Drug trafficking

Senators Feinstein and Grassley also introduce legislation to extend authorization of $20 million grant program to help drug endangered children

April 25, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced legislation to increase the federal criminal penalties for drug dealers who entice children with candy-flavored methamphetamine and other flavored drugs.    » read more »

More aid to be targeted to social, economic, human rights efforts

25 April 2007 -- Washington -- The United States plans to focus more of its aid to Colombia on social, economic and human rights programs, while gradually decreasing its assistance for drug eradication and interdiction programs in the Andean nation, say two State Department officials.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2007 – The United States has a “five-pillar” plan to counter the Afghan narcotics industry, which supplies about 93 percent of the world’s opium and has a virtual monopoly over the global heroin market, a top Defense Department official said here today.

“The five pillars are public information, alternative livelihoods, eradication, interdiction and justice reform,” Richard J. Douglas, deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics, counterproliferation and global threats, told reporters at the Pentagon.    » read more »

April 20, 2007 -- WILLIAMSPORT - Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation (BNI) along with the Lycoming County Drug Task Force, have arrested two alleged street-level drug dealers for selling crack cocaine in Williamsport.

Corbett identified the defendants as Mark Summers, 24, 3007 Fox St., Philadelphia, and David Daniels, 45, 770 West 4th St., Williamsport.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2007 – The illicit, but lucrative, opium trade is helping to finance Taliban operations while placing a stranglehold on Afghanistan’s economy, the commander of U.S. Central Command testified during a Congressional hearing yesterday.

In fact, some military analysts credit the recent relative lull in Taliban activity to their participation in the annual opium harvest that’s under way now in Afghanistan, Navy Adm. William J. Fallon told House Armed Services Committee members.    » read more »

4/17/2007 - HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNEWS) -- An effort between the 350th Electronic Systems Group here and one of its small-business partners has yielded a big pay-off for U.S. and coalition forces waging the war on terrorism.

An Afghanistan-based fusion center they developed has helped officials seize more than 45 tons of narcotics and boosted the related arrest rate by 75 percent.    » read more »

New York Attorney General’s OCTF leads coordinated effort to shut down New York City-Albany drug trafficking ring

April 19, 2007 – New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, Albany County District Attorney David Soares, Albany Mayor Gerald Jennings, Albany Police Chief James Tuffey and State Police Superintendent Preston Felton today announced the indictments of 14 individuals charged with narcotics trafficking in Albany neighborhoods, stemming from an investigation dubbed “Operation Cash.”    » read more »

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher has announced an aggressive substance-abuse initiative involving a balance of law enforcement, treatment and prevention-education. The Governor has proposed a broad range of legislation and substance-abuse plans which will continue to tackle the drug problem in Kentucky.    » read more »