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  • Meth-crazed Florida man is bitten by alligator, charges at cops with garden shears before he’s shot dead in wild series of events

    05/27/2025 5:25:43 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 40 replies
    nypost.com ^ | May 27, 2025 | Emily Crane
    meth-crazed Florida man survived getting bitten by an alligator — just to be fatally shot when he charged at cops trying to help him. The wild scenes erupted after Timothy Schulz, 42, was spotted swimming in an alligator-infested lake in Lakeland, south of Orlando, early Monday, authorities said. Schulz, who cops said was high on drugs, had growled at good Samaritans trying to toss him a life vest just moments before one of the gators bit his right arm. “The fact that he was bitten by an alligator and still continued his rampage is shocking,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd...
  • Moonbat With TDS Attacks 72-Year-Old

    05/24/2025 6:15:05 PM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | May 24, 2024 | Dave Blount
    It takes guts to walk around in a MAGA hat, what with all the liberal tolerance on display. Not even a 72-year-old gent is spared from the open-minded inclusiveness. From Florida: Laura Elizabeth Garrett, 33, was at Northeast Park and Paw Place located at 4630 East Bay Drive in Largo around 5:30 p.m. when she got into an argument with a 72-year-old man wearing a MAGA hat. … [T]he victim told investigators that Garrett hit him on the back of the head and shoulder area with a can she was holding before she jumped a fence and walked away. …...
  • Pam Bondi Touts Takedown of 6 High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Members and Largest Fentanyl Seizure in U.S. History

    05/06/2025 9:45:40 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/06/2025 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
    On Tuesday, Attorney General Pamela Bondi held a press conference announcing a week-long, multi-agency and multi-law enforcement and tribal operation headed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the New Mexico District Attorney’s Office. The operation resulted in huge drug busts and multiple arrests of high-level members of the Sinaloa cartel. According to Bondi, the agents garnered 11.5 kilos of fentanyl, including three million fentanyl pills — the largest seizure in the nation's history. The main head of the Sinaloa cartel, Alberto Salazar Amaya, was arrested along with five others, all in the country illegally. Amaya was arrested in Salem,...
  • Feds crush ‘historic’ ABQ-centered drug empire: Millions in drugs, cash seized

    05/01/2025 4:55:11 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 24 replies
    The Piñon Post ^ | May 1, 2025 | Piñon Post staff
    A sprawling fentanyl trafficking network stretching from Albuquerque to Salem, Oregon, has been shattered by federal authorities in what’s being called one of the largest operations of its kind in U.S. history. The takedown, made public this week, culminated in a massive sweep across New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Oregon. Federal agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized staggering amounts of contraband: over 4 million fentanyl pills, $4.4 million in cash, 79 pounds of meth, along with heroin, cocaine, and more than 41 firearms, according to records from the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. At the helm of...
  • Over 100 illegal immigrants arrested in Colorado Springs massive underground nightclub raid

    04/27/2025 4:14:45 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | April 27, 2025 | Danielle Wallace , Bonny Chu
    Federal authorities announced Sunday that more than a hundred illegal immigrants were detained in a massive raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs that officials say was "frequented by TdA and MS-13 terrorists." The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division led a multi-agency operation early Sunday morning and arrested 114 illegal immigrants at the venue that contained more than 200 people inside. Authorities uncovered drugs, including pink cocaine, as well as evidence of prostitution and multiple firearms during the operation, according to the DEA. "@DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody," DEA Rocky Mountain said...
  • Killer babysitter wrote six word message in blood after murdering toddler as 911 call reveals dad's screams

    03/28/2025 10:58:22 AM PDT · by Morgana · 32 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 28, 2025 | Alyssa Guzman
    A killer babysitter wrote 'everybody who played me is cursed' in blood on the wall after killing a toddler, cops say, as harrowing 911 audio emerged. Marketta Phillips, 41, was arrested on Wednesday for the death of Journei Ross, three, who died from multiple stab wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jeremy Ross, Journei's father, came around from work around 3:30am to find his roommate and on-again-off-again girlfriend sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by knives and covered in blood, according to 8 News Now. When he walked into the bedroom, he found his daughter unresponsive and began chest compressions. Written...
  • Arrest Made After Man’s Childish Jet Ski Tantrum Almost Drowns a Kayaker

    11/04/2024 6:37:07 AM PST · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | November 04, 2024 | Jared Harris, The Western Journal
    A childish tantrum landed one man in jail after a video of the incident was published and went viral. VIDEO AT LINK...................... The bit of aquatic road rage was captured on the body-worn camera of the victim and uploaded to the TikTok account of coastalfloats on October 27. It has since gained millions of views. The encounter, which appears to have taken place in a Florida section of the Intracoastal Waterway, began as the victim was fishing the relatively calm stretch of water. Video shows a jet skier approaching at a high rate of speed as a voiceover explains the...
  • Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter arrested for child neglect after her 11-month-old is found near meth pipe

    10/19/2024 11:26:02 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Pagesix ^ | 10/19/2024 | Sara Whitmant
    Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea Belle O’Donnell was arrested for child neglect and possession of drugs after police reportedly found her 11-month-old son near a meth pipe last month. The 27-year-old was charged on Sept. 17 with four felony counts of maintaining a drug trafficking place, child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and THC, the latter of which is commonly found in cannabis, according to court docs obtained by In Touch Friday. She was reportedly also hit with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct/domestic abuse and possession of illegally obtained prescription drugs.
  • Cognitive deficits from meth and PCP use are generated by a common neurotransmitter switch, neurobiologists show (Clozapine helps)

    09/28/2024 9:18:43 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 9 replies
    Medical Xpress / University of California - San Diego / Nature Communications ^ | Sept. 26, 2024 | Mario Aguilera / Marta Pratelli et al
    The effects of sustained drug abuse can manifest in many ways. Loss of memory and reduced cognitive functions are some of the effects that can persist for years. Neurobiologists have now identified a mechanism in the brain that generates drug-induced cognitive impairments. Scientists investigated how methamphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP or "angel dust"), which take effect by activating different targets in the brain, induce a similar reduction in cognitive ability. How could the same difficulties in memory emerge in response to drugs that trigger different actions in the brain? The results of this investigation showed that meth and PCP caused neurons...
  • Shocking meth details revealed as NY mom who drove on suspended license in wrong-way crash that killed son, 9, held on $1M bail

    08/23/2024 7:07:41 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    Nypost ^ | 08/23/2024 | By Georgett Roberts and Matt Troutman
    The Long Island mom charged in the wrong-way crash that killed her 9-year-old son admitted to taking methamphetamine and was driving on a suspended license before the horrific incident, prosecutors said Friday — as she was held on $1 million bail. Kerri Bedrick, 32, was carted into a Suffolk County courtroom in a wheelchair, clad in a blue hospital gown and handcuffed behind her back, for an emotional arraignment hearing that revealed shocking new details about the tragic crash. Cops found more than 4 grams of pills in Bedrick’s SUV that tested positive for meth — and she ‘fessed up...
  • Mexico’s Efforts to Seize US-Bound Fentanyl Drop Sharply, While Seizures of Meth Soar

    07/09/2024 6:20:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    AP News ^ | July 9, 2024
    Even as Mexican-made fentanyl continues to flood into the United States, Mexico’s efforts to seize the drug have declined dramatically, according to figures released Tuesday by the Defense Department. Figures for the first half of 2024 show that Mexican federal forces seized only 286 pounds (130 kilograms) of fentanyl nationwide between January and June, down 94% from the 5,135 pounds (2,329 kilograms) seized in 2023. The synthetic opioid has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths annually in the United States, and U.S. officials have tried to step up efforts to seize it as it comes over the border, often...
  • Why Afghanistan is Headed to War With ALL its Neighbors

    07/03/2024 2:24:26 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 45 replies
    How FUBAR is Afghanistan? More FUBAR than ever. Details in video. Transcript at link below video.
  • Murder suspect accused of eating victim’s face near Las Vegas Strip

    04/29/2024 4:55:35 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 22 replies
    8newsnow ^ | 4-29-24 | David Charns
    A man allegedly murdered another man at a bus stop near the Las Vegas Strip, eating his victim’s face in the process, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. Colin Czech, 29, faces a charge of open murder. Just before 5 a.m. Sunday, a person called police about a man who reportedly tackled another man to the ground on Las Vegas Boulevard near Charleston Boulevard, documents said. About 45 minutes later, another person called police, saying a man was on top of another man at a bus stop “eating” the other man’s face. Officers responded, finding Czech kneeling...
  • Nearly 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine found in carrot shipment at U.S.-Mexico border

    03/26/2024 10:41:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    Yahoo! / LA Times ^ | March 25, 2024 at 12:24 PM CDT | Nathan Solis
    It's a good idea to wash carrots after they're pulled from the ground because they might have some dirt on them. They don't typically come with more than a ton of methamphetamine, but you can never be too careful. A 44-year-old truck driver is in federal custody after he allegedly tried to cross into the U.S. from Mexico at the Otay Mesa border checkpoint in San Diego with roughly 3,000 pounds of meth hidden amid a large shipment of carrots. The driver arrived in a commercial tractor trailer just before noon on March 17 with a valid border crossing card...
  • Sheriff: Cocaine and Meth Use Surges Along With Synthetic Fentanyl, Aided by Border Crisis

    03/18/2024 10:17:08 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    Fox2Detroit ^ | March 18, 2024 | Dave Kinchen and David Komer
    Police tracking drugs in our area are sounding the alarm with cocaine and meth making a comeback. Metro Detroit law enforcement is warning of an uptick in meth and cocaine use across the area. "The danger of this is significant to everybody," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. "Basically the cost of cocaine, the cost of meth, all of that has gone down to about a third of what it was two years ago." Bouchard says it is a supply and demand issue, combined with the already troubling amounts of fentanyl coming into the states. He says it is a...
  • CBP Siezes 6.5 Tons of Meth in Eagle Pass, Largest Seizure Made at a Port of Entry

    02/23/2024 7:14:19 AM PST · by CFW · 18 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 2/23/24 | Aldgra Fredly
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Thursday that it seized 6.5 tons of methamphetamine at Eagle Pass port of entry in Texas. It is the largest seizure ever made at a port of entry in a single enforcement action. The methamphetamine had a street value of more than $117 million, according to a press release. The seizure was made at the Camino Real International Bridge on Feb. 18, when a CBP officer referred a tractor trailer manifesting a shipment of drying agents for piglets for secondary inspection. The CBP said that its officers conducted “a canine and non-intrusive...
  • Mexican cartel reportedly flooded Montana with fentanyl, meth by targeting Native Americans: ‘Prey-predator situation’

    02/11/2024 7:14:29 AM PST · by Bon of Babble · 32 replies
    New York Post ^ | 02/10/2024 | Katherine Donlevy
    Mexican cartels have flooded Montana with fentanyl and meth – by setting up operations on Indian reservations, where law enforcement is scarce, according to a report.
  • Prosecutors Say a Senior Enlisted Leader at Fort Liberty Smuggled Meth, Put Strip Club on Travel Card

    02/09/2024 5:39:10 AM PST · by Blood of Tyrants · 34 replies
    Military.com ^ | 2/8/24 | Steve Beynon
    A senior noncommissioned officer based out of Fort Liberty, North Carolina, faces numerous charges tied to a yearslong scheme to smuggle methamphetamine across the U.S.-Mexico border. Military prosecutors say Sgt. Maj. Jorge E. Garcia, the career counselor for U.S. Army Forces Command, or FORSCOM, made numerous unauthorized trips abroad between 2021 and 2022, smuggled meth, lied to his unit about his whereabouts, engaged in fraudulent charges on his government travel card at a nightclub near the Pentagon, and coordinated the drug activity with gangs online. It's the latest in a string of drug-related criminal activity from soldiers at Fort Liberty,...
  • Tacoma police officers found not guilty in trial over 2020 death of Manny Ellis

    12/21/2023 4:57:31 PM PST · by Uncle Miltie · 30 replies
    KOMO News ^ | 12/21/2023 | Danny Schmidt
    TACOMA, Wash. — A jury acquitted three Tacoma police officers of all criminal charges in the March 2020 death of Manuel "Manny" Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who was shocked tased, choked, beaten and hogtied with a spit hood placed over his head. After more than three months and two mandatory restarts of jury deliberations, verdicts were delivered Thursday in the trial of Matthew Collins, 40, Christopher Burbank, 38, and Timothy Rankine, 34. Collins and Burbank, who are white, were facing first-degree manslaughter and second-degree murder charges. Rankine, who is Asian American, was charged with first-degree manslaughter. Judge Bryan Chushcoff...
  • After Biden’s Pullout, Al Qaeda Built a Path From Afghanistan to Europe-Afghan gun battles are now happening on the border of EU.

    11/27/2023 6:18:25 AM PST · by SJackson · 11 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | November 27, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield
    [Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]After Biden’s withdrawal, the fighting ended in Afghanistan and moved into Europe.Even before the Taliban takeover, a massive traffic in migrants and drugs flowed over the ‘Balkan Route’ that took Afghans into Iran, Turkey and then Eastern Europe. One of the biggest holes in Europe’s armor was the former Yugoslavia, illegally invaded and partitioned by the Clinton administration, with a large Muslim population in Bosnia and heavy criminal organizations across the former republic that tie together the Russian mob, local gangs,...