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A drug dealer tried to hide his identity altering his fingerprints

An American drug dealer has been condemned to life imprisonment for international drug trafficking and to 240 months for money laundering related to his activities.

William Wallace Keegan, 62 years old, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was sentenced for being involved in international drug trafficking for more than 30 years. The man escaped capture for so long because he had all 10 of his fingers surgically altered in order to hide his true identity.

    A drug mule is busted at Gatwick airport

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    ‘The time is 10.25 and you are placed under arrest’.


      Lethal combinations of sex drugs and alcohol

       Alcohol and drugs are factors leading to risky sex. The most common consequences are usually, unintended pregnancy in the case of women, sexually transmitted infections, sexual violence and other adverse outcomes. Drinking and taking drugs in sexual situations are mostly aimed at sensation seeking and pleasure stimulation. For this reason it is not strange that having sex without a condom or having numerous sex partners become a priority for those looking for new experiences.

        Traffickers use Western Africa to bring cocaine to Europe

        The burned debris of a Boeing cargo plane has recently been discovered in Mali, West Africa. It is not clear the origins of the plane but Colombian and Venezuelan air traffic controllers reported “strange behaviour” from a similar Boeing cargo plane that eventually went missing in south west Venezuela. Traces of cocaine among the remains of the plane suggest that large aircrafts are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs and even weapons to the region from South America.

          Do you think he has just done a line?

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          In the wake of Release's "Nice people take drugs" campaign aimed at creating a debate on the discrimination of drug users, we can add that even famous people take drugs. Look at this interview with David Bowie for example. Do you think he has just done a line?

            Nicolas Cage is given cocaine by a doctor

            The Hollywood movie star actor Nicolas Cage was suffering from a  sinus infection in Australia when a doctor gave him cocaine to cure the ailment. Cage, who is also the United Nations Goodwill ambassador on Drugs and Crime, told this to reporters during a press conference while promoting his new movie ‘Bad Lieutenant’, where he plays a police detective who has a substance abuse problem.

              Football star John Terry's dad is caught on camera selling cocaine

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              Ted Terry, the father of football player John Terry, has been secretely filmed dealing cocaine in a bar. The Chelsea star's father arranged a deal with an undercover reporter in which he agrees to hand over three grams of cocaine for £120 if he gets "treated" to an extra gram for himself. Ted who regularly vists the Essex wine bar where the deal took place stresses to the undercover reporter that he shouldn't mention that he is John Terry's dad saying "I can't have this going back".

                Mother who taught her son to shoot heroin is charged with his death

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                The tragic death of the 16-year-old boy, Raymond Strosina product of a cocaine and heroine overdose had a dramatic twist when the justice decided to charge his mother, Patricia Strosina. She is being charged not only of teaching her son to use drugs, but also consuming them together in a regular basis, which led her son’s death.

                  Four men arrested with 500kg of cocaine off the Mexican coast

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                  The Mexican navy has presented to the media four men who have been arrested on alleged charges of cocaine trafficking. The suspects were aboard the yacht “Fiona” when they were spotted by a US navy ship near to a group of volcanic islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. When the suspects realised they had been spotted by the US navy they supposedly began to throw packets into the sea, set fire to the yacht and jumped into the sea.

                    The new drug laws in Mexico show advances but also pose risks

                    PRESS BULLETIN

                    The law against small time trafficking (narcomenudeo) represents certain advances but also important risks for drug policy in Mexico.

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