Tag: Drug-related crime
Disappearances rise on Mexico’s ‘highway of death’ to border
MEXICO CITY — As many as 50 people are missing after setting out on three-hour car trips this year between Mexico's industrial hub of...
Indiana man pleads guilty in 2018 crash that killed girl, 10
KOKOMO, Ind. — A Kokomo man has pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a 2018 crash that fatally injured a 10-year-old girl who...
Judge threatens to toss DEA agent’s plea in corruption case
TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge Wednesday threatened to throw out the guilty plea of a veteran U.S. narcotics agent who conspired with a...
DA: Probe into deadly drug raid ends with 2 more indictments
HOUSTON — A long-running corruption probe sparked by a 2019 Houston police drug raid in which a couple was killed has ended with new...
Connecticut governor signs recreational marijuana into law
HARTFORD, Conn. — Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday signed a bill making Connecticut the 19th state to legalize recreational use of marijuana, which remains...
Mexico president to investigate border shooting of innocents
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Mexico’s president vowed to investigate the border shootings that left 19 dead over the weekend, even as the latest homicide...
Iowa Supreme Court bars warrantless police searches of trash
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday banned police from searching people’s uncollected trash without a warrant, outlawing an investigative...
Authorities find escaped federal inmate in Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal agents on Wednesday captured a prison inmate who escaped from a minimum security facility in Tennessee, the U.S. Marshals Service...
Echoes of Breonna Taylor in shooting of Black man in Georgia
ATLANTA — Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near Atlanta when police serving a narcotics...
Prison break: 29 inmates escape federal lockups in 18 months
WASHINGTON — Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S. — and nearly half still have not...