J'can gets 15 years in Bermuda prison for drugs - News - JamaicaObserver.com: "A Jamaican cruise ship waiter who the prosecution said masterminded a plot to bring cocaine worth up to almost three-quarters of a million dollars (US) into Bermuda has been jailed for 15 years.
Ricardo Valentine Stewart, 32, from the Jamaican north coast resort town of Ocho Rios, was convicted by a jury last month but he continued to deny any involvement in the drugs operation when he appeared for sentencing on Wednesday, telling Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons that he had been set up.
'I am innocent. I have never tried to break the law. These guys don't like me for some reason,' said Stewart.
His lawyer, Marc Daniels, told the court his client would appeal the conviction."

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Charlie Sheen Smokes Joints Laced With Cocaine, Porn Star Tells All Radar Online: "The porn star and madam who supplied Charlie Sheen with 'hundreds' of women tells RadarOnline.com the Two and a Half Men star laces his joints with cocaine.
'I've seen Charlie do a lot of drugs,' the madam named Felony"

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Bruno Mars Gets Date for Vegas Cocaine Plea Deal - ABC News: "Pop star Bruno Mars told a Las Vegas judge Friday that he'll plead guilty in state court on Valentine's Day to a felony cocaine charge that would be wiped from his record if he stays out of trouble for a year.
Mars, whose real name is Peter Hernandez, and a trio of defense lawyers agreed not to contest police accounts that he possessed 2.6 grams of cocaine when he was arrested early Sept. 19 after a Las Vegas nightclub performance.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joseph Sciscento set the Feb. 14 date for his plea — the day after the 53rd Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles."

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A man convicted of hiding six pounds of heroin in his luggage on a flight from Ghana to Maryland has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Suleiman Zakaria, 27, of Pikesville was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. A jury convicted him in October of importing heroin into the United States.
According to testimony, Zakaria flew from Ghana to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in January of last year. He was searched as he entered the United States, and the drugs were found concealed in the lining of his luggage."

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FBI shoots suspected heroin dealer who tries to escape - JSOnline: "suspected drug dealer was wounded Thursday afternoon while attempting to escape arrest by an FBI agent and other law enforcement officers, according to an FBI news release.
According to the release, shortly before 12:30 p.m. the agent and officers with the local High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force attempted to arrest the man near south 84th St. and W. Schlinger Ave. on a state warrant for possession with intent to deliver heroin.
The man suffered a non-life-threatening wound when 'a shot was fired' as he attempted to flee and the incident is under investigation, according to the release."

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Heroin stashed in police car: "If you're going to hide your heroin -- a police car probably isn't the place to do it.
A western Pennsylvania woman is charged with stashing her dope in the door of a patrol car.
Tina Bioni was busted on a probation violation.

Police accuse Bioni of hiding 187 single-dose packets of heroin in the police car during her arrest.
A local paper (The Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa.) reports Bioni bragged about hiding the dope to a cellmate."

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