Narcotics

09 May 2007 -- Police arrested Tom Sizemore on May 8 for possession of methamphetamine.

The 45-year-old actor, on probation for a previous drug arrest, was taken into custody as he sat in a car outside the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Bakersfield, CA. Officers had responded to an early morning report that a man had challenged an employee to a fight while attempting to check in.

The man, Jason Salcido of Whittier, CA, is believed to be an associate of Sizemore's. He was found to be on parole and carrying what police described as a pipe for smoking narcotics.    » read more »

May 4, 2007 - GROVE CITY - Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation (BNI) have arrested 15 out of 17 suspected drug dealers operating in Mercer County.    » read more »

May 4, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE, FL – A Jacksonville man was convicted of conspiring to traffic more than 30 kilograms of cocaine, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced. A Duval County jury returned the guilty verdict against Carlos Alberto Bodoy for his involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring which supplied drugs from Mexico, New York and California to drug dealers in Duval County. Bodoy and four co-defendants were prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.    » read more »

May 2, 2007 -- PRESIDENT BUSH: It's been my honor to welcome a true democrat, a strong leader, and a friend, the President of Colombia. We had a long discussion.

First, Mr. President, Laura and I remember fondly our trip to your beautiful country. It was my second trip to Colombia, my first to your capital, and it was a very special occasion. And we thank you and the First Lady for such gracious hospitality.    » read more »

Encourages San Antonio students to “Make the Right Choice” against underage drinking

May 1, 2007 -- SAN ANTONIO – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today encouraged young Texans to “Make the Right Choice” and stay alcohol-free during the upcoming prom and graduation season.    » read more »

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 »

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 »