Darwen woman arrested in Jamaica after airport cannabis find (From This Is Lancashire): "Debbie Kehoe, 45, is set to appear in court this week in the Caribbean country after she was arrested at the island’s main airport in Montego Bay.
Local police said that Kehoe, who is from the Sudell Road area of Darwen, was trying to check two holdalls in for a flight back to the UK when they she was stopped.
Officers said they found 30 kilogrammes (five stones and six pounds) in the bags.
The Foreign Office said that Kehoe, who was recently working behind the bar at the New Inn in Market Street, was with her partner, whose details have not been released, at the time.
Both have been arrested and charged and face years behind bars if convicted."

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Brothers arrested in Perry County for Black Tar heroin | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | Zanesville Times Recorder: "Joshua Wayne Losey, 22, of Glouster, came out of the apartment and got into a black Kia, English said.
Deputy Nick Sabo was able to stop the car as Losey stuck 35 balloons full of black tar heroin in his mouth, English said.
The driver of the car was a girl who had no driver's license, English said. Her name is not being released pending further investigation.
Losey was charged with one count of aggravated trafficking, one count of possession of drug abuse instruments, one count of domestic violence and one count of contributing to a delinquent.
His brother, John Michael Losey Jr., 26, also of Glouster, has been charged with one count of domestic violence.
English said she has seen an increase of black tar heroin showing up in the Junction City area.
'It's being filtered into Perry County from Athens and Columbus,' English said."

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Heroin dealers head to prison | MailTribune.com: "Two cousins with ties to a violent Southern California gang were sentenced Monday to lengthy federal prison terms for running a ring that sold more than $2 million worth of heroin locally before it was broken up last fall.
Ismael 'Chivo' Anaya, 28, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Medford to 21 years and eight months in prison, while cousin Eliot 'Alex' Delavirgen, 33, was sentenced to 13 years and four months in federal prison.
Senior U.S. District Judge Owen Panner also ordered the forfeiture of two vehicles, jewelry and more than $840,000 seized as illegal profits for selling a smokable version of the narcotic to mid-level dealers for distribution.
The pair were the top targets in police's 'Operation Goat Rope' last fall that used informants and federal wiretaps to break up the large heroin-trafficking organization centered in Medford for two years beginning in mid-2007.
A mid-level drug trafficker in the ring, 22-year-old Jerrett Michael Hooey of Talent, was also sentenced Monday to more than eight years in federal prison for his role in pushing the dangerous narcotic known as 'goat,' responsible for more Oregon deaths than methamphetamine and cocaine combined."

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Heroin found stuffed in man's suitcase: "man has been charged with importing heroin after being stopped at Sydney Airport with about a kilogram of the drug allegedly stuffed in a suitcase.
The 46-year-old Australian was arrested on Monday morning after arriving on a flight from Vietnam, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement.
It's alleged that Customs and Border Protection officers found several packages of an off-white powder concealed in the base and sides of his suitcase.
Initial testing indicated the presence of heroin but the precise weight and purity of the substance is yet to be confirmed, the AFP said.
The man was charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border controlled drug, namely heroin, an offence which carries a maximum penalty of 25 years jail and/or a $550,000 fine."

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Police say driver tossed cocaine out of car window | tennessean.com | The Tennessean: "Police arrested a man, on probation for a drug charge, after they say he threw a half pound brick of cocaine from his speeding car in South Nashville.A Metro Police officer spotted a Chevrolet Impala traveling 46 mph in a 35 mph zone on Una Antioch Pike at 10:50 p.m. Monday and turned on his blue lights to signal the driver to stop.According to police, Darryl Alderson sped up toward Murfreesboro PIke and tossed a white bag from the window.
The car hit another vehicle at the intersection of Una Antioch Pike and Murfreesboro Pike. Alderson stopped at Nashboro Boulevard and Flintlock Court and was taken into custody.
Other officers recovered the white bag, which was found to contain the cocaine brick.
Alderson, 20, of Vailview Drive, is charged with felony drug possession in a drug free zone because the cocaine was tossed within 1,000 feet of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, tampering with evidence, evading arrest, leaving the scene of an accident , and driving on a revoked license.
His bond on those charges is set at $80,000."

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BBC News - Major Derry heroin haul charge dropped: "Dublin woman charged in connection with one of the biggest discoveries of heroin in NI has walked free from court after the prosecution dropped its case.
Sarah Greene, 25, from Eaton Green in Rathcoole was arrested when the drugs, worth up to £2m, were found in a lorry stopped in Londonderry in July 2009.
A judge at Londonderry Crown Court directed the jury to find Ms Greene, who had denied involvement, not guilty.
Two other men who have admitted their roles are to be sentenced in October."

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Mick Jagger's former partner Jerry Hall has claimed that he regularly used heroin in the 1970s.

Hall, who has four children with The Rolling Stones frontman and split with him in 1990, says she managed to wean him off the drug.

Telegraph.co.uk reports that Hall wrote in her new autobiography: "Mick had told me he took LSD every day for a year in the '60s. He also admitted he was smoking heroin. I was disgusted. I told him I couldn't see him if he took drugs, saying, 'Go away and don't come back until you're straight'. He succeeded – he had amazing will power."

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In trial, reggae star says he lied about drug deals - St. Petersburg Times: "TAMPA — He was a reggae icon who toured extensively throughout Europe and was considered the 'voice of Jamaica.'
The other man was noticeably overweight and ran a frozen seafood business.
Yet reggae star Buju Banton felt the need to impress Alexander Johnson with talk of elaborate, million-dollar drug deals stretching the continents.
In the end it was all a lie, Banton said, a rivalry for superiority.
'I was trying to impress this guy. I wasn't going to let him outtalk me,' the musician told jurors during testimony in the third day of his federal drug trafficking trial Wednesday. 'That's what got me into this hot seat.'
Johnson was a government informer who taped conversations with Banton discussing a variety of drug deals over five months, including shipping cocaine from Panama to Europe in crates with seafood. The informer was paid $50,000 in this case, according to testimony."

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13 face federal charges in heroin bust at South Dallas homes | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Breaking News for Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas Morning News: "Several Dallas residents face federal charges after arrests last week in a drug trafficking operation based at two South Dallas homes.
Two men charged in the indictment, 38-year-old Torrence Key and 36-year-old Phil Kise, are accused of using a Hatcher Street home to manufacture and distribute heroin and cocaine. A man and woman arrested — Johnnie Myers, 55, and Sylvia Anderson, 56 — are accused of using a home on Jamaica Street to make and sell heroin.
During the arrests, officers found several firearms, including a machine gun, large quantities of cash, heroin and methamphetamine, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas.
Officials say the group began operating in May 2008.
The others charged in the indictment are Jose Aveja, 22; Sonda Eaton, 36; Tracy Johnson, 48; Valentin Morillos, 31, Randy Shelton, 41; James Strange, 52; Gregory Washington, 54, Hugh Washington, 36 and Marcus Washington, 38."

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Teacher's Aide Accused Of Dealing To Students - Regional News - Lehigh Valley Story - WFMZ Allentown: "Bangor Area High School teacher's aide and coach pleaded guilty last week to possession of heroin after the police say a coworker overdosed in his apartment.
Wednesday the same man was charged with corrupting minors after police say he bought, sold, and did drugs with students.
Last December police say 24-year-old Bangor High School teacher Gina Rizzo overdosed on heroin in her co-worker's Bethlehem apartment.
That triggered an investigation into wrestling coach and teacher's aide, Brad Washburn."

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Lower costs have turned Dayton into a distribution hub for heroin: "When the RANGE task force kicked down the door at 35 Oxford Ave. earlier this month, they found a house-full of sophisticated, high-powered firearms, drugs and $40,000 in cash.
And they upset a mid-level cocaine and heroin distribution ring operated in Dayton that reached into Springfield.
“These men were highly involved in the (drug) trade. ... This is a business, and these guns are the tools of the trade,” said James Dier, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent. “They arm themselves and take over neighborhoods. It’s all about firepower.”
Carlton Morice Adams, 30, and Tyrrelle Robinson, 22, remain in the Montgomery County Regional Jail on federal detainers. Both have drug and weapons convictions.
“Heroin sellers have a tendency to be violent,” said Dayton police Lt. Mike Wilhelm, commander of the Fifth District, which includes the Oxford Avenue house."

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The Associated Press: FIFA has no intention to investigate Moreno: "Franco Carraro, an International Olympic Committee member and the president of Italian soccer's governing body in 2002, said the arrest proved Moreno had problems.
'I fear that drugs didn't have much to do with what Moreno did in the 2002 Italy-South Korea game,' Carraro said. 'His refereeing was atrocious, perhaps for inability, but more probably for other reasons.'
Moreno ejected Francesco Totti for an alleged dive 13 minutes into overtime, and South Korea used the man advantage to score in the 117th minute and win 2-1. South Korea received a penalty kick in the game's opening minutes for a foul by Christian Panucci against Seol Ki-Hyeon, but it was saved. A 111th-minute goal by Italy's Damiano Tommasi that would have advanced Italy was disallowed, apparently for an offside.
FIFA opened an investigation into Moreno in September 2002 after a controverial domestic match in Ecuador in which he added 13 minutes of stoppage time without registering it. Moreno was suspended for 20 matches by Ecuadorean authorities, but FIFA closed its probe the following January saying there was no proof of any violation of FIFA regulations 'from a disciplinary perspective.'"

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CBP seizes canned heroin | heroin, friday, court - Valley and State - Brownsville Herald: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection have seized more than $1.5 million worth of heroin hidden inside aluminum food cans in two separate incidents, according to court documents.
The first seizure took place Friday when Lidia Nuñez, 20, was arrested at the B&M International Bridge with four fruit cans containing a total of 5.2 pounds of heroin, court documents show. The cans were found in Nuñez’s bag during a secondary inspection, stated a CBP press release.
The second seizure took place Monday afternoon when Margarita Gomez, 28, was arrested at Gateway International Bridge with six aluminum food cans containing 9.7 pounds of heroin, documents show. According to a CBP press release, the cans were hidden inside a 1996 Ford Windstar. Court documents state that the cans were in a compartment hidden behind a panel in the vehicle."

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