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.
The trial court ruled there may not have been probable cause, but if there was not, the good faith exception applied to save the search
With cities, counties and state agencies increasingly lacking budgeted resources, grant programs are an additional funding source to consider
Here’s what Oregonians can expect to see from the state’s recent decriminalization of small amounts of heroin and other street drugs
Anchorage police officers are ready to start handing out $100 fines to make sure taking a toke remains something to be done behind closed doors
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Brian Fritze died Tuesday following a pursuit after he was accused of beating an unidentified woman
Trooper was shot in the foot Thursday by another trooper who fired at an attacking dog
Police chief believes officers were fired because they messed with the son of a councilwoman
Officer found the valuable prints last week during a protective sweep of the condemned apartment right before city official were to board up the property
Prosecutors will appeal a judge’s ruling that they cannot use a coerced confession man gave to police while high on heroin
The officer declined the sale and called on-duty police officers from his vehicle
Many ham operators can locate a grow simply by taking a radio and portable antennae out into their neighborhood and using the radio to triangulate the exact location of the grow
30-year-old Renea Lucero was arrested last week when she called the detective at his department-issued cellphone and made the officer an unexpected offer
Police released video of the 2012 traffic stop shooting of an officer after the gunman received a 40-year prison sentence Thursday
Sentenced Friday to six months in jail for pointing a rifle at a sheriff’s deputy he mistook for a drug smuggler
Abandoned a proposal to use surveillance cameras for photographing vehicle license plates near gun shows in the United States to investigate gun-trafficking
Detective Jacob Grant is conscious but remains in critical condition after he was shot while on an undercover drug sting Jan. 9
During a search officers discovered more than 28 grams of cocaine stuffed into the prosthetic leg that the suspect was wearing
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Six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft
Cop revealed himself as a police officer to a drug trafficking suspect that had produced a replica gun
13.2 pounds of heroin were discovered packed inside six magnetized cylinders under an unsuspecting traveler’s car
Sheriff’s officials say agents had apprehended four drug smugglers and were searching for another when shots were exchanged between the fifth suspect and an agent
From a ‘pregnant belly’ to a Bible, it seems there are endless nooks and crevices for drugs to hide
The footage from the Wednesday shooting shows how quickly a relatively calm arrest can turn violent
A regional narcotics unit determined a ‘stain’ found on the Bible contained about 30 to 40 hits of heroin
Officer remains in critical condition after undergoing a third surgery
Matthew Christian Cash was high on PCP when he slammed his vehicle into a cruiser and two other parked vehicles
A Florida man’s crime was written all over his shirt
College student who died after being run over by a police cruiser on Cape Cod was high on alcohol and drugs
A man believed to have killed his ex-wife and five of her relatives killed himself with a combination of drugs after the slayings
Prosecutors say Soto’s role was to monitor the delivery of 346 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a shipping container
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