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10 charged after federal drug trafficking investigations target operations allegedly affiliated with Gangster Disciples

Kevin Ware, a 49-year-old Chicago resident, is alleged to have been at the helm of the trafficking organization. A criminal complaint states the group was working with the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago street gang.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tripura Police seize heroin worth Rs 10 cr in Churaibari, three arrested

Tripura Police seized 1.3 kgs of heroin worth crores of rupees and arrested three people at Churaibari in North Tripura district. Read further on Dinamite News:

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Heroin worth ₹ 10 crore seized in Tripura, 3 arrested

Tripura Police seize 1.3 kg heroin worth Rs 10 crore; 3 peddlers arrested. CM Dr. Manik Saha lauds police team led by SP Bhanupada Chakraborty for their committment to building a drug-free Tripura. Court in north Tripura remands 3 arrested peddlers to police custody.

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Man who sold Michael K Williams fentanyl-laced drugs that killed him sentenced to 10 years in prison

New York City drug dealer sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing ‘The Wire’ star with fentanyl-laced heroin

The Independent UK

Housing, not drugs, is driving poverty

Corporate media outlets like The New York Times are misleading the public on drug decriminalization in Oregon

Salon

Police warning after man dies in Camden drugs incident

Two others were also taken to hospital in a separate incident after taking heroin

Evening Standard

Mexican cartel crew leader from Aurora tried but couldn’t get out. Now, Pablo Vega Cuevas is hoping for leniency for helping feds.

He’s seeking a reduced sentence of 15 years for his role in Guerreros Unidos. In 2014, he asked the drug cartel to let him leave, but his bosses told him to keep unloading heroin hidden on buses, prosecutors say.

Chicago Sun-Times

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In Philadelphia, skin-rotting drug ‘tranq’ invades a neighbourhood already devastated by opioids

Drug users in the Philadelphia neighbourhood of Kensington have increasingly been turning towards a drug called xylazine, or “tranq”, a veterinary sedative often mixed with other drugs such as heroin or fentanyl. But when people begin to use the substance, it quickly causes horrific damage to their bodies – including…

France 24

Punjab: Police recovers 77 kg of Heroin, 4 arrested

In two separate intelligence-led operations by Counter Intelligence Wing of Punjab, the Ferozepur Police on Sunday nabbed four drug traffickers. Read further on Dynamite News:

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They were 2 Chicago pizza delivery guys. Then, they ran a Mexican drug cartel, feds say

The Guerreros Unidos cartel that authorities say brothers Adan and Mario Casarrubias Salgado led fed Chicago’s appetite for heroin and is blamed for the massacre of 43 students in Mexico.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mick Csáky obituary

Documentary-maker whose subjects ranged from Mozart to a cure for heroin addiction administered by Buddhist monks

The Guardian - UK

Singapore hangs third person for drug offences in little over a week

City-state hangs 39-year-old driver over 54 grams of heroin despite international pressure to halt executions.

Al Jazeera

Opioids and cocaine are a deadly combination – and 'polydrug' deaths are rising

Drug deaths in the US involving both opioids and cocaine have increased dramatically in the past decade, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Conversation

Pakistani drone, heroin seized near border in Punjab's Tarn Taran

A suspected Pakistani drone and three kilogrammes of heroin were recovered by a joint team of the BSF and the Punjab Police from a field near the India-Pakistan border in Tarn Taran district on July 31, officials said.

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Singapore executes a woman for first time in almost two decades

Saridewi Djamani was handed a death penalty after being convicted of trafficking 30g of heroin in 2018

The Hindu

Drones being used to smuggle drugs across border into India, admits Pakistan PM’s advisor

A senior official in the Pakistan Government has admitted that Pakistani smugglers are using drones to smuggle illicit drugs, mostly heroin into Indian territory.

Al Jazeera

Singapore executes first woman in nearly 20 years over 31 grams of heroin

Saridewi Binte Djamani hanged despite outcry from rights groups including Amnesty International.

The Independent UK

Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 grams of heroin

Singapore has conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking

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Punjab: Akali leader arrested with 110 grams of heroin in Amritsar

In a major operation by the counterintelligence agency in Amritsar, the Akali leader and Amritsar District President of the Students Organisation of India (SOI), Tejbeer Singh, was arrested with heroin. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Drug dealer who supplied heroin laced with deadly opioid jailed

Ahmed Khelifi, 39, had a £1,000 stash of heroin laced with etonitazene – a substance which killed two people last month.

The Hindu

NIA attaches two properties of ‘notorious’ drug trafficker

NIA attaches two properties of notorious drug trafficker in connection with 103 kg heroin seizure. Razi Haider Zaidi's residential plot in Muzaffarnagar and two-storey building in Delhi's Jamia Nagar.

The Hindu

Heroin dropped by Pakistani drone recovered near International Border in Punjab

The Border Security Force on July 18 recovered over two kg of heroin dropped by a Pakistani drone near the International Border in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, an official said.

Evening Standard

Lea Michele pays emotional tribute to Corey Monteith on tenth anniversary of his death

The Canadian-born actor was found in a Vancouver hotel room dead from a heroin overdose on July 13, 2013

Daily Record

Lanarkshire man caught with safe containing £10k of heroin during drugs raid

McMullen claimed he was beaten and received death threats from angry dealers

Daily Record

Drug dealing mum who sent over 5,000 messages on 'graft' phone stung by cops in car search

Cheryl Brownbill was found with heroin and crack cocaine in a police search.

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