US: DEA revokes license of large distributor of opioids
Dreamstime From Newsmax The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stripped one of the nation’s largest drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers Friday after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the…
Marijuana industry could revolutionise Caribbean economies
By Josh Surtees From NEWSDAY TT In March, police in Grande Riviere discovered seven fields containing 17,000 fully mature marijuana trees with a street value of $17 million. The crop was burned in an “eradication exercise.” Reports like these are…
Mexican cartels
Here’s how Mexican cartels actually operate in the United States By Christopher Woody From Business Insider The Trump administration has zeroed in on the threat of drugs and crime. But the relationship between transnational drug traffickers and gangs in the…
4 out of 5 people who had cash seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration weren’t charged with a crime
By Veronika Bondarenko From Business Insider The vast majority of people who have had cash seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency weren’t convicted of doing anything wrong. In a report released on March 29, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General…
Meet Hitler-obsessed drug smuggler
Meet the cocaine-addled, Hitler-obsessed drug smuggler who tried to take down Pablo Escobar By Christopher Woody From Business Insider Pablo Escobar is remembered as the face of the Medellin cartel, the Colombian criminal organization that flooded the world with cocaine…
Cayman Alternative Investment Summit announces final speakers
The Cayman Alternative Investment Summit has announced its final special guest speakers for the 2017 event: former DEA agents and the inspiration behind the popular Netflix show Narcos, Stephen Murphy and Javier Pena. The pair will end the Summit on…
The US DEA wants your help to catch these “Bad Caribbean Hombres”
From NAN News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Nov. 16, 2016: More than a dozen criminal men born in the Caribbean, or as the US President-elect would term them, “bad hombres,” are being sought by the U.S. DEA, News Americas…
Peter Binose: Mount Coke, or a Mountain of Cocaine, Ask Ralph?
By Peter Binose Mount Coke as most Vincentians know is on the hill adjacent to Argyle, with its lovely little Church, now short of a few worshippers after the government pulled their houses down and stole their land to build…
$24 million cash stuffed in buckets recovered at suspected pot dealer’s home
By David Ovalle The Miami Herald From Raw Story MIAMI — Miami-Dade police detectives raiding the home of a suspected marijuana trafficker unearthed at least $24 million in cash — all in bundles of $100 bills in heat-sealed bags stuffed in…
Veteran loses custody of children for using medical marijuana
By Cody Fenwick From Care 2 Petitions Tens of thousands of Care2 petitioners have signed a petition asking Kansas officials to return a veteran’s children who were taken away by Child Protective Service. This case is particularly heartbreaking, and reveals…
