Posts Tagged ‘ Drugs ’

Boston police arrested two people in Dorchester on Thursday night for allegedly growing a five-foot marijuana plant in their back yard. First-floor resident Joanna Read, 26, allegedly told officers that “she does smoke weed” and later said that the plant was hers, according to the statement. Another resident, Nadir Khan, 26, later told officers...
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California wildlife officials say two men are in custody after a group of marijuana growers started to toss bags full of pot into a pickup truck belonging to game wardens they mistook for their suppliers. State Department of Fish and Game spokesman Pat Foy says two wardens in Tehama County were looking for deer...
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While police officers arrest pot dealers fairly frequently, Orem police officers heard a pretty unusual reason for the illegal activity during an arrest this weekend. The 20-year-old man said he was dealing the drugs to save up for the police academy. “It’s probably not the first time this has happened, but this is the...
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A Franklin teen is facing attempted murder charges after police said he choked and stabbed another man in what may have been just a $20 drug deal. A second Franklin teenager also faces a charge in the incident. Mark Hanson, 17, of 599 Old West Central St., Apt. C8, was ordered held on $10,000...
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A Washington state man who went to court to face a methamphetamine charge is in more trouble after authorities say he showed up with a bag of meth in his pants. The 33-year-old Bremerton man had to be booked and released from the Kitsap County Jail before Tuesday’s court appearance in Port Orchard. That’s...
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It was likely the most unique traffic stop two police officers from Elmwood Place police have ever had. Officers pulled over 32-year-old Colondra Hamilton for an equipment violation on Aug. 17 around 7:30 p.m. in the 200 block of Township Avenue in Elmwood Place. Officers found Hamilton to have her pants unbuttoned with a...
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It turned out to be the wrong number the 51-year-old Lindale woman was texting looking for a buyer for her marijuana. Instead of making a drug deal, she was arrested by the Smith County Sheriff’s undercover narcotics team, who she unknowingly had been texting. tylerpaper.com
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A Jefferson County man standing wrapped only in a towel in his front yard was arrested this morning, but not because he was near naked. Fearing someone was in his house, the man asked Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies to search the home. When they did, they found a pound of marijuana. “Deputies found no...
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A Broken Arrow couple was arrested Tuesday evening after Broken Arrow Police stopped a vehicle containing a rolling meth lab. Police say the department’s street crimes unit stopped the car in the 2200 block of East Kenosha at about 10 p.m. It’s a sad reality that meth lab busts are common in Oklahoma, but...
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An Atlanta man was taken into custody at the Fulton County Courthouse after deputies said they discovered 19 small plastic baggies stuffed with marijuana in the man’s pocket. Ricky Hefflin, 26, of Atlanta, told authorities “I don’t have anything” when they asked him to empty his pockets and walk through the security scanner at...
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