U.S. Authorities Seized Over 5,000 Kilograms of Cocaine from Semi-Submersible Vessels Allegedly Built by the Defendants’ Transnational Criminal Organization An indictment was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Elkin Armando Alomia Quinones, Diego Luis Obregon Aguirre, Edwin Obregon Castro, Juan Matias Obregon Castro, also known as “Mauricio,” Rodrigo Obregon Saavedra, also known as […]

Colombian authorities are holding a crew of drug traffickers that a grand jury in New York charged with using a fleet of submarines to ferry over 5,000 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., federal officials announced Thursday. The six-man crew — all Colombians between the ages of 39 and 68 — are the latest to […]

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden has signed a bill that will loosen his state’s felony ingestion statutes, which are among the nation’s strictest laws on drug use. Senate Bill 83 reduces first- and second-offense ingestion of controlled substances from class five felonies to class one misdemeanors. Maximum penalties for the charges, which typically stem from urine […]

Ex-Mount Pleasant officer charged after nearly 10 grams of cocaine found in possession MOUNT PLESANT, S.C. (WCIV) — The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has officially charged a former Mount Pleasant Police Department Officer, after almost 10 grams of cocaine was discovered in his possession. Andrew Hoyt Rowell, 40, has been charged with possession with intent […]

In this eleventh video on our fourth lecture series, I discuss RLUIPA as a federal free exercise statute. Those who have been here know that this statute has been covered several times from various perspectives several times throughout the lifespan of this channel. And it will continue to be so, as far as I can […]

Hugo Carvajal Barrios, who served as Venezuela’s military intelligence director, is set to go to trial in the U.S. in June on charges of “narco-terrorism.” OCCRP report A lawyer for Venezuela’s former spy chief said he planned to argue in a U.S. court that his client could not be prosecuted for his alleged role in […]