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Man sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug trafficking
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man has been sentenced in New Hampshire to 12 years in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine, the U.S. attorney's office said. According to court documents, Melvin Nooks, Jr., 29, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was part of a group that distributed the drug to customers in the...
Trump: US to deploy anti-drug Navy ships near Venezuela
MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro. The announcement came at the start of the daily White House...
British man charged with smuggling phony coronavirus cure
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A British man accused of smuggling a phony coronavirus cure into the United States was charged Wednesday with a federal crime, prosecutors said. Frank Richard Ludlow, 59, of West Sussex was charged in Los Angeles federal court with introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce...
US finds major cross-border tunnel used to smuggle drugs
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A large haul of drugs, including opioids, methamphetamine and cocaine, being smuggled from Mexico to California was seized from a cross-border tunnel equipped with ventilation, lighting and an underground rail system, authorities said Tuesday. The tunnel connected warehouses in Tijuana and...
US outlines plan for Venezuela transition, sanctions relief
MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration is prepared to lift crippling sanctions on Venezuela in support of a new proposal to form a transitional government requiring both Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó to step aside in favor of a five-person governing council, U.S. officials said. The...
Convicted murder now charged in fatal drug overdose
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A convicted murderer is facing new charges in federal court in an investigation that began with a fatal drug overdose. T he St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that 48-year-old Markquis “Two” Bryant was charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled...
Prostitution camp provided women in human smuggling case
PHOENIX (AP) — A co-defendant in a human smuggling operation told police that a prostitution camp in the Marshall Islands provided many of the pregnant women involved in former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen's allegedly illegal adoption business. Co-defendant Lynwood Jennet told police that...
A defiant Maduro threatens 'cowboy' Trump after drug charge
MIAMI (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stood defiant in the face of a $15 million bounty by the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges, calling Donald Trump a “racist cowboy” and warning that he is ready to fight by whatever means necessary should the U.S. and neighboring...
US indicts Venezuela's Maduro on narcoterrorism charges
MIAMI (AP) — Nicolás Maduro effectively converted Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups as he and his allies stole billions from the South American country, the Justice Department charged in several indictments made public Thursday against the...
Judge nixes appeal of man who tried to get informant killed
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to vacate the sentence of a Delaware drug dealer who tried to hire someone to kill an informant. The judge ruled there was no merit to William Boney's claims that his trial lawyer was ineffective and that a previous marijuana trafficking conviction was...
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