#narcotics-trafficking

#narcotics-trafficking

The superseding indictment alleges that Maduro and other top Venezuelan public officials have, for the past two decades, worked closely with international drug trafficking organizations to ship illicit drugs into the US while enriching themselves. The validity of the US complaint against Maduro and wife Cilia Flores is likely to be challenged in federal court in the New York on Monday over whether, as a foreign head of state, he can be put on trial in the US.

Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr, the alleged shooter, were found guilty on all counts and convicted of murdering the rapper, whose legal name was Jason Mizell and who rose to fame as a producer and founding member of the 1980s hip-hop group Run-DMC. Mizell and his Run-DMC bandmates helped usher rap into the music mainstream in the 1980s with such hits as It's Tricky and a cover of Aerosmith's Walk This Way off the best-selling 1986 album Raising Hell.

DUBLIN - A narcotics sales investigation into a convicted felon culminated Thursday in the 49-year-old woman's arrest in Dublin, as well as the seizure of three kilograms of cocaine and $15,900 in cash, authorities said. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency served a warrant on behalf of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office at a residence on Markleeville Road, according to the sheriff's office.