Recent Posts in Drug Crimes Category
Posted on May 9, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
News sources have confirmed that drug sales don't just happen on street corners anymore as an online illegal drugs marketplace was discovered years ago. Federal authorities from several countries ...
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Posted on May 1, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Reports indicate that a TSA airport screener was taken into custody last week in Los Angeles, California. Thanks to several weeks of investigation by the local authorities, a drug investigation had a ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A narcotics task force in Los Angeles, California detained what is believed to be the largest quantity of PCP on record. Over 139 gallons of phencyclidine were discovered at the residence of two ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Thanks to the efforts of the California National Guardsmen, ten people were arrested before they could deliver a large mass of marijuana via a watercraft. Initial reports show that the suspects' ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A man from California is being held on drug possession charges in northern Arizona and the case against him is strong. When officers first pulled the 46-year-old man over, it was for a routine traffic ...
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Posted on Nov 27, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A 72-year-old doctor has been convicted of illegally selling tens of thousands of dangerous painkiller and sedative prescriptions to patients that the doctor never examined. The man reportedly made ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A recent crackdown on illegal OxyContin providers resulted in the raid of four medical clinics, each of which was found to be operating as a pill mill. The medical clinics catered to addicts seeking ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Three agencies worked together in Los Angeles last week to bring down fifteen people wanted on a variety of crimes. All three agents teamed up to conduct searches and issue probation warrants ...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
While marijuana is legal in California for medical use, many residents are now pushing to have it legalized for recreational purposes as well. One group has been lobbying the secretary of state's ...
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Posted on Jun 25, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
According to gossip leader TMZ, former CSI star Gary Dourdan was arrested last week for possession of ecstasy. After crashing his car into two parked vehicles, officers arrived on the scene to find ...
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Posted on May 11, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two suspects in Gabriel Valley attempted to take marijuana production into their own hands; however, their massive cache was discovered this week by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. ...
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Posted on May 5, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Clean-cut actor Chace Crawford shocked fans last year when he was caught with a marijuana joint last summer. Now that his case has finally gone to trial, the actor has decided to strike a deal with ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police in Buffalo had their hands full when they discovered 18 bags of crack cocaine in a home on the 400 block of Perry Street. According to the police report, Larry J. Paige, 21, was acting ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
For the first time in four years federal drug enforcement agents raided medical marijuana clinics in West Hollywood. Two clinics were raided by the LAPD, DEA and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
FBI officers and police in Ventura County worked together to bring in 22 members of a famed Oxnard street gang last Wednesday. The 22 men were arrested on drug trafficking charges as part of their ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyeryou
On Friday, police in Santa Cruz arrested a suspected gang member on a felony drug warrant during the morning hours. Officers took Guillerino Linares into custody and say that he is an affiliate with ...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Five suspects were arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday for drug trafficking and illegal firearms sales by federal agents and Los Angeles police. A federal grand jury named the five men in a 19-charge ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Four men involved in a massive drug ring were convicted this week in Sacramento, California for drug crimes. They had been involved in the trafficking of methamphetamine, crack cocaine, cocaine, and ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Better known as the famous rapper T.I., Clifford Harris Jr. will be going to jail on November 1 in Los Angeles. However, he was lucky enough to escape a second sentence when Los Angeles prosecutors ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
According to the Associated Press, former teenage idol Lief Garrett played no contest this month to charges of heroin possession in Los Angeles. Now, the former singer will have to enter a drug ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Prosecutors in Sacramento say that a man is facing life imprisonment after a federal investigation of interstate drug trafficking . The man, 37 year old Keoudone Noy Phaouthoum, pled guilty to charges ...
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