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Apr 10 2024
News
Colorado connected fentanyl, meth drug ring spanning two states
After 15 months of undercover investigations, the sheriff's office in Laramie County shut down a major drug ring that involved two states: Colorado and Wyoming. The criminals were moving fentanyl and other drugs from Mexico through Colorado along I-25 to Wyoming. The operation was called "Shattered Glass" which comes from the investigation's origins when a deputy noticed a jail door cracked
CBS News (Online)Apr 16 2024
News
Westword Walk-Along With DPD Quickly Leads to Arrest for Felony Menacing, Drug Distribution
Anti-crime and holistic community outreach walks may sound good on paper, but people often question their results.To put that approach to the test,joined a foot patrol with the Denver Police Department and Denver Dream Center, a faith-based nonprofit, on Friday, April 12, in crime-ridden locations around Capitol Hill . Leading the patrol were DPD community resource officers Kayla Knabe and
Denver WestwordApr 18 2024
News
Over 9 pounds of cocaine and more seized during ‘significant’ drug bust, SC cops say
Two men were arrested after multiple varieties and mass quantities of drugs were seized in a “significant” South Carolina bust, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. On April 9, members of the Greenville County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit raided an apartment and disrupted a drug trafficking operation, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The apartment is
The StateApr 13 2024
News
Tijuana drug violence bleeds into San Diego County with recent cartel shootings
Police tape blocks the scene of a deadly shooting that occurred March 27 at the Salerno Luxury Rentals apartment complex in the Otay Ranch neighborhood of Chula Vista. Three shootings that left two people dead and three wounded over the past couple of months in San Diego County were linked to Mexican drug cartels and involved a drug cell embroiled in a vicious dispute with its rivals in Baja
San Diego Union-TribuneApr 18 2024
News
IMF revises down Mideast growth outlook on war, trade disruptions
DUBAI, April 18 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday Middle East economies would grow at a slower pace this year than it previously projected as the war in Gaza, attacks on Red Sea shipping and lower oil output add to existing challenges of high debt and borrowing costs. The IMF revised down its 2024 growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to
ReutersApr 18 2024
News
'We Are on the Edge of a Regional War' in Middle East Warns EU Boss
European Union’s top diplomat says “stop it” and tells Israel to give a “restrained answer” to Iran’s massive air attack last week and not attack Rafah in his call to avoid a wider war. A region-spanning war in the Middle East will send “shock waves” to the rest of the world and “particularly Europe”, the bloc’s foreign services boss warns. Speaking in advance of a meeting of G7 group of
Breitbart NewsApr 12 2024
Opinion
‘Civil War’ and Its Terrifying Premonition of American Collapse
Going into Alex Garland’s astonishing new film, “Civil War,” I expected to be irritated by the implausibility of its premise. I’m not talking about the idea that America could devolve into vicious internecine armed conflict. That seems possible, if not probable. In one 2022 poll, 43 percent of Americans said they thought a civil war within the next decade was at least somewhat likely. I wouldn
Michelle GoldbergApr 15 2024
News
How Israel Can Respond to Iran Without Escalating the War
Here’s an idea for how Israel could respond to Iran’s massive missile-and-drone strike without angering its Western and Arab allies or widening the war: Start preparing and slowly roll out a series of carefully disguised cyberattacks that devastate Iran’s military-industrial complex. Remember Stuxnet? That was the joint U.S.–Israeli cyberwar operation that hacked into the Iranians’ nuclear
SlateApr 02 2024
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Oregon governor signs bill criminalizing drug possession
Gov. Tina Kotek has made it official: Drug possession will soon be a crime once again in Oregon.
On Monday, Kotek signed House Bill 4002, which both expands funding for substance abuse treatment and makes possessing small amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanor beginning Sept. 1.
In a three-page signing letter, Kotek appeared to address the limitations and challenges of a law that
Oregon Public BroadcastingApr 17 2024
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Prison for man who was in daughter's Minnesota-based drug smuggling ring tied to notorious cartel
A federal judge Wednesday handed down a 7½-year sentence to a St. Cloud man who played a part in his daughter's smuggling operation that funneled into the Midwest large amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine supplied by one of the world's most notorious drug cartels. Jeffrey Robert Knott, 52, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in North Dakota after pleading guilty to international
Star Tribune