judge tossed troubled actress Lindsay Lohan back into jail Friday for failing a drug test.
The "Mean Girls" starlet was immediately taken into custody after a morning hearing before no-nonsense Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden Fox.
No bail was set, and Lohan's next court date is Oct. 22.
"May I be heard?" Lohan's lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley asked the court.
"Nope," the fed-up judge…
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LOS ANGELES - Jail and rehab couldn't scare Lindsay Lohan straight - she's flunked a drug test, a source told the Daily News Friday.
The positive result on a court-mandated test last week could send the "Mean Girls" starlet back to the slammer.
TMZ.com reported the test was for cocaine.
Prosecutors declined comment, and Lohan's lawyer could not be reached.
Lohan, 24, denied it at first. "They're all nuts," she told…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on September 18, 2010 at 1:28pm —
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T.I. isn’t the only one blowin’ kush and rollin’ on happy pills… New studies show Americans are “partying” more
Oh no! Illegal drug use in America has risen to the highest level since 2002, according to a government report, driven by increases in the use of marijuana, ecstasy, and methamphetamine. Here are some of the figures:
* 21.8 million Americans (8.7 percent of the over-12 population) told survey takers that they’d used drugs in…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on September 17, 2010 at 11:54am —
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Hip-Hop star T.I. failed a drug test with his probation officer and tested positive for marijuana and codeine, the active ingredient in the illegal drink "Sizzurp."
T.I. was stopped around 10:40PM on September 1st for allegedly making an illegal U-turn on the Sunset Strip. When officers searched the car they found ecstasy on the rapper and his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle.
T.I. and his wife…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on September 17, 2010 at 10:31am —
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In the last few years, the fascination with the powdered substance has reached new heights. Kid Cudi's recent arrest for possession -- and his mind blowing "I was just doing some blow" justification during a Brooklyn performance -- and Kat Stacks exposing Soulja Boy's alleged affinity for blow have reintroduced the awkward union of hip-hop and cocaine to the public eye.
But when did riding the white horse become cool again?
After…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on September 3, 2010 at 12:50pm —
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A Yale University medical team is touting ketamine - a.k.a. the recreational drug Special K - as the latest miracle drug for the treatment of severe depression.
In studies with rats, scientists that the drug improves mood and seems to restore connections between brain cells damaged by chronic stress, according to a recent issue of the journal Science.
"It's like a magic drug - one dose can work rapidly and last for seven to 10 days,"…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on August 25, 2010 at 3:04pm —
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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,…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on August 18, 2010 at 11:43am —
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A gang of drug dealers - including one pusher who brought his toddler along while selling his wares - was busted Wednesday for peddling heroin and crack in a Crown Heights housing project.
The crew flooded the six buildings that make up the Albany Houses with drugs they sold in $10 glassine vials inside apartments, hallways and stairwells, officials said.
During the year-long investigation by the NYPD and Special Narcotics Prosecutors,…
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Added by WORLD WRAP FEDERATION on July 29, 2010 at 1:30pm —
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Former pin-up Kendra Wilkinson's life these days is more playtime than Playboy, but that suits the blond bombshell just fine.
"I'm where I always wanted to be," Wilkinson, 25, told the “Today” show Tuesday.
The reality star, who shot to fame as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends on E!'s "The Girls Next Door," says life as a wife and mother is "almost perfect," but wasn't always this way.
"It's been an uphill battle," she writes…
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