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Reputed leader of Mexican drug cartel charged and extradited to Chicago, federal prosecutors announce

CHICAGO — A reputed leader of a notoriously violent Mexican cartel has been extradited to Chicago and arraigned on charges that he trafficked heroin in the Chicago area and sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in proceeds to Mexico.

Chicago Tribune

Drug cartel leader ‘El Tomate’ extradited from Mexico, faces federal charges in Chicago

Adan Casarrubias Salgado — also known as “Tomatito,” “Star” and “Silver” — is charged with conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dealer used 'Scouse line' to flood seaside town with heroin and cocaine

Josh Harkins attempted to evade justice and went on the run

Liverpool Echo

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Cramlington heroin and crack cocaine dealer jailed for peddling misery

Karl Weatherstone, of Cramlington, has been jailed after a police raid at his home found thousands of pounds of drugs

Chronicle Live

10 members of drug-peddling network arrested

34.89 kg of heroin and ₹5.8 lakh in cash recovered from them

The Hindu

Driver jailed for killing teen pedestrian

A Sydney driver who had a big shot of heroin before fatally crashing into a teenage pedestrian has been jailed for at least four years.

AAP

Cocaine worth over ₹500 crore seized near Mundra Port in Gujarat

A team of DRI officials searched and scanned a container, which had arrived a few days back from Dubai and housed at a Container Freight Station near the port in Mundra.

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Downfall of gang who flooded town with crack and heroin from Merseyside

Investigators found the gang were sourcing drugs from Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

Assam: Rs 4 crore heroin seized, one held in Mariani

GUWAHATI: Police on Wednesday seized suspected heroin valued at Rs 4 crore in the international market and arrested one person from Mariani in upper Assam's Jorhat district.

The Times of India

Summit police chief charged in bribery plot tied to heroin dealer’s bar

Also indicted this week in the same case was longtime political operative William Mundy, who doubles as Summit’s building inspector and public works director.

Chicago Sun-Times

Drug gang leader tells family 'I love you' as he is jailed over cocaine and heroin plot

Levi Roberts' gang was jailed for almost 80 years after they flooded Wrexham with cocaine and heroin

Liverpool Echo

Heroin worth £1million stashed inside van driven by helicopter crash survivor on M74

Ex-soldier Gary Cowan was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday along with garage boss John Craig after police uncovered the massive haul inside the vehicle.

Glasgow Live

Two men face jail after heroin haul in Lanarkshire worth £1m

Both men blamed each other for being involved in supplying the Class A drug

Daily Record

Man, 46, found with knife and heroin in park after police chase

Robert Clancey was jailed for more than seven months

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Daily Record

Scots ex-soldier caught driving van with £1m heroin haul on M74 jailed

Gary Cowan, 32, was caught driving back to Scotland with the high-purity stash on the M74 near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire in June 2020.

Liverpool Echo

Woman helped 'Scouse Joey' gang make thousands in drug cash

The heroin addict would transfer money to those higher up in the trafficking chain in Liverpool

WEKU

California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs

Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an "open drug scene."

Salon

Why fentanyl is so deadly

Here's why the drug is causing overdoses — and why it's appearing in all kinds of other drugs where it shouldn't be

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Emmerdale reveals Suzy's 'killer' secret and her dark link to Holly Barton's death

Emmerdale's latest episode confirmed how newcomer Suzy Merton knew tragic character Holly Barton, who died on the ITV soap in 2016 - as well as her link to her death

The Hindu

₹1,526 cr. worth of heroin seized off Lakshadweep

Joint operation conducted by DRI and Indian Coast Guard

Reuters

Singapore makes major heroin bust at Malaysia border

Singapore's anti-narcotics agency on Friday announced the seizure of nearly 18 kg (634 oz) of heroin in a car arriving from neighbouring Malaysia, in what local media said was the biggest haul of its kind in the city-state in two decades.

The Independent UK

Black mental health patient checked once in 14 hours before he died, inquest finds

Exclusive: Despite being detained, Rullson Warner was able to access and inhale heroin which led to an overdose, while hospital staff recorded observations of 45-year-old which never took place

Irish Mirror

Gardai deny asking Irish shop to stop selling Animal Bars due to 'heroin users stealing them for tinfoil'

The move was described by people as "dystopian" and "ludicrous"

Daily Record

Man was caught in possession of heroin worth over £1,000 on a Bannockburn street

Thirty-year-old warned if he doesn't complete Community Payback Order he will likely face jail.

Chronicle Live

Waterloo Road star overwhelmed by fans' response to secret heroin problem

He said the decades-long addiction started early in his career and keeping it secret damaged his mental health

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