Ex-Olympic Skater Bobek Busted in Meth Ring

Bought in California, sold in Brooklyn

(NEWSER) - The list of Craigslist crimes keeps growing. Police have now busted a $1million dollar drug ring operating through the site. The group allegedly shipped drugs like Vicodin and Adderall from California to Brooklyn where web-savvy wholesalers pawned the pharm off to neighborhood yuppies, reports the New York Daily News . The accused, who are twentysomethings, face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. Click here to read about another creative Craigslist venture (hint: it involves panties). More»

(NEWSER) - The Mexican Navy seized more than a ton of cocaine packed inside the bodies of frozen sharks on a freighter off the Yucatan coast headed for America, reports the BBC. The booty was pinpointed using dogs and x-ray machines, officials said. Drug fighters warned that powerful cartels are using increasingly innovative methods to disguise operations as they dodge a military crackdown to smuggle drugs into the US. More»

Broadcom honcho said to spike drinks with ecstasy, commit bribery

(NEWSER) - Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas pleaded not guilty yesterday to securities fraud and drug charges, the AP reports. The former microchip king was accused of false accounting as well as dropping ecstasy into associates’ drinks, running a drug warehouse, and using bribery and death threats to keep it all quiet. The company’s former CFO also pleaded not guilty to fraud. More»

Disgraced Olympian not party to Kerrigan mess, says tell-all book

(NEWSER) - What read like a closed book in 1994 is falling open in a Tonya Harding tell-all, reports Newsweek in an interview with the fallen figure skater. The Tonya Tapes argues that Harding wasn't just uninvolved in Nancy Kerrigan's knee-whacking—she planned to rat out her ex-husband to the FBI until he intervened, backed by two enforcers and a gun. More»

Heroin mixed with cold medicine is a hit with middle-school customers

(NEWSER) - Drug traffickers are pursuing the middle-school crowd by mixing snortable dope with everyday products like cold medicine and candy, and pushing the product under kid-friendly names. A blend of black tar heroin and Tylenol PM labeled "cheese" has been linked to the deaths of 19 teenagers in Dallas. More»