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cocaine stories: 104 news summaries

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Feds Bust Ring that Hid Cocaine in Legos

Drugs packaged with toys in Puerto Rico, mailed to New York

Sep 24, 08 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal agents announced the arrest yesterday of a pack of Bronx drug dealers accused of smuggling cocaine into New York with the help of the world’s smallest traffickers: Lego men. Agents say the cocaine was sent from Puerto Rico through normal US mail, ingeniously hidden within buckets of the... More »

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War on Drugs • drugs • New York City • cocaine • Drug Enforcement Administration • Bronx • Puerto Rico • Lego

US Slaps Sanctions on Chavez Aides

3 charged with backing FARC drug runners, as tensions mount

Sep 13, 08 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Escalating the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, the US has frozen the assets of three members of Hugo Chavez's inner circle it accuses of having links with drug-running Colombian rebels, the Wall Street Journal reports. The sanctions follow the expulsion by Venezuela and Bolivia of their US ambassadors—a move the... More »

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Venezuela • cocaine • Bolivia • diplomat • Evo Morales • FARC • Hugo Chávez • embassy staff • Colombian rebels

Cocaine's Nazi Ties Moved Mirren to Quit

Actress 'loved' drug, but link to war criminal opened her eyes

Sep 1, 08 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Helen Mirren stopped using cocaine because of a Nazi war criminal. “I loved coke," says the Academy Award-winning actress. "I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties.” And she gave it up after learning that Klaus Barbie was living off cocaine proceeds while... More »

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cocaine • rape • Nazi • South America • Helen Mirren • Klaus Barbie

 'Preppy Killer' Pleads
 Guilty to Drug Charges

Robert Chambers faces nearly 20 years in state prison

Aug 11, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Preppy killer” Robert Chambers pleaded guilty today to dealing cocaine from his Manhattan apartment, the New York Daily News reports. He also confessed to assaulting a police officer during his October arrest and faces nearly 20 years in state prison. Chambers gained national infamy in the 1980s after his... More »

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New York City • cocaine • murder • assault • Robert Chambers

 Paper Money Often
 Has Traces of Cocaine

Spanish study gives new meaning to 'drug money'

Aug 5, 08 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chances are, you're carrying cocaine in your wallet. Trace amounts of it, anyway. A new Spanish study finds that paper money around the world is often contaminated with cocaine, LiveScience reports. Though concentrations vary by year and city, US bills had an average of up to 28.8 micrograms of... More »

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Spain • European Union • cocaine • money • drug use • US dollar

 Fla. Actor Sues Rape Accuser

Arsenault alleges hundreds of thousands of dollars lost

Jul 30, 08 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - An actor accused of drugging and raping a woman in his Florida home is now suing his accuser, saying the allegations cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars in business deals, the Saratota Herald-Tribune reports. Joseph S Arsenault says he was evicted from his home while in jail last year,... More »

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Florida • crime • cocaine • rape • lawsuit • actor

Drug Addiction Shoots Up
in Mexico

Traffickers thwarted
at border sell crack, heroin, meth to locals

Jul 23, 08 7:28 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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

Colombia to Americans: Cocaine Kills Environment

Drug-makers are destroying Colombia's precious rainforest

Jul 19, 08 5:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colombia is adding a new tactic in its campaign to persuade Americans to stop buying cocaine: a plea for the environment. The government wants to spread the message to users—especially, say, wealthy professionals who dutifully recycle but also partake of the drug—that cocaine growers are running roughshod over... More »

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drugs • cocaine • rainforest • Colombia • drug use • coca • Amazon rainforest

Junkie-Turned-Reporter Writes His Own Story

Former addict, now a Times journalist, reports on his dark past

Jul 19, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(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... More »

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parenting • drug addiction • cocaine • addiction • crack cocaine


 Mexico Seizes
 Homemade Drug
 Submarine 

Crew says it was forced to pilot makeshift vessel

Jul 17, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(AP) - Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast yesterday and arrested its four-man crew. The 30-foot makeshift vessel was detected heading north about 200 miles off the southern state of Oaxaca, and intercepted when it surfaced. The crew offered no resistance, and say drug... More »

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Mexico • cocaine • Colombia • drug trafficking • submarine

 Barenaked Ladies
 Singer Busted
 on Coke Charges 

Page nabbed in NY apartment

Jul 16, 08 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page has been busted on cocaine charges, the Canadian Press reports. The singer for the Toronto-based band, which recently released a CD for children, Snacktime, was caught with drugs in an apartment in upstate New York, according to authorities. Page, 38, posted $10,000 bail and... More »

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cocaine • drug use • celebrity • felony • drug possession • Barenaked Ladies

Finding Meaning in the Death
of Len Bias

Cocaine killed the athlete 22 years ago, but the impact lingers

Jun 26, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twenty-two years ago, Celtics legend Larry Bird called the sudden death of new Boston draftee Len Bias "one of the the cruelest things I've ever heard." The legacy of the Maryland basketball great, whose NBA career ended with cocaine use just two days after it began, retains its... More »

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NBA • basketball • cocaine • NBA draft • Boston Celtics • overdose • college basketball

Cities' Sewage Serves as Giant Drug Test

Analyzing waste for
illicit substances
sheds light on use

Jun 23, 08 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Across the world, raw sewage is being analyzed for clues to illegal drug use. Environmental scientists are testing waste from US and European cities to gather data, which reveals everything from what's popular to which days see the greatest use of which substances. "Every sample has one illicit drug... More »

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drugs • London • Las Vegas • heroin • cocaine • methamphetamine • Milan • sewage • drug test

 CSI Star
 Avoids Jail
 in Drug Bust 

Gary Dourdan pleads guilty after being caught with heroin, cocaine, and ecstasy

May 29, 08 11:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - CSI co-star Gary Dourdan sidestepped 3-4 years in jail yesterday by copping a plea in a case involving cocaine and ecstasy, the AP reports. Dourdan, whose character was killed off in the season finale, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony drug possession after an arrest last month near Palm... More »

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California • celebrity trials • heroin • cocaine • drug possession • CSI • Gary Dourdan

Hamilton Beats Drugs, Odds
in Comeback

Rangers fielder, once banished from league, having red-hot spring

May 29, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Josh Hamilton can appreciate the high he's riding now, because his personal lows have been pretty rough. The first pick of baseball's 1999 draft was booted in 2004 for failing drug tests after picking up a cocaine habit. But now the Rangers outfielder has traded a bottle of Crown Royal... More »

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MLB • Texas Rangers • Josh Hamilton • cocaine • baseball • baseball's triple crown

 7 Cops Cut Down
 in Mexican Drug Battle 

Latest victims in Mexico's spiraling drug violence

May 28, 08 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - A gun battle in Mexico's drug capital of Culiacan ended with seven federal police officers and a civilian lying dead, and four officers wounded. Drug dealers opened fire and hurled a grenade as police raided a drug house in the city, where 1,000 people have died in drug-related violence... More »

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Mexico • cocaine • Felipe Calderon • murder • Mexican drug war • methamphetamine • drug cartel • Culiacan • federal police • Gen. Jose Antonio Guzman

Rapper DMX Arrested on Animal-Cruelty, Drug Charges

Cops take pit bull pups, find cocaine, marijuana, guns at Arizona pad

May 9, 08 5:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police arrested rapper DMX early this morning on animal-abuse and drug charges, the Arizona Republic reports. Police seized five pit bull puppies, and unknown quantities of marijuana and cocaine from the house northeast of Phoenix. More »

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cocaine • animal cruelty • marijuana • hip-hop • DMX • rapper • rap music • pit bull • police raids

 Cocaine Moves by Submarine 

New method confounds drug enforcement efforts

May 4, 08 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cocaine traffickers have embraced a startling new method to transport their product into America, the Economist reports: homemade submersibles. The cartels themselves seem to be producing the small craft, which descend to just below the waterline. They sport large cargo space and fuel tanks that allow them to sail far... More »

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drugs • Mexico • cocaine • Colombia • submarine • smuggler • drug cartel

 Ledger Duped Into Drug Video? 

Lawsuit says actor took coke paparazzi gave him

Apr 12, 08 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two paparazzi are accused of giving Heath Ledger cocaine while hiding their identities and then filming him, E! News reports. A lawsuit filed yesterday against the men and the photo agency that employed them claims the paps befriended Ledger at a 2006 party, gave him the drug, and then secretly... More »

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drugs • cocaine • paparazzi • celebrity • lawsuit • Heath Ledger

Mother and 4 Kids Killed in
Iowa Home

Fatal car crash
nearby linked
to husband

Mar 25, 08 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mother and her four children were found dead in their Iowa City home yesterday by police who received an anonymous tip, reports the Daily Iowan. Minutes later, cops responded to a nearby highway crash involving a car belonging to the father of the family, Stephen Sueppel. The dead driver... More »

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Iowa • crime • theft • cocaine • murder • car crash • Iowa City • embezzlement • killings • shooting • Stephen Sueppel

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