ABC Action News Reports:

“One of us gotta do it, you the only one that don’t have any strikes. …You my little brother… I’m gonna get life,” Deangelo said to Wayne.

His bother complied and ate the drugs.

When officers saw the cocaine residue on the seat where Wayne sat, Deangelo told officers that his brother swallowed cocaine. Within the hour, Dwayne struggled to breathe, bled from his mouth and died.

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Nobanda Nolubabalo, 23, was arrested yesterday after customs officers allegedly noticed a suspicious white substance in her hair.

The Bangkok Post reported that the suspect had allegedly admitted trying to smuggle the drug and claimed she had done so after being hired to work as a drug mule by a Thailand-based businessman for £1,200 (60,000 baht).

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While some claim the drop is due to increased penalties for crack cocaine and the War On Drugs, The Atlantic reports that it is due to lower prices for cocaine and competition from methamphetamine and prescription pills.

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The Atlantic reports:

And there’s the missing piece in the DEA’s theory. Once the margin of profit for dealing small amounts of crack cocaine disappeared, being part of the drug trade was no longer worth the persistent threat of violence or the stiff criminal penalties. A 70 percent drop in cocaine prices like the one that occurred in the mid 1990s combined with competition from decentralized sources for methamphetamines and prescription narcotics would completely eliminate the minimum wage drug dealer as a viable profession.

The same goes for turf wars, which Venkatesh saw as the source of the majority of inner-city violence. He saw the life of a drug dealer as relatively violence-free up until territory conflicts with other gangs ensued. Without the high value of cocaine as a commodity, the incentive for protracted gang wars would dwindle as well as eliminate the economy for the illegal weapons, drive-by shootings, and mercenary “warriors” needed to help defend prime dealing locations. Without profit to fight over, Vankatesh thought that “gang violence would likely return to pre-crack levels.”

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The elderly former Panamanian strongman hasn’t seen his homeland in more than two decades, years he spent behind bars in Florida, on drug charges, and France, for money laundering. His lawyer said he could be in Panama as soon as Thursday.

Panama wants Noriega returned to serve prison terms handed down after he was convicted in absentia for embezzlement, corruption and murder. There’s a chance that because of his age — he’s in his 70s — he may get to serve out his time under house arrest.

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“God Bless you,” Noriega told the French appeals court that announced the extradition approval Wednesday. “God bless my family, God bless my enemies, God bless France.”

“I want to return to Panama and prove my innocence,” he said, through an interpreter.

The decision comes after months of legal procedures focused on a man whose complicated past has kept judicial officials in three countries busy for years.

France’s prime minister, Francois Fillon, now needs to sign an administrative decree allowing for Noriega to be transferred.

“If Panama wants to do this very quickly, it will send a military plane, and as of tomorrow night, he could be in Panama City,” Olivier Metzner, a lawyer for Noriega, told reporters in Paris Wednesday.

Panama’s Foreign Secretary Roberto Henriquez told a news conference in Panama later Wednesday that five Panamanian officials — guards, foreign ministry employees and a doctor — will travel to France to bring back Noriega. He said Panama expects Noriega will return in tourist class on a commercial flight.

Henriquez said appropriate security measures would be taken. “He is a highly sensitive prisoner … he has both followers and adversaries.”

“We will take measures to ensure the physical welfare of Noriega … during the transfer and upon his arrival in Panama,” he said. In an apparent reference to Noriega’s health, Henriquez said “We must not forget that this is a prisoner with special conditions.”

Friends and foes alike feared that Noriega might die in a French prison — notably Panamanians who fought against human rights abuses during his 1983-1989 regime. They want to see him face justice at home.

Noriega, a one-time CIA asset who lorded over Panama from 1983 to 1989, turned into an embarrassment for the U.S. after he sidled up to Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel and turned to crime.

In the waning days of the Cold War, Noriega was seen by U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s administration as a pivotal ally against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. But he eventually fell out with Washington.

In late 1989, U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered an invasion to oust Noriega. The dictator holed up in the Vatican Embassy, and U.S. forces blasted it with incessant loud rock music until he surrendered in January 1990.

Taken to Miami, he was accused of helping the Medellin cartel ship tons of cocaine into the United States. Jurors convicted him in 1992 on eight of 10 charges, and he was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

After his U.S. sentence ended, he remained in legal limbo in Miami from 2007 to 2010, when France sought his extradition to face money laundering charges. He was convicted in Paris and sentenced to seven years behind bars.

In Panama, he is accused of murdering opponents including Moises Giroldi, a military commander who led a failed rebellion two months before the U.S. invasion, and Hugo Spadafora, whose decapitated body was found on the border with Costa Rica in 1985.

Panama’s government and judicial authorities have been closely monitoring the French proceedings.

Noriega “is going to go to jail when he arrives in Panama,” President Ricardo Martinelli has said, while adding “the law does say that a citizen who is over 70 years old can be granted the privilege of house arrest.”

“That’s not necessarily going to happen — but it’s something the judge has to decide,” Martinelli told reporters last week.

The extradition was rendered especially complex because the United States, as the country that authorized Noriega’s initial transfer to France, had to give its consent for him to be shipped onward to Panama.

In the meantime, Noriega has grown feeble, his lawyers say. His exact age isn’t clear.

In Panama, political analyst Jose Blandon said Noriega has to come home “to ask for forgiveness to the people for the things he did. He is an old man with serious health problems, but he has to face justice.”

Sociologist Marco Gandasegui said that Noriega’s return is a step forward for the country to finish processing that period in the country’s history.

“Noriega’s return will probably have more meaning emotionally than politically,” he said. “Emotionally in the sense that we will be able to put into balance what happened 22 years ago (the U.S. invasion), politically I doubt the ex-general could have an impact since now Panamanians have other worries.”

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While twelve members have been arrested, the rappers in the video Eastside L Boog and Eazy (real names: Larry Hooker and Earl Willams) are currently on the run.

The Loop21 reports

They are also seen giving a tutorial on how to cook crack cocaine and warning listeners about various “snitches on the block” and admitting to keeping weapons handy just in case they have to “let off a couple shots” if the “cops run up in the spot.” They also mentioned just how many packs they move a day

While Hooker and Williams are still on the run, when they do get caught, just know that they pretty much wrote out the prosecution’s case for them. At least we know they were authentic.

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The woman, Melanie Perez, said that she was introduced to other cops and even received a Christmas gift for her efforts.

The trial has revealed numerous allegations against the Brooklyn South Narcotics squad, including a former officer who testified that police would plant drugs on innocent people in order to meet quotas.

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The New York Daily News reports:

Perez also testified that the sexually demanding officer, whom she knew only as Frank, had later introduced her to a colleague, Sean Johnston, who also gave her narcotics on several occasions.

“He gave me a nice piece for Christmas,” she said. “It was crack and it was kickin’.”

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LOS ANGELES — According to the DEA, James “Jimmy Henchmen” Rosemond used the Los Angeles office of Interscope Records to import cocaine to Los Angeles.

Rosemond managed “The Game” who is an artist on Interscope, and “The Game’s” road manager is also implicated in the incident.

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The Smoking Gun reports:

Members of a narcotics ring that sent large amounts of cocaine and cash back and forth across the U.S. in music “road cases” arranged pickups and deliveries at the offices of Interscope Records, a music industry power whose roster includes artists like U2, Eminem, and Lady Gaga, according to federal investigators.

Since Rosemond headed a music and talent management firm, investigators allege, he was able to “disguise these shipments as legitimate freight that was ostensibly needed by the performance artists he managed,” according to a U.S. District Court filing. The coke- and cash-filled cases were shipped under accounts belonging to Rosemond’s Czar Entertainment and the “road manager for one of the performing-artists Rosemond managed,” prosecutors added.

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Dudus has been connected to the ruling Jamaica Labor Party and ran the Presidential Clique — which controlled his native Tivoli Gardens — and imported cocaine into the U.S. and guns from the U.S. to Jamaica.

Dudus plead guilty to racketeering charges and admitted to orchestrating the importation of guns to Jamaica and running the Presidential Clique.

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The Post reports that money sent to the Colombian government to help eradicate cocaine cartels was actually used to spy on the Colombian Supreme Court, which was beginning to investigate into ties between the Uribe government and cocaine trafficking warlords.

The CIA has also been implicated in training members of the DAS or Department of Administrative Security,  who are being investigated for spying of on the Supreme Court, and President Uribe’s political opponents to cover up the President’s allies ties to cocaine traffickers.

The Washington Post reports:

American cash, equipment and training, supplied to elite units of the Colombian intelligence service over the past decade to help smash cocaine-trafficking rings, were used to carry out spying operations and smear campaigns against Supreme Court justices, Uribe’s political opponents and civil society groups, according to law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Post and interviews with prosecutors and former Colombian intelligence officials.

Prosecutors say the Uribe government wanted to “neutralize” the Supreme Court because its investigative magistrates were unraveling ties between presidential allies in the Colombian congress and drug-trafficking paramilitary groups. Basing their case on thousands of pages of DAS documents and the testimony of nine top former DAS officials, the prosecutors say the agency was directed by the president’s office to collect the banking records of magistrates, follow their families, bug their offices and analyze their court rulings.

Some of those charged or under investigation have described the importance of U.S. intelligence resources and guidance, and say they regularly briefed embassy “liaison” officials on their intelligence-gathering activities. “We were organized through the American Embassy,” said William Romero, who ran the DAS’s network of informants and oversaw infiltration of the Supreme Court.

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AllHipHop reports:

Federal authorities are seeking to confiscate Rosemond’s $1 million-dollar condominium on the Hudson River in Manhattan, as well as a luxury condo in BelTell loss in Brooklyn worth almost $3 million.

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