Drug Interdiction / Narcotics
The Drug Interdiction / Narcotics topic covers all aspects of drug enforcement, from highway or border interdiction to undercover infiltration into gangs or drug cartels. From marijuana and cocaine to prescription pills and heroin, this topic covers it all.
Mitigate the threat through enhanced controlled substance detection and analysis
Public safety leaders need to evaluate the impact of executive orders and policy pronouncements on their departments and communities
Trump’s Executive Order expands law enforcement’s authority, granting access to new tools and resources for countering cartel-driven narcotics operations
The initiative would create state-regulated “healing centers” where participants can experience the drug under supervision
Officers will collect breath samples from drivers suspected of being impaired by cannabis using the breathalyzer and then sending those samples to be processed
Operation Dark Nodes led to 27 arrests and the destruction of a portion of a “transnational” drug trade
After finding the man not breathing inside a home, the officer is seen administering Narcan and performing chest compressions
This most recent offense marks the fourth time in 2022 that Stephen Joel Horton was arrested — and ninth time since 2017
The officer was hospitalized as a young boy after being given candy laced with LSD at a local fair
“There’s a belief that if you touch fentanyl that you could receive a lethal dose or you could get exposed to fentanyl to the skin ... I’ve never heard of a case of that happening.”
Raman spectroscopy can identify dangerous substances in a way that’s quick and safe
William Jones was hit with drug trafficking charges after his girlfriend’s brother was found dead from an apparent overdose in his home
The suspect tried to go through TSA screening “with several bags of candy and miscellaneous snacks with the intent of boarding a plane,” deputies said
Officers seized nearly 44 pounds of alleged liquid methamphetamine concealed within 136 condoms inside four Halloween decorations
“Never before have we seized this amount of drugs with a street-value of nearly $2 million, as well as quarter of a million dollars in cash.”
Incident videos help responders identify the physical and behavioral cues of a severe behavioral emergency that may or may not have a criminal component
The president is also calling on governors to issue similar pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses
Vine Grove Police Chief Kenneth Mattingly got the idea for the vending machine after a call officers responded to earlier this year
What you need to know to stay safe when a drug epidemic hits your community.
“Let’s be clear: Selling drugs is not legal. Using drugs out in the open is completely unacceptable,” Mayor London Breed said
Mayor Michael Hancock allotted $611 million to the Denver Department of Public Safety in his proposed 2023 budget – 36% of the city’s $1.66 billion budget
“Using happy colors to make a deadly drug seem fun and harmless is a new low, even for the Mexican cartels.”
A court rules that an officer was justified in handcuffing a subject during a detector dog sniff
Corrections officers, our protectors, need your interest, research and compassion just as much as the infamous predators and anonymous inmates they protect us from
A Los Angeles Times investigation finds Proposition 64 triggered a surge in illegal cannabis on a scale California has never before witnessed
“We need Narcan on the streets and in the jail so, obviously, it’s a concern to us when that supply may be cut off.”
Former Hoover gang members, one of Portland’s most violent gangs, have taken to the witness stand for the government
Since the DA’s office filed a murder charge for a fentanyl-related death in Feb. 2021, prosecutors have pursued cases against 19 defendants suspected in 20 deaths
The trooper was shot in the face and chest when he and members of his narcotics unit were conducting undercover surveillance
Sheriff: “We are in a war we’re not winning. Americans have to stand up and say these social media companies are complicit in these deaths”
Drug dealers and users are using cookie emojis to order large batches of drugs or a tree leaf emoji to inquire if someone is selling marijuana
District officials also announced plans to create a safety task force, led by the LAPD, to use data to map out where and how frequently overdose incidents are occurring
The trooper was shot as he and other members of a narcotics unit were conducting surveillance in Detroit
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