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Comedian Fuquan Johnson died Saturday after overdosing at a party in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, TMZ reports. Two other victims, who have not been officially identified, were also pronounced dead at the scene. Meanwhile, fellow comedian Kate Quigley, who TMZ says lives next door to where the gathering took place and recently dated Darius […]
The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a record $1.4 billion worth of cocaine and marijuana at Port Everglades in Florida on Thursday, per CBS Miami. With the help of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Canadian officials, among others, 59,700 pounds of cocaine and 1,430 pounds of marijuana were seized from 20 separate interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea […]
Two weeks before it’s set to premiere on Netflix, the streaming service has shared the trailer for Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami. The six-part documentary series, doled out into 45-minute episodes, follows up 2006’s Cocaine Cowboys. Just like the original film, which centered on the Florida city’s drug war amid the rise of coke, this version is set to be […]
The Biden administration is backing legislation that aims to put a permanent stop to the harmful sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. On Tuesday, a hearing will see lawmakers engaging with experts on the proposed EQUAL Act (i.e. the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law Act). Ahead of that hearing, per a report […]
Security on a cruise ship found 69.5 pounds of cocaine stashed on board last week. Upon docking the vessel at a port in Florida, they turned it over to officers for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to a statement from that agency. CBP officers who were stationed at the Port Everglades seaport were alerted about garbage […]
When visiting a Florida beach, you never know what you might find. For one beachgoer, instead of finding a sea shell wash up on the sandy shore, they found $1.5 million worth of cocaine. Chief Patrol Agent Thomas G. Martin tweeted the findings, recording that the $1.5 million worth of cocaine weighed out to 65 […]
On Monday, authorities announced the seizure of tens of thousands of fentanyl pills, approximated at about 25,000, as part of a multi-million dollar drug bust in New York’s Westchester County. On Wednesday 28-year-old Carlos Vasquez was arrested in New Jersey by that state’s police in connection with the drugs. The New York Drug Enforcement Task Force […]
A high school teacher from North Carolina was killed last week when he was fatally shot while trying to steal from the house of a Mexican drug cartel member with his brother-in-law, WSOC-TV reports. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said Barney Harris, a Spanish teacher and varsity basketball coach at the charter school Union Academy, and his brother-in-law Steven Alexander Stewart […]
A Florida mother was hit with criminal charges this week after police discovered cocaine on her 3-year-old son’s Dr. Seuss book. The Smoking Gun reports Casey Quoka, a 24-year-old bartender from the Tampa Bay area, was arrested Wednesday evening on two counts of child neglect. According to police records, officers discovered a “bump” of suspected cocaine and a snorting straw […]
Elizabeth Banks is headed back to the director’s chair. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress/filmmaker has signed to direct Cocaine Bear—a Universal Pictures thriller inspired by true events that occurred in the 1980s. The outlet reports the movie will be written by Jimmy Warden and will be produced under Lord Miller’s first-look deal with the studio. Specific […]
