-from azcentral.com-

By Veronica Sanchez

Arizona became the center of an international drug bust Tuesday, linking 20 Valley meth labs to a chemical supplier in Scotland.

Scotland Yard was involved in the investigation. Investigators went after a company that turned over their client list. There are 20 homes in Arizona that had links to this online drug operation.

At one location near McClintock and Baseline in Tempe, one suspect sat in handcuffs while undercover detectives used rubber gloves to take inventory.

This investigation took two years. Police say the suspects logged on to the website of a Scotland internet company and bought chemicals used to make meth.

The site itself contained a long list of chemicals for sale to people all over the world.

-from willagevoice.com.au-

By Edwina Guinan, Source: North Side Courier

-from ciproud.com-

By Bret Lemoine

WMBD/WYZZ TV – CHILLICOTHE This past weekend in Chillicothe, thousands gathered for the annual “Summer Camp” outdoor music festival at Three Sisters Park. It’s a time for young people to enjoy a weekend full of music, but some enjoy it for a completely different reason.

“Summer Camp:” It’s three days of music, partying… and drugs.

Larry Hawkins is the Narcotic Enforcement Director for Illinois State Police. “Tonight we’ve seized some LSD and some ecstasy,” he says.

For the third year, Illinois State Police have set up an undercover sting to bust drug dealers here. We met up with the officers just one day into the festival - they had already grabbed thousands of dollars in drug money with a wild bunch of drugs, like this… Ketamine. It’s a horse tranquilizer. Once police find the dealers, they’re taken to ISP’s mobile unit, booked and hauled off to jail.

Everyone we talked to in attendance here admitted drugs are everywhere. Whether they do it themselves….Or know how to get them. “You just walk up and down the aisle - it’s everywhere,” said one attendee, Joshua.

The people attending the festival pitch tents — thousands of them, some deep into the woods. But there’s one tent you don’t want to end up in: The medical tent.

“Different drugs cause the body to do different things - and we can usually deal with them.” Brad Pierson, the Medical Response Chief here, has seen it all - but the most commonly treated ailment doesn’t have anything to do with drugs or alcohol. “The clientele don’t wear shoes; they run around in the dirt.” Which can lead to bloody feet and infections.

Police and music-lovers insist not everyone is doing or selling drugs. One girl, Kathy, told us she’s just here for the atmosphere. “It’s about loving your fellow man - it’s about you know, everything wonderful,” she said.

But for others, it’s a chance to get wasted in the woods. “You’re only on this planet once - you’ve got to experience everything. You’ve just got to do what you’ve got to do,” Joshua told us.

Illinois State Police say they made 19 arrests over the weekend at the concert. That’s down from around 30 they made last year. Rain is to blame for a slower year in busts. “Summer Camp” has been at Three Sisters Park for the last six years now.

-from wric.com-

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Police say that three illegal immigrants are in jail following an investigation into a cocaine trafficking operation.

Thirty-one-year-old Moises Rosalio-Ortega is charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and transportation of cocaine into Virginia.

Fredericksburg and Stafford raided his south Stafford home on Saturday and met resistance from two men who were also there. Police initiated the probe after they say Rosalio-Ortega was bringing large amounts of powder cocaine into the area from North Carolina.

The cocaine had a street value of 100-thousand dollars.

Thirty-six-year old Juan Carlos Morales is charged with obstruction of justice and assault and battery on a law enforcement officer. Nineteen-year old Gustavo Sandoval Rojas is charged with obstruction of justice.

All three are being held without bond in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.

-from yorkdispatch.com-

By Brock Parker

A Hummer H2 vehicle police seized from a local attorney in a 2005 drug bust fetched about $35,000 at auction yesterday.The Hummer was owned by Stephen Frankel, who is no longer practicing. It was seized after York Township Police pulled him over for parking tickets and found five or six grams of cocaine in his possession, said Detective James McBride, a county detective with the York County Drug Task Force.

Yesterday, at a public auction in West Manchester Township attended by several hundred people, the Hummer was auctioned off for $35,000, with proceeds going to the state Attorney General’s Office to benefit scam victims, McBride said.

According to the Kelley Blue Book Web site, a guide to used car prices, a 2004 Hummer H2 with about 10,000 miles has a value of about $39,000.

Stephen Frankel and his father, disbarred personal-injury attorney Mark David Frankel, were tried last November on charges filed by the state Attorney General’s Office. The men were found guilty of bilking clients out of about $1.1 million.

-from rjr94fm.com-

The narcotics police are conducting investigations into another big ganja bust. This follows last Friday’s seizure of four canisters laden with ganja which were found attached to the hull of a bauxite ship at Port Esquivel in St. Catherine.

The ganja was seized in a joint operation between the narcotics police and military.

A senior narcotics officer told the RJR News Centre on Monday that they have not yet determined the amount of ganja in the canisters.

Over the past several months, the narcotics police and military have been able to seize several ganja filled canisters attached to the hulls of cargo ships leaving Jamaican ports.

However, according to the senior cop, the drug traffickers are undaunted by the seizures.

-from newglasgownews.com-

Pictou – Four men face charges following a drug bust in Pictou Friday night.
Police seized a quantity of marijuana and cash and martial arts weapons known as nunchucku sticks while executing a search warrant at a residence on Linnear Street. The Pictou County Integrated Street Crime Unit was assisted by Pictou County District RCMP and the New Glasgow Police Service dog unit.
Sgt. Law Power of Pictou County District RCMP said the marijuana was packaged as if for sale. He didn’t yet have information on the exact quantity Monday.
Three men will be charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. A fourth man will be charged with possession of a prohibited weapon. They will appear in court at a later date.
Power said charges of possession of money obtained as proceeds of crime may also be pending.

-from abcnews.go.com-

Fresh out of rehab, Lindsay Lohan was accused of driving under the influence early Saturday morning, and police found what they believe to be cocaine in her car.

Witnesses said at 5:30 a.m., Lohan, 20, was driving down Hollywood’s Sunset Bouelvard in her Mercedes convertible. She jumped a curb and flew into a set of trees. Right after the accident, she ran into a nearby house.

“I quickly got out of my car and said, ‘Lindsay, are you ok?’ And she didn’t really respond, she was moving fast,” said X17 photographer Perry Farinola.

Farinola then saw Lohan get into another car. He said she didn’t appear to have been drinking.

“She looked good coming out of the club and the party that I saw her at,” he said.

The police didn’t agree. Their initial investigation led to charges.

“Officers tracked Miss Lohan to the local hospital where she ultimately was placed under arrest for … driving under the influence,” Lt. Mitch McCann of the Beverly Hills Police Department said Saturday.

Lohan left the scene and ended up at an L.A. hospital, where police arrested her but did not take her into custody so her minor injuries could be treated. When police impounded her car, they searched it and found something else.

“It was a usable amount of illegal narcotics that was preliminarily identified as cocaine,” McCann said.

The arrest is the latest chapter in Lohan’s history of hard partying. Saturday’s was the third car accident she’s had in the last two years. The actress recently announced she checked into rehab for alcohol abuse in January, though paparazzi cameras have since caught her drinking.

The current case could transcend the tabloids: Police say Lohan could face additional charges. Her tentative arraignment date is Aug. 24.

Ronald Richards, a Beverly Hills attorney, believes Lohan could go the way of Paris Hilton — to jail.

“It is a very serious misdemeanor on the panaloply of misdemeanors, and then you have the DUI,” Richards told ABC News Radio. “She could be looking at a lot of classes and a lot of community service.”