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San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatís Jr. has been suspended for 80 games after violating the MLB’s performance-enhancing drug policy. The league announced the news Friday, as Tatís continues to recover from a wrist injury that has left him sidelined for much of the 2022 season. “We were surprised and extremely disappointed to learn today that Fernando Tatís Jr. […]
Mexico City police announced a “historic confiscation” Tuesday in which about 1.6 tons of cocaine was discovered inside two freight trucks, per CBS News. Police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said an estimated $20 million worth of cocaine arrived at a port on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca from Columbia. It’s believed that only a portion of the shipment came into the […]
Lil Uzi Vert has shared some word of encouragement for the embattled Kodak Black. It was less than two weeks ago when Kodak was arrested on drug-related charges in Broward County, Florida. Authorities say they pulled over Kodak on July 15 after the highway patrol noticed his tags were expired and his tinted windows “appeared to be darker than the legal […]
Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was convicted of killing a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, was arrested on Friday by a joint law task force. Quintero, 66, was a cofounder of the Guadalajara Cartel and is portrayed in the hit Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was captured Friday night following a lengthy manhunt carried […]
The National Transportation Safety Board issued a statement Tuesday clarifying a previous report which said a 13-year-old was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that collided with a van carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team, per NBC News. DNA evidence shows the 13-year-old was a passenger in the vehicle, and his […]
Mexico’s army and National Guard announced on Thursday that they had conducted a “historic” drug raid on a warehouse in Culiacan, seizing a half-ton of fentanyl valued at around $230 million, CBS News reports. “This is the largest seizure in history of this lethal drug,” Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said. Upwards of 1,200 pounds of the […]
One of the men named in the Fetty Wap federal drug case accepted a guilty plea that will see him face between five years to life in prison. New Jersey corrections officer Anthony Cyntje, one of the seven individuals named in the drug case, filed his plea deal on June 30, 2022. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to […]
A judge has ruled in favor of three U.S. drug distributors in a lawsuit over the ongoing opioid addiction crisis. A federal judge made the ruling in favor of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, McKesson Corporation, and Cardinal Health Inc. on Monday. Per Reuters, U.S. District Judge David Faber argued in his ruling in the West Virginia-focused suit that […]
More than 250 pounds of drugs worth about $24 million were seized during an apartment raid in the borough of The Bronx in New York City Monday night, WABC reports. Authorities uncovered upwards of 75,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills, which are believed to contain fentanyl, inside a gym bag in one closet, and two duffel bags filled […]
A former El Paso police officer has been sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring with her stepfather to distribute cocaine. According to a news release from United States Attorney’s Office Western District of Texas, Monica Garcia, 24, helped Fred Saenz, her stepfather and co-defendant, stash and sell cocaine while she was on the job. […]
