Henry Rodgers Republish Reprint Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate, once asked a group of children if they had ever seen cocaine and if they smoked cigarettes when he was the mayor of Burlington, while talking to kids as a part of his old television show. In an episode of Sanders’s show “Bernie Speaks with…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Police departments across the country are outfitting their officers with protective gear for drug busts to limit the threat accidental fentanyl exposure poses to first responders. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is taking precautionary measures to safeguard their force from accidental drug overdoses due to the increasing prevalence of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr A coroner revealed Tuesday a Spirit Airlines pilot and his wife, who died from a drug overdose in March, ingested cocaine cut with an elephant tranquilizer primarily found in heroin. Brian Halye, a 36-year-old commercial airline pilot, and his wife Courtney passed away after overdosing on cocaine at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Record cocaine production in Colombia is creating such a saturated market, gangs and traffickers are leaving excess coca leaves out in the fields to rot. Coca cultivation is dominating the agricultural market in Colombia after a decade of decline. Production today even eclipses the cocaine output of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield If you were wondering… Hmm, what could the Mexican government do it make perpetuate the sentiment of fear toward immigration worse in the United States, this Mexican official gets an A+. An attorney general from a Mexican state was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego for allegedly…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A dozen airport and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees were arrested in February for allegedly operating a massive cocaine smuggling ring. “During the course of the conspiracy, the defendants smuggled suitcases, each containing at least 8 to 15 kilograms of cocaine, through the TSA security system at the…
A cocaine sting operation that began over a year ago with the suicide of an investment banker who jumped from his high-rise apartment in May 2015 has ended with the arrests of over a dozen people, including a Fox Business producer, an executive at Chipotle and an employee at Merrill Lynch. Last year’s suicide led…
By JP Carroll President Barack Obama signed the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015 May 16 and not a whole lot of people took notice, with the exception of scared Colombian farmers. The new law makes it easier for the U.S. to extradite and prosecute just about anyone involved in the drug trade, which means coca…
The woman who was the RSVP contact for Senator John McCain’s reelection fundraisers has been busted for running an operational meth lab after a package containing 250 hits of Ecstasy was delivered to her house and signed for by her boyfriend. Authorities in Maricopa County, Arizona, served a search warrant at the home following the…
California Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman introduced a proposal in the state legislature earlier this week that would set up supervised drug consumption sites for users of heroin, crack, opioids, and other drugs. A committee vote on the measure was delayed, showing the reluctance of Eggman’s colleagues to take such a drastic step to address rising…