Federal agents have seized 300 pounds of crystal methamphetamine in Brooklyn, marking one of the largest meth busts in New York City history. The drugs, valued at one million dollars, were discovered in a tractor-trailer disguised as a shipment of papayas. According to the DEA, smugglers had cleverly concealed the meth in compartments sawn into the pallets. The driver of the tractor-trailer was arrested and faces numerous drugs and weapons charges.
How ironic, then, to learn the term is better applied domestically. It turns out, not only was the U.S. government subsidizing war through the tacit approval and use of drug money abroad, but that American special forces operatives were running drugs on the side, sometimes utilizing military equipment and vehicles, while also pocketing millions of dollars in discretionary funds, all without any greater or noble purpose than boredom and greed.
We see this multiple times in this week's episode, most notably when prison guard Kevin Jackson tips Mike off that his boss, Torres, has another drug shipment coming in on a gas tanker truck. Mike tells Kevin not to worry about anyone finding out he's been spilling insider info, saying, "If any of this lands on their radar, I'll handle it." Kevin, a savvy young man, replies, "I hear the words you're saying. They're just words."
Gang leader from Brooklyn gets 15 years in prison for gun violence, drug trafficking A gang leader from Brooklyn has been sentenced to prison for plaguing Upper Manhattan with gun violence and drug trafficking, according to federal prosecutors. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 29-year-old Hugo Rodriguez served as the head of the "Own Every Dollar" gang based in Washington Heights.
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A businessman who was jailed for 12 years for the importation of the State's biggest seizure of crystal meth faces having part of the proceeds from the sale of his €795,000 family home taken by the taxman, the High Court heard. Nathan McDonnell (44), who ran the long-established Ballyseedy Garden Centre in Tralee, Co Kerry, allowed his business to be used to store a machine containing more than €32m worth of the drug,
US President Donald Trump claims to be cracking down on drug gangs in Venezuela but has pardoned a Honduran drug lord serving 45 years in the US. As the United States ramps up strikes on Venezuelan boats and threatens a land invasion to fight alleged drug trafficking networks, President Donald Trump has pardoned Honduras's former President Juan Orlando Hernandez and released him from a 45-year prison sentence in the US for weapons and drug trafficking offences.
In his guilty plea, El Chapo's son told the judge how he kidnapped Zambada. After luring him to a meeting, he led him into a room where he was ambushed by several men, who tied him up, put a bag over his head, and loaded him into a pickup truck. They then took him to a nearby airstrip and forced him onto a private plane.
Asked if only Venezuela was in the Pentagon's crosshairs, Trump said he saw any country producing drugs for contraband as fair game, echoing previous saber-rattling directed at Mexico. If they come in through a certain country, or any country, or if we think they're building mills, whether its fentanyl or cocaine anybody doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack. Not just Venezuela, Trump said, adding that he heard Colombia was making cocaine, they have cocaine plants.
KAITLAN COLLINS: Tonight, President Trump just finished convening his top national security officials at the White House. The main topic, we are told, is Venezuela. And although the U.S. is not officially at war with that nation, the President has been hinting at U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan soil, he says, in an effort to combat large-scale drug trafficking. Now, that would be an escalation from the strikes that we've been seeing happening, offshore, in the Caribbean.
The FBI had managed to get eyes on Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian they suspected of running a violent cocaine-smuggling operation across South and North America. The episode at the coffee shop described by U.S. prosecutors in court documents summarizing their case against Wedding amounts to the only sighting that authorities have confirmed publicly, since Wedding first fled criminal charges in 2015.
