Former mountain bike champion and newly self-confessed drug trafficker, Missy Giove, could face 40 years and a $2 million fine for her role in coordinating shipments of weed from Cali to the East Coast. She was busted in upstate New York earlier this year with approximately 400 lbs. of weed and on Monday, in federal court, admitted her full involvement. There’s a lesson to be learned here kids: stick to what you’re good at. |Times Union|
U.S. border patrol agents in Arizona looking for illegal immigrants found horses carrying bales of Mexican dirt weed instead. The human smugglers reportedly left their four-legged conspirators behind to avoid arrest. Almost 1000 pounds of low quality herb was discovered and according to authorities, the “horses and marijuana were held for further processing.”
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The Russian version of the DEA announced that it will share its information on Afghan drugs with U.S. authorities if they agree to respond in kind reports RIA Novosti. The head of the agency, Viktor Ivanov, apparently brokered a drugs for drug lords arrangement: “We will transfer to the Americans 175 brands of drugs made in Afghanistan. In exchange, we expect to receive from our U.S. partners data on 50 Afghan drug lords.” |RIA Novosti|
Approximately two tons of weed growing in the wild was collected and then burned in a massive bonfire by authorities in Iowa. While officials don’t think it was intentionally planted, people were taking advantage of the feral growth and picking buds. |kaaltv|
With the country still hemorrhaging and Detroit even poorer than it was before the economic crisis, it’s nice to know that at least one federal agency has a new pleasure craft to enjoy. Customs and Border Protection has been tooling around the Detroit River on their new tricked-out patrol boat. The 43-foot vessel sports four 350hp motors, a thermal camera, and mounted machine guns. So what’s the price tag for this kind of maritime fun? A lot: “The prototype costs about $550,000 and contains another $350,000 worth of electronics.” |DetroitNews|
Just like magazines are terrible for smuggling weed, same goes for foreign language dictionaries and cocaine. Postal officials in the Dominican Republic discovered the shipment of suspicious books that were bound for Spain. Apparently the multiple packets of white powder sewn into the lining were a dead giveaway. |DominicanToday|
A recent wildfire in LA that burned 250 square miles of a national forest and more than 80 homes has an obvious upside according to authorities: it also took out a whole bunch of guerrilla weed farms—Mexican ones. |AP|
Authorities in the UK seized almost 363 pounds of heroin at London’s Heathrow airport that was hidden in souvenirs from South Africa. |AFP|
Overall, arrests for weed-related charges in the U.S. decreased significantly for the first time since 2002, but this figure is still pretty damn scary: “One American was arrested on marijuana charges every 37 seconds.” |MPP|
Leave it up to the Brits to accurately sum up America’s historic failures when it comes to battling the proliferation of mind altering substances: “In June 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared a ‘war on drugs.’Â Drugs won.” |Guardian|
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