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  • September 2008

    • George Michael Charged in Drug Bust

      BBC  |  Sep 21, 08 11:35 AM CDT

      George Michael Charged in Drug Bust

      (Newser) - George Michael was arrested in a London public restroom on drug possession charges Friday and let off with a caution, the BBC reports. The singer, 45, is accused of having crack cocaine, among other drugs. Though possession can mean up to 7 years in prison, UK law allows for “flexibility” in such cases, said a government minister, noting that “circumstances and context” must be applied. More »

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      London  • drugs  • arrest  • crack cocaine  • George Michael

  • August 2008

    • Tampa Drug Bust Nets 41 Arrests

      Tampa Tribune  |  Aug 13, 08 1:50 PM CDT

      Tampa Drug Bust Nets 41 Arrests

      (Newser) - Police surveillance at a Tampa apartment complex resulted in 41 drug-related arrests, more than investigators expected, the Tampa Tribune reports. "I figured it would be four or five people," one deputy remarked. The bust turned up 67.7 grams of crack cocaine, 466.7 grams of marijuana, and $6,064 in cash. Five more warrants have been issued in connection with the case. More »

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      Florida  • marijuana  • drug trafficking  • drug war  • crack cocaine  • Tampa  • bust

  • July 2008

    • Drug Addiction Shoots Up in Mexico

      USA Today  |  Jul 23, 08 7:28 AM CDT

      Drug Addiction Shoots Up in Mexico

      (Newser) - Drug addiction is skyrocketing in Mexico, which used to be simply a transit point for illegal drugs rather than a major consumer market, reports USA Today . As increased border security foils smugglers along the American border, the drugs end up being sold to Mexicans. Crack cocaine use has risen sharply, and heroin and crystal meth are becoming a problem for the first time. More »

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      Mexico  • cocaine  • drug addiction  • heroin  • Mexican border  • crack cocaine  • drug traffickers

    • Junkie-Turned-Reporter Writes His Own Story

      New York Times  |  Jul 19, 08 12:02 PM CDT

      Junkie-Turned-Reporter Writes His Own Story

      (Newser) - The junkie's tale of redemption is nearly a cliché by now, and David Carr acknowledges as much as he writes his own. But Carr, now a reporter for the New York Times , takes pains not to sugar-coat the years he spent as a "fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke." His salvation turned out to be his coke-addicted girlfriend and the twin girls they had—the same twins he once left alone as infants in a frigid car as he visited a dope house .   More »

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      parenting  • cocaine  • drug addiction  • addiction  • crack cocaine

  • June 2008

    • Winehouse Leaves Hospital... Smoking

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jun 24, 08 9:37 AM CDT

      Winehouse Leaves Hospital... Smoking

      (Newser) - Amy Winehouse was released from the hospital today, but her emphysema scare doesn’t seem to have left much of an impression on the singer. As she emerged from the facility, Winehouse was seen lighting a cigarette, the Daily Mail reports. Though Winehouse has only early-stage lung disease, odds are that was against doctor's orders. But doctors have cleared the singer to perform for Nelson Mandela this weekend. More »

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      celebrity  • drugs  • smoking  • Amy Winehouse  • crack cocaine  • hospitalization  • lung disease  • emphysema

    • Amy Winehouse Struck with Emphysema

      Sunday Mirror (UK)  |  Jun 22, 08 11:23 AM CDT

      Amy Winehouse Struck with Emphysema

      (Newser) - Amy Winehouse has emphysema and may soon be crippled if she keeps smoking crack, her father told the Sunday Mirror yesterday. Winehouse, 24, was diagnosed with the fatal disease after fainting in her London home this week. A terrified Winehouse, who faces the prospect of a permanent oxygen mask, has vowed to go into rehab. More »

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      celebrity  • drugs  • smoking  • Amy Winehouse  • crack cocaine  • hospitalization  • emphysema

    • Tatum Thanks Cops for Drug Bust

      New York Post  |  Jun 3, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Tatum Thanks Cops for Drug Bust

      (Newser) - Tatum O’Neal is thanking the police who busted her for buying drugs Sunday. "Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me!" the actress tells New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser. She says the death of her Scottish terrier “seemed to set me off.” More »

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      celebrity  • New York City  • parenting  • arrest  • drug addiction  • celebrity tell-alls  • crack cocaine  • drug possession  • Tatum O'Neal

    • Tatum O'Neal Nabbed in Crack Bust

      New York Post  |  Jun 2, 08 9:46 AM CDT

      Tatum O'Neal Nabbed in Crack Bust

      (Newser) - Troubled actress Tatum O'Neal, who wrote a book on her addiction to drugs and alcohol, was arrested last night for buying crack cocaine down the block from her Manhattan luxury condo, the New York Post reports. O'Neal, who at 10 was the youngest person to win an Oscar, for Paper Moon , was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. More »

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      New York City  • crime  • arrest  • NYPD  • drug abuse  • crack cocaine  • Tatum O'Neal

  • March 2008

    • First Inmates Freed in Crack Overhaul

      Washington Post  |  Mar 5, 08 3:19 PM CST

      First Inmates Freed in Crack Overhaul

      (Newser) - Federal prisons are beginning to release prisoners to comply with new crack-cocaine sentencing guidelines, the Washington Post reports. The US Sentencing Commission made more than 3,000 inmates eligible for release this year by voting in December to even out punishments for crack-cocaine offenses against those involving powdered cocaine; crack sentences had been 100 times harsher, though the drugs are nearly the same. More »

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      drugs  • cocaine  • Michael Mukasey  • crack cocaine  • sentencing guidelines  • drug sentence  • prisons

  • January 2008

    • Man Throws His 4 Kids From Bridge

      Associated Press  |  Jan 9, 08 10:14 PM CST

      Man Throws His 4 Kids From Bridge

      (Newser) - An Alabama fisherman confessed to throwing his four young children to their deaths off an 80-foot bridge, the AP reports. Lam Luong, a 37-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, initially told police the children—ranging in age from 4 months to 3 years—were missing before admitting yesterday he had thrown them off the Dauphin Island Bridge near Mobile. More »

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      crime  • immigrant  • crack cocaine  • Mobile, Alabama

  • December 2007

    • Slugger Hopes for Shortened Prison Term

      Washington Post  |  Dec 26, 07 4:30 PM CST

      Slugger Hopes for Shortened Prison Term

      (Newser) - Now that the US Sentencing Commission has agreed to retroactively reduce prison terms for crack cocaine offenses, one of baseball's record-holders stands to benefit. Willie Mays Aikens, the only player to hit multiple homers in multiple games in the same World Series (playing for Kansas City in 1980), may have his 15-plus-year sentence commuted. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • cocaine  • Kansas City Royals  • War on Drugs  • crack cocaine

    • Inmates Can Seek Early Release in Crack Cases

      Associated Press  |  Dec 11, 07 5:15 PM CST

      Inmates Can Seek Early Release in Crack Cases

      (Newser) - Nearly 20,000 inmates now in jail on crack cocaine offenses can seek to have their sentences reduced, a federal sentencing panel ruled today. The panel decided to apply retroactively more lenient sentencing guidelines for crack convictions that went into effect last month. The move will have the "most dramatic impact on African-American families," said a member of the panel, the AP reports. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • crack cocaine  • sentencing guidelines

    • Recent Cases Showcase New Judicial Leeway

      Chicago Tribune  |  Dec 11, 07 4:19 PM CST

      Recent Cases Showcase New Judicial Leeway

      (Newser) - More federal judges are giving themselves wiggle room when it comes to once-strict sentencing guidelines, as evidenced by three recent high-profile court cases. The three—involving Conrad Black, Michael Vick, and a crack cocaine case that made it to the Supreme Court—illustrate how a spate of high-court rulings have given judges more leeway, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • cocaine  • Michael Vick  • judge  • Conrad Black  • crack cocaine  • sentencing guidelines

    • Supremes: Judges Can Shorten Crack Sentences

      CNN  |  Dec 10, 07 1:00 PM CST

      Supremes: Judges Can Shorten Crack Sentences

      (Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that federal judges can use discretion to order shorter prison sentences in crack cocaine crimes, to lessen a disparity with sentencing for powdered cocaine. It was a win for civil rights advocates, who have long argued that sentencing guidelines call for longer terms in crimes involving crack because defendants are overwhelmingly from urban and minority communities, CNN reports. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • cocaine  • civil rights  • crack cocaine  • sentencing guidelines  • federal sentencing

  • November 2007